In her bid for Kadima primaries, Livni shows off increasingly tough. Wait. She told Winograd Commission that she objected to attacking Lebanon in 2006. Today Hezbollah is stronger and Israel’s pretext for attacking it is weaker: how comes Livni has changed her mind?
Why the fuss about Hezbollah? The guerrilla group doesn’t significantly cooperate with Palestinians or threaten Israel. It legitimately fought Israeli troops to drive Jews out of Lebanon. Hezbollah only demands of Israel to return Lebanon the minuscule Shebaa farms, which Israel insisted on returning to Syria which doesn’t even ask for them, as the farms are a Lebanese territory. Today, Olmert confirmed his willingness to abandon the Shebaa.
In 2006, Livni prized herself with arranging the UNSC 1701 resolution which brought peacekeepers into Lebanon. As every analyst has expected, the arrangement failed miserably, and Syria and Iran rearmed Hezbollah mightily. The Lebanese terrorist group increased its 2006 arsenal of rockets thrice, to 40,000 pieces.
Livni is a good second-tier executive. Under able leadership she would work honestly and hard. In Mossad, she diligently hunted Arab terrorists in Europe but took no major decisions. Likewise in the Foreign Ministry she does good job but isn’t creative. In the run-up to the elections, she haphazardly tries to come up with police statements, and fall invariably.

The Negev Bedouins collected for Al Qaeda information about sensitive Israeli targets. In December, two Arabs in Galilee were arrested on similar charges.
The Bedouins got in touch with Al Qaeda through the Islamic Movement, a large and militant anti-Jewish organization legal in Israel.

Iran has test-fired long-range nuclear-capable missiles.

in Nablus. The Palestinians were working freely in the city under Fatah jurisdiction when scores of Fatah police around.

A baptized Jew who revealed Israel’s nuclear secrets landed in court for violating the administrative ban on communication with foreigners. Vanunu’s heavyweight attorney Avigdor Feldman is paid by the ultra-leftists.
Rabbi Meir Kahane repeatedly praised Mordechai Vanunu, then serving an 18-year jail term for treason. In Rabbi Kahane’s opinion, Israel should not keep silent about her nuclear option.

Head of Israeli military delegation to the US Pinchas Buhris revealed that the SkyGuard missile defense system failed during the tests he witnessed in America.
High-profile Israeli expert on laser defense Oded Amichai accused the Director General of lying. According to Amichai, the SkyGuard was packed in the 2004 and never used since then. Previous tests were highly successful. SkyGuard was manufactured jointly by the US and Israel on Israel’s order. Ehud Barak and Dan Halutz rescinded the purchase order in 2001 after withdrawing from Lebanon.
Both Israeli military establishment and Histadrut have vested interest in the Iron Dome missile defense system developed in Israel. That system won’t be ready for the next 3-4 years, and is extremely expensive. Unlike the SkyGuard, the Iron Dome uses interceptor missiles about thousand times more expensive than a Kassam rocket. The Iron Dome is useless against mortar fire increasingly popular among Palestinian terrorists.

Palestinians protest the construction of separation barrier.
On one hand, the Arabs want a state. On other hand, they don’t want separation from Israel. Ho would the Americans react to Mexicans routinely attacking the US border rangers who enforce immigration restrictions?

The grotesque Fatah bookkeeper complained to Italian government that Israeli operations in Schem which the Palestinians call “Nablus” undermine Fatah’s antiterrorist efforts. Honestly, we just haven’t seen Fatah doing anything about terrorism. Oh, no: Fatah pays salaries to Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.
In Schem, IDF closed a number of Hamas charities and businesses, searched several Islamic shrines and municipality. As we were calling for for years, IDF started closing down Hamas charities including schools and medical centers. We cannot allow Hamas to breed loyalists and, frankly, we couldn’t care less about Palestinian education or medical service.