A 23-year-old student from Beersheba frequented Al Qaeda-related sites often enough to arouse Shin Bet’s concern. He was arrested after unsuccessfully plotting to blow Beersheba bus station.

After Mughniye assassination, Israel is concerned about Hezbollah revenge. Weeks ago, an anti-Israeli plot by Hezbollah was discovered somewhere in Western Africa.
Olmert noted that with Hezbollah’s takeover of Lebanese government, any attacks would now be treated as Lebanese aggression against Israel and cause unrestricted retaliation.
Hezbollah responded by claiming to prepare a mega-terror act.

in circumvention of the Israeli blockade. One of the nuts is a family member of Tony Blair, the impartial Quartet envoy.
Israel would be stupid to intercept the two small boats. Let the crackpots deliver their balloons to Gazans who would hopefully kidnap them. No serious cargo can be delivered by such means, and Israel should best show her indifference.

Despite the numerous announcements of a ready indictment, police interrogated Olmert for the sixth time, for 3.5 hours over Talansky and the Investment Center affairs.
Talansky, charged in the US, has refused to testify in Israel. As for the Investment Center, the tough Israeli State Comptroller investigated the allegations and found mere conflict of interest which is not a crime. If everyone who ever had a conflict of interest were dismissed from the government, only janitors would be left there.

Predictably, Russian troops are not leaving Georgia today as promised. Georgians, long urban folks rather than the previously tough mountaineers, are unable to stage a decent guerrilla warfare against unprotected Russians who set numerous checkpoints, control Georgian port of Poti, and systematically plunder Georgian arsenals upgraded by Israel.
The occupation so far goes well with locals whom the Russians unusually refrain from harassing.
The Russian presence in Georgia might be temporary or a first step in re-occupying the former tsarist/Soviet territorial possessions. Likely, Putin doesn’t know it yet and tests the Western reaction before making steps in either direction.

As if the Arabs weren’t enough for us, Catholics petitioned the leftist Supreme Court to stop renovation of Israel Family Institute which they claim hosted the Last Supper by their leader 2,000 years ago.
The petitioners protest the Jews “Judaizing the Catholic places in Jerusalem.” Guess what, all places here are only Jewish.

for 3 weeks for refusing to enlist. Afterwards, Udi Nir will again be given an option to enlist, and presumably sent to jail again. The 18-year kid from Herzliyah was critically infected in school with peacenik disease.
Arabs youths are spared the problem and enjoy Jewish subsidies while their Jewish counterparts defend their country against the Arabs’ compatriots.

for interfering with Ben Gurion airport flight control equipment. Actually, the anti-Semitic BBC is a threat to all Israelis, not only the passengers.

During the yesterday’s phone conversation with Russian president Medvedev, Olmert quipped that Syria might use its foreign exchange better than buying Russian weapons which Israel would destroy, anyway. Medvedev invited Olmert to visit Moscow in the coming weeks. The emergency meeting would likely be related to Iran and the unlikely Syrian participation in counter-strike.

A note of protest to that end was handed to Israeli ambassador. During its occupation of Jerusalem before 1967, Jordan demolished every single Jewish religious property in the city.
Israel’s diplomatic response to Jordan should properly include a number of f-words.

Olmert’s peace offer to Palestinian terrorists envisages joint Israeli-Palestinian committee overseeing the Temple Mount. That’s slightly more insulting that the international jurisdiction we were offered in 1947.
Olmert also promised Abbas Palestinian neighborhoods such as Shuafat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Even that much is too much for them: we don’t want some Arabs here calling their capital “Jerusalem.” It’s our holy name, and don’t touch it.

reports Corriere della Sera. Hezbollah agents were a part of the Iranian delegation at the Russian military expo in July.