The Navy has developed a new version of its unmanned Protector ship—this time with a water cannon for attacking Palestinian fishermen and Free Gaza activists. That is a highly questionable approach, as deploying water cannon requires close contact with the target, which makes the unmanned ship vulnerable to rocket attacks.

The Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency announced the revival of a thirty-year-old plan, recently promulgated by our friend Mubarak, to build a nuclear power plant in Debaa. Egypt already runs two research reactors, which produce weapons-grade uranium in minuscule quantities.

As often happens, a Beersheba court slapped Mohammed Mehera of the PRC with a thirty-five-year prison term for terrorist activity and participating in the murder of a Jewish soldier.

The court ruling represents Israeli schizophrenia. Those Arabs are heroes, not criminals. They are soldiers fighting vastly superior forces. They can be killed in action or detained as POWs, but there is no moral basis for sentencing them as criminals.