Hamas’ military wing claimed responsibility for the attack. Nevertheless, Israel did not interrupt cargo transit or the electricity supply to Hamas-ruled Gaza. Unwilling to jeopardize its relations with Obama, the government refuses to declare a state of war with the enclave.

Obama condemned the terrorist attacks as senseless bloodshed. Presumably, attacks on civilians would have been more justifiable and sensible.
Netanyahu called on settlers to show restraint, which infamously has been Jewish policy since the Arab pogroms of 1930s. It is a policy under which Jews busy themselves with burying their dead rather than preventing future deaths. Shabak, the Israeli security service, has vowed to intensify its operations against Jewish right-wing groups lest they retaliate against Muslims.

One thing is fishy, though. Why would Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran go hysterical over another hopeless round of peace talks? Hamas seriously jeopardizes its currently near-free traffic of arms and cargo. Hezbollah prepares for an all-put war with Israel, a conflict into which Syria might well be drawn. There was nothing like fervor this during Annapolis. It seems that the real issue being discussed in Washington has more to do with attacking Iran than making peace with Palestine.

Shin Bet security service is great at intercepting Fatah terrorists, who are usually delivered by their own superiors who do not want to disrupt their dealings with Israel. Our capability at intercepting Hamas, PFLP, PRC, and other terrorists is considerably less. It can therefore be expected that a terrorist act will occur.

Nevertheless, Netanyahu went to Washington, implicitly setting the trigger on Hamas’ promise of terrorist attacks. Worse, the government balked at imposing a curfew on the Arabs in Judea and Samaria, a standard procedure when major unrest is expected. Clearly, Netanyahu did not want to appear impolite to his talk-partner Abbas.

And so a car with four Jews was ambushed near Hebron. Two men and two women were murdered, one of them visibly pregnant. After wounding them, the Muslims shot them in the head from point-blank range.

The government will enact a similar policy in Judea and Samaria after the formal freeze ends.

Netanyahu rejected a suggestion by Dan Meridor to freeze construction in isolated settlements—which will likely be annexed to Palestine—but start building in settlement blocks which are expected to remain in Israeli hands. Netanyahu prefers a de facto moratorium in all settlements.

Today, IDF OC Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot refused the post of deputy Chief of Staff. He also seeks to retire from his current position. The only explanation for his blunt refusal to serve under Galant is his conviction that the detestable document is genuine.

The billboards will feature Fatah thugs calling for peace with Israel. This can be likened to Israel financing billboards all over the United States featuring Bin Laden calling for permanent peace with America—with small print to the effect that Americans must accept Islamic instruction from Osama. Likewise with Israel: the Palestinians on these billboards are either themselves involved in terror or directly finance terrorists from the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. They would grant Israel peace only in return for her abandoning core Jewish territories and holy sites. Far from a call for peace, US AID finances a call for Israel’s surrender to terrorists on the most humiliating terms. And to boot, the billboards imply that Jews are enemies of peace while the Palestinian terrorists are its proponents.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, usually a pacifist, prayed for the destruction of Fatah’s leaders and “those Palestinians” as enemies of Jews during his Rosh HaShana address.

Israel reportedly has only 120MWh feeder capacity to Gaza. This amounts to just about 100W per capita, which is far too low to be the true number. Another indication that the government lies about the power supply to Gaza is the amount Gazans owe to their utility: reportedly $650 million. At 120MWh hour, even allowing about the same power supply from Gaza’s power station, the total consumption would be about just $30 million a year, a ridiculously low amount.

If Israel’s actual power supply to Gaza is far above the reported amount, where did the payments go?

While the world shouts at Israel for limiting the power supply to Gaza, a brotherly Palestinian Authority routinely interrupts shipments of power station fuel to Gaza because Hamas delays payments.

The choice of JP-8 makes sense for an autumn strike because the fuel’s flash point of 38 degrees Celsius makes it dangerous to carry in external tanks on long-range flights in summer.

The shelf life of JP-8 is 18 months, but guidelines suggest using it within 8 months. This limitation is especially important for long-range flights from Israel to Iran. Presumably, Israel will receive the American stocks from Iraq, which were produced earlier. The IAF would have 4-6 months to use the fuel.

This is enough fuel for all the IAF’s jets to fly to Iran 400 times each. So it’s either we’re gearing up for an all-out war, or there is a reporting error, or perhaps the Americans dumped their excess fuel on us at subsidized prices.

The curious detail is that the rioters torched several Arab cars nearby. Why would Arabs burn Arab cars to protest the actions of Jews? The answer: insurance. It is a win-win situation for the Arabs: the car owners get compensation from the Israeli government or insurance companies, and the rioters get a nice fireworks display.

Tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs procure wives from the West Bank and Jordan, where they are much cheaper than in Israel. Foreign Arabs are often ready to pay to marry Israeli Arabs, making fake marriages a profitable business for them.

This fateful court decision will allow the naturalization of some 60,000 foreign Arab spouses, and invite many more to come.

Israel’s justice system is a gross affront to the Torah. The courts rule in accordance with Western law rather than halacha, often against core Jewish values. Observant Jews who join such courts as judges willingly violate halacha in their daily work. Through their kippas, they lend credibility to the essentially anti-Jewish legal system.

Stopping short of declaring Israeli judges to be apostates, Rabbi Avraham classified them below tax collectors, among traitors and informers. Which is the correct definition of those judges’ roles.

The US position upholds the spirit of the Munich agreement, which declared that the Nazis would pose no security threat after annexing Czechoslovakia. It also continues the American tradition of betraying Jews:

• the Evian Conference, which closed the world to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany
• imposing a ban on information about the ongoing Holocaust in Allied radio broadcasts in the occupied territories
• revocation of the US vote in the United Nations for establishing Israel in 1948
• an embargo on arms shipments to Israel during the War of Independence
• threatening to fight Israel during our 1956 war with Egypt
• operational plans to fight Israel on behalf of Egypt during the 1967 war
• prohibiting an Israeli preemptive strike before the 1973 war
• refusing to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
• forcing Israel to cede her core historical lands to Palestinians

The Bushehr reactor is accumulating plutonium. The Iranians, conveniently enough, have developed nuclear-capable ballistic missiles which need plutonium for their warheads. Now we are expected to believe that they built those missiles without expecting to harvest plutonium from the reactor.

The US administration has apparently accepted Russia’s launching of the Bushehr reactor in exchange for Russian support in the UNSC for useless sanctions against Iran, Obama’s pet project.

Adding to the ignominy, Obama’s administration busies itself pushing Israel to engage in futile talks with the Palestinians while barring us from attacking the ayatollahs. Netanyahu, a subservient CIA agent of influence, is too fearful of his American masters to uphold his electoral promise to  prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Instead of bombing Bushehr, the filthy government called on the international community to pressure Iran into stopping the reactor. This is the same international community which did nothing to save Jews during Holocaust, and why would they save us now?

With Israel’s nuclear deterrent lost, she is open to a conventional attack by Muslim armies with vastly superior staying power. And there is no reason for the Muslims not to attack the Jews. Our blood will be on Netanyahu’s hands.

Nevertheless, we expect an attack on Iran. In such a scenario, the Russians loaded the fuel to maintain a good relationship with the ayatollahs, who feel betrayed by Russia’s refusal to supply them with S-300. The evacuation of US troops from Iraq secures America’s soft underbelly: those troops would have been vulnerable to an Iranian counterattack after an Israeli strike on Iran. The basic question remains: what will be the Israeli role in the attack on Iran? If it were carried out by the US, Britain, France, and perhaps Germany without meaningful Israeli participation, the attack would greatly diminish Israel’s standing in the Middle East. We therefore expect significant Israeli involvement in the attack. We also reiterate our earlier position that Iran will not launch a significant retaliatory strike against Israel.

Though Israeli law explicitly denies that religious texts can be racist, it is a common police practice since the Kach ban to treat them as such. This only applies to Jewish religion: no Islamic preacher has ever been convicted of racism for calling for the killing of Jews.

The politicization of intelligence data—a supposedly objective source upon which to base political decisions—is disgusting, but there is more. Suppose for a moment that the new estimate is correct. Five years of stand-off with Iran should have convinced the international community that the regime is not susceptible to sanctions. In fact, no undeveloped country had ever given way to sanctions. So Iran’s stance on nukes won’t change in a year, but its weapons-grade uranium will be processed and stored away in several locations. Striking Iran’s entire stock of weaponized uranium once it is ready to be made into a bomb looks like a great idea, but chances are that the ayatollahs will conduct the final stage in a new, unknown location.

Even if it would take Iran a year to develop the bomb, for Israel to delay an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would be an unnecessary gamble.

But why? Marmara terrorists entered the military blockade zone, attacked soldiers, and were detained. By any reasonable measure, they were POWs. The fact that they were released without criminal charges being filed against them confirms their POW status.

POWs are only accorded property rights in regard to their personal holdings. A POW’s toothbrush cannot be taken away; that protection does not apply to his laptop. At most, the accused soldiers took property which could in theory have been claimed by the Israeli government. They did not rob the POWs because the POWs’ property rights regarding laptops became void upon their detention.

Be that as it may, it would have been better for the government and soldiers alike to ignore the reports, or to ‘investigate’ and acquit the soldiers. The last thing we need is to uphold the spurious property rights of Islamic terrorists.

The fact that the United States sells Patriot missiles to Kuwait shows that Obama wants regional states to accept a nuclear Iran and balance it with defensive measures. But defense won’t do: Kuwait cannot defend itself against Iran, and no one believes that the US will come to its defense after refusing to adopt the much easier solution of depriving Iran of its nuclear arsenal.

The situation will soon be clear. Despite their earlier promises to delay loading fuel into the Bushehr reactor, the Russians have suddenly announced an August 21 deadline. They also placed S-300 in Abkhazia to counter an Israeli attack on Iran from Georgia and possibly Azerbaijan. The Russians will not use S-300 against Israeli planes, as that would be a clear act of war. Likewise, we’re far from certain that the new deadline on Bushehr will be any more firm than several previous deadlines.

Israel would find it politically problematic to destroy a hot reactor due to the possibility of contamination: it is apparently less problematic for Jewish leaders to accept nuclear contamination of Tel Aviv in a future confrontation with Iran. If Israeli intelligence believes the Russian promises on Bushehr, Iran has to be attacked this week.

The launching of the Bushehr reactor would be a boom to Obama, as it would end the Iranian nuclear standoff. Had he wanted to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities, it would have made more sense to bomb them sooner rather than later. Obama cannot be so stupid as to believe that the Iranians would give way under sanctions.

The UN remains unconcerned that one of its member-states is engaged in an official policy of hostage-taking.

But a more important issue went unnoticed. Several female lawyers contacted by the government refused to participate in the commission. Why? Obviously, the ultra-left graduates of Israeli law schools do not want any part in a commission meant to exonerate IDF.

No doubt Zoabi—a good Arab and an enemy of the Jewish state—should long ago have been imprisoned for subversion.

More important is the fact that the government had this appalling footage but refused to publish it sooner lest our Arab enemies in the Knesset be offended.

To be sure, Rubashkin’s judge developed an interesting and useful method of dealing with hordes of illegal aliens: threaten them with serious jail sentences, offer guilty pleas in fast-track hearings, and deport them after a short jail sentence. That approach is the only alternative to due process, which cannot and need not feasibly be applied to thousands, potentially millions of illegal immigrants. Why can a person who arrives in a country illegally claim a right to the same extensive due process accorded to citizens? The absence of gross human-rights violations during his trial is good enough. Israel can well apply a similar judicial tactic to the African illegals who already constitute 1% of our population: threaten them with infiltration charges and offer them deportation as an alternative to prosecution.

The judge was perhaps not overly anti-Semitic, just over-zealous in his prosecution. News media nevertheless overwhelmingly decried the judge’s handling of the case.

Yet, there is nothing new under the sun, and a Jew was denied bail because he is a Jew. His sentence to an unreasonably long prison term also has a smell of anti-Semitism.

Do you think that Polish-style pogroms are impossible in the United States?

Haddad’s release was negotiated with the Libyans by Martin Shlaff and undisclosed Eastern European Jewish oligarchs—who, it transpires, maintain cozy relations with one of our fiercest enemies.

UPDATE: Israeli government published details on the humanitarian help allowed into Gaza. In return for a single ultra-leftist, Haddad, Israel allowed into Gaza enough cement to build 1,250 housing units. Hamas will use the cement to build bunkers – an outcome the government had stressed for three years as a reason for our blockade of Gaza.

Israel also allowed UNRWA to accept $50 million from Libya to, allegedly, build those 1,250 housing units, or $40,000 per unit. That’s a lie because a typical apartment in Gaza costs ten times less. In essence, the government allowed Libya to subsidize Hamas.