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Arabs launched anti-tank rocket at IDF soldiers near Gaza. Other friendly Arabs stoned Jewish car near Schem. No damages or casualties.

Knesset approved in the first reading a bill which would take away Israeli citizenship of terrorist families. Though welcome, the bill cannot stand the human rights scrutiny.

to release Palestinian terrorists held in Israel through exchange. And he is logical: after Israel exchanged top Lebanese terrorists for corpses, Fatah has every reason to follow the same path.
The Palestinian minister was speaking at the leftist kibbutz near Jerusalem.

for participating in the very financial irregularities he had accused Olmert of. Now that Talansky’s testimony against Olmert becomes self-incriminatory, Talansky refused coming to Israel for cross-examination.
It’s not yet clear who’s behind the FBI investigation. Olmert profits because Talansky’s refusal to testify hurts his credibility as a witness against Olmert. The prime minister’s leftist adversaries also profit from the FBI thing because Talansky’s cross-examination by Olmert’s lawyers would likely devastate his credibility, as well.

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.

Israel wisely permitted them through. Fine, let the Arabs enjoy the balloons delivered on the boats.

IDF allowed Fatah to re-occupy Hebron with close to 600 “policemen.” Their enforcement role in the Hamas-controlled Hebron would be negligible, but Arab civilians will be further incited against Jews in Hebron.
Barak allows the Fatah deployment in Hebron, the third PLO-controlled city in Judea and Samaria, under heavy American pressure. The Americans train Fatah thugs in Jordan and arm them.

IDF patrol arrested a Palestinian with knife in the Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron.

between their emergency medical response agencies. Though the agreement per se is worthless, it breaches a wall of hostility toward Israel in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country.

Amid public outcry, Egyptian judges decided that the fixed-price contract signed in 2005 is unfair because the price of natural gas went up since then. Quite certainly, the Egyptians would have resisted any price review if the price went down from the 2005 level. In Arab eyes, any contract is worthless; think of the peace treaty.

Israeli power generation monopoly kept increased electricity prices despite purchasing gas at a fixed price.