Sunday, July 23. 2006
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IDF to Residents of Southern Lebanon: Leave today
"The IDF... call to 13 villages in Southern Lebanon to relocate north of the Litani.... Tens of thousands of Southern Lebanon residents have already left the area. The IDF plan to 'clean' the area of terror nests, using both ground and air offensives."
Over 150 Rockets Pound Israel During the Sabbath
"Close to 40 people were injured and property damage was significant. Fires erupted in some areas and according to officials."
MDA Responded to 55 Calls Related to Rocket Attacks
"Since Saturday morning, the Sabbath, EMS crews responded to 55 rocket attack scenes in northern Israel."
Four Family Members Injured in Tzfat Rocket Attack
Israelis Offer a Helping Hand
"Hundreds, if not thousands, of Israelis have opened their homes to distressed residents of the northern and southern border regions."
Report: U.S. Rushes Precision-Guided Bombs to Israel
IDF Hunts Rocket Launchers
"Some of the launchers were hidden underneath homes and trees."
Israel and Hezbollah at War: Status Report
"220-milimeter Syrian-made rockets that had been modified with shrapnel in order to inflict more civilian casualties. This operation is an opportunity to move from the strategy of withdrawal back to the offensive strategy against radical Islam."
What Will Happen Next?
"Israel's withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza, whatever their merits, have only fed this Islamism with lore of sacrifice and victory. The Islamists have a narrative, and they think the world conforms to it. The narrative is based on a very partial reading of reality. It has to be defeated, just as Nasser's narrative had to be defeated (in the 1967 war)."
War Old and New - Editoria
"If we do not isolate Iran regionally and globally, if we do not do everything we can to support the democratizing forces in Iran, if we do not move ruthlessly to prevent Iran from acquiring the deadliest arsenal of all, then we will have presided over the creation of a nightmare worse than the nightmare of Saddam Hussein.... The surest way to defeat Tehran is to defeat Hezbollah."
Israeli Pilots Concerned for Sparing Civilian Lives
"Maj. E, a reservist, explained that 'each pilot has the permission to abort a mission if he feels that there is a danger to too many civilians.'"
"'I personally took part in a mission to bomb a bridge, but when we were over the target I saw that there was too much traffic of people leaving Beirut on it, so I decided to abort. We returned at 3 a.m. to finish the job.'"
Report: 26 Spies for Israel Arrested in Lebanon
Hezbollah Uses UN Positions for Cover
Armed Palestinian Women Call for War
Atlanta Jury Indicts Two on Terror Charges
Norway Jews Warned Against Harassment
Beslan Killer Betrayed by Mole
"Shamil Basayev, the Chechen terrorist behind the Beslan school massacre and Russia's most wanted man, was blown up by a mine that an informant working for Russia placed in a truckload of explosives and set off by remote control, according to intelligence sources quoted in a Moscow newspaper."
230 New Immigrants from North America Arrive in Israel
Somali Militant Urges Holy War on Ethiopia
"The radical Islamic forces control more of Somalia than the government, and have made clear they consider themselves the legitimate authority in the country."
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