ESCAPED EGYPTIAN PRISONER LED TERRORIST ATTACK ON ROAD TO EILAT

 

1. REBELS OCCUPY GADHAFI’S HQ AND DECAPITATE STATUE OF DEPOSED LEADER

(…). Senior Libyan opposition figure: We would be happy to receive assistance from Israel.

 

2. ESCAPED EGYPTIAN PRISONER LED TERRORIST ATTACK ON ROAD TO EILAT

 

3. COMPANY COMMANDER WHO SHOT PALESTINIAN IN THE BACK IN CONTRAVENTION OF OPEN-FIRE ORDERS TO BE TRIED

Shahar Mor, well-known religious Zionist educator, suspected of shooting and killing Palestinian who was walking near Ramallah. Investigation file reveals contradictions in soldiers’ testimony, possible that open-fire procedure was not followed.

 

1. LIBYAN REVOLUTION HAS COME TO A HEAD

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2. EGYPT MADE IT CLEAR: OPERATION IN GAZA WOULD ENDANGER PEACE

During peak of rocket fire at Israel, message came from Cairo: If you respond sharply, we will be unable to deal with hostile public opinion.

 

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THEY WANT HIS HEAD

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1. (…).

GADHAFI: THE FALLEN HEAD

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1. IDF ELIMINATES ISLAMIC JIHAD MILITANT, FIRING AT SOUTH RESUMES

IDF reports that militant had been involved in planning terrorist attacks on Israeli-Egyptian border. A few hours later, two mortar rounds fell in western Negev, lightly damaging a structure. Islamic Jihad: „We will avenge the elimination.”

 

2. „ISRAEL HAS AGREED TO CHANGES IN PEACE TREATY WITH EGYPT”

Egyptian newspaper reports that Israel has informed Egypt that it is prepared to begin negotiations on amending several articles in peace agreement in order to bring larger Egyptian military forces into Sinai area.

 

3. „THREE OF THOSE INVOLVED IN TERRORIST ATTACK IN THE SOUTH WERE EGYPTIAN CITIZENS”

Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that three were „Islamic Jihadist” activists, that one was „commander of terrorist cells in central Sinai” and that another was an escaped prisoner.

 

1. IDF ATTACKS IN GAZA, MORTAR ROUNDS FIRED AT ISRAEL

IDF eliminates Islamic Jihad militant in Rafiah – and afterwards mortar fire resumed in south. In response, IDF attacked again.

 

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Yediot Ahronot remarks that, „Israel’s military strength has always been conditional on its diplomatic ability to act: Its power is not only in the quality and quantity of its weapons, but rather the length of the ‘diplomatic rope’ to employ it. What can one do, but our diplomatic standing in the world is determined solely upon what is happening on the Israeli-Palestinian channel; for better of for worse – that is the main issue between Israel and the nations of the world. The absence of diplomatic action by the present Government in regards to the Palestinians, considerably shortens that rope. The Olmert government initiated two extensive and controversial military operations; the international reaction – including by those who opposed them – to those operations, was notably moderate, because alongside the artillery fire there was a significant diplomatic effort. Today, with zero diplomatic action, every bullet fired by Israel will awaken riots around the world. Indeed, it is a strategic trap: Diplomatic paralysis which, in stages, also drags along military paralysis in its wake.”

 

Ma’ariv notes, „A sharp message from Tripoli to Damascus: The fall of Gadhafi is a tailwind to the protesters in Syria who are beginning to yell: „Gadhafi was ousted; now it is your turn Assad.”

 

Yisrael Hayom opines, „The ouster of Gadhafi is not only the ouster of a tyrant who filled his pockets, and those of his family, with the wealth of his country, it is also the ouster of a man who should have been committed to an asylum.”