Jihadi Du Jour

Olmert is a hack! It is time he begins listening to what the people of Israel want instead of making deals with one group of terrorists to rid another group of terrorists. They both at the end of the day will come back to stab Israel in the back. Perhaps it is time they listen to Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister.

Israel took military action only after Hamas started rocket attacks. An estimated 95 rockets have been launched at Israel since Wednesday, injuring seven, one seriously.

Tanks and troops remained just inside northern Gaza yesterday, with artillery batteries lined up outside the border.

Israel’s cabinet will meet tomorrow to discuss a further response. Foreign diplomats were yesterday summoned to a government briefing to garner international support for what seems increasingly likely to be another bloody summer.

“Sometimes the army needs to show determination, to put pressure on extremists, to put pressure on these terrorists, in order for the Palestinians to understand this is not something that is tolerable, that this is something that also affects their life,” said Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister. (emphasis mine)

Diplomats were told by senior foreign ministry and military sources that the smuggling of arms and money to Hamas from Syria and Iran is continuing, and that Israel fears Hamas will advance to longer-range rockets if they do not take action now. Rockets have landed on the southern reaches of the Israeli city of Ashkelon but have not yet struck residential areas. Most alarming, the sources said, is the increasing determination and power of Hamas.

Unfortunately for Israel the media is already inserting their opinions and anti-semitic slant to make Israel look like the perpetrator and the one causing this suffering. It was the Palestinians and their so-called terror run government that began this waring - Israel is only doing what the United States and any other country would do - defend herself. The fact that this has to be stated to remind people who the real culprits are is pittiful.

If you can stand it you can read the BBC’s dhimmi account here. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.