Sunday War News: Operation Cast Lead Ends Inconclusively With Israeli Unilateral Ceasefire Amidst Hamas Rocket Barrages; Terrorists Nabbed in Hevron, Shechem, Arabs Attack Police with Stones, Firebombs in Jerusalem

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Commentary;

For context, last Thursday, this blog posted a piece; Gaza Operations: For Naught for Lack of Will to Win?

And so, these comments by Moshe Feiglin beare repeating as they best express the Israeli political governing mindset;

If Israel cannot define a real goal for this war, it cannot win. All the IDF’s professionalism and the arduous training with which the new Chief of Staff has equipped the army are ineffective if Israel’s leaders cannot define the goal of the fighting. He who cannot define the goal cannot win. And if you can’t win – it is best not to start fighting.

The inconclusive results of Operation Cast Lead, with Israel’s unilateral ceasefire under-fire, are a predictable product of Israel’s morally and spiritually corrupt and bankrupt political governance and regime. When they come to investigate this war, the results can’t be buck-passed to the IDF and the IDF Chief of Staff. The grave responsibility for further loss of Jewish lives and property rests squarely with the regime. MB

Cabinet Passes Unilateral Ceasefire

PM Says All Israel’s Goals in Cast Lead Have Been Attained, by Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)

Three Kassams Land in Western Negev [Sha’ar HaNegev, Sdot Negev Regions]

IDF Strikes Rocket Launcher [Which Fired Rocket at Kiryat Gat]

Rocket Hits Sha’ar Hanegev

Two Rockets Fall on Ashkelon

Rocket Strikes Near Kiryat Gat

Air Force Hits Rocket Launchers Launched Rockets at Sderot Sunday Morning]

Three Mortar Shells hit Eshkol

Six Rockets Launched at Sderot

Late-Night Rocket Barrage Slams South [Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beersheva, Kiryat Gat], By Shelly Paz, Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)

Classes Canceled Due to Ceasefire Talks [Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Be’er Sheva and the Merchavim regional council]

Hamas: We’ll Keep Fighting

Saturday Night War News;

Rocket Lands Near Beersheba; No Injuries

Grad Gockets Fired at Ashdod Cause Power Outages; No Casualties Reported

Rocket Hits Ashdod Home

Palestinians in Gaza Fire 2 Rockets at Ashkelon; No Casualties Reported

5 IDF soldiers Wounded, 1 Seriously, by Anti-Tank Missiles in Gaza

40 Gaza Terrorists Killed [in Gaza City Sat. Nite, Four IDF Soldiers Wounded in the Fighting]

IAF Bombed 100 Tunnels

Excerpt;

“It is estimated that some 400 tunnels were operative before the just-ended Operation Cast Lead began three weeks ago, and that close to 300 have been destroyed since then. The tunnels served to smuggle into Gaza warfare experts, money, terrorists, arms, explosives, and more.”

IDF Arrests Two Terrorists in Shechem

Arab [Terrorist] Arrested in Hevron

Eye for an Eye: Arab Attacker Killed by his Own Rock, by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)

Police Attacked in Jerusalem [Neighborhood of Shuafat, Attackers Threw Stones, Firebombs]

Full Text;

“A Border Police force was attacked by Arab residents of Jerusalem in the neighborhood of Shuafat on Saturday night. Attackers threw stones and several firebombs at the force. No injuries were reported.”

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