A senior US officer said Iran didn’t fire long-range missiles, as it had claimed on Wednesday. The photos were doctored. However, the Iranians aren’t stupid enough to publish a doctored picture, they did it on purpose to relieve the international pressure. It doesn’t matter to them whether their missiles can actually fly, as long as they can control the oil price. If Iran wants to attack Israel they have much better means: Hezbollah and Hamas.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVNKGkhM22M_yGgGlN3Gts_nqa9A

This is not a surprise, Hamas PM said earlier that they’re not responsible for other terrorist organizations’ activities, and they will continue smuggling arms into Gaza.

I wonder whether there’s a document both sides signed, because each side tells almost opposite things about the agreement. And which of all the Palestinian terror organizations signed it? Was it just Hamas, in a bid to portray itself as the sole ruler of Gaza and to fool the enemy?

The amount of Jews that emigrated from Arab lands is equal to the number of Arabs who emigrated from Israel. While Jewish refugees were accepted as equals in then poor and war-torn Israeli society, rich Arab kings placed the Arab refugees in camps and started calling them Palestinians. This is the root of the conflict, the creation of a people that are united only by hatred and mistreatment by other peoples.

Jews are united by a similar force, and look how successful we are. But fear is not the only thing that unites us. There’s also a unique religion, consolidated societies, Jewish values and traditions. No matter how much the Arab world will mistreat the Palestinian refugees, they won’t become as successful as Jews in the near future. Only the survival of centuries of persecution can make a people as strong as Jews. I wish the Palestinians to have a better future.

If people in Gaza suffered from hunger, would they have a fertility rate of 5.5? No matter how much aid they get, they make more children than they can sustain and then BBC writes “Nai’ma can no longer afford to feed her 10 children“.

They should acknowledge that they are getting their food and focus on what they are not getting: permits to go abroad, permits to visit Israeli hospitals, work permits in Israel, import and export of other goods, etc. They will always be dependent on Israel for most of their import and export (they grow great strawberries), and they should not try to besiege themselves by attacking the crossings.

Hamas and its likes are creating the appearance of a humanitarian crisis on purpose.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7445725.stm

Remember the truck bomb at Erez humanitarian crossing? Fatah claimed responsibility for the attempted truck bomb attack on Erez. The bomber was a 23 year old man from Jabalya refugee camp. These camps are an abomination, why do Palestinians keep Palestinians in refugee camps? PA should spend their budget on improving people’s lives rather than buying more weapons from rich smugglers.

Do the Palestinian leaders want peace? Do they want the humanitarian help they receive? I know that their people want both, but their leaders are determined they don’t get anything, all in order to make the people fight a useless and desperate war against Israel.

Inside the article, a bold text says A young Palestinian girl has been killed by an Israeli shell in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said.. No mention of Israeli casualties. They are mentioned later (reminds me of “small text at the bottom” in advertisements). There’s an explanation of the IDF attack however: it targeted the area from where the mortar shelling took place. By the way, Palestinians fired 3 mortars on the same area – a factory – and the workers didn’t have an alarm to warn them.

The most important news that BBC conveniently forgot to post, is that Hamas took responsibility for the fatal shelling.
Also no mention of Kassam rocket attack a week ago that wounded some people.
No mention of Ban Ki-Moon condemning Palestinians and Israelis. He should only condemn Israel if he wants someone to hear him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7375439.stm
Sick Gazans treatment in Israeli hospital near Gaza is under attack by terrorists’ rockets and mortars. I understand that Erez border crossing can be thought of as a legitimate target – Israeli soldiers are guarding it and a soldier is a legitimate target in a war. Although if I were a Palestinian I would choose other targets, because Erez is used to transfer humanitarian aid. But why would Palestinians launch rockets on a hospital that treats Palestinians? Sometimes it seems that there are a few hard-line terrorists there that have no remorse to their own people, and they’ll do virtually anything to kill Israelis.

Reminds me of this case where a Palestinian girl tried to blow up a hospital where she was treated, because she had severe burns that prevented her from marrying and having a happy life: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eiIjaeq2ePY

This is very sad. I don’t understand why things like that continue to happen. Our army tries its best to avoid civilian casualties, yet they fail time after time. IAF uses precision guided rockets with low explosion power, you can see in their site just how accurate these rockets are. There’s little chance they missed the militants and struck the house. Ynet says they hit the militants but there was a secondary explosion of the ammo they carried. This is very unfortunate, Hamas should keep explosives away from civilians.