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AP implies that Breaking Dawn was a means for Lapid to gain wartime credibility and Knesset seatsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 08 Aug 04:45 AM An A Like   Tweet   AP implies that Breaking Dawn was a means for Lapid to gain wartime credibility and Knesset seats noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 08 Aug 04:45 AM An AP dispatch about the Gaza fighting this past weekend throws in a conspiracy theory: Israel said it took action against the militant group because of concrete threats of an imminent attack, but has not provided details. Caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who is an experienced diplomat but untested in overseeing a war, unleashed the offensive less than three months before a general election in which he is campaigning to keep the job. There two sentences meant to give the impression that the fighting wasn't necessary and the caretaker government made up an excuse to look macho and gain power in the next elections. It is beyond absurd. An article in Al Monitor by Ben Caspit on Friday described the events leading up to the initial bombings: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation came after several days of tension on the Gaza border, over the arrest of in the West bank of a senior Islamic Jihad member. In fact, at the start of the week, Israeli security forces appeared to have scored yet another victory over terrorism with the arrest of the Islamic Jihad's West Bank commander Bassem Saadi. The Aug. 1 raid by Israeli commandos and Shin Bet agents in the Jenin refugee camp was complex, with Israeli forces coming under brutal...Read More Jabaliya: How The Media Listened To Israel's Side Of The Story And Why (Daled Amos) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Aug 04:32 PM By Daled Amos In the midst of Operation Breaking Dawn, on Saturday night, at about 9pm, a rocket explosion in Jabaliya in Gaza killed 4 children. As expected, Israel was blamed. But this time, unexpectedly, Israel was able not only to present its case that it was not responsible, but also to get the media to prevent a balanced report that presented Israel's contention that the explosion was the result of a misfired rocket from Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Israel Gets The Media To Notice The results were media reports that actually were balanced. The Times of Israel had a survey of some of the reporting: CNN reported: In one incident Saturday, four children were among seven people killed in an explosion in Jabaliya. The Palestinian Health Ministry initially said the blast was caused by an Israeli airstrike. Israel rejected the claim and said it was the result of errant rocket fire, and released a video showing what it said was the Islamic Jihad rocket sharply changing course in the air and hitting the building. The New York Times referred to the incident twice. First, on Saturday: Three children were also killed on Saturday, though it was not...Read More While Israel haters compare Gaza to Ukraine, Ukraine compares itself to Israel noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Aug 02:38 PM Israel haters have been trying to compare the current Gaza fighting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel disagrees.Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korniichuk on Sunday expressed his solidarity with Israel in its military campaign against the Islamic Jihad in Gaza. "As a Ukrainian, while our country is under brutal attack from a close neighbor - I feel great sympathy towards the Israeli public," the Ukrainian ambassador wrote on his Twitter account. "Terror and malicious attacks towards citizens have become daily matter for Israelis and Ukrainians," he added. "We have to put an end to it. We pray for peace and hope the escalation ends soon." You have to take this with a grain of salt - Ukraine wants Israeli weapons, while Palestinians cannot provide it with anything useful. And Ukraine does not exactly have a voting record in the UN that supports the idea that it ever identified with Israeli under attack. But it shows how vacuous the Israel haters are in trying to hitch their cause to whatever is trendy. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here!...Read More 08/07 Links: Gaza: The Usual Suspects Condemn Israel; How Israel shot down false reports on Jabaliya explosion; Amnesty is now utterly morally bankrupt noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 07 Aug 12:00 PM From Ian: JPost Editorial: Operation Breaking Dawn was a long time in the making Operation Breaking Dawn, which started on Friday, was a long time in the making. Israel's southern communities had been in a lockdown since last Tuesday after Israeli security forces arrested Palestinian Islamic Jihad senior member Bassam al-Saadi in Jenin. Good intelligence and careful preparation are obviously necessary to carry out such an arrest. Residents of the South, who were held virtual hostages afterwards, now know why: Such intelligence and preparation also enabled the IDF on Friday to kill Islamic Jihad's top commander in Gaza, Tayseer al-Jabari, in a precise operation and thwart a ticking time bomb: He was reportedly involved in planning imminent major attacks on Israel, including the use of lethal anti-tank missiles close to the border. Jabari replaced Baha Abu Al-Ata, who was killed in a similar airstrike in November 2019. Other senior Islamic Jihad figures were killed in well-conducted strikes over the weekend, including Islamic Jihad's southern division commander Khaled Mansour. Although it is natural to compare the current round of fighting with terrorists in the Gaza Strip to last year's Operation Guardian of the Walls – when Hamas launched an attack on Israel starting in the capital on Jerusalem Day in May 2021 – Operation Breaking Dawn so far seems to have more in common with Operation Black Belt in which Al-Ata...Read More Here's one way to tell that Palestinians were likely killed by Islamic Jihad rockets noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Aug 12:00 PM The Palestinian Center for Human Rights puts out bulletins that are the most detailed available on airstrikes in Gaza. It blames all incidents on Israel, of course. But a little reading between the lines shows that many of the supposed strikes are actually from Islamic Jihad rockets falling short in Gaza. The IDF has documented well over a hundred of such failed rocket launches: When PCHR writes about an IDF "shell" causing deaths or damage, it can safely be assumed that this was a rocket. IDF bombs are devastating in the damage they cause and IDF intelligence is quite good at targeting; as far as I can tell the IDF is not using any artillery yet in Gaza. IDF strikes look like this: If there is only a small hole in the roof, it isn't from the IDF. When PCHR says random people are killed by "shells" that indicates a failed Gaza rocket launch. Here are some: 8/5 16:20: an artillery shell fell on a house belonging to 'Adnan 'Atiyah al-'Amour in al-Fokhari area, eastern Khan Younis. As a result, the owner's 22-year-old daughter, Doniana, was killed after sustaining shrapnel wounds all over her body. At approximately 23:20 on Friday, 05...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company