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Israel has drafted a new list of 1000 palestinian prisoners it is willing to release for Gilad Shalit, including approximately 200 Hamas has requested.
Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)
10:17PM: The IAEA has said it has found new traces of uranium in samples taken from the Syrian site the IAF struck last year, and this uranium is unlikely to have come from the Israeli missiles that hit it.
It’s Osirak all over again. The world condemned us at the time, but will be ultimately thanking us.
9:25PM: Finally some truth on the Hamas website? Taken from the Hamas “martyr” bio of Basil Al-Natsha:
Basil was a nice person, so no one believed that he was a member of Al-Qassam Brigades.
9:00PM: Ma’an News reports:
Palestinian killed by Israeli car on Jerusalem-Jericho road
Not ‘Palestinian killed in traffic accident’ or ‘Palestinian hit by car.’
Even our cars are Zionist murderers.
8:50PM: Palestinian terrorists have fired another Qassam into Israel, effectively signing the death warrant on another of their smuggling tunnels.
8:20PM: Did you know that the establishment of Israel is a Zionist-crusader conspiracy designed to avenge the West’s defeat in the Crusades?
Did you know that most Jews today come from the Mongol Tatar races?
All these interesting facts and more on today’s episode of Hateful Old Muslim Guy Talk Sh*t on Egyptian TV.
5:28PM: Israeli tennis player Andy Ram has received a visa to enter Dubai for the tennis tournament.
4:37PM: The ATP has given the United Arab Emirates until Friday evening to decide whether to grant a visa to Israeli tennis player Andy Ram.
1:55PM: Introducing our latest weapon: Zionist Death Drone.TM
1:20PM: The IAF has struck more smuggling tunnels. A Hamas terrorist reportedly messed up his hair running away from the area.
1:12PM: Received from the Jewish Agency:
Breaking News: Special rescue operation brings 10 new immigrants from Yemen to Israel
The most dramatic moments in Jewish history have once again taken place in Ben Gurion airport minutes ago: 11 Jews from Yemen landed in Israel as part of a Jewish Agency special rescue and aliyah operation. It’s a moment that captures who we are as a people, who we are as the Jewish State, and who we are as the Jewish Agency.
Recent events in Yemen point to a rising virulence in anti-Semitic sentiment. On December 10th 2008, Moshe Yaish-Nahiri, a Hebrew teacher in the local school,father to nine and brother of a local prominent Rabbi, was shot dead near his home in Rida. The perpetrator, a young Muslim fundamentalist, also threatened further violence against the entire Jewish community. In response, the Yemenite government paid to relocate the community to the capital of Sanaa in January to better protect the community. But some Jews were refusing to move, according to a Yemenite news report, fearing it put them at yet greater danger.
Working through several clandestine channels to ensure the safety of both those who chose to come and those who chose to stay, the Jewish Agency launched a special operation to bring Yemenite Jewish community members to Israel. Among the two families and two individuals arriving today is Sayid Ben Israel, one of the leaders of the Jewish community in Rida, where anti-Semitism has dramatically – and dangerously – increased over the past few months.
To date, there are 280 Jews still in Yemen: about 230 in the city of Rida and 50 in the capital of Sanaa, who moved to the capital after their homes in Saada came under attack by terrorists associated with Al Qaeda.
A number of weeks ago, Sayid and his family came under attack by anti-Semitic extremists who threw a grenade into the courtyard of his home. Following this incident and additional threats to his life, Sayid moved with his wife and seven children to Saana. Today they are coming home to safety, to Israel. Upon their arrival today, the Ben Israel family will move to live in Beit Shemesh, receiving the full range of support services provided to new immigrants by the Jewish Agency. The remaining new immigrants arriving today will move to the Yeelim Absorption Center in Beer Sheva, where they will also receive assistance from the Jewish Agency integrating into Israeli society.
Rescuing Jews from persecution and ensuring their safety and success in Israel is our core mission. It is also part and parcel of our history: conducting operations to countries in distress and turmoil, no matter how dangerous, to rescue Jews and welcome them home to Israel. As explains Director of the Department for Aliyah and Absorption, Eli Cohen, “The Jewish Agency is working tirelessly to ensure the safety of the Yemenite Jewish community in light of recent events. We will strive to bring as many Jews as possible to Israel from Yemen who are interested in making aliyah as quickly as possible.”
Meanwhile, palestinian refugee camps exist after over 60 years, many Arab and Muslim countries will either not take in palestinians, will do so temporarily or with otherwise limited rights.
11:30AM: The question for Kadima is do they join a Netanyahu-led coalition, or remain in the opposition?
11:00AM: You may recall that anti-Israel British MP George Galloway has his own talk show on Iran’s Press TV.
Here he is strutting his stuff [warning: will likely make you physically ill]
10:23AM: Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu has announced the party will back Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s next prime minister.
If I am not mistaken, Netanyahu now has the numbers to form a coalition (65 of the 120 seats in the Knesset). So Israeli President Shimon Peres will task him with forming it.
9:12AM: One of the main palestinian propaganda ploys regarding their constant rocket and mortar shell attacks on Israel has been to state the relatively small number of casualties, which are actually more to do with Israel’s investment in bomb shelters and divine providence than any ineffectualness on the part of the rockets and shells.
One component of this propaganda ploy has been to ignore the phenomenon of Israelis suffering from shock in the aftermath of these attacks.
I say all of this as an introduction to this report from Ma’an News:
A woman is dead and another person injured after Israeli warplanes launched several strikes on the border area between Egypt and Gaza Wednesday morning.
Warplanes launched missiles at underground smuggling tunnels, in addition to a security compound of the de facto government in Khan Younis, a city in the south of Gaza. A mosque was also destroyed in Khan Younis
The woman, 70-year-old Huda Abu Tahla, suffered a heart attack when missiles struck near her home, according to the executive director of the Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, Muhammad Subih.
Leaving aside the absence of any proof showing this woman died as a result of a shock-induced heart attack, it is telling that the palestinians are willing to acknowledge that missiles can lead to deadly shock when it suits their purpose, but not when it doesn’t.
8:53AM: Palestinian terrorists have been rather busy already this morning. They have fired a number of rockets into Israel, as well as one that did not quite make it over the Gaza-Israel border fence.
And then there’s the terrorist who was trying to plant a bomb along the border fence, but was shot by IDF soldiers. Luckily for him, we are not Hamas, and he was taken in to Israel for hospital treatment.
5:53AM: Following the storm that followed the UAE’s decision not to grant Israel’s Shahar Peer a visa to enable her to play in a Dubai tennis tournament, fellow Israeli tennis player Andy Ram is reportedly likely to be granted a visa.
