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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has reportedly said that his terror group will attack Tel Aviv should Israel strike the movement’s stronghold in Beirut.
Meanwhile, Iran threatened to attack Israel’s nuclear facilities if we attack Iran.
Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)
9:08PM: Neville Chamberlain is apparently alive and well in Britain.
British legislators on Sunday urged the government to engage in talks with “moderate elements” within Hamas, saying that the Quartet’s policy of shunning the Palestinian group until it accepts previous understandings with Israel, renounces violence and comes to terms with Israel’s existence, had proven to be counterproductive.
As opposed to appeasing terror which has done us all a world of good.
9:02PM: Israel has successfully fired Barak.
Unfortunately, I am not talking about our Defense Minister.
7:58PM: Who’s your daddy? This bird certainly knows.
When the Taibeh police raided on Sunday a property suspected of housing stolen goods, they were surprised to discover a white cockatoo among the plasma televisions and other equipment.
Following an investigation, police suspected that the cockatoo was “Looly,” a parrot worth tens of thousands of shekels who had been stolen two weeks earlier from the “Eli’s Jungle” pet shop at kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon.
Looly had been raised by the owner and his relatives from the day he hatched.
Indeed, when the store’s owner, Eli Tamam, arrived with his daughter at the police station, the cockatoo immediately recognized them, jumped toward the girl and called out “‘Dad,’ ‘dad'” to Eli, while clinging to the girl’s shoulder and refusing to let go.
The raid was carried out as part of an initiative by the Taibeh police, under the authority of Commander Gil Rotem, and with the assistance of the Border Police. Police suspect the equipment had been stolen in recent weeks by a gang of burglars that had been operating in the Sharon region.
Once the policemen discovered the cockatoo, they hurried to contact Tamam, who had complained two weeks earlier about break-ins in which five rare parrots were stolen.
“The moment we arrived at the station and the cop opened the door, the cockatoo yelled at me, ‘Dad, dad’ and ran in the direction of my daughter, climbed on her shoulder and started kissing her,” Tamam said. “It was like a very successful line-up.”
7:16PM: PMW’s latest bulletin deals with more deception from our PA “peace partners.”
PA (Fatah) Member of Parliament Muhammad Dahlan has publicly stated that Yasser Arafat was deceiving the world when he condemned Palestinian terror. Dahlan made these comments after defending the Palestinian Authority’s “right” to use terror, and citing Arafat’s behavior as an example:
“Arafat would condemn [terror] operations by day
while at night he would do honorable things.”Dahlan said this in the context of defending the use of Palestinian terror, which he called a “legal right.” He advocated that this “legal right” be implemented carefully “in the proper place and at the proper time,” and only by the “leadership” of the PA.
It is interesting to note that the forces that will be available to fight Israel, if and when the PA leadership decides the timing is right, are the soldiers being trained by US Lt. Gen. Dayton.
The strategy of engaging in a diplomatic process while continuing to embrace violence or planning to use it in the future is a common theme expressed by PA leaders.
Abbas himself told the Jordanian newspaper Al-Dustur last year that the PA was not involved in terror operations because it was “unable,” but added that “in the future stages, things may be different.”
“Now we are against armed conflict because we are unable. In the future stages, things may be different. I was honored to be the one to shoot the first bullet in 1965 [Fatah terror against Israel began in 1965], and having taught resistance to many in this area and around the world, defining it and when it is beneficial and when it is not… we had the honor of leading the resistance. We taught everyone what resistance is, including the Hezbollah, who were trained in our camps [i.e. PLO camps in the 60s].”
[Al-Dustur, Jordan, Feb. 28, 2008]Neither Arafat nor PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas ever condemned terror because it is wrong, but only because it is ineffective or because it damages Palestinian interests.
6:12AM: If you are going to see one video today, make it this one.
