The Israeli rocket prevention program: Got three “militants” as they were preparing to fire rockets into Israel. One hit, three dead terrorists, no real notice by the AP, since they can’t even pretend these were Palestinian farmers trying to earn a living. Caught with their own petards, you might say. Oh, the AP did have this to say in their latest update on Iron Dome (after writing that it will take years to develop, and uh, duh): “There has been a recent flare-up of rocket fire from Gaza.” Uh-huh.
Good fences make good neighbors: The Egyptian fence around Gaza could be the endgame for Hamas. And Hamas knows it. They are shaking in their sandals about Egypt’s fence, which will enable Egypt to control what goes in and out of Gaza, and that includes bombs and bullets. Here’s the thing about the Egyptian fence: Egypt doesn’t give a damn about Hamas smuggling as long as Hamas turns those bombs and bullets on Israel. But when Hamas starts talking about turning on Egypt, that’s when the Egyptian regime protects its own. Last year Hamas showed Egypt that it has a vulnerable border, when Hamas engineered blowing up the wall and allowing thousands of Gazans (and many terrorists, of course) into Egypt. Here’s a tip for Hamas: You never, ever show an authoritarian regime that it has a weakness. You rarely live to tell the tale. And I couldn’t be happier for you.
Another fence for the anti-Israel left to protest: Netanyahu is going to build a fence along the currently open border with Egypt. It’s mostly to stop the illegal immigration of Africans. And just to show you how egregious the AP spin can be, yesterday when I read this article, it contained this line:
At least 17 migrants have been killed by Egyptian police since May.
Now it says:
Israel requested Egypt tighten its border patrols and since then many African migrants have been shot and killed by Egyptian police trying to sneak through.
Quite a difference, isn’t it? Imagine if 17 immigrants had been killed by Israeli border police. How many UN resolutions condemning Israel would there be by now?
The unbiased media at work.
Yes of course it is all Israel’s fault that the Egyptians killed attempted “migrants”. After all, if Israel had not said anything, the Egyptians would have waved them through.
Don’t wnat to raise anyones’ blood pressure, but here is another pearl from CNN’s article on same subject:
“Israel has already built a controversial barrier separating the West Bank from the Jewish state.”
Here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/11/israel.egypt.border/index.html
At this point, I just operate under the assumption that ALL news stories regarding Israel & the “matzav” in the media will be negative by default. That way, I’m not disappointed when that turns out to be the case.