Apparent ceasefire takes effect after violent flare-up kills 4 Israelis, 23 Palestinians

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1. The ultimate Zionists and true living Zionists are those that make aliyah (going up to Israel literally or immigrating).

   7000 Lone Soldiers are in Israel those that emigrated without their families to serve in the IDF from around the world.

   The Jewish Agency reported a five percent increase in aliyah to Israel in 2018, with that increase coming largely from Russia which witnessed a 45% jump in the rate of immigration.

   According to the figures, more than 29,600 people immigrated to Israel from around the world this year, compared with 28,220 new immigrants in 2017, a 5-percent increase.

2. IDF anticipates a war with Islamic Jihad and Hamas in the very near future. Israel is building a solid wall on the Gaza border to help stop Kornet anti-tank missiles from hitting Israelis on roads nearby. Islamic Jihad also has a new Iranian missile that is accurate and showers shrapnel above a target to have maximum casualties and it has a much large explosive head. This maybe is why the few missiles that got past the Iron Dome inflicted more damage and injuries.

   What the battle plans or objective by Israel will be in the next war I am not privy to. Hopefully it will be minimally to destroy Islamic Jihad and Hamas fighting capability.

3. @ Adam Dallgiesh:
   You don’t understand,Copy the url then select ie highlight the title then click on “link” and enter,

4. @ Ted Belman: Ted, what I typed in wasthe title of the article, not the whole article. I may have created some confusion on this point by using the “embedding” technique. The titles of some Arutz Sheva articles are long. But not long enough to create a problem for your computer, I think.

5. @ Adam Dalgliesh:
   The proper way to do it is to first type in the title of the article. Then copy the url. Then select the title and click on “link”.

   I tend to leave it to readers to get their news elsewhere and focus on analysis or opinion.

6. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262817

   3,150 civilians killed in terror attacks since founding of state
   Terror attacks have left 3,196 orphans, 819 widows and widowers, and 897 bereaved parents. 13 civilians killed in past year.

7. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262795. According to Arutz Sheva,Qatar has pledged $480 million to “the Palestinians.” $300 million of this will go to the PA to pay for its “health and educational programs.” The remaining $180 million will go to unspecified programs sponsored by “the United Nations” and other “humanitarian purposes,” in both Judea-Samaria and Gaza. It sounds like most of this is to be given to Hamas, with some of it routed through UNRWA which is just a front for Hamas, and some of it to go directly to Hamas to pay for the salaries of their “personnel.”

8. @ Michael S: Very true, all your observations about Israel, Michael. The “drama” of the British parliamentary ‘undead” is appalling, but I’m not sure I would call it riveting. The British parliament have been undead zombies for some time now. Appalling, though, that that antisemitic, ant-Israel creep Corbyn may soon be Prime Minister. P.S.–isn’t the etymology of the name “Corbyn” the Scots word for “crow?”

9. https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/234-Israelis-injured-in-latest-round-of-Gaza-border-violence-588920. The Jerusalem Post reports that 234 Israelis were injured, in addition to the four killed, all of them I think civilians, in 48 hours of Hamas rocketing. 690 rockets fired into Israel May4-6.

10. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262787. Netanyahu has approved a payment of $30 million from Qatar to Hamas. In return, Hamas has promised to scale down violence along the border, restrain Islamic Jihad from attacking, and end blood-bombings. Fat chance these promises will be kept. What’s wrong with Bibi? He’s such a weak sister.

11. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262754. MK Gideon Saar made a speech in which he said “This cease-fire has done nothing for Israel.” Read the summary of it in Arutz Sheva. I hope Saar, one of Likud’s best peole and popular in the party, realizes his ambition to succeed Bibi.

12. @ Edgar G.:IDF went all over Gaza destroying ALL offices of Hamas/Islamic Jihad plus the homes of the Hamas Commanders. There was (past tense) in Gaza City an affluent neighborhood were Hamas big shots lived.

13. @ Bear Klein:

    No…I’m sure they have very “comfy” homes complete with all the latest amenities ,,deep underground -prepared years ago and used since. I don’t think any of the REAL leaders sleep above ground at all.. They hate Jews so much that they don”t depend on knock-knockers at all. (“Better be safe than sorry” (blown up).

14. @ Ted Belman: Okay.

15. Bibi has NO vision of how to solve the Gaza problem, that is obvious. This is why Lieberman resigned basically as Def. Minister.

    Clearly there are no neat and tidy pain free way to do this. Gaza was a manageable problem but sill a problem before Oslo.

    Oslo made it worse because it gave terrorists room to operate. This room increased after the disengagement in 2005. Now there are two terror armies in Gaza, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Islamic Jihad is smaller but it has more missiles than Hamas perhaps and works at the direct command of Iran. Hamas is only influenced by Iran.

    There is NO CHOICE but to DESTROY HAMAS & ISLAMIC JIHAD. The IDF must recapture Gaza in the process. It must plan when to do this strategically. Israel will then need to allow Gazans to escape if they are not violent. Polls say about ~60% want to emigrate, Israel should make this easy for them. Have ships off shore chartered to help them escape.

    Too minimize Israeli casualties they should destroy Gaza systematically starting from the air. They can use the knock on the roof method and direct people where to flee. Then with artillery, tanks, naval power blow up all the structures above and below the ground. Literally make it uninhabitable. The only fighters spared will need surrender clothes removed and unarmed.

    Israel should then populate Gaza with Jews starting with the former Northern Kibbutzim and Gush Katif.

    Nothing short of this will solve the Gaza terror problem for Israel.

16. @ Adam Dalgliesh:
    I did no approve a couple of your comments because you just pasted in a whole article.
    Instead I want you to just put in the title and link the title. Of course tell why you are doing it.

17. Next Round latest likely is one to two months from now. As soon as Trump unveils his plan and Ramadan is over.

    Also right now Hamas & Islamic Jihad commanders are looking for new homes as theirs were blown up. Islamic Jihad is also going to be promoting a few people as a few of their guys are dead. Also Hamas is looking for a new banker with Iran.

18. @ Adam Dalgliesh:
    Hi, Adam

    I checked out the link you posted. One quote from it ought to sum it up:

    “Samia said, “Right now, Hamas decides when the round starts and when it finishes.””

    — https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Former-IDF-Commander-says-Israel-has-no-strategy-for-handling-Hamas-588854

    Calling a duck a duck, that means that Israel is, in fact, tributary to the Jihadis. I guess Netanyahu and his supporters consider it a “victory”, when they get away without having Israelis kidnapped, so they don’t have to release 1000 terrorists for one dead body. Maybe this is Jewish logic. To me, though, it’s obvious that the Pals won and will continue to win — this, in spite of the US president and people offering to back Israel 100%.

    This is all so “same-o, same-o”, that I’m much more interested in following the un-moving non-drama of Britain’s zombie PM and the equally un-dead House of Commons.

    Ta ta for now.

19. Sensible proposals for dealing with Hamas, and the Israeli government’s overly timid response to Hamas aggression, from MK and likely future minister Smotrich:

    MK Smotrich to Arutz Sheva: ‘Netanyahu doesn’t want to topple Hamas’
    National Union Chairman criticizes how war with Hamas ended: ‘We have to remove their desire to attack the State of Israel.’

    Smotrich
    National Union Chairman MK Betzalel Smotrich says he discerns within the Prime Minister and the defense establishment a lack of willingness to deal with the root of the Hamas problem in Gaza.

    “The source of Israel’s insufficiently determined responses in recent rounds to Hamas stems from a strategic trap: Netanyahu doesn’t want to topple the Hamas government because there really is no alternative to Hamas rule; he doesn’t want to crown Abbas leader of Gaza, and in this I agree with him 100 percent,” Smotrich said in an interview with Arutz Sheva.

    “Today, Netanyahu and Israeli society have no willingness to understand that the real solution requires courage to take responsibility for what’s happening in the Gaza Strip, to bring down Hamas, to return there and then we’ll take care of the root cause of what’s happening in the Gaza Strip – remove the three quarters of the population who were brought there and are being maintained by the Arab states as a kind of cluster bomb against the State of Israel.

    “As long as we aren’t willing to go to this real root course,” Smotrich warns, “we’re just getting tangled up in tactical responses.”

    He says, “Even on the tactical level, the response must be much more determined for a simple reason: Hamas must lose the desire to attack the State of Israel, and which should end with 700 Hamas terrorists killed, at least one for every missile fired at the State of Israel. It should take Hamas a very long time to rebuild so that they’ll think a hundred times before launching the next incendiary balloon towards the State of Israel.”

    The price of hesitation is paid, he says, by Israeli citizens. “It’s inconceivable that an entire generation of children and youth will grow with these anxieties, and it’s inconceivable that a million-and-a-half citizens enter the shelters for days. Our national pride and honor cannot be eroded as well as deterrence. Hezbollah is watching from the north, seeing what’s happening in the south, and getting an appetite.”

    The main problem facing the defense establishment today, Smotrich says, is that of deterrence. “My role in the next government will be to say again and again that there is no choice but to look directly at reality in Gaza and to change it completely. I believe the Israeli public will gradually understand this and then leadership will also have more strength, courage, and public legitimacy to do so. Until then, we should try to make the tactical responses sharper.”

20. For an explanation as to why Israel’s response to Hamas is stupid, and what approach is needed to eliminate the Hamas problem, see this brilliant analysis in the 5/5/19 Jerusalem Post by retired General Yom-Tov Samia. https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Former-IDF-Commander-says-Israel-has-no-strategy-for-handling-Hamas-588854. Samia has long been a voice for sanity and reason in strategic matters. He explains why you must defeat your enemy in a war, not just do tit-for-tat, pin-pointed, “proportionate” retaliation each time the enemy attacks.

21. Appalling that Israel has agreed to another cease-fire. UNless Israel changes its approach to fighting its enemies, it is doomed.

22. Another HAMAS/ Jihad victory. They are now reloading for round 2.

    You can’t make this stuff up!