The IDF Gallilee commander describes yesterday’s battle against Hezbullah, and shows how the terrorists regularly commit war crimes that are ignored utterly by the world media:

Over the past few months the Northern Command has been carrying out hasty preparations for a quick and decisive retaliation plan on Hizbullah bases south Lebanon, awaiting such an attack. The aim was simple: Employ various means simultaneously, disrupt the fire and deal Hizbullah a significant blow. “Preparations were made by consolidating means: fighters were sitting with their sights aimed waiting for terrorists to come while other forces were primed to attack all bases by various means. We took out a lot of Hizbullah bases, all those along the border including those built in the past few months in the west. We made an effort to hit the terrorists, rather than the structures. Every manned post was in our sights; they tried to put snipers on us but they got hit too; they aimed anti-tank missiles but they missed and our tanks hit their bases,” the senior officer related.

He said that during the battle soldiers saw dozens of children being sent towards the Tziporen base and throwing stones. Brig.-Gen. Hirsch, who led the fighting, instructed a direct hit on the sniper cell, and only after the children had gone were helicopter gunships sent to flatten the base. “They also hid in UN buildings, which forced our attacks to be chirurgic and exact. We recommended the UN take cover when the battle started. We didn’t shoot on any target where UN employees were present.”

So not only is Hezbullah in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, but they’re also in violation of the Geneva Convention.

And yet, you won’t hear calls for a war crimes tribunal against these scumbags.

If only Israel would stop oppressing the palestinians and give them their own state, attacks like these would never happen.

Polish Chief Rabbi attacked in Warsaw
Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, was punched and sprayed with what appeared to be pepper spray by an unidentified man in downtown Warsaw on Saturday, but escaped without injuries from what police said may have been an anti-Semitic attack.

Schudrich said he was heading to a Sabbath lunch near Warsaw’s main synagogue with a group of people when a young man yelled out “Poland for Poles!”

“That’s a well-known pre-World War II slogan which basically means ‘Jews, get out of Poland,’ and I didn’t like hearing it, so I approached the gentleman to ask him why he said such things, and his reaction was to punch me in the chest,” Schudrich told AP.

“I was going to hit him back, but before I had a chance to hit him he sprayed me with some kind of spray - maybe pepper spray.”

If only Israel would stop oppressing the palestinians and give them their own state, attacks like these would never happen.

Shoppers in the historic Marais neighbourhood, one of the busiest districts in the Jewish area of Paris, were left in shock early Sunday evening after a group of extremists terrorized community members with anti-Semitic verbal abuse.

More than 20 men claiming to be members of the Tribu-Ka anti-white group walked up and down the crowded Rue des Rosiers shouting at the families and youths in the area.

The French Office of Vigilance against anti-Semitism (BNCVA) said in a statement the gang was “performing Nazi salutes, looking for a fight with the neighbourhood’s Jews, threatening and intimidating them.”

Yes, if only Israel would give the palestinians a state (preferably behind the 1949 Armistice lines), Jews the world over would not continue to be attacked by these people. It isn’t anti-Semitism, you see. It’s anti-Zionism.

Knock me over with a feather. No, knock me over with a nano. The AP is running a story about the IDF successfully preventing a suicide bombing — and actually calling it a suicide attack.

JERUSALEM May 29, 2006 (AP)— Israeli soldiers, acting on intelligence reports, prevented two Palestinian militants on Monday from carrying out a suicide bombing inside Israel, the military said. The militants were spotted carrying a suspicious bag near the West Bank city of Nablus and tried to flee, said Lt. Col. Arik Chen, a battalion commander in the Nablus region.

They threw away the bag, then led troops on a three-hour foot chase, until they were cornered and gave themselves up, he said. The men surrendered only after troops fired in the air.

Inside the bag, soldiers found a bomb weighing 15 pounds, packed with nails and pieces of small metal, which heighten the deadly effect, Chen said. Sappers later blew it up.

Go buy a lottery ticket today, folks, the world is upside down.

According to the AP, the IDF took out most of the Hezbullah front-line rocket positions during the bombardment yesterday.

Israel destroyed most of the military positions of the Lebanese Hezbollah along the northern border, in the heaviest fighting since it withdrew its troops from southern Lebanon six years ago, the IDF’s northern division commander said Monday.

The Sunday rocket and artillery exchanges killed two Hezbollah guerrillas and wounded two Israeli soldiers. The cross-border fighting began when Hezbollah fired Katyusha rockets from Lebanon at Israel’s northern Galilee region, hitting an air force base, then attacked Israeli outposts along the border.

“Our main effort was to destroy the frontline that Hezbollah has built in the last six years,” Colonel Gal Hirsch said, adding the pro-Iranian group had established dozens of frontline outposts along the border with Israel.

“We destroyed most of them,” he told the Associated Press in a telephone interview.

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BTU being “British Teachers Unions.”

Judith of Adloyada has an in-depth look at the first vote against academic freedom in the current campaign to demonize all things Israeli (but no, not Jewish, never Jewish, they’re not anti-Semites — the fact that Israel is a Jewish state has nothing to do with their hatred and contempt for Israeli policies).

She’s written extensively about the boycott in the past as well. Everything you wanted to know about the boycott can be found here.

It is very instructive to browse from time to time through the Guardian Israeli shelf at the http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/. There is really no quiet moment on that shelf, and it keeps growing at a speed that would be envied by many other countries (if, indeed, other countries could care about coverage by Guardian).

There are quite a few contributors to the ever-rising stack of articles. They do not think alike, they do not write alike, they are not alike. However, there is one common trait that unites them: that intangible, but easy to distinguish ability to detach themselves from reality in favor of the point they are intent to make. That ivory tower syndrome, so to say.

Take as an example what two different authors say about Israeli shelling of Gaza. Chris McGreal in this article:

The military says the bombardment is aimed at deterring Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel from open fields…

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