The Egyptians murdered four Sudanese refugees within sight of the IDF, even pulling one out of an IDF soldier’s hands as that soldier tried to save the man’s life.

Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees near the Egypt-Israel border overnight Wednesday in full view of IDF troops, a shaken-sounding IDF soldier said in an interview with Channel 10, Thursday evening.

According to the soldier, female IDF troops operating night vision devices identified several refugees approaching the border in an attempt to infiltrate Israel and alerted other soldiers who arrived after a few minutes in an army jeep.

However, Egyptian troops who also discovered the refugees, fired upon them, immediately killing two and wounding a third. A fourth refugee ran towards the fence and an IDF soldier stretched out his hands, trying to help him cross.

At that point, the soldier recalled, two Egyptian soldiers arrived and started pulling at the refugee’s legs.

“It was literally like we were playing ‘tug of war’ with this man,” the soldier said. The soldier eventually loosened his grip on the man, fearing the Egyptians would shoot him.

You won’t read about this anywhere but in the Israeli press, and in the blogs that cover the Israeli press. The Egyptian border police are now firing on unarmed refugees. The continual mistreatment and murder of Sudanese refugees by Egyptian police is not of interest to a world far more interested in emphasizing every alleged misdeed by Israel or America.

The event was caught on tape, but you won’t see it. It won’t be used to prosecute those murderers.

The Egyptians then carried the man several meters away from the border fence, and proceeded to beat him and another wounded refugee to death with stones and clubs.

“What happened there yesterday was a lynch. These are not men, they’re animals. They killed him without even using firearms,” the soldier said. “We just heard screams of pain and the sounds of beatings. Then the screams stopped.”

The entire event was caught on IDF tapes, but the soldier said that his commanders, who were not at the site, would not dare watch them.

The UN Human Rights Commission can’t be bothered with the human rights of Sudanese refugees in Egypt. But I’ll bet next year, when they resume, they go after the refusal of Israel to accept Darfur’s refugees. Although by that time, Israel may have changed its policy on that.

Dozens of legislators from across the political spectrum have urged the government to refrain from deporting to Egypt Sudanese refugees who enter Israel through the Sinai Peninsula. Channel 10 reported yesterday on Israeli soldiers who said they had witnessed Egyptian security officers executing several refugees.

“The refugees need protection and sanctuary, and the Jewish people’s history as well as the values of democracy and humanity pose a moral imperative for us to give them that shelter,” the MKs said in a petition.

The document has been signed by 63 MKs including Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, Labor’s Amir Peretz, Hadash’s Dov Khenin and the National Religious Party’s Effi Eitam. The legislators propose to keep the refugees here until they are transferred to a safe haven abroad. MKs who signed the petition added suggestions such as building a high fence along the Egyptian border and stipulating quotas for the absorption of refugees.

When the world bodies and world media start criticizing the heinous actions of countries like Egypt, and stop criticizing Israel for defending herself, I can stop blogging.

Shyeah. Like that’s ever going to happen.

Ynet writer Guy Bechor says that Syria will not attack Israel, in spite of the actions—and messages—to the contrary seen lately.

Hizbullah’s success in paralyzing the north of Israel for over a month last summer left Bashar Assad with his mouth agape: He, with his lack of experience, saw this as proof that Israel could be defeated. This is why Assad has expedited Syria’s rearmament campaign in the past year.

Assad thought that in times of need he could reach some kind of victory over Israel by also paralyzing it through rocket fire, and in so doing would bring the issue of the Golan Heights on to the international agenda, getting it back “honorably” as one who did so through an impressive military maneuver.

The establishment of the international tribunal into the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, set to commence shortly, is of great concern to Assad, as it poses an existential threat to him personally and to the minority Alawite regime that he heads. As it is the way of the Syrians to extinguish fires by creating even greater ones, Israel justifiably feared that Syria was preparing for war before being blamed for the Hariri murder.

The welcome outcome to these warnings was that the IDF significantly boosted its preparedness level on the Golan Heights. We all read about the series of large-scale exercises the army carried out on the Golan. These public exercises were welcome, and they should be continued, because they led to an important development. The Syrians have been deterred. Deterrence has been reinstated. The rules of the game have been reset.

Israel made it clear to the Syrians that if Assad thinks that an attack on its sovereignty would be a walk in the park and that Israel would suffice with the hesitant responses that characterized the last war, it is mistaken. The IDF is an army positioned at the gates of Damascus, and not the other way around.

I hope he’s right. The real testing time will be immediately before the UN Hariri investigation takes place. That is when Syria is most likely to launch hostile action, either against Lebanon or Israel.

Israelis, fed up with the near-daily bombardment from Gaza, turned the tables on the Palestinians and sent their own missiles toward Gaza.

Yes, really.

But the missiles weren’t very dangerous.

A number of Israelis from the Tel Aviv vicinity drove south and fired improvised missiles towards Gaza, in an effort to raise awareness of the difficult situation in Sderot.

The group used a projectile-launcher built by Yahav Michaeli - a stunts and pyrotechnics expert - to lob organic eggs and vegetables towards Beit Hanoun.

“The idea was to draw attention to what’s going on with a little bit of humor, because we thought it could relieve the pressure a little,” said members of the group.

Once again proving the difference between Israelis and the Palestinians, as soon as the IDF got word of the launch, they were all over the rocketeers.

IDF sources who heard of the missile launcher hurried worriedly to the launch site. They were greeted by group member Yigal Tzur, who told them, “we mean to shoot at Gaza.”

The officer responsible for the region informed him that shooting was prohibited in area and requested he stop. Upon being informed that the group was shooting eggs and vegetables, he allowed them to continue.

The group had brought with them organic eggs, corn, mango, tomatoes and other vegetables - much of it bought in Sderot - to launch at the Palestinians.

However, it’s possible that some Palestinians got a little worried or curious about the strange rain coming from Israel.

“The shooting was amazing, some of the vegetables flew whole over to the Strip, we actually spotted the eggs flying into Beit Hanoun and the thought even crossed my mind that some day, we may be able to make Arabic salad here, a salad of peace,” Tzur added.

Guaranteed you’ll get some kind of ridiculous response from PIJ or Hamas. And by “ridiculous” I don’t mean lobbing missiles in return. I mean some kind of idiotic statement.