Evidently the prison party’s over for Hamas and Fatah - by Ruthie Blum

The only question now is how long it will take the United Nations and the International Red Cross to condemn Israel for being a prison party-pooper.

Ruthie Blum..
JNS.org..
04 January '19..

At a press conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan announced that the “party was over” for Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons.

It may be hard to believe that 6,000 Hamas and Fatah killers and handlers are living it up behind bars, particularly since they go on periodical hunger strikes to obtain better conditions. But Erdan’s list of new restrictions should put to rest any skepticism on that score.

The main bombshell he dropped on the failed suicide-bombers and successful stabbers who didn’t make it to Allah’s paradise was that they would stop being grouped in cell blocks according to their terrorist-organization affiliations.

“There will no longer be separate Hamas and Fatah wards,” he said, explaining that the current situation enables each group to become even more radicalized, to use their power against wardens and to make Israeli intelligence-gathering on their organizations’ activities extremely difficult.

Another terrorist prisoner benefit that is going to be revoked, according to Erdan, involves the flow of money that the prisoners receive from outside sources, such as the Palestinian Authority, which pays stipends to terrorists and their families from a “Martyrs’ Fund.” Today, each prisoner is allowed to receive up to NIS 1,600 (about $430) per month. What the prisoners have been doing is pooling the cash, and collectively purchasing groceries and other equipment with which to prepare their own meals, rather than eat the food provided by the Israel Prison Service (IPS).

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Pinocchio dropped-out. A whopping Palestinian Arab lie gets even bigger!

Barghouti is lying. The Irish Times is gullible. And so is the rest of the world.

Elder of Ziyon..
11 December '13..




I have noted in the past an absurd statistic, given by some Palestinian Arab NGOs like Addameer and repeated by the UN and others like The Lancet and Jimmy Carter.

They claimed that over 650,000 - and then 750,000 - and then 800,000 and even 900,000 Palestinian Arabs have been jailed by Israel since 1967.

I've proven that these statistics were complete fiction. Every Israeli arrest is documented by PCHR, and they average about 25 arrests a week, which would make at most 1300 a year - but for these numbers to be increasing as fast as they claim in recent years, there would need to be over 50,000 people not just arrested but jailed every year!

(There are about 5000 Palestinian Arabs in Israeli jails, a number that has been pretty consistent for the past couple of years.)

Now, Mustafa Barghouti in Irish Times beats everyone else in his ability to lie:

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Fake 'Martyrdom' - Another opportunity for a slanderous propaganda campaign

It would be one thing if Palestinian leaders called for an investigation of his treatment. In any case, Israel does this routinely whenever a Palestinian inmate dies. But Abbas and Fayyad have quite another thing thing in mind -- an opportunity for a slanderous propaganda campaign that they know will be given full coverage treatment by Kershner and the New York Times.

Leo Rennert..
American Thinker..
03 April '13..

A 64-year-old Palestinian terrorist serving a life term in an Israeli prison for sending a suicide bomber to Jerusalem dies of throat cancer and, predictably, Palestinian leaders immediately join Palestinian prisoners in blaming Israel ("Palestinians Jailed in Israel Protest After Inmate Dies" by Isabel Kershner, April 3, page A10). Also predictably, the New York Times obliges with a six-column article, plus a photograph of protest clashes in Hebron.

Jerusalem correspondent Kershner's article gives full vent to slanderous accusations by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad that the death of the jailed Palestinian, Maysara Abu Hamdiya, was caused by medical negligence on the part of prison authorities.

It would be one thing if Palestinian leaders called for an investigation of his treatment. In any case, Israel does this routinely whenever a Palestinian inmate dies. But Abbas and Fayyad have quite another thing thing in mind -- an opportunity for a slanderous propaganda campaign that they know will be given full coverage treatment by Kershner and the New York Times.

Abbas immediately said that he holds the Israeli government "fully responsible" and that Hamdiya's death was the result of "deliberate medical negligence." Not to be outdone, Fayyad weighed in, charging that Hamdiya was the victim of Israel's "policy of medical negligence, which was a primary reason for his martyrdom."

Two Arab prisoners. Which death triggered riots? Which death goes entirely unreported?

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
03 April '13..

Time for a small lesson in reality twisting and shaping.

A convicted Palestinian Arab terrorist, sentenced to life imprisonment for trying to engineer a massacre in a Jerusalem cafe in 2002, died yesterday at the age of 62 of cancer of the throat.

As a direct result, Arab riots broke out today in several parts of Israel's prison system as well as in East Jerusalem. In addition, three rockets were fired into Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Times of Israel says two of the Gazan missiles crashed inside Gaza's borders, but as happens constantly with such "fell short" explosions, there are no reports of casualties among the Palestinian Arabs of Gaza, even though casualties do routinely occur in the wake of "fell shorts". A third exploded in an open area of southern Israel's Eshkol region, according to the IDF.

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Riding the tiger and whipping up the flames a little more

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
25 February '13..

In a rare resort to large-scale pomp and ceremony, the PA leadership is seeking to squeeze every drop of rage and fury out of the death in custody of a prisoner who, as far as the available medical evidence suggests, may have died of heart attack.

This is from the BBC's report: "Palestinian detainee Arafat Jaradat's funeral held")

The funeral of a Palestinian who died in Israeli custody on Saturday, fuelling riots, is taking place near the West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinians say Arafat Jaradat, 30, died from torture, while Israel says a post-mortem was inconclusive and that investigations into his death continue. There were clashes across the West Bank on Sunday, while prisoners refused food in protest at Mr Jaradat's death. It follows days of violence amid protest over Palestinian detainees. Mr Jaradat, from the West Bank village of Saeer, was arrested last week for throwing a rock which injured an Israeli citizen, Israel's internal security agency Shin Bet said. The father-of-two died six days later at Meggido prison, from what the Israel Prison Service (IPS) said appeared to be a heart attack. Palestinian officials, however, said an autopsy, carried out by Israeli morticians, showed he had suffered two broken ribs and had bruising. "[Arafat Jaradat] faced harsh torture, leading to his immediate, direct death. Israel is fully responsible for his killing,'' Palestinian minister of prisoner affairs Issa Karake said. Israel's health ministry said the injuries were likely the result of attempts to resuscitate Mr Jaradat, and that the cause of his death had not been determined by the post-mortem [more]

Do morticians (funeral undertakers) actually carry out autopsies in the towns where the BBC's reporters come from?

The BBC is kind enough to let us see how Mahmoud Abbas' circle are working hard to make the most of the moment as "spontaneous" riots and rock-throwing attacks at Israeli passers-by grow more numerous and more violent...

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The efficacy of hunger strikes as a mask for ongoing terrorism

The caption on this AFP photo reads: "Samer al-Issawi's mother attends
a solidarity sit-in  outside the Red Cross offices in Jerusalem"
[Image Source]

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
20 February '13..

There is another sickening campaign getting underway to turn a hunger-striking convicted murderer into a figure of admiration for people who can't bother to understand terrorism or the people who do it.

Samir Tariq Ahmad Muhammad is one of the 1,027 Palestinian Arab terrorists who walked free in October 2012 as Israel bowed to jihadist extortion in the Shalit Transaction to secure the release of a young hostage illegally held for more than five years by the terrorists of Hamas. You can see him in the published Israel Prison Service list issued at the time: look for ID number 037274735.

Like some other stupendously luckier-than-smart Palestinian Arab prisoners serving long terms in prison for acts of terrorism against Israelis, this one was re-arrested in April 2002 and put back behind bars to serve the balance of his term because of an infringement of the conditions (yes, there were certainly conditions) of his completely unjustified, unjust and wrongful October 2011 return to freedom and open society.

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(+Video) Celebrating engagement of convicted terrorist Samar Abu Kwick

Pesach Benson..
Honest Reporting Backspin..
16 January '13..

A Palestinian terrorist serving three life sentences was filmed by prisoners celebrating his engagement. Mobile phones are a no-no in the slammer, but I’m struck by how well-fed and comfortable everyone looks. So was the PA, which denounced the video.

The Times of Israel explains:

The Maariv daily cited Palestinian Authority sources who expressed disapproval of the video, saying it could result in a tightening of conditions as it depicted life on the inside as being pleasant.

“People who watch the video can fall under the impression that life in Israeli prisons is easy and all they do all the time is have parties and feasts,” the Palestinian sources were quoted as saying.

Why would Palestinians think that?

If you’re wondering about the groom’s rap sheet, Samar Abu Kwick, was involved in a November, 2000 drive-by shooting that killed school teacher Sarah Lisha and soldiers Elad Valenstein and Amit Zanah.

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Ahmed Jabari - Another graduate of de facto trade schools for terrorism

Gray Osen..
Times of Israel..
17 November '12..

Israel’s targeted killing of Ahmed Jabari last Wednesday may have been front-page news, but in many ways the life of the head of Hamas’s so-called military wing is more instructive than the circumstances of his death. Jabari was of course instrumental in both the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit and the hostage-for-prisoners exchange he negotiated with the Netanyahu government last year, but lost in the obligatory summaries of his career “achievements” is the little remarked upon fact that he began his professional career as a terrorist as a man of Fatah, not Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood.

Although Jabari attended the Islamic University of Gaza (at the time, a cornerstone of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s burgeoning Islamist movement), he was first arrested and incarcerated by Israel for his violent handiwork in the ranks of Fatah. In a pattern repeated hundreds of times in the past decade, it was during his time in an Israeli prison in the early 1990s that Jabari switched allegiances to Hamas.

Israeli and Palestinian prisons have in fact proven to be a vital source of recruitment for the movement. For example, when he was arrested by Israel, Abbas al-Sayd, the mastermind of the 2002 Passover massacre at the Park Hotel in Netanya, told investigators that he cemented his ties to Hamas while serving time in a Palestinian prison with Hamas leader Jamal Mansur in 1999.

To a lot of Americans, thinking about prison brings to mind Morgan Freeman’s iconic role in the “Shawshank Redemption,” or episodes of “Law and Order” depicting the jail on Rikers Island in New York. But these images are far from the reality of Israel’s security prisons. Unlike maximum security prisons in the U.S., in Israeli jails the various Palestinian factions are separated from each other and encouraged to police themselves, but they are permitted to eat meals, study and pray communally with members of their political faction. While this approach is more cost-effective because it requires fewer guards and reduces friction between the inmates and the prison service, it also permits the jails to serve as a de facto trade school for terrorism. Whereas on the outside, men like Jabari and Al-Sayd were once wanted men who needed to constantly stay a step ahead of the Israeli security services, behind bars, they could relax and safely meet and plan, and learn from their fellow operatives.

Kushner - From Israel: First the Good Stuff

Arlene Kushner..
14 May '12..





I wrote not long ago about an excellent up-beat film on Israel called "Israel Inside," with Tal Ben-Shahar, produced by Rafi Shore.

Now, to coincide with Israeli Independence Day according to the secular calendar, JerusalemOnlineU, the creator and distributor of the movie, is offering viewing via free streaming -- for one week starting today. You can access it here:

http://www.israelinsidethemovie.com/free-stream-of-israel-inside/

Please, take the time to see it, pass it along quickly so that others might see it, and publicize it via blogs and lists.

We have so very much to be proud of, in terms of who we are.

Roth - A picture is worth more than a thousand words including words like disaster, dignity, rights, justice and shameless hypocrisy

Ramallah is the home base of the "moderate" Fatah/PLO regime headed by
Mahmoud Abbas that controls the Palestinian Authority. That's where
this protest took place on Friday. The caption for this APF photo says it shows
protesters holding portraits of relatives held in Israeli jails, and that the demonstration is "to show solidarity" with them.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
13 May '12..

In an NBC News report plaintively headed "As Palestinian hunger strikers starve, a mother waits", Yara Borgal makes a heart-tugging effort to evoke sympathy for the mother of one of the prisoners on hunger strike. Then the report moves on to the more serious part of this: the explicit threats by the political leadership of the Palestinian Arabs:

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned Israel that the death of one of the prisoners could result in chaos. “If anybody dies today or tomorrow or after a week it would be a disaster and no one could control the situation," Abbas said in an interview with Reuters at his office in Ramallah. "I told the Israelis and the Americans if they do not find a solution for this hunger strike immediately, they will be committing a crime." Issa Qaraqe, the Palestinian Authority’s minister of prisoner affairs, has appealed to the international community, including the U.N. and even Pope Benedict, to intervene. “Palestinian hunger strikers are fighting for what they have been systematically denied — their dignity, rights and justice,” he said. “I appeal to the world to immediately intervene and save the prisoners’ lives before it’s too late. If the hunger strike results in the death of one of the prisoners then Israel should expect an escalation of violence in the West Bank and even inside the Israeli prisons.”

We're in favour of dignity, rights and justice. Especially justice.

That's why it's so absolutely infuriating to us that editors, photographers, reporters and news readers from all over the world continue to report on these protests without so much as a mention of whom the protestors are supporting and with whom they are expressing their solidarity.

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Fresnozionism - Palestinian hunger strikers not innocent

Fresnozionism.org..
10 May '12..






The UN’s Ban Ki-Moon cares about Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails:

9 May 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the importance of averting any further deterioration in the condition of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody who are on hunger strike, and urged everyone concerned to reach a solution to their plight without delay.

“The Secretary-General continues to follow with concern the ongoing hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody, in particular those held in what is known as administrative detention,” according to information provided by his spokesperson.

“He stresses the importance of averting any further deterioration in their condition,” the spokesperson added. “He reiterates that those detained must be charged and face trial with judicial guarantees, or released without delay.”

More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners began an open-ended hunger strike two weeks ago, on 17 April – Palestinian Prisoners Day – to protest against unjust arrest procedures, arbitrary detention and bad prison conditions, according to the UN human rights office (OHCHR).

Here are some things that Moon doesn’t mention:

According to Ofir Gendleman, PM Netanyahu’s Arab media spokesperson, only six of the more than 1500 prisoners who are striking are being held in administrative detention. All of the rest are convicted terrorists (there are a total of about 4,500 Palestinians imprisoned for terror-related activity, and of these around 300 are currently in administrative detention, according to ‘rights groups’).

Arnold and Frimet Roth, whose 15-year old daughter Malki was murdered in 2001 by a bomb built by one of the striking terrorists (Abdullah Barghouti, who has said that he “feels bad that [he] killed only 66 Jews”), provide some more information:

Roth - We know they're hungry... but for what, exactly?

Read below to learn more than you might
want to know about the prisoner on the right
[Image Source]

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
09 May '12..

The media are filled with reports about a protest strike by Palestinian Arab prisoners and their friends. What's it about?

Two terms keep coming up in almost every report: the strikers are "unjustly imprisoned" and it's a "battle for freedom and dignity". But this is not about justice or dignity. Those key terms ought to mean something but as happens so often, they have been hijacked in the name of a vicious war and turned on their heads.

Some of the talking heads say/scream/shout that this is about administrative detention. But fewer (much fewer) than 1% of the Arab prisoners hunger-striking in Israeli prisons are administrative detainees. Reliable statistics we have seen say there are between five and ten such individuals among the 1,500 to 2,000 hunger strikers. [The protestors estimate there are about 300 administrative detainees in the Israeli prison system.]

The two who began hunger-striking in March are men called Bilal Diab and Tha'er Halahlah, and they are administrative detainees who have been held for nine months and 22 months respectively. Their petition came before the High Court of Justice on Monday and was heard and rejected. The court pointed to the ongoing ties of the petitioners to terrorist funding and terrorism. They are a clear and immediate security risk to Israeli citizens. And (which is also significant) the Israel Prison Service is meeting or exceeding the standards required by international law regarding prisoner treatment already.

Diab and Halahlah are in fact leaders in Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The angry voices are demanding that we think of them as unjustly shunted off to prison for the equivalent of failing to pay for a television license. The media and the ranks of ‘activist’ NGOs are currently filled with such voices.

Frankel - Bulltwit

Yarden Frankel..
Honest Reporting/Backspin..
08 May '12..

Check out this Twitter response to one of our readers that the Jodi Ruderon article on the Islamic Jihad prisoners’ hunger strike failed to include an Israeli response.

What a line of bulltwit.

Jodi, while we’re glad that you take our concern seriously and know that you “could have done more,” do you really believe that including the IPS comment makes a difference?

Really?

Let’s take a look, shall we?

In your article, you used:

1. Indirect quote from “Palestinian Minister of Detainees”

2. Direct quote from Islamic Jihad prisoner: “I love life” (No mention of the lives of Israelis murdered by Islamic Jihad that he definitely does not love -ed.)

3. Direct quotes from Palestinian mob in support of jailed Jihad members

4. Direct quote from Hanan Ashrawi, PLO Executive Committee member

CAMERA - By the Numbers: Jodi Rudoren's Palestinian Prisoner Article

GI..
CAMERA/Snapshots..
07 May '12..





Even before Jodi Rudoren began her tenure as the New York Times' bureau chief in Jerusalem, serious concerns were raised about her objectivity.

Here at Snapshots we said, "Only time will tell whether [those] concerns will be borne out."

Unfortunately, judging by Rudoren's recent story about Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike, published online on May 3 and in print the following day, those concerns are certainly being borne out.

You can read some criticism of the story here, here and here. Below we take a look at the piece by the numbers:

• Number of quoted words by Palestinian supporters of Palestinian prisoners: 269

• Number of quoted words by Israelis explaining the rationale behind administrative detention (or anything else): 0

Plosker - Starved of the Truth: New York Times Fails its Readers (+Video)

Simon Plosker..
Honest Reporting..
07 May '12..

Referring to hunger striking Palestinian prisoners as the “newest heroes of the Palestinian cause”, recently-arrived Israel correspondent for the New York Times, Jodi Rudoren makes an unpleasant story even worse in the eyes of the reader.

The job of a journalist is to ask questions. Rudoren, however, does not even bother to ask why these “heroes” might be under lock and key.

Instead, in an era where the language of human rights seemingly trumps all other considerations, Rudoren plays to the Palestinian narrative of Israel as a serial abuser of human rights.

Israel is sometimes forced by the abnormal threats it faces, to take measures that clash with the country’s liberal ethos. The use of administrative detention, whereby Palestinians deemed an immediate security threat can be imprisoned without charge, has been acknowledged by Israeli officials as virtually impossible to present in positive terms, particularly to a Western audience that values, like Israelis, the rule of law and the right to a fair trial.

Here’s how Jody Rudoren and the New York Times starved their readers of any balance in the story of the Palestinian hunger strikers by omitting any Israeli explanation for the use of administrative detention or the potential backgrounds of those detainees.

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The New York Times: Heroes and Hunger Strikes

Published on May 7, 2012 by HonestReportingVideo

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Tobin - Hunger Strikers’ Goal is Not Peace

Jonathan S. Tobin..
Commentary/Contentions..
04 May '12..

For decades, foreign cheerleaders for the Palestinians have sought to portray those fighting against Israel as potential disciples of Gandhi as they seek to portray the Jews as stand-ins for the role of colonial oppressor. But there have always been two main problems with this scenario. The first is the fact that most Palestinians view violence against Israelis as not only a legitimate tactic but also something that is integral to their national identity. The second is that even if they were to adopt a policy of non-violence, the Palestinian goal is not their own state living in peace beside Israel but the end of the Jewish state and its replacement by one in which Arabs will rule.

These obstacles to the creation of a movement of Palestinian Gandhis remain. But that didn’t stop the New York Times from going back to a familiar theme today with a feature by new Israel bureau chief Jodi Rudoren in which a hunger strike by some security prisoners is used as a launching point for a discussion about a possible change in tactics by the Palestinians. Since, as she notes, the peace process is “stalled” and “internal Palestinian politics adrift,” activists hope to use “the hunger strike as a potential catalyst to bring an Arab Spring-style uprising to the West Bank.” But the question Rudoren fails to ask is what do the hunger strikers or their supporters think will come from what they hope will be a new intifada? Do they see it as a path to a Palestinian state or something else? If the goal is a state, then they need not bother with non-violent resistance or violence. What they need to do is to instruct their leaders to negotiate with Israel.

The peace process remains “stalled” for one main reason: the Palestinians won’t negotiate unless Israel guarantees in advance that they will give in on every territorial dispute. But even then there is no guarantee or any likelihood that the leadership of the Palestinian Authority as currently constituted, let alone after it consummates its unity deal with Hamas, would be able to recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish state no matter where its borders are drawn.

Bedein - Context of a hunger strike: Convicts, not prisoners

David Bedein..
The Times of Israel..
03 May '12..

The media around the world are covering the hunger strike conducted by Arabs in Israeli jails, many of whom were convicted in a court of law for murder or attempted murder.

In the communications that it releases, it is the responsibility of the government of Israel to emphasize that many of these “strikers” who sit in jail are indeed convicts who serve life sentences for murder and/or attempted murder, and to stop using terms like “prisoners” or “security prisoners” or “activists” to characterize them.

After all, Israel holds no POW’s.

The difference in one word makes all the difference.

Expressions of life and death derive from the language that you use, to paraphrase the adage, חיים ומוות ביד הלשון.

In the training manuals funded in 2002 by US AID and run by PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, those freed in exchanges for Israeli soldiers are advised to initiate interviews with journalists by referring to themselves as “activists” who became “political prisoners”, and to mention these terms repeatedly, so that the news outlet will incorporate sympathetic terminology to describe someone convicted of murder or attempted murder as someone other than who he actually is.

Greenfield - The Hard Life of Muslim Terrorists in Israeli Prison

Daniel Greenfield
frontpagemag.com
20 June '11

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/20/the-hard-life-of-muslim-terrorists-in-israeli-prison/

Six years ago, Saeed Shalalde stabbed an Israeli chocolate manufacturer named Sasson Nuriel to death. Today Shalalde lives the good life in an Israeli prison. There terrorists mingle, throw parties, study for advanced degrees and stay in touch with their adoring fans on Facebook using their 3G mobile smartphones.

For Muslim terrorists in Israeli prisons, life is more like a vacation. Hamas terrorist Haytham Battat, who was responsible for the murder of four Israelis, uses his Facebook page to share Jihadi videos from YouTube. In his recent facebook photos, PFLP terrorist Saeed Omar, who was sentenced to nineteen years in jail, poses with his favorite soccer team’s banner, feasts with other terrorists on a table covered with dozens of dishes supplemented by bottles of Coca Cola, and posts scraps of poetry calling for the destruction of Israel.

Using a 3G smartphone, Omar is able to update his own Facebook ‘fan page’ from prison. Other terrorists use smartphone video to go shopping with their friends and pick out their own clothes, which are then brought to them in prison, and remotely attend family events. Sometimes it seems like they’re not even in prison.
Muslim terrorists like Shalade, Batta and Omar refuse to recognize the existence of Israel. And thankfully they’re not forced to watch television programming from the Zionist entity. Instead they enjoy satellite Arab TV channels. Courtesy of the Israeli prison system.

The New Israel Fund and the next war

Caroline Glick
carolineglick.com
05 February '10

A regional war may well be approaching. The actions and statements of Iran and its Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian proxies over the past week or so indicate that this is what Israel's enemies are gunning for.

In preparing for this growing threat, Israel's leaders need to consider more than just the military challenges it faces. They must consider the political actors at home and abroad that limit the IDF's ability to fight to victory and develop strategies for neutralizing those actors.

The latest developments are menacing. Last Saturday, Iran's unelected president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to open up a new round of hostilities on February 11. Then Wednesday, Iran launched a new missile into space. Israeli and US missile experts claim that the missile launch signals that Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles and building the capacity to launch nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles.

Following the missile launch, Syria's president and foreign minister issued incendiary comments threatening Israel with war. Notably, they did so the same day the US informed Syria of its intention to send an ambassador to Damascus for the first time in five years.

Hamas, for its part, sent barrels of explosives drifting to the Israeli coastline - exposing new ways it can kill us. And Fatah, for its part, decided to kiss Hamas's ring this week. Senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath's obsequious visit to Gaza Wednesday was a graphic demonstration of Hamas's preeminence in Palestinian society.

Then there is Hizbullah. In a speech on January 15, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah pledged that the next war will "change the face of the region."

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Prisoner statistics fun

Elder of Ziyon
12 January '10

A Palestinian Arab organization has released the shocking information that 197 Arab prisoners have died in Israeli prisons since 1967, thus proving Israeli human rights violations against its Arab prisoners.

Terrible!

Until you look at the normal mortality rate for Palestinian Arabs. According to the UN, the normal mortality rate is 3.7 per thousand. if we assume that Israel has imprisoned an average of 5000 Arabs (probably a low number) at any time over the past 42 years, then the number of expected deaths over that time period would be 777.

Ah, but you might object, prisoners are usually young and healthy, and their mortality rates should be much less than the general population!

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