| FREEMAN CENTER BROADCAST- March 15, 2009  FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES P.O. Box 35661 * Houston, Texas 77235-5661 Phone or Fax: 713-723-6016 * E-mail: bernards@sbcglobal.net OUR WEB SITE (URL): http://www.freeman.org THE MACCABEAN ONLINE: URL:http://www.freeman.org/online.htm Freeman Center Blog http://www.freeman.org/serendipity/ ============= ==================== They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. - Plato "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." -- Ayn Rand ########## Ignorance Is Weakness - Know The Truth Self-Inflicted Ignorance Is Suicide The Freeman Center Is A Defense Against Ignorance ====== MAY HASHEM SAVE US FROM OUR "BEST FRIENDS" ================ Any attempt by the U.S, Europe or the UN to limit Israeli military freedom of action should be prevented! ========== To Make a tax deductible contribution to the Freeman Center's important educational work, mail check to address above or go to our website www.freeman.org to pay by credit card or paypal. ============ PLEASE HELP US PAY OUR OUT OF POCKET EXPENSES ============= MAY ISRAEL AVOID PREEMPTIVE SURRENDER IN 2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE PRESENT WAR WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN NECESSARY ========= PROTECT THE LAND OF ISRAEL APPEASEMENT BREEDS VIOLENCE AND TERRORSISM ===========  Terrorist Arsenal of 50,000 Rockets Aimed at IsraelAdar 19, 5769, 15 March 09 01:12 by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Rocket--one of 50,000 aimed at Israel (IsraelNN.com) Hamas and Hizbullah terrorists have amassed an arsenal of 50,000 rockets aimed at Israel, United Press International (UPI) has reported. Israel still has no defense against the threat, and the government’s highly touted Iron Dome short-range missile defense system is far from being in operation and may not even be practical. “Even if Iron Dome works perfectly, it is never going to have the firepower in interceptors to credibly intercept most, let alone all,” of the rockets, according to the UPI report. Hizbullah has amassed far more rockets than it possessed before the Second Lebanon War in 2006, despite Israel’s agreeing to a ceasefire on the condition that United Nations Interim Forces (UNIFIL) would prevent arms smuggling into Lebanon. In the south, Hamas continues to smuggle weapons into Gaza despite a similar ceasefire ageement, supposedly conditioned on a cessation of arms smuggling, that the Olmert administration announced when concluding Operation Cast Lead in mid-January. Defense Minister Ehud Barak promised two years ago that the Iron Dome short-range missile defense system, along with other systems, would protect Israel from 90 percent of missile attacks, although mortar shells would continue to explode in Israel without interception. Barak announced in October 2007 that the Iron Dome was near completion and would be in place by 2010. He also has stated that its deployment is a precondition for handing over part of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority. Last year, officials admitted that the Iron Dome system would not be effective against Kassam rockets fired from less than two miles, meaning that it had no solution for tens of thousands of residents in the Gaza Belt communities, including Sderot. State Comptroller and Ombudsman Micha Lindenstrauss’s recent report of his investigation of the timetable of the Iron Dome system “documented endless delays, indecision, go-it-alone chaotic planning and sheer bureaucratic incompetence,” in the words of UPI reporter Martin Sieff. © Copyright IsraelNationalNews.com Subscribe to the free Daily Israel Report - israelnn.com/subscribe ============== Rockets Continue, Hamas Vows to Continue Arms SmugglingAdar 18, 5769, 14 March 09 10:44 by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Hole in a road from Kassam explosion (IsraelNN.com) Arab terrorists continued their daily bombardment on southern Israel during the Sabbath despite Hamas’s stated opposition to the attacks. The terrorist organization that controls the region has questioned the timing of the rocket firing because of talks in Egypt on Hamas’s joining the rival Fatah party in a Palestinian Authority unity government. No one was wounded, and no injuries were reported in the latest explosions, one near southern Ashkelon and the other near a kibbutz. On Friday, three Kassams exploded in open areas near Sderot and in the Eshkol region. Islamic Jihad terrorist spokesmen reported that Hamas arrested 10 of its members for firing rockets but that all but one were released. Unlike previous attacks, the IDF has not retaliated. Previous retaliation has targeted rocket launching cells and tunnels used to smuggle weapons and ammunition. Israel agreed in mid-January to end the Operation Cast Lead counterterrorist campaign in Gaza, stating that rocket attacks virtually had ceased and that the United States and European countries would use technology and monitors on the border between Egypt and Gaza to prevent more smuggling. The proposals still are on the drawing boards, but seven European nations, Canada and the U.S. have proposed methods to prevent the smuggling, Hamas legislator Moushir al-Masri responded that the international efforts will fail. Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz (Likud) and former chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has maintained that the only way to prevent Hamas from bringing arms into Gaza is to create a security zone along the Philadelphi Route. © Copyright IsraelNationalNews.com Subscribe to the free Daily Israel Report - israelnn.com/subscribe  Print |
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