Tag Archives: Yoni

A new Israeli political party?

Yoni the Blogger thinks a new one is needed.

"We have gone from highs to lows over the last month as together we have watched Israel suffer.

"The people in the north of Israel have suffered deaths and injuries as well as losses of income and production in the billions of dollars, due to the rain of thousands of rockets that have fallen on their homes.

"All of Israel and those that love Israel around the world, have suffered through a month of the worse leadership in Israel’s history…The government’s on again and off again fighting of this war, has caused wide spread suffering in Israel and Lebanon without the destruction of Hizballah."

Others speak of Israel’s broken heart. (Requires free registration.)

"This is a nation whose heart has been broken: by our failure to uproot the jihadist threat, which will return for another and far more deadly round; by the economic devastation of the Galilee and of a neighboring land we didn’t want to attack; by the heroism of our soldiers and the hesitations of our politicians; by the young men buried and crippled in a war we prevented ourselves from winning; by foreign journalists who can’t tell the difference between good and evil; by European leaders who equate an army that tries to avoid civilian causalities with a terrorist group that revels in them; by a United Nations that questions Israel’s right to defend itself; and by growing voices on the left who question Israel’s right to exist at all."

Via An Unsealed Room

The IDF moves north

Forty thousand troops against an estimated 8,000 hez dug-in in about 130 villages in terrain that’s been mined and booby-trapped. Israeli blogger Yoni Tidi concludes:

"From here on it is going to get bloody on both sides. The fighting till now has been the warm up and now we are going to go for the knock out.

"Both sides are going to take it all the way there will be a winner and a looser.

"Look for Haifa to get harder and look for Tel Aviv to get hit in the next few days and I think that the chance of Syria getting involved has now gone up to a 70% chance."

Other good sources are here and, in Haifa, here and a site whose Hebrew name is scribbler here.

UPDATE Then US pressure forced a delay, which Olmert seems to want, according to this analysis in Haaretz: "Israel is telling the UN ‘hold me back,’ in efforts to prevent itself from getting swept up in any one decision and hoping for the best. Olmert’s moment of truth has been postponed, at least until Friday.