Saturday, December 27, 2008

The rocket calendars

Here are all of the rocket calendars for easy reference, in reverse order from last month.

The numbers are lower than reality; these are just the attacks I have been able to find links to. The number of mortars especially tend to be much undercounted in the earlier months and on days when there are many Qassams.


Q=Qassam (may include Katyusha-style rockets)
QS=Qassam landing short in Gaza
M=Mortar
F=Fatality (F=Gazan, F=Israeli)
(G)=Grad (included in Qassam count, not consistent yet)

M*- Apparently upgraded 120mm mortars
MS=Mortar landing short
P - unnamed "projectiles"
(Paren) indicates unconfirmed Palestinian claims

* - Fatal non-rocket attack

K=Katyushas from Lebanon

Mortars are severely undercounted since they simply don't make the news any more.

June 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa

1
2
3
4
5
6



(2M)



7
 8
 9
 10
 11
 12
 13

~10M




14
 15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 20







21
 22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
3M+~3M





28
 29
 30
 1
 2
 3
 4

1MS
2M










May 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa





1
2






1Q
3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9



5M
1Q		 1Q

10
 11
 12
 13
 14
 15
 16
1Q
 1M
(2M)


17
 18
 19
 20
 21
 22
 23


1Q
 (3M)


24
 25
 26
 27
 28
 29
 30




2M

31













April 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa



1
2
3
4







5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10
 11







12
 13
 14
 15
 16
 17
 18



1Q
 1Q

19
 20
 21
 22
 23
 24
 25




1Q

26
 27
 28
 29
 30
 31
 1






1Q
2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8



5M
1Q
 1Q


I'm going to hold off on reporting on humanitarian aid unless Israel starts to withhold it in reaction to rocket attacks. You can otherwise assume that aid gets sent six days a week.


March 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
7Q
1Q
2Q
(4Q)
5Q
1M
6Q (1G)
2M

1Q
8
 9
 10
 11
 12
 13
 14
4Q
 (2M)
 4Q
 5Q
 1Q
 3Q
 2Q
15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 20
 21






(2Q)
22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28


1Q
1Q
1QS
29
 30
 31





4Q


















Yellow=day Israel sent aid to Gaza

February 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
4Q
8M
3M
1Q
1Q(1G)
1M

2Q

8
 9
 10
 11
 12
 13
 14
2Q
(crossings closed
election day)
1Q
 3M
3Q
 2M
15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 20
 21
1Q
 2Q
1Q
 4Q
1M
1QS
 1Q
10M
 1Q
2M
1K
1KS
22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28
1Q
 2Q
2Q
 3Q
 1Q
 10Q (2G)





























A day without yellow doesn't necessarily mean the crossings were closed; I just may not have seen the reports of them being specifically open.


January 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa




1
 2
 3




59Q (9G)
5M
 41Q (4G)
5M
 28Q
10M
4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10
50Q
5M
 39Q(4G)
5M
 30Q
3M
 24Q(8G)
1M
 30Q
4K
 30Q (7G)
 16Q (4G)
11
 12
 13
 14
 15
 16
 17
28Q (3G)
 20Q (3G)
3M
 18Q
5M
 11Q
5M
3K
 29Q (3G)
 21Q (3G)
4M
 27Q
4M
18
 19
 20
 21
 22
 23
 24
("CeaseFire")
13Q (3G)
4M
8MS



25
 26
 27
 28
 29
 30
 31
(1QS)
*
 1Q
(7M)
 1Q
 (1M)
 1G















A day without yellow doesn't necessarily mean the crossings were closed; I just may not have seen the reports of them being specifically open.

January 27 the crossings were closed immediately after a fatal attack on an IDF patrol outside Gaza during the day, but goods didget transferred in the morning.

December 2008

Q=Qassam (may include Katyusha-style rockets)
QS=Qassam landing short in Gaza
M=Mortar
F=Fatality (F=Gazan, F=Israeli)
(G)=Grad (included in Qassam count, not consistent yet)

M*- Apparently upgraded 120mm mortars
MS=Mortar landing short
P - unnamed "projectiles"
(Paren) indicates unconfirmed Palestinian claims

Yellow=day Israel sent aid to Gaza
Blue=day Egypt sent aid to Gaza via Israel, inspected by Israel at Kerem Shalom)
Green=Both Israeli and Arab aid allowed in under Israeli auspices


December 2008

Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa

1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6

1Q
 3M
2Q
(23M)
 3Q
15M
 1Q
2M
 2Q
(7M)
 3Q
(20M)
7
 8
 9
 10
 11
 12
 13
7Q
1QS
 1QS
 1M
 1Q
2Q
1QS
(2M)
 1Q
3M
14
 15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 20
1Q
3M
 1Q
 8Q
 24Q
1M
 8Q
2QS
 3Q
 15Q
26M
1QS
21
 22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
17Q
3M
1QS
 3Q
1QS
 8Q
8M
(1P)
 41Q
24M
(54M)
 7Q
7M
 25M
1QS (2F)
2MS
 64Q (1F)
16M
28
 29
 30
 31


30Q (5G)
4M
 73Q (11G, 2F)
15M (1F)
2QS
 55Q (4G)
(3M)
 63Q(10G)













November 2008


Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
25
 26
 27
 28
 29
 30
 1







2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8


12M
 51M
52Q
 7Q
 9Q
 1Q
9
 10
 11
 12
 13
 14
 15
1Q
 1QS
1MS
1Q
 fuel
only
 4Q
6M
 4Q
5M
 15Q
 1Q
(2Q)
2M
16
 17
 18
 19
 20
 21
 22
3Q
(12P)
 14Q
 3M
3Q
 2Q
(4Q)
 1Q
 1Q
2M
(3M)
 4Q
23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28
 29
1Q
 1Q
 (4M)
1Q
 1Q
 3Q
 11M*
 3Q
1M
30





4Q
3M




















October and September had few rockets. The six-month "cease fire" really lasted about two months, and Israel increased the amount of supplies to Gaza by a large amount during that time period.

October 2008
Q=Qasssam
M=Mortar
P=Unknown projectile
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa



1
 2
 3
 4







5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10
 11







12
 13
 14
 15
 16
 17
 18







19
 20
 21
 22
 23
 24
 25


1Q



26
 27
 28
 29
 30
 31

























September 2008
Q=Qasssam
M=Mortar
P=Unknown projectile
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa

1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6







7
 8
 9
 10
 11
 12
 13







14
 15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 20
1Q





21
 22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
1M





28
 29
 30




1P





















August 2008
Q=Qasssam
M=Mortar
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa





1
 2







3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
3M

1Q

1Q
10
 11
 12
 13
 14
 15
 16

1Q

1M
 1Q
 1Q?
17
 18
 19
 20
 21
 22
 23
1Q
1Q

2Q
24
 25
 26
 27
 28
 29
 30

2Q




31














June/July 2008
June



192021




CeaseFire

22232425262728


3R, 1M
2R2M2M
2930July 12345

2R

1R

6789101112

1M, 1S 1M
2R1M1R
13
1415 16171819
2M





20212223242526
Aid: July 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13-18, 20-23, 25, 27, 28,30

June 2008
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
3
4
1 11
8
 9
 10
 11
 12
 13
 14
4
5
 7
 25
 1
15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 20
 21

4
 8
 29


22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28


3R, 1M
2R
 2M
 2M
29
 30
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5

2R

1R

6
 7
 8
 9
 10
 11
 12

1M, 1S
 1M
2R


May 2008 (Qassams only)
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa




1
 2
 3




10 1 21
4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10
8 12 3 1 2 3 22
11
 12
 13
 14
 15
 16
 17
4
 3
 8
 2
 8
 2
 1
18
 19
 20
 21
 22
 23
 24
2
 3
 2
 1
 1
 2
 4
25
 26
 27
 28
 29
 30
 31
4
 2
 1
 1
 6
 4
 3















April 2008 (Qassams only)
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa


1
 2
 3
 4
 5






2
6
 7
 8
 9
 10
 11
 12
3 1 6
 2

3
13
 14
 15
 16
 17
 18
 19

1
 1
 31
 15
 10
 2
20
 21
 22
 23
 24
 25
 26
3
 7
 3

4
27
 28
 29
 30
 1
 2
 3
4
 19
 16
 15
 10
 1
4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10
8
 12
 3 1
 2 1

March 2008 (Qassams only)
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa






1






48
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
40
 17
 10
 12
 9
 1
 1
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
1
1
 13
 28
 4
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
2
 1
 3
 2
 1
 3
 2
23
 24 25 26 27 28 29

4
 3
 17 3
 3
 1
30 31




0*
 2





February 2008 (Qassams only)
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa





1
 2






5
3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9

4
 19 9
 18
 30
 8
10
 11
 12
 13
 14
 15
 16
1
 3
 2
 7
 13
 1
 10
17
 18
 19
 20
 21
 22
 23
6
 16
 7
 5
 6
 4
24
 25
 26
 27
 28
 29
6
 7
 3
 50
 31
 16

January 2008 (Qassams only)

Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa


1 2 3 4 5



2 10 6 8
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2
 1
 2
 14


13 14 15 16 17 18 19


41
 50
 47
 31
 5
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
5
 9
 20
 0
 5
 0
 2
27 28 29 30 31 1
 2
0
 0
 0
 0
 2
5

December 2007 (Qassams only)
Su
 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa






1







2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2

3
1
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
2
2
 21
 6
 1
 1
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
3
13
5
 1
 1
23
 24 25 26 27 28 29
6
 2
 11
 13
 3

30
 31




1
 3
2
 10
 6
 8

November 2007 (Qassams only)
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa




1 2 3




13

4 5 6 7 8 9 10
3
5
 1 2 + 2
 1 2
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
3 7 3
 2 + 1
 2
6
18 19 20 21 22 23 24

4
2


25 26 27 28 29 30

2
 4
 2
 2
 2








October 2007 (Qassams only)
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa

1 2 3 4 5 6


1 +2
1
4
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
1 + 4
 1
 1



14 15 16 17 18 19 20
1
 1
 1
 3


21 22 23 24 25 26 27

6
 7
 4
 11 5
28 29 30 31




4











September 2007 Qassam Calendar
Su
 Mo
 Tu
 We
 Th
 Fr
 Sa






1






1
2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
2
 7
 6
2

9
 10
 11
 12
 13
 14
 15
1
3
 6


16
 17
 18
 19
 20
 21
 22
2

2
 2 + 1
 1
23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28
 29
2
 6
 2
 4


30 2






August 2007 Qassam Calendar

Su
 Mo
 Tu
 We
 Th
 Fr
 Sa



1
 2
 3
 4



4
 1
 3
5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10
 11
1
 1
1
 4
 1
 1
12
 13
 14
 15
 16
 17
 18
3
 1
 2
 1
 1
 3
19
 20
 21
 22
 23
 24
 25
4
 5
 4
 2
 8
1
26
 27
 28
 29
 30
 31
3
3
1
 3








July 2007 Qassam Calendar

Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1
 (3)
 1


3
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
5
 1




15 16 17 18 19 20 21

3

1
 6
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
2
 1

2
 2
29 30 31




June 2007 Qassams
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa





1
 2





4 1







3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
1
 1
 4
 4
 2

8
 6
 2



10
 11
 12
 13
 14
 15
 16

5
 2
 2
 3








17
 18
 19
 20
 21
 22
 23

1
3 + 5




3



24
 25
 26
 27
 28
 29
 30
2
 2
 2
 2
2
 2
2
3+4
4


May 2007

As with the February, March and April calendars, the numbers for each date represent the number of Qassams fired on that day. The numbers in parentheses (second row after date) are those I saw reported by Palestinian Arab media, outside of parentheses (first row after date) are those reported in Israeli media. Linked dates are dates that Israel fired back. (Israel has fired back every day since the 15th and I have not maintained links for each day.) Italicized numbers indicated number of mortars claimed to have been fired, as opposed to rockets.

May 2007
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa


1 2 3 4 5





3
 2



(4) (2)

6 7 8 9 10 11 12
5 + 2
 1
 3
3
 4
 1


(1)

(2)
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
3
 1
 20
 30
 20
 16
 15



(40)


20 21 22 23 24 25 26
5
 10
 13
 4
 11
 7
 15







27 28 29 30 31

6
 17
 3
 6
 2








April 2007

As with the February and March calendars, the numbers for each date represent the number of Qassams fired on that day. The numbers in parentheses are those I saw reported by Palestinian Arab media, outside of parentheses are those reported in Israeli media.

The dates with URLs (in red on some browsers) are the days Israel responded to events in Gaza.

Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1
 2
 3
 4
 5 6
 7
(2)
1
 3
 1
(2)
1
8
 9
 10
 11
 12
 13
 14
(1)


(4)
(2)
15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 20
 21

1 (2)
 (1)
(4)
4 (6)
22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28
1
 (2+ 2)
 10 (30)
 1 (3)
 2 (2 +2)
 1 (1)
(3)
29
 30




1 (2)
 (5)





March 2007

The numbers for each date represent the number of Qassams fired on that day. The numbers in parentheses are those I saw reported by Palestinian Arab media, outside of parentheses are those reported in Israeli media.

The one day highlighted in red is the single day since the "cease-fire" started that Israel reacted to Qassams in Gaza.

Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa




1 2 3




1
1+1
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
(3)
2(6)
2(3)
 (2)
11 12 13 14 15 16 17

2(3+2)
 1(1)
 1(2)
 1

18 19 20 21 22 23 24
5(2)
 (2)


(2)
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
2
 (2)
8(7)
 7
 (1+1)

February 2007 Qassam attacks
Su
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa




1
2
3




3

4
5
6
7
8
9
10


4 4 (10) 4
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
1 5

3 2
2
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
(4)
(2)
(8)
4(9)

1(2)
25
26
27
28
1
2
3

(5)
(7)
5(4)
1
1+1


November/December 2006 - only links to dates that Qassams were fired, no counting:
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
26 27 28 29 30 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 2829 30
  • Saturday, December 27, 2008
  • Elder of Ziyon

Arab media roundup

I'm not going into all the details of today's massive air attack against Gaza - you can read all about that in the usual media - but here are some interesting tidbits from some Arabic sites.

Ma'an has a bulletin that Israel still plans to open up Kerem Shalom on Sunday to bring in medical supplies.

A cartoon from AlJazeera.net that indicates that Arab nations gave Israel the "green light" to attack Gaza.
Egypt promised to open the Rafah crossing for injured Gazans, but according to Ma'an changed its mind and decided to send medical supplies to Gaza instead. Palestine Press, however, reports that Hamas was stopping Egyptian aid from reaching Gaza - including 18 ambulances and much blood.

The terrorist who died on Friday, that Ma'an had reported was shooting rockets at Israel, is now referred to as a "journalist" in reporting his funeral.

A Gazan was killed and four injured when a smuggling tunnel collapsed.

Hamas' website refers to Israel's attacks as a "massive holocaust" even as it brags about shooting rockets and killing a civilian. Rockets made it as far as Kiryat Gat.

Islamic Jihad's leaders are comparing this to "Deir Yassin."

The "Free Galilee Brigades" that have claimed recent terror attacks in Israel say that they will start a new wave of terror. Hamas' Khaled Meshaal also threatens "martyrdom operations."

While Palestinian Arabs are claiming that one third of the dead are civilians, and the Free Gaza movement is putting out press releases claiming that Israel bombed playgrounds, so far the pictures of the dead make them all look to be young men in their 20s.

Apparently a "VIP" tunnel has been constructed for senior Hamas members to go to Egypt in style.

Friday, December 26, 2008

  • Friday, December 26, 2008
  • Elder of Ziyon

A Palestinian Arab "journalist" dies

Palestine News Network writes:
Gaza / PNN – The latest victim of the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip is a journalist. Palestinian medical sources report that Hamza Shahin died on Friday from wounds sustained two weeks ago.

The local news photographer was hit during an Israeli air attack on the northern Gaza Strip in mid-December, medical sources said today.

Shahin had been seriously injured in an Israeli attack ostensibly targeting a group of armed resistance members. He died today in a Gaza hospital.

What a tragedy! An innocent journalist murdered by the evil Zionists!

Of course, even the other Palestinian Arab press adds other details. From Ma'an:

A Palestinian fighter affiliated with the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, was pronounced dead on Friday after sustaining wounds in an Israeli artillery strike in the northern Gaza Strip earlier in December.

Shaheen was reportedly injured in an Israeli airstrike, in which two missiles targeted a group of fighters in the Tal Az-Za’ater area of Jabaliyah Refugee Camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

He was apparently firing a homemade projectile toward Sderot, his southern Israeli target, when the Apache helicopter fired toward him and others.
Hamas' own obituary doesn't mention his sterling journalistic credentials, only that he was a "mujahid."

Israel's record of only killing card-carrying terrorists in Gaza since the beginning of November is still intact.

Will Reporters Sans Frontieres condemn Israel for this?

  • Friday, December 26, 2008
  • Elder of Ziyon

Empty threats lose effectiveness

Israel has been talking a lot about a major Gaza operation over the past few days. [This tough talk may have helped Kadima in the most recent polls.] Yet as we have seen, the Israeli leaders have a history of freely talking about doing something about Gaza and being very reluctant to actually do anything.

This all-talk, no action posturing has had its effects on the Palestinian Arab public as well. An on-line poll at Ma'an Arabic asks whether the current Israeli threats to invade Gaza next week are a bluff ("psychological war" or real. At the moment, 53% say it is bluff while only 43% are taking it seriously.

A couple of years of empty threats does make it hard to take them seriously.
  • Friday, December 26, 2008
  • Elder of Ziyon

Qassam kills two girls - in Gaza

Yes, those rockets that were dismissed as "Christmas firecrackers" by PLO UN representative Mohammad Abu-Koash have killed again. Just this time, the victims were two Palestinian Arab girls:
A rocket apparently fired by Palestinians on Friday struck a house in the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinian sisters aged five and 13, Palestinian medics said.

Hamas police said they were investigating the cause of the blast in Beit Lahiya village in northern Gaza, which medics said seemed to be due to a rocket aimed at Israel that had misfired.

Earlier in the day, a seriously wounded 35-year-old Palestinian man, hurt by a misfired rocket on Tuesday, was taken to an Israeli hospital for treatment.
Apparently, Christmas came a little late to Gaza this year.

The 2008 PalArab self-death count is now 226, with 28 of them being children.

And the number of Arabs seriously injured and killed by Qassams since the latest escalation is far higher than the number of Israelis, even though the number of rockets that fall short seem to be perhaps in the 5% range.
  • Friday, December 26, 2008
  • Elder of Ziyon

Funhouse mirror news

JERUSALEM, December 26 (FMN) - The UN today stepped up its pressure on the Arab world to send humanitarian aid to the besieged residents of Sderot, suffering under years of constant rocket bombardment from Iranian-backed Arabs.

"The brave people of the Negev are being forced out of their homes, in what can only be called ethnic cleansing," stated UN General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann. "This slow genocide is being ignored by the world at large, and the Arab world is responsible."

The Arab world have been enforcing a siege on Israel for over sixty years. Basic humanitarian items are not allowed into Israel from most Arab countries, and Israel is likewise banned from selling its own goods to its neighboring states, hurting the economy of the tiny nation.

"Legally, Israel is suffering under occupation, as the Arab states control all of Israel's land borders," stated Brockmann. "In addition, there are hundreds of Arab settlements in Israel itself, which have been the major obstacle to peace for decades."

"The Arab treatment of Jews and Israelis can only be described as a form of apartheid," said former US president Jimmy Carter as he visited Ashkelon in a solidarity visit. "Israel, one of the most crowded nations in the world, has been forced to give more and more land to the expansionist Arabs over the past decades, and it gets nothing in return. Peace requires full normalization, and I am disappointed that even Egypt and Jordan continue to incite against Jewish national self-determination."

"Israel has turned into an open-air concentration camp," asserted peace activist Lauren Booth last month. "The Israeli economy is being constrained by the Arab boycott of Israel, which is still largely in force. The occasional 'peace' treaties and tiny trickle of trade is just a facade by the Arab world meant to cover up their humanitarian crimes against the peaceful people of Israel and their aims to shrink Israel's land area into nothingness."

While all of Israel suffers from the Arab blockade, it is the residents of Sderot who are suffering the most lately from indiscriminate rocket attacks by the Iranian-funded Arabs of Gaza.

UN Human Rights investigator Richard Falk called the rocket attacks "a crime against humanity" and demanded that "the Arab states, flush with oil money, must provide Sderot residents with basic needs, like rocket shelters, psychologists and medical professionals."

"For sixty years, the Arab nations have conspired to block Jews from being able to return to their land. They have started overt and covert wars against the only Jewish state. The few Jews who remain in Arab countries suffer from official and unofficial discrimination.

"Hundreds of resolutions against the systematic Arab attempts to destroy Israel have been ignored by these expansionist states, and Israel remains besieged even after so many years. How long will the world remain silent?"

Academics such as John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have also noted that world opinion tends to support the so-called "Arab Lobby" even as the genocidal intent of the Arab world is explicitly stated in their media and mosques. "The Arab influence on world governments is directly proportional to power of the Arab economy, which influences businesses and politicians in ways that can only be described as insidious. As a direct result, simple moral values become muddled as the Arab world works hard to influence the agendas of Western nations, to remarkable success," stated Walt in a lecture in Munich last Sunday.
  • Friday, December 26, 2008
  • Elder of Ziyon

Pakistan Taliban threatens to kill schoolgirls

From the al-Arabiya:
Taliban leaders in Pakistan's troubled northwest Swat valley have banned girls from attending school, threatening to kill any female student, officials said Thursday.

The threat was delivered this week by local Taliban commander Shah Durran in an address carried on an illegally-run radio station in the area, local officials told AFP.

"You have until Jan. 15 to stop sending your girls to schools. If you do not pay any heed to this warning, we will kill such girls," one official quoted the commander as saying.

An official at the Pakistani education ministry said there are about 1,580 schools registered in Swat -- once known for its top-flight schools.

"Already Taliban militants have destroyed 252 schools, mainly those where girls and boys were studying together," official Naeem Khan said.
The Pakistan Daily Times adds:
Locals say they are helpless and have no other option but to accede to the Taliban’s pressure as the government has failed to provide them with securuty.

“This is terrible,” the principal of a private school in Mingora told Daily Times, requesting that the name of his school should not be mentioned as that would risk his life and property.

He said the Taliban decision had proved that the government had lost its writ in the valley. “This is the question of the future of our children. The Taliban decision will throw more than 40,000 girls out of schools,” he said.
Although AFP reported this a day ago, only a handful of Western media outlets have picked up on this - and, as far as I can tell, none in the United States.
  • Friday, December 26, 2008
  • Elder of Ziyon

Hamas continues to claim it only targets military

Hamas' absurd claims that it only targets military targets get even more ridiculous in its latest broken-English press release:

Al Qassam Brigades announeced in statement issued About the expected agression on Gaza by the zionist forces sad "Thousands of the Zionists who lived in the military bases will be in the range of Qassam firing".

The palestinian Resistance resumed firing Qassam Rockets after relatively quiet night, the Zionist sources claimed that on Thursday morning a Qassam rocket fired at what so-called the military base "Sha'ar Hanegev".

As always, the Zionist sources clamied that there were no reports of injuries in the base, also the resistance managed to target the base in previouse tome, several mortar shells landed in the area without causing injuries as the Zionist sources claimed..

About two hours later, two additional blasts were heard in the Sa'ar Hanegev Regional Council, but the rockets' landing site was not located. The Salah al-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committee's military wing, claimed responsibility for the rockets.

Yesterday, Al Qassam Brigades announced its responsibility on some operations, part of the operations were a the folowing:

Operation

Target

(3) mortars

Military base "Kfar Azza"

(3) mortars

Military base "Natif Etzra"

(3) mortars

Military base "Zikeem"

(5) mortars

Military base "Third Eye"

(7) mortars

Military base "Al-Ersal" [Erez crossing - EoZ]

(6) mortars

Military base "Nir Oz"

(19) mortars

"Karm Abu-Salim" [Kerem Shalom - EoZ]

(2) mortars

Military base "Malaka"

But if they happen to kill some kids, well, that's reason to celebrate as well!

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Free speech, PalArab-supporter style

I just saw another typical Israel-bashing website that masquerades as a Google News source called "Palestine Think Tank - Free Minds for a Free Palestine."

As can be expected, it celebrates previous terror attacks against Israel (calling it "resistance") but publicly claims that current "resistance" be non-violent - not because terrorism is immoral, but because at this point in time it looks really bad to the stupid Western nations who still abhor murdering Jews for no good reason.

For a site that uses the word "free" so freely, it has an interesting caveat in its comment policy:
Comments containing Zionist propaganda...will not be approved.
Apparently, the ediors of this "news" source are so afraid that some truth might leak out in the comments that they'd rather censor it ahead of time.
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