Olmert to Gaza: "Sorry!... We don't hate you!"

Olmert, in an apparent rebuttal to the Winograd conclusions, declares yet another "Victory" and declares that the Savagery of his Army will halt its fire from 2 A.M.... The decision would mean Israel has put an end to the three-week-long Operation Cast Lead without an agreement with Hamas, relying instead on the support of the United States and Egypt in "battling Arms smuggling" into Gaza. In Palestine, Olmert achieved much less that UN SC resolution 1701: NO foreign troops to protect his hides... As for battling the arms smuggling to Hamas, ... It cannot be done!

Gideon Levy on Al Jazeera, Israel's aims were "unclear from the beginning", therefore, people in Israel (supportive of the aggression in their vast majority) will "go to bed wondering" and time will tell what has and hasn't been achieved.The aggression on Gaza will not play a "decisive role in the upcoming Israeli elections..."

Colonel Lang, at SST says: "...The Israelis have failed to humble Hamas. Rockets still arrive in Israel. This failure in their self-declared war aim will cost them dearly in the strategic contest. They are going to halt their "offensive without any sort of concession from Hamas?" I suppose that they do not want the burden of this ongoing action to be carried forward into their relations with the Obama Administration. The futility of what they have done in Gaza will be burden enough.

It is claimed by the agitpropers that Hamas is a satellite organization of Iran. If that is so, then Iran has done a poor job of supplying their Palesinian subsidiary. Where are the Iranian product improved and manufactured weapons that Hizbullah possessed in numbers in '06? Where are they? Impossible to deliver? All of them?

It would seem that political support and encouragement is one thing. Supply is another.

This summons from Mubarak indicates a need to placate the Cairo mob. No foreign inspectors on Egyptian soil? That means that Egypt will not make a serious attempt to halt smuggling into Gaza.

Not a good outcome for Israel."