Thanks to Brad’s Gramma for pointing to this incident:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3646228,00.html
“4 injured in stabbing attack near Modiin”
SNIPPET: “In what appears to be revenge attack against IDF operation in Gaza, two Arab handymen stab Israeli family in community of Kiryat Sefer; one of them shot, other continues running wild. At least four people hurt, one sustains serious wounds”
Efrat Weiss
Published: 12.29.08, 08:28 / Israel News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Defense establishment officials estimated that as the IDF operation in Gaza progresses, Palestinians in the West Bank – as well as radical Israeli Arabs – would attempt to carry out revenge attacks.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=DC574F37-B823-4D07-9344-0BE6DFB9F7C5
“The Lessons of Gaza”
By Steve Schippert
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, December 29, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In early 2005, the Israeli Knesset passed the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law, which was the legal expression of Ariel Sharon’s desire to give the Palestinians in Gaza precisely that which they wanted and demanded; an end to Israeli occupation. But, true to its Charter, that is not enough for Hamas. For only the destruction of Israel and the creation of a first-time Palestinian state “from the sea to the river” will suffice. What has led to the ongoing and massive Israeli precision airstrikes within Gaza against carefully vetted Hamas targets bares this fact to be as true as the sea is deep.
One week after Hamas announced it would no longer abide by the six-month “lull agreement” between it and Israel, Hamas rocket and mortar barrages against Israeli towns, troops and border crossings wrought upon Gaza the most violent Israeli reprisal ever seen in the Mediterranean strip. Yet, even in its shattering violence, the Israeli response has claimed nearly exclusively Hamas terrorist casualties. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs released imagery and other intelligence explaining its target list.
Many of the targets were Hamas police facilities, where terrorists can and do receive official weapons and tactics training under the guise of law enforcement. This is why so many of the targets are listed by the Israeli MFA as terrorist training facilities that also contain detention centers and weapons stores. Dozens of Hamas’ deaths in the strikes were from the bombing of a facility hosting an ongoing graduation ceremony as the wave of attacks began.
Also key among Israeli targets were known Qassam rocket manufacturing and launch sites, often underground. These sites are increasingly strategically placed within civilian neighborhoods, providing Hamas with two useful advantages, in their eyes. First, placing them among civilian housing makes their targeting by Israel less likely, playing upon Israel’s desire to avoid civilian casualties. Second, if Israel does target them, it would then likely afford the Hamas terrorists and media coup with international news organizations which are more often staffed with journalists and editors more sympathetic to the ‘Palestinian cause’ than with Israel, Israelis and Jews – whose own civilian casualties are rarely met with the same anger and impassioned demands for an end to the violence.”