I just can't believe this. Barak was talking all tough just a few days ago...and now, after the world's media buys into the Hamas manufactured "crisis" about Gaza not having enough fuel for their power plant, Barak opens the gates and resumes fuel shipments back into Gaza!
And what is the response to this gesture of kindness from Israel??? Hamas starts up their missile launches back into Israel!
Bottom line is this will hurt Israel - it's another example where Barak talked and acted big and then backed down. The full story is here from DEBKA and it points out the following breakdown as this:
And what is the response to this gesture of kindness from Israel??? Hamas starts up their missile launches back into Israel!
Bottom line is this will hurt Israel - it's another example where Barak talked and acted big and then backed down. The full story is here from DEBKA and it points out the following breakdown as this:
1. Hamas successfully mustered Arab opinion across the Middle East against the Western siege imposed on the terrorist-ruled Gaza Strip.
2. The prestige of Palestinian Authority leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyed suffered a knock for failing to force its peace partner, Israel, to lift the siege of Gaza.
3. Israel’s surrender to pressure was an object lesson for the Lebanese terrorist group Hizballah, as well as the Palestinian Islamists Hamas. Hassan Nasrallah has launched his own propaganda campaign against Israel over the remains of soldiers allegedly left in Lebanon from the 2006 war.
4. The plight of Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants did not reached crisis point – unlike the dwindling Israeli communities living under constant Palestinian missile fire.
DEBKAfile: Palestinians shoot 9 missiles, 20 mortar shells after Barak caves in on fuel and medicine deliveries to Gaza
The barrage followed a two-day slowdown. No casualties.
Monday morning, prime minister Ehud Olmert said: “Let the Gazans walk!” He was responding to condemnation from Cairo, Arab nations and the European Union over Israel’s cut-down of fuel supplies and closure of the Gaza crossings last week under the Palestinians heavy blitz of Israeli civilians.
Yet Monday night, defense minister Ehud Barak gave a “one-time” order to resume the heavy fuel and medicines deliveries to the Gaza Strip. He thus surrendered to the pressure drummed up by Hamas’ highly telegenic humanitarian crisis that never was.
Neither the foreign ministry nor the army spokesman was geared to fend off this psychological war stunt. By the time they argued back that Israel, while taking 50 missiles a day, was feeding Gaza 75 percent of its electricity and its hospitals (unlike those in Arab countries) were caring for dozens of Palestinian patients from the Gaza Strip, no one was listening.
Yet their plight never made it to the world media in the same way as the show of suffering in Gazan.
Olmert and Barak are widely criticized in Israeli political and military circles for abruptly clamping down sanctions on Gaza without proper preparation and without being sure they could take the heat.
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