This Just In: Phase III

Peretz: Operation Summer Rains Phase III is a ‘Go’ [Israel National News]

The approval came after masked terrorists succeeded in breaching the border between Gaza and Egypt, through the Brazil neighborhood of Rafah. The gunmen escaped into Sinai through a four-meter hole they blasted in the security fence.

I know this is no time for jokes, but does their punishment involve roaming in the desert for 40 years, sans manna?

Because it should.

Meanwhile, The US is constraining Israel [via Israpundit]

Israeli government sources said in a series of message the Bush administration has urged the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to minimize any military strike on the Gaza Strip. The sources said the messages recommended that Israel employ the international community to help free an Israeli soldier abducted by Hamas on June 25 and taken to the southern Gaza Strip.

This is a cue for the IDF to begin a secondary operation known as: HEY, AMERICA & THE REST OF THE WORLD: STICK A CORK IN IT!

Go, IDF, Go!

**UPDATE**

Phase III is on hold due to diplomatic developments. To quote General Patton, “No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”


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