Senior IDF officials say that, as far as the military is concerned, troops will remain in the area "until long-term security for residents of the north is guaranteed." The IDF reports extensive operations in southern Lebanon, with the main focus on Bint Jbeil, a Hezbollah stronghold.
The second, less-discussed lesson of the catastrophe: An independent Jewish state is the cure for the disease of exile; only in our own land are we not dependent Jews living under others’ protection, but a free people defending itself and the future of its sons and daughters
Israel must reduce its military dependence on the United States as much as possible and deepen its technological, military and moral value in American eyes. There is no major power left to rely on.
According to information obtained by Israel Hayom, the US is not willing to set another date for talks with Iran at this stage. At the same time, grim economic data point to a sharp deterioration and an increasing pressure to renew contacts with the Americans.
When other countries stop military shipments to Israel, Czech arms export to Israel grows. The weekend revolutionaries in the West, chanting for liberation from a safe distance of four thousand miles, are exactly what Hamas, Hezbollah, and their masters in Iran view: useful idiots.
