As Attacks Continue, Israel Threatens "Harsh and Disproportionate" Retaliation

At least two rockets launched from Gaza struck the south region of Israel on Sunday morning. A wing of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group belonging to none other than Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah, claimed responsibility. Let me remind you that this is the same Mahmoud Abbas that was the first foreign figure that was telephoned by President Obama upon becoming America's leader.

Since Israel declared the Jan. 18 cease fire just before the Obama inauguration, sporadic attacks on Israel have continued. In the most serious incident since the truce, an Israeli soldier was killed and three fellow soldiers were wounded in a blast near the Kissufim border crossing last Tuesday. Israel responded with air raids and a brief ground incursion by soldiers and tanks.

"We won't return to the rules of the game that terror groups have tried to dictate and we won't be dragged into a never-ending shooting war," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told cabinet ministers.

Olmert will be replaced by a new prime minister as a new leader is to be elected on February 10. Right now the two main candidates are Kadima's Tzipi Livni and Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu, with Netanyahu currently leading in the polls.


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