A Peek into a Mind

In a few hours all of Israel will come to a halt. No cars. No buses. No shops. No TV. No Radio. and no one eating. Well, maybe some will, but most of us won’t. I think Yom Kippur is the only day of the year I’m still going to the synagogue (except for special occasions like weddings and stuff). I used to go on Saturdays sometimes when I was young with my uncles but since I’ve turned 13 no body force me to anymore so I don’t. Was a little disappointed that Yossi didn’t come to Ashkelon, though, I hoped to go with him. Guess I’ll go alone this time…

Anyway, Israel has certainly decided to react after the bloody attack yesterday. In addition to the minor attacks in Gaza yesterday (destroying a weapons storage and an empty house of an Islamic Jihad senior) Israel had attacked inside Syria. A thing we haven’t done for about 20 years. I’m feeling quite good with the decision to go ahead on that. I wouldn’t want attacking inside Syria to become a habit, but I’m certainly all for pointed, single, mass-power attacks against Palestinian terrorist targets in Syria. This attack wasn’t anything critical, though. Only 1 person was killed and we’re not yet informed of how much damage was done to the training facility. The facility was used to train Hammas, Islamic Jihad and Popular Front terrorists and then send them back to the Palestinian cities to found terror cells. The facility was located north of Damascus and all our pilots and planes are well.

Update: Just watched the TV special report about the attack. Seems the training camp was not very much in use and it was attacked more as a symbol to where Israel is willing to go. The attack seems to have no dramatic effect on the terror organization based in Syria as most of them sits inside Damascus, surrounded by civilian population.

News Stories:
Ynet (hebrwe), Ynet (arabic),