Israeli leaders are preparing to commit suicide, which would be fine with me, except they want to take all of the Jews with them. I read this short article in JTA. There is no way that the Israeli leaders are this stupid. They must have a reason for this. Please read below.
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110239.html
I totally agree, news from israel is mind numbing.. The news is not new.
The Commentary is even worse, it's forever being recycled. It just gets spat out week after a week , reading it is like swallowing one's own vomit.
You seem to have picked the least mind numbing, of the mind numbing "news"
(which sadly tells the story that you waded through the garbage to find it)
the article was that israel let 1000 kalashnikovs go to the PA.. and they've done it before and in the past they've been used against israeli soldiers.
Well, I know their reason..
I read in Hamodia(I perused it a bit over shabbat), that Olmert has seen the problem that if israel doesn't allow the palestinians to vote then israel would be compared to aparteid south africa and the nations would force israel to let them vote. So Olmert sees the solution as a palestinian state.
So that's why he has allowed the the PA to have weapons (of course, in the past they actually gave them weapons , I don't know if that is the case here). He wants the PA to control hamas so that a "moderate" or least extreme, palestinian state can be set up.
Rabbi Kahane used to say that if you give away land with many arabs, then you only postpone the problem. Since the arabs have such a high birthrate.
That was the case then.. in 1990, up to even after 200x. But when under Sharon, Netanyahu was made finance minister, Netanyahu cut child welfare. So now charedim didn't get cheques per child, but neither did arabs.
Arab birthrate dropped. Charedi birthrate stayed high, hardly dropping.
Now people worry less about arabs beating israel with babies.
Rabbi Kahane of course suggested cutting this nonsense of giving arabs a cheque for each baby -long ago- ! e.g. a book of cheques collected at the post office. Now only around 15 years later has something been done, though they hit at everybody with it(charedim affected too - financially).