David Bedein

Perhaps Prime Minister Olmert will appeal to private philanthropy to provide security funding for the Israeli city of Sderot and its neighbors. If not, perhaps the American and Canadian supporters of Israel will dig down deep and provide what is needed to the Israeli cities under siege.

"The weapons to the Palestinians are brought in through Egyptian ports and El Arish and are imported by land from Sudan," Yuval Steinitz, the deputy chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said. "Those latter imports have to traverse Egypt on their way to Gaza. There is no way that the Egyptian government is not colluding with the weapons shippers."

Two principal proponents of the Iraq Study Group, are indeed expected to present recommendations for the U.S. military presence in Iraq later in November. This group is expected to advise the U.S. government that Israel must make wide-ranging concessions to the Palestinian Authority and to Syria, with or without reciprocity.

"The Iranian firing was on a much larger scale (than the North Korean test) and it proved the seamless ability to coordinate the launches of a range of missile and rockets," the source said. The Shihab-3 contains a range of 1,242 miles and Iran said the missile reached that distance during this month's exercise. Iran was also developing missiles with ranges of up to 3,415 miles.

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The IDF fire resulted in the death of Atta Fuad Shanbari, the commander of the Popular Resistance Committees in the northern Gaza Strip, and six others. Israeli security officials said that Shanbari, 32, was responsible for much of the Kassam rocket fire into Israel. Two of Shanbari's brothers were also killed in the exchanges of fire.