While I appreciate her sentiments it would be nice if Pamela Geller took a more objective tone in her reporting, but the news she provides is "hot" and worth passing along. Billy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atlas Shrugs May 3, 2012 _Israel calls up 16 battalions under emergency orders to meet looming threat from Egypt, Syria borders _ (http://p.feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=64587174&f=26412&u=13042656&c=4174536) While Obama shamelessly struts and campaigns on the failure of his foreign policy in, of all places, Ka-bull, the criminally corrupt enemedia lauds this self-deluded jackass. While Obama preened in Ka-bull, _more US troops were reported killed, and_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4174536/http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2012/05/joint-base-lewis-mcchord-sold ier-dies-in-afghanistan/) Obama's _"peace partners" launched homicide bombers, killing seven on the heels of his visit_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4174536/http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/05/hour s-after-president-obama-leaves-explosions-rattle-kabul/) . Despite Obama's Baghdad Bob media, the real consequences of his disastrous foreign policy failures continue to unfold. The world is teetering on the brink while Obama lovingly gazes at his reflection as shown in the evil glare of our enemies' success. Six army battalions called up under emergency orders to meet growing threat on Egypt, Syria borders _Times of Israel_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4174536/http://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-approves-call-up- of-22-idf-battalions/)
Knesset approves IDF request to call up a further 16 battalions if needed By _Aaron Kalman_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4174536/http://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/aaron-kalman/) May 2, 2012, 3:13 pm Updated: May 2, 2012 Reserve soldiers conduct a training exercise (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90) The IDF has issued emergency call up orders to six reserve battalions in light of new dangers on the Egyptian and Syrian borders. And the Knesset has given the IDF permission to summon a further 16 reserve battalions if necessary, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. An IDF spokesperson said intelligence assessments called for the deployment of more soldiers. According to 2008's Reserve Duty Law, combat soldiers can be called for active reserve duty once every three years, and for short training sessions during the other two. Rising_ tensions between Israel and Egypt_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4174536/http://www.timesofisrael.com/leadi ng-egyptian-candidate-denounces-israeli-peace-treaty/) and the ongoing _unrest in Syria_ (http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/26412/13042656/4174536/http://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/syria/) caused the army to ask the Knesset for special permission to call up more soldiers, more often. The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee approved the request recently, enabling the IDF to summon up to 22 battalions for active duty for the second time in three years. Already, the army has called up six of them. "This signifies that the IDF regards the Egyptian and Syrian borders as the potential source of a greater threat than in the past," the former deputy chief of staff, Dan Harel, said on Wednesday night. "The army needs a better 'answer' than in the past to the threat," he said, citing Egypt's deteriorating control over the Sinai, marked by an upsurge in Bedouin smuggling of weapons and other goods. He also spoke of the growing threat of terrorism from Sinai, as exemplified by an infiltration last August in which eight Israelis were killed. The Syrian situation was also highly combustible, Harel said, "and it could explode at any moment" and pose a direct challenge to us. Maariv said the army had to decide whether to cancel training sessions for enlisted soldiers or to summon additional reserve units, and it chose the latter; canceling training would mean soldiers would not be prepared in the case of an all-out war. The IDF spokesperson said all the letters summoning soldiers for reserve duty were sent after the IDF received the approval of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee for the larger call-up. One of the reservists summoned told Maariv he hadn't expected his call-up letter until next year. Leaving home for more than three weeks is something you have to prepare for, he noted. Activists from the Reserve Soldiers Forum said they were disappointed time and again by the way the IDF treated its reserve soldiers. The law was supposed to help reservists, but it has been repeatedly bypassed and ignored, they said. "At the end, all that will remain of the law will be its title." -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
