See previous: 2007.05.24 Israel/Lebanon/"Palestine" roundup

Below the fold, newest items at the top:

• I guess someone didn't get the memo...
• Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Warns Hamas
  That 'No One Is Immune' After Deadly Rocket Attack

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I guess someone didn't get the memo...
By: Jay Tea

This morning I read a terrible, sad, tragic story in the Boston Globe. It was about a bunch of Palestinian refugees who were driven out of the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp by the fighting between the Lebanese Army and the terrorist group, Fatah al-Islam.

This has me terribly confused.

You see, the refugee camp is run by the United Nations, through its subsidiary, UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East). And under the very strict rules of UNRWA, weapons are completely forbidden in the camp.

Don't the men of Fatah al-Islam know that what they're doing is illegal? Why didn't the UNRWA rules stop them?

There are so many lessons to be drawn from this incident. ...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Warns Hamas
That 'No One Is Immune' After Deadly Rocket Attack

JERUSALEM —  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday promised to step up attacks on the Hamas terror group after a Palestinian rocket attack killed an Israeli man in southern Israel. "No one is immune," Olmert declared.

Sunday's bloodshed signaled there was no end in sight for the latest round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. A 10-day campaign of Israeli airstrikes aimed at halting rocket attacks has killed nearly 50 Palestinians, most of them militants. But the rocket fire has continued.

Another rocket slammed into the southern Israeli town of Sderot early Sunday, critically wounding a 36-year-old man with shrapnel, medical officials said. The man later died of his wounds at a hospital, Israeli media said. It was the second fatal rocket attack in less than a week.

Olmert told the weekly meeting of his Cabinet Sunday that he had instructed the army to do whatever it takes to halt the rocket fire.

"There will be no limit in acting against the terror groups and against those who are responsible for the terror. No one is immune," Olmert said.

Israel has so far avoided attacks on Hamas' political leaders — a tactic it used at the height of Israeli-Palestinian fighting several years ago. It was not immediately clear whether Olmert's comments Sunday were aimed at the Hamas leadership. The group is now the senior partner in the Palestinian coalition government.

Olmert said there would be no time limit for the army, and that outside pressure would not stop Israel from acting. ...