Another day

Today is international Holocaust Memorial Day, Jan 27, the day that the Russians liberated Auschwitz in 1945. Israel has a different day, so there were no public commemorations here. In the rest of the world they use this day to remember all forms of genocide, so that the specific connection with the Jews is deliberately downgraded. I heard Sir Iqbal Sacranie being interviewed on BBC saying that the reason why the British Muslim League reversed its boycott of Holcaust Memorial Day was that they were able to also include other holocausts, such as those in the Balkans and Rwanda (he didn't mention Darfur). This is another example of how the mulitcultural liberal fascist view opposes Jewish particularism and Jewish suffering.
Last night another terrorist attack occured near Jerusalem when a policewoman sitting in a car was stabbed. The perpetrator was caught. That was the third incident in 48 hrs, yet the police said they were not connected (?) And these are the "moderate" Palestinians, not the bad boys of Hamas.
Today also PM Olmert met with Pres. Abbas and Ahmed Querei in Jerusalem, and discussed the current status of the situation, including Gaza. Olmert told them that Israel would not allow a humanitarian catastrophe to occur in Gaza, and today the Israeli Supreme Court issued an injunction against the State for disrupting the flow of oil to Gaza. In effect they were setting political policy in place of the Government, and Olmert loves to go along with this, since it absolves him of any actual action.
Meanwhile for the fifth day the Egyptians were unable to take control of their border with Gaza, and there is danger of a mini-Hamastan being developed in northeastern Sinai, centred on the town of El Arish. There are already rumors that Hamas are using the port to receive weapons shipments, and the Egyptian security forces, trying to prevent the spread of terrorists throughout Egypt, reported capturing 5 armed groups trying to infiltrate Egypt proper. The IDF have sealed the Israeli border with Egypt and have issued warnings to all Israelis in Sinai to return urgently and not to travel in the region.
The situation is very volatile. The destruction of the Egyptian border has been a small victory for Hamas, but eventually Egypt must take control of its border and this will almost certainly result in armed clashed with Hamas gangs. The outcome is uncertain.