On Jan. 18, Israeli aircraft and tanks fired four missiles at a terrorist cell trying to camouflage bombs at the Gaza border, killing two terrorists.  The Israeli strikes set off a series of bomb explosions, confirming IDF direct hits, according to Israeli witnesses and media reports.  The incident took place a few hundred yards from an Israeli kibbutz, Kfar Aza, where the IDF maintains a small base.  Farmers from the kibbutz work the fields between the IDF outpost and the security fence.  It's not the first time that they've been actual or presumptive targets of fire from the Palestinian side - whether by rockets, mortar shells or gunfire. A kibbutz resident told Israeli media:  "There was a series of explosions, and I felt the windows shaking.  I went outside and saw clouds of black smoke." The New York Times published no article about this latest Gaza cross-border engagement, just as it shrugs off continued Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis --...(Read Full Post)