פרסום ראשון: יו"ר מפלגת ישראל ביתנו ושר הביטחון לשעבר, ח"כ אביגדור ליברמן, שלח מכתב דחוף לחברי הקבינט המדיני-ביטחוני ודרש מהם דיון מעמיק בנוגע לעיצוב מחדש של תפיסת הביטחון של צה"ל. "לאור ההתפתחויות האחרונות, בחזית הצפונית והדרומית, חייבים לקיים דיון מקיף ומעמיק על תפיסת הביטחון של צה"ל", כותב ליברמן במכתבו. "שאלות כגון שליטה ישראלית בציר פילדלפי, שממשיך לשמש ציר מרכזי להברחות לתוך הרצועה ומחוצה לה, הצטיידות בחמישים מסוקים ומאה מטוסים כפי שפורסם בתקשורת, או הקמת חטיבות טנקים נוספות, מחייבות דיון דחוף ותשובות ברורות". ליברמן טוען "לעניות דעתי, הצטיידות ב-75 מטוסים מספיקה בהחלט. את התקציב הנותר אפשר להעביר, לטובת הצטיידות מחדש של זרוע היבשה וקידום מערך חיל טילים בהיקף הנדרש. סוגיות נוספות הן מה קודם למה ומה סדר העדיפויות? במדינת ישראל, בניגוד למדינות אחרות בעולם, צה"ל כפוף לממשלה ולקבינט, שסמכותו היא מתוקף החלטת ממשלה, ולכן האחריות הכוללת היא על כל חברה וחבר בקבינט המדיני-ביטחוני". ליברמן מסיים את מכתבו וקורא לחברי הקבינט: "חובתכם לקיים דיון מעמיק בנושאים הנ"ל ולקבל החלטות לאלתר".
A Catholic priest has been publicly beheaded by Syrian terrorists after he was accused of collaborating with President Bashar Al-Assad's regime. Franciscan Father Francois Murad was executed along with two other people in the countryside of Idlib in northern Syria on Sunday, the New York Daily News reported. The brutal beheading was filmed and posted to the Internet. The Vatican confirmed Murad's death Monday, but the circumstances surrounding the 49-year-old priest's death are not entirely known, reported the Daily News . Spectators recorded the killings that included two others with their smartphones and cameras before uploading it online. Local sources told the Vatican that convent for the Custody of the Holy Land, where Murad had taken refute, was ambushed by terrorists linked to the jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front). In the video, which Arutz Sheva has chosen not to post here due to its graphic nature, a man identified as Murad is seen sitting cross-legged in the grass with his hands bound as a mob of men around him shout in Arabic. Several are seen shamelessly holding up cameras to record the horrific killings, stepping as close as they can to the aftermath of bloody bodies. According to the Vatican's press release quoted by the Daily News , Murad traveled to the area after becoming an ordained priest to help construct a coenobitic monastery. The radical, jihadist Al-Nusra Front has pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Nusra is one of 13 factions in the radical Islamist rebel council that announced its secession from the main opposition force and declared its own Islamic state in Aleppo. The group was recently blacklisted by the United Nations Security Council .
The small Negev city of Sderot - the target of choice for murderous Arab rocket-launchers in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of the Gaza Strip - was fired on six more times this morning. Two of the Kassam rockets landed in populated areas, wounding an elderly woman and a girl. The two were transported to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, where they are reported in light condition and suffering from shrapnel injuries and shock. In the most significant terrorist attempt since Gideon Lichterman's murder earlier this week, PA elements blew up a car bomb outside Kfar Darom in Gaza last night near an IDF tank. Miraculously, no one was hurt and no damage was caused - though the terrorist inside the car was killed. Gunshots were fired at the nearby soldiers only seconds before the car approached, apparently as a distraction so that the car could advance as far as possible and cause more casualties. A search of the area afterwards turned up 80-100 kilograms of explosives, designed to increase the murderous effect of the explosion. Among the weapons and explosives were two Claymore mines, which were to eject many metal pieces in various directions, and several mortar shells and bombs. More attempted murders by PA terrorists against Israelis last night: Arabs fired at soldiers near Yitzhar in central Shomron last night… A jeep was fired on near Ateret further south… Even further south, past Hevron, Palestinian terrorists fired at a car near Otniel; unlike in the attack on Lichterman's car three days ago, and unlike dozens of others in the past two and a half years, no one was hurt in these incidents… A three-year-old girl was lightly wounded this morning by Arab rock-throwers who attacked her and her friends playing in the Beit Hadassah neighborhood of Hevron... Border Guard policemen were attacked in Tul Karem this morning, using rifles, firebombs, and rocks... Two mortar shells were fired at Gush Katif towns - one near Netzer Hazani, and one near an IDF army base. No one was hurt and no damage was caused…