Not a typical week in Israel

What's on our agenda this week?

• Israel's 60th anniversary.
• Intelligence officials are saying that various Palestinian groups are planning a major incidence of violence to spoil the celebration.
• George W. Bush is scheduled to come. We'll have to stay off the roads.
• Condoleezza Rice is already here, demanding that we be nicer to the Palestinians.
• Palestinians are seeking international help for their insistence that Israel recognize the pre-1967 borders as the starting point of any decisions about borders between the two countries. They are also saying that Israel does not allow the Palestinians to acquire enough weapons in order to show that they can govern themselves; and that Israel is wrong in coming into their cities in order to seize people it suspects of wrongdoing.

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'We know better'

Is Iran pursuing the development of nuclear weapons or not?
 
Someone outside of the Iranian loop is not likely to find a clear answer .
 
Israeli officials are close to wetting their pants due to the change in United States intelligence estimates. Now it looks like the United States will not be attacking Iranian nuclear sites, and may not even be able to obtain any multi-national agreement to increase the weight of sanctions.
 
Mohammad El Baradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is crowing that "we told you so," and has reaffirmed Iran's certificate of kashrut.