There have been about 290 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel since it ended a three-week military operation against Hamas on Jan. 18, 2009, which it said was aimed to stop the attacks.

Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Gaza Strip fired two rockets at the southern Israel town of Sderot on Wednesday night and another toward the coastal city of Ashkelon on Thursday morning. A Thai man working at the hothouses in the village of Netiv Ha'asara south of Ashkelon was killed in the Thursday morning attack. Two people, including a child, were treated for shock following the overnight attacks.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is set to arrive in Israel to visit Gaza amidst demands to end a so-called siege on the terrorist-controlled territory. Yet one has to ask what siege, or blockade, he is referring to, with 738,576 tons of humanitarian aid being transferred into Gaza in 2009.

Gaza has also been called "the world's largest prison," yet in 2009, 10,544 patients and their companions left Gaza for medical treatment in Israel, including nearly 500 last week.

Secretary of State Clinton pledged $900 million in aid to Gaza following Operation Cast Lead. A USAID report calculated the aid sent to quake-raved Haiti at $700 million - less than Gaza.

President Shimon Peres told visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Thursday that Israel reserved the right to build in Jerusalem and that Israel's construction policy in the capital has not changed in forty years. This policy has never interfered with the peace process, he said. He added that Israel would continue this policy and called for a quick resumption of peace talks.

“Israel's policy on Jerusalem is not Mr. Netanyahu's alone, but was also that of former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Golda Meir - in fact of every Israeli government going back to the city's reunification in 1967. Consistently, Israel has held that Jerusalem should remain its undivided capital and that both Jews and Arabs have the right to build anywhere in the city.

“Israel's policy on Jerusalem did not preclude the conclusion of peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan. Nor did it prevent the Palestinians from negotiating with Israel for more than 15 years after the Oslo accords of 1993. Consistently, Israelis have demonstrated remarkable flexibility as well as generosity to any Arab leader genuinely offering peace. (Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren)

The various Israeli crossings into Gaza were busy again last week, as 550 trucks delivered 13,144 tons of humanitarian aid to Palestinian Authority Arabs living under the rule of the Hamas terrorist organization.

Mohammed Dahlan, an official of Fatah, claims that Hurva synagogue was rebuilt on the ruins of a mosque he called the mosque of Omar. He said this is part of the Netanyahu regime’s attempt to “Judaize” Jerusalem.

Masked Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in multiple east Jerusalem neighborhoods on Tuesday, hurling rocks at security forces and burning tires. Hamas called for a "day of rage" following the rededication of the Hurva synagogue in Jerusalem's Old City.

In the early 1700s, followers of Judah he-Hasid founded a synagogue at the site, but it was destroyed a few years later, in 1721. The plot lay in ruins for over 140 years and became known as the Ruin, or Hurva. In 1864, the Perushim built a new synagogue on the site. Although officially named the Beis Yaakov Synagogue, it retained its name as the Hurva and became Jerusalem's main Ashkenazi synagogue until it too was destroyed by Jordan after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Israelis now rebuilt it and rededicated it Monday.