Giving new meaning to the IDF

This week Ehud Olmert forbade the IDF to respond to Kassam missile fire from Gaza, even where launching crews had been identified and could be stopped.

This is not just to preserve the important "ceasefire" that exists only in Olmert's mind.
It is to curry favour with visiting European officials who applauded Israel's restraint at a meeting with Tzipi Livni.

Meanwhile the brave residents of Sderot have to risk their lives under the constant threat of Kassam missile fire from which the IDF is unable to protect them by government decree.

All of which gives new meaning to the IDF as Israel's Deference Forces.