Israel has finally decided to take some serious steps in trying to halt the barrage of Kassam rockets on Sderot and the surrounding villages. Whether it helps or not remains to be seen, but at least some steps are in the process of being taken.

The government has approved the shutting down of electricity flow, fuel and other things to Gaza. If they shoot rockets at us, their lights will go off for a while (up to an hour per rocket supposedly). It has not happened yet, but the Arabs in Gaza are already kvetching about the fact that it might happen.

Anyway, today's Quote of the Day goes to Matan Vilnai who said, "the government's decision to periodically cut the flow of electricity to the Gaza Strip is another step in Israel's disengaging from responsibility for the area, and is not part of a policy of collective punishment."

I do not understand why we supply them with fuel, electricity, cigarettes or anything else. The whole point of the disengagement was marketed as "we are here and they are there". Yet since the disengagement happened, we have been as connected to Gaza as ever before.

Once we left Gaza, we should have shut everything down. Let them get there electricity from Egypt, or let them build their own electric company. That did not happen, but at least once Israel declared Gaza enemy and hostile territory we should no longer have been supplying them with their needs.

Let their Egyptian brothers to the south of them help them out.