Tel Aviv, Sept.6.– At least five rockets have been fired from Gaza toward Israel, with 
one landing near Sderot, according to the IDF, which retaliated by attacking an observation post in northern Gaza with tanks.
One of the rockets landed in an open area near Sderot, causing a fire to break out with minor damage. No casualties have been reported.
Pence travelled to Poland when President Trump decided to remain in the US to face the emergency caused by a catastrophic hurricane.Warsaw, Sept.2.– The US and Poland agreed Monday to a deal designed to secure 5G wireless networks in the European country, a move that could result in blocking Huawei Technologies and other Chinese telecommunications firms from its networks.
The deal with Poland comes as the US has been courting companies to reject Chinese technology in their next generation of wireless networks, telling allies it could put their citizens’ data at risk of espionage.
Cynicism is gnawing at Western democracies.Aug.31.– Democracies are generally thought to die at the barrel of a gun, in coups and revolutions. These days, however, they are more likely to be strangled slowly in the name of the people.
Take Hungary, where Fidesz, the ruling party, has used its parliamentary majority to capture regulators, dominate business, control the courts, buy the media and manipulate the rules for elections. As our briefing explains, the prime minister, 
Viktor Orban, does not have to break the law, because he can get parliament to change it instead. He does not need secret police to take his enemies away in the night. They can be cut down to size without violence, by the tame press or the taxman. In form, Hungary is a thriving democracy; in spirit, it is a one-party state.
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