UPDATES
6 pm Israel time, Thursday, April 16 2015
**Shalom Yochai Sharki, 25, a resident of Jerusalem, was murdered last night in yet another “car-ramming” incident perpetrated by an Arab terrorist.
Yochai Sharki during his military service two years ago aboard a Navy vessel.
He, along with a young Jewish woman, was standing at a bus stop in French Hill, at an intersection near the Hebrew University when the terrorist veered his car out of the road and into them. This is the same intersection where three people including a baby were killed by another “car terrorist” last year.
Sharki died shortly thereafter; the woman remains in critical condition at this hour in the trauma center at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
Today, everyone has described Sharki has a young man who always maintained an optimistic outlook on life and brought happiness to all whom he came in contact with. May his memory be blessed.
**Outrageously, given the continued incidence of murderous “car attacks” as described above, the IDF COGAT unit announced today that for the first time since the year 2000, cars with Palestinian license plates will be permitted across the 1949 Armistice Lines.
COGAT says that this is yet another in a series of “gestures of peace” to the PLO. It comes on the heels of the revelation yesterday that hundreds of trailers are now being permitted into Gaza to supposedly provide residences for Gazans. Not only does no one know what the trailers will really be used for–but also, who knows what weapons of terror will be smuggled into Gaza inside the trailers?
**And there is one other idiotic concession to the Palestinians announced yesterday: Israel has now agreed to supply cement into Gaza for the next three years.
Did you get that?
Three years.
The IDF itself says that Hamas is busy rebuilding tunnels into Israel, and the IDF COGAT unit is giving them the cement to do so.
And guess what? Germany has provided, with Israeli permission, a mining machine known as the Bagger 288 to speed up the building of tunnels.
The entire situation from cars to trailers to cement is simply insane.
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There have been two major Israel Supreme Court rulings today–both of which have dealt severe blows to left-wing “humanitarian” NGOs operating in the country.
In the first ruling, the “Boycott Law” was upheld. Technically known as “The Law for the Prevention of Damage to the State of Israel through Boycott, the law specifies that any economic, academic, or cultural boycott of Israel or of entities in Israeli territory–including Judea and Samara–is defined as “a civil injustice.” Therefore, any entity targeted for a boycott can claim compensation from those who initiated the boycott. Moreover, the law allows the Finance Minister to halt state funding for any organizations participating in a boycott.
The Court did make two changes to the law–neither of which change its substance: 1) the plaintiffs against boycotters must prove damages, 2) compensation cannot be unlimited.
The ruling came as an unpleasant shock to many NGOs who can now expect to be hauled into court. Gaby Lasky, a lawyer for Gush Shalom, lamented:
“This is an unfortunate decision that has far-reaching implications, justices changing the Israeli constitutional law as we know it and place the interests of continuing the settlements over the fundamental right to freedom of political expression of all citizens.”
What nonsense. No country permits freedom of political expression which attempts destroy the country. The Court ruling is victory for the rule of reason.
Equally shocking to “humanitarian” NGOs yesterday was the Court decision upholding the Absentee Property Law. This law, first enacted in 1950, was created after hundreds of thousands of Arabs abandoned their properties in 1948 in the hopes that they would return to greater properties after Israel was destroyed–and hundreds of thousands of Jews were kicked out of their homes in Arab countries and immigrated to Israel.
The Knesset enacted the Absentee Property Law to provide residences to new Jewish refugees.
The current case against the Law was brought by several NGOs which sought to stop the Israeli government from declaring properties in the eastern part of Jerusalem “abandoned.”
The Court summarily dismissed the suit and added that there is no doubt that the Law applies to all of Jerusalem. While leaving the law completely intact, the Court suggested that it should be applied only under the most rigorous conditions and only in conjunction with the State Comptroller.
Again, to say these rulings were unpleasant shocks to left-wing NGOs is a major understatement–and to say that they were pleasant shocks to your humble servant is also an understatement.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.