UPDATE
7 pm Israel time, Friday, April 24 2015
**It appears that the Netanyahu coalition is at last beginning to come together.
Netanyahu has acquiesced to every demand of Moshe Kahlon with the result that his Koolanu party will receive the Finance, Housing, and Environment ministries. In addition, Netanyahu has apparently agreed that Kahlon has the right to approve or disapprove every other ministerial appointment.
Avigdor Lieberman has dug in his heels and is likely to keep the Foreign Ministry, and Moshe Ya’alon of Likud will continue to be Defense Minister. There is every indication that Arieh Deri of Shas will take over the Religion Ministry.
The odd person out is Naftali Bennett–who is precisely should have been the first person in. It was Bennett who sacrificed himself and his party for Netanyahu in the election. While everyone was blasting Netanyahu, Bennett continued to say that the important thing was to vote for the “right”. And it was Bennett’s people in Judea and Samaria who went to bat for Netanyahu in the last days of the campaign, covering southern Israel with Netanyahu campaign signs and going door to door for Netanyahu.
As a result of trying to help Netanyahu, Bennett lost four seats to Netanyahu. Now that he only has 8 seats instead of 12, Netanyahu feels free to relegate Bennett to the second tier–and not give the “senior minister” position that he promised him.
This is standard, abhorrent, way that Netanyahu shows gratitude.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Three missiles from Gaza were fired at southern Israel last night. Incoming missile warning sirens sounded in Zones 220, 222, 252, and 253–essentially stretching from Sderot in the Sha’ar Hanegev region to the edge of the Eshkol region.
At first, as usual, the IDF was “unsure” that any missiles had been fired at all. One IDF spokesman even suggested that the explosions that everyone heard were actually “firecrackers” or a Hamas “training exercise” that was planned to coincide with Israel Independence Day.
But then, one of the missiles was actually found.
One of the Palestinian missiles that struck southern Israel yesterday evening. Note how the ground around the missile is covered with ball bearings that were inside.
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Yet that didn’t stop the IDF from proclaiming that it was sure that “Hamas didn’t fire the missiles”. Instead, with no knowledge of the event whatsoever, the IDF said that various “factions” in Gaza had fired them in order to undermine Hamas.
Then it occurred to the brilliant IDF General Command that some response was called for.
Two actions were taken. First, according to the IDF, a terror target in northern Gaza was “struck” and destroyed.
In actuality, an IDF shell hit a small empty hut just across the border.
A Hamas terrorist inspects the 10′ x 5′ ramshackle tin hut that was destroyed in an Israeli “strike” yesterday. An Israeli observation point near the border fence is visible in the background.
Hamas was quick to point out that no one was in the empty hut; no one was wounded and no weapons were destroyed.
The second action was for Israel to suspend for one day, the usual Friday bus rides that ferry terrorists from Gaza to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem where they can supposedly “worship” at the Al-Aksa Mosque. In fact, what they normally do is go to Jerusalem and wave Hamas flags and march on the Temple Mount.
If all of this seems painfully familiar, it is. The war of attrition, which never really stopped, has resumed with the people of the South as sitting ducks and the IDF as passive, impotent responders to Hamas terror.
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.