UPDATES
6 am Israel time, Friday, June 12 2015
**The current Palestinian arson rampage continued throughout the day and night yesterday in Judea and Samaria. A factory was torched in Ma’ale Efraim near Ariel while another fire occurred on Mt. Sansun near Tzur Hadassah west of Jerusalem. Yet another arson attack occured in the Jordan Valley town of Hemdat while the largest fire in the Gevaot Forest in the Gush Etzion area of Judea was finally contained at 8 pm last night.
**Interesting news: the long awaited law granting citizenship to Jews who were kicked out of Spain in 1492 has finally been passed, but your humble servant doubts many people will be rushing to get that citizenship.
After all, there are a few conditions attached:
1. No one can apply before October 1.
2. Prospective applicants will have to prove their ancestry. Of course this will be neat trick since the family records of most Jews dating back to the 1400s have long since disappeared in synagogue burnings, pograms, and outright massacres.
3. Prospective applicants will have to demonstrate fluency in Spanish.
4. Prospective applicants will have to demonstrate fluency in Spanish culture.
5. Prospective applicants will have to visit Spain once.
6. Prospective applicants will have to pay a 100 Euro application fee.
7. The process will take a minimum of 3 years.
**Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff was in Jerusalem yesterday and met with PM Netanyahu who crowed that Dempsey is “a great friend” and “a champion of the U.S. Israel partnership.”
What unadulterated hogwash.
What kind of friend was Dempsey back in August of 2012 when he blathered to the British press that “I don’t want to be complicit if Israel chooses to do it [attack Iran]”?
TODAY’S BLOG:
We had been expecting this for the last two nights. Palestinian terror groups in Gaza had announced Tuesday and Wednesday that missile fire would continue into southern Israel–specifically directed at Netivot, Sderot, and Ashkelon.
But no matter how much you expect incoming missiles, it never fails to shock you when they actually come.
So last night at 10:02 pm, the “imminent emergency warning” buzzer went off on our phones here in Ashdod. Unlike the app that informs all Israelis that a missile is about to hit somewhere and affords one time to reach a bomb shelter if it is coming in your direction, the “imminent emergency warning” buzzer indicates that missile is headed straight for you right now.
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And that you probably have no time to make it to your bomb shelter.
So, we immediately huddled in a fortified place in our bedroom, and saw that on our regular missile warning app, that sirens had gone off in the Chof Ashkelon region north of the city of Ashkelon, as well in the city of Ashkelon itself.
Not only could we see the missile alerts on our phones, we could hear the sirens because the Chof Ashkelon region begins about 4 km south from our house.
A minute or two later we heard two distinct explosions–both of which emanated from that 4 km range. We were not alone; residents all around us heard the same explosions. Hence the “imminent emergency warning” buzzer.
Several minutes after that, terrorists in Gaza “took credit” for the launches, and by 10:15 pm–a mere 13 minutes after the first alarms–our vaunted IDF spokesman took to the airwaves to tell us all that the IDF had been “unable to find” the missile impact points in Israel.
Therefore, we were told that the missiles had never really happened.
It was possible, the spokesman claimed, that 1 missile was fired from Gaza that exploded in Gaza before reaching the Israel border.
What a farce is played out daily here as the IDF turns backward somersaults to protect Hamas.
And who knows what missile “remains” will actually be found by local residents this morning?
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.