UPDATES:
5:00 am Israel time, Monday, June 15 2015
**In what can only be described as poetic justice, a 22-year-old Palestinian terrorist was killed yesterday in Kfar Malik when the IDF jeep at which he threw a Molotov cocktail turned over on top of him.
The overturned jeep. The Molotov cocktail hurled at the jeep caused the driver to lose control.
Fortunately no IDF soldiers were wounded in the attack.
**Another “missile” incident last night at 10:20 pm.: we were jolted here in our house in south Ashdod by a large “boom” which seemingly came from further south in the direction of Ashkelon. At the same moment, the Al-Jazeera reporter in the area communicated that “a large explosion” had just been heard in Ashkelon. Within minutes, Palestinian terrorists reported that they had indeed fired a missile which had exploded near Ashkelon.
There was no alarm and no mention of this attack by the IDF–which has apparently moved Iron Dome batteries out of our region again.
**There is every reason to believe that Israel and terrorist Hamas are in the process of negotiating a long-term truce. This news is coming amidst the Israeli belief that Mahmound Abbas and the PLO cannot exert control in Gaza, and that Hamas is losing control over its Palestinian state.
Apparently, the Egyptians have let Hamas leader Abu Marzouk exit Gaza in order to go to Qatar to discuss an arrangement proposed by Nikolay Mladinov, the Bulgarian who is now the United Nations envoy to the Middle East. Mladinov has “quietly” been in Gaza several times in recent weeks.
**In the latest in a series of surprising rulings in support of Jewish community members in Judea and Samaria, the Israel Supreme Court has rejected a petition filed by various self-professed “human rights” NGOs including Rabbis for Human Rights.
The petition would have turned over planning authority in Area C to the councils of various Palestinian settlements located there. The petition insisted on the change based on what it called “discrimination.” In rejecting the petition, Justices Rubenstein, Hendel, and Sohlberg found no evidence of any discrimination in the planning process.
This ruling is similar in content to one last month in which the Court ruled that the unrecognized Bedouin encampment of Umm al-Hiran could legally be evacuated by Civil Administration personnel.
**An interview with the founder of BDS, Omar Barghouti, was published yesterday in 972 magazine (click on the link for the entire interview). Barghouti’s comments are nothing new, but they do offer new insight into his utter hypocrocrisy and that of his BDS movement:
“Israel is also responsible for what even the US State Department called institutional discrimination, legal, and societal discrimination against the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Such a regime meets the UN definition of apartheid.”
[Isn’t it amazing that BDS is now working in explicit tandem with the U.S. State Department of Barack Obama and John Kerry to demean and delegitimize Israel? And isn’t it hypocritical that Barghouti himself is a shining example of the fact that there is no apartheid in Israel–after all he received a degree from Tel Aviv University and prefers to reside happily with his family in Akko.]
“But the most profound expression of Israeli injustice is the denial of the Palestinian refugees right of return. These refugees, displaced and dispossessed in 1948, comprise 68 percent of the Palestinian people.”
[This is why Barghouti has often said that even if Israel turned over every square millimeter of Judea and Samaria, and made Jerusalem the capital of “Palestine”, the BDS movement would continue until every refugee–or more accurately “descendant of a refugee”– is given a home in Israel. In other words, BDS will continue until Israel no longer exists.]
“Our struggle has never directed against Jews or Israelis as Jews but only against a criminal regime that enslaves our people. We are especially proud of the high percentage of Jewish activists who share the BDS movement, particularly in the United States.”
[Not directed against Jews? Read “Boykott, Divest, Sanctions: The Nazis Among Us”.
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And what is he especially proud of because it gives BDS “credibility and legitimacy”? Jewish activists in the U.S. that support BDS such as the vile J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, and others.]
TODAY’S BLOG:
The Israeli media has been obsessed in recent days with incidents of supposed IDF violence against Palestinians. Your humble servant uses the word “supposed” because most of these incidents have been manufactured by the hideous organization “B’Tselem”.
In one such incident yesterday, the IDF Kfir Infantry Brigade was called to the scene of a violent, large-scale anti-Israel demonstration that was taking place in Jalazoun just outside of Ramallah (read a previous israelstreet blog “The Farce at Jalazoun”).
During the riot–which went on for several hours–the soldiers were hit with a continuous bombardment of Molotov cocktails and large “rocks” as they were ordered not to use “live fire.” Instead of live fire, the soldiers were ordered to use tear gas to try to disperse the mob. Several soldiers were wounded; one soldier, a platoon commander, had his eye socket fractured.
As this scene of Molotov cocktails, “rocks”, and tear gas was taking place, a Palestinian man approached the soldiers.
The soldiers ordered him to stop.
He refused.
He then grabbed for the weapon of one of the soldiers.
At this point, a brief verbal altercation ensued during which one of the soldiers cursed the man. When the man continued his provocation, the soldiers arrested him after subduing him by pinning him to the ground.
All of this was caught on film by the real provocateurs—B’Tselem photographers who urge Palestinians to attack and provoke IDF soldiers in hopes of producing a violent Israeli response. The subsequent film released to the Israeli and international media–that have shown it repeatedly--only begins at the point at which the soldier verbally attacked the man. The context has been edited out.
As of late last night, the IDF succumbed as usual to political correctness and punished the four soldiers involved–however lightly. The IDF commander determined after watching the entire video that the decision to arrest the man was correct,. but that “the manner” of the arrest was contrary to the values of the IDF. Similarly, the commander found that the soldier who cursed the man behaved “below the expectation of conduct” for IDF soldiers.
As punishment, the leader of the platoon received a verbal rebuke; the soldier who cursed at the man is confined to base for 30 days; and the two soldiers who subdued the Palestinian were given suspended sentences of 28 days.
Can you even believe this? Here we have IDF soldiers in a war zone, in the middle of a battle with a mob which is attacking them with every weapon available, confronted by a possible terrorist who attempts to grab a soldier’s weapon, being punished for the way they talked to the potential terrorist and subdued him?
Unbelievable.
And we wonder why the situation is out of control in eastern Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria . . .
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.