The “Left” Tries To Divide Israeli Society Again: “A herd of straw and cud-munching cattle.”

SPECIAL NOTICE:

5:00 am Israel time, Tuesday, June 16 2015

It has been some time since your humble servant has thanked my loyal readers from around the world, but it is important for you to know that you are part of a much larger family. Yesterday alone, visitors from more than 100 countries came to this blog to find out what is going on in Israel.

Here is a list of the first 77 countries from which people like you came to israelstreet yesterday:

Israel, United States, Canada, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Germany, China, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ukraine, France, Argentina, Croatia,  Egypt, Qatar, Australia, Senegal, Singapore, Russia, Malta, Serbia, Romania,  Chile, Vietnam, Pakistan, South Africa, Indonesia, Taiwan, Mexico, Denmark, Tunisia, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, India, Jordan, Norway, Iran, Finland, Belgium, Egypt, Korea, Dominican Republic, Portugal, Austria, Moldova, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Albania,  Poland, Japan, Ireland, Kuwait, Oman, New Zealand, Peru, Slovakia, Venezuela, Colombia, Estonia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Slovenia, Tunisia, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Algeria, Namibia, Lebanon, Philippines, and Macedonia.

Some of the above countries were especially well represented with more than 200 visitors from the United States and Canada, each.  However, other countries might surprise you. For example, there were more than 25 visitors from Germany, France, Romania, China, and the Ukraine.

Finally, your humble servant is particularly intrigued by visits from the Muslim countries:  Algeria, Malaysia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Jordan.

UPDATES

**A follow-up to the report of “truce” talks between Israel and Hamas first reported yesterday: it appears that the main part of the deal calls for Hamas to hold its fire for 5 years in return for the construction of a “floating seaport” off the coast of Gaza which would be under the control of Israel, Hamas, and another international party–and financed by Qatar.

If you think that this is a positive development, think again.

How many times has Hamas broken truces with Israel? Every time there has ever been a truce.

And the thought that Israel’s miserably incompetent IDF COGAT unit can stem the flow weapons into a seaport is absurd. COGAT cannot stem the flow of weapons into Gaza by land through Israel’s own Kerem Shalom and Erez Crossings.

**A follow-up to yesterday’s blog: last night, Israeli television released the unedited version of the videotape that all channels had played the night before.

The tape played two nights ago had been heavily edited by B’Tselem and purported to show how Israeli troops had mistreated a Palestinian man during a riot near Ramallah. The full videotape played last night corroborates exactly what appeared in this blog yesterday–that the man aggressively attacked the soldiers.

The full tape underscores again the amazingly poor decision by the IDF command to discipline the soldiers.

**Another piece of IDF insanity: yesterday in a gesture to the upcoming month of Ramadan (and to reward the Muslims for all of their violence in the area), the IDF indicated that 70 Palestinian stores on Hebron’s Sahla Street will be allowed to open for the first time since the year 2000.

For those of you unfamiliar with Hebron geography, Sahla Street is the street that Jews must traverse in order to make it from the Jewish Quarter to the Cave of the Patriarchs.

It was closed 15 years ago because the stabbings, shootings, and other violence directed at Hebron’s Jewish community from the stores along its route.

But wait . . . there’s more . . . to facilitate the movement of terrorists, the IDF is also going to open two roads south of the city.

Let’s see how long it takes for Jews to be attacked and murdered again in Hebron.

**Some good news: Pierre Kraehenbuehl, the United Nations Commissioner of UNRWA (the U.N. Relief and Works Agency) announced in Jordan yesterday that UNRWA faces its worst financial crisis since its founding 65 years ago.

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According to Kraehenbuehl, UNRWA is hundreds of millions dollars short in its budget for 2015–a shortfall that Kraehenbuehl says indicates the “growing denial of dignity and of rights of Palestine refugees, their increasing needs and increasing hopelessness.”

Can you even believe this blather? Hundreds of thousands dead in Syria, IS rampaging across the Middle East, and Kraehenbuehl is whining about the Palestinian “needs” and “hopelessness.”

What Kraehenbuehl is really whining about is that funds for UNRWA are just not that high a priority on the totem pole any longer. First and foremost, UNRWA needs money to perpetuate itself.

Of course if it were not for UNRWA, which does everything it can to perpetuate Palestinian victimhood even to the point of adding tens of thousands of more “Palestinian refugees” each year, the Palestinian “refugee” crisis would have been solved long ago.

Oh and Kraehenbuehl finished his comments by threatening that if the international community does not come up with the money, “a time bomb” will go off among the Palestinians.

TODAY’S BLOG:

It was a little more than three months ago (March 7) when Israeli artist Yair Garbuz turned around the Israeli election when he keynoted a rally for the Israeli “left” in Tel Aviv and slandered the Sephardic community in Israel as “corrupt and greedy” and as “amulet-kissers, idol-worshippers and people who prostrate themselves at the graves of saints.”

A week later that Sephardic community turned out in overwhelming numbers and voted for the “right”–and more specifically for Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu.

What rankled Sephardic voters was the sheer arrogance of the “Left”; not only were they incensed by Garbuz’s remarks, they were also incensed by the fact that it took days for Herzog and Livni to distance themselves from what Garbuz had said.

In short, the Israeli “Left” seemed to have hatred for the Sephardic base of Likud built into its DNA.

Indeed, the events of the last few days have reinforced that analysis.

Last Thursday night, an “emergency” meeting was called in Jaffa by the “artistic community” to protest against the so-called “anti-democratic” step that Naftali Bennett and Miri Regev took in shutting down government funding for a play in Haifa that glorified a terrorist who killed an Israeli soldier.

At that meeting, Israeli actor and director Oded Kotler took to the stage and said that voters on the Israeli “right” are like “a herd of straw and cud-munching cattle.”

For the most part, the crowd burst into applause (though there were a few who voiced dissent). 

Regev’s response to Kotler was swift. She called his remarks “ugly and patronizing” and expressive of “a cultural darkness.”

Indeed.

What your humble servant finds particularly appalling about the remarks of Garbuz and Kotler is that at a time when Israeli society has gotten past most of Ashkenazi/Sephardic divisions that once divided it, here comes the Israeli “left” to exacerbate those differences once again.