UPDATES
6:00 am Israel time, Thursday, July 9 2015
[Please note that your humble servant is participating in a conference in Jerusalem and will not be publishing a “Today’s Blog” today]
**Israeli “security forces” attack in the middle of the night:
With violence running rampant in Judea and Samaria, it is particularly discomforting to see that our “security” forces arrived at a fledgling Jewish community this morning at 2 am in order to dismantle it.
In the time since the murder of Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld, more than 200 Jews had peacefully set up buildings at the site of his murder. Those buildings were hauled away on a flatbed truck and the 200 community members were ordered to evacuate the area.
What a pathetic use of our “security forces”.
**Another Hezbollah list of the dead:
The lists of dead in Syria continue being published in Iran and Lebanon on an almost daily basis. Yesterday was Hezbollah’s turn, and its list was revealing. A number of pictures of the dead caught your humble servant’s eye such as this one:
If this Hezbollah soldier looks young, it is because he was. According to the Hezbollah list he was 15–as were a number of others on the list.
Your humble servant mentions this not to show sympathy toward teenaged Hezbollah militants who get killed but to suggest that Hezbollah manpower reserves are dropping rapidly, and Nasrallah is being forced to recruit younger and younger soldiers.
**More bombing last night along the Gaza border:
We were awakened here in Ashdod again last night around 3 am by intensive bombing. There is no real way to know exactly where the explosions are coming from except to say that they are to the south and must be the work of the Egyptian air force.
According to the Egyptian Army yesterday, 243 IS militants have now been killed since the current Egyptian Sinai campaign began.
**Amnesty International reverts to what we always knew it was:
There have been times in recent years when Amnesty International has shown at least a semblance of objectivity and neutrality. Following years of harshly castigating Israel in every conceivable venue, the organization began to release the occasional report that was critical of Hamas or the PLO.
Those days of a semblance of neutrality are over.
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Yesterday, Amnesty International opened a new initiative with the express purpose of exposing alleged Israeli “war crimes.” The organization has apparently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce a slick website concerning last summer’s war with Hamas. The interactive website allows you to trace those “war crimes” step by step.
This reversion to the days of old is not surprising given the egregiously anti-Israel stance of Amnesty International’s Middle East director, Philip Luther.
**The number of orthodox Jewish women in the IDF is growing:
In what must be described as surprising statistics, Gen. Rachel Tevet-Wiesel, Women’s Affairs Advisor to the IDF Chief of Staff, revealed yesterday that the number of orthodox women serving has been steadily increasing:
2010: 935 women
2011: 1062 women
2012: 1503 women
2014 (no figure was given for 2013): more than 1800 women
Even Israel’s vaunted 8200 intelligence corps now has a group of orthodox women soldiers. And we all found out last month that one of the newest navigators in the Israel Air Force is an orthodox woman.
**Will he or won’t he?
The political buzz around Jerusalem yesterday was that Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, may be on the verge of joining the coalition government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Were this to happen, the government would increase to 67 members from its current 61.
Whether this will happen is anyone’s guess. Lieberman has been especially critical of Netanyahu in recent months, and it is difficult to see him join forces with the prime minister.
But one never knows in politics.
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.