UPDATES
9:00 am Israel time, Monday, August 3 2015
**A tragic update:
Shira Banki, the 16-year-old girl who was stabbed in the head during last week’s Gay Pride March, has died of her wounds.
According to her parents, Banki had been at the march to support her friends and support the freedom of people to express themselves.
May her memory be blessed.
**A positive update:
Ahmad Dawabshah, the brother of the Palestinian child who died when his house burned, has begun to come out of his coma, and doctors feel that his situation has stabilized.
His mother and father remained anesthetized.
Let us pray that they recover.
**The morning Palestinian terrorist update:
“Rocks”, Molotov cocktails, arson–you name it, it happened yesterday.
47 separate Palestinian terror attacks were aimed at the Jewish residents of Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem between 8 am and midnight. Civilians and soldiers were wounded and forests and property damaged. There is currently a large-scale fire out of control in the Jerusalem area.
Where is the condemnation of these attacks? Where are Netanyahu, Rivlin, the U.S. State Department, the European Union, and the United Nations?
Nowhere to be seen. Jewish life is cheap.
By the way, this morning Hamas called for suicide attacks against Israelis.
**Another all-time record for electricity consumption:
Israelis used 12,420 megawatts of electricity at 2 pm yesterday. This eclipses the old record by some 500 megawatts. The searing heat has been accompanied by high humidity making for some barely bearable weather.
Nowhere more so than at the Dead Sea where temperatures are well over 40 degrees. There are reports this morning that patrons of the Dead Sea Crowne Plaza hotel are on the warpath because the the air-conditioning there has gone on the blink.
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TODAY’S BLOG:
If there is one thing that Israelis seem unified in believing, it is that the stabbing attack in the Gay Pride Parade and the arson murder attack in Duma were horrific atrocities.
Nevertheless, in regard to the Duma incident, there is a growing sense that there needs to be at least a semblance of proportionality–that the endless stream of attempted murders and murders committed by Palestinians must be recognized.
People wonder how we can live in a situation in which Palestinian murderers are released on the street to murder again and Jewish community members are the daily targets of would-be murderers.
President Reuven Rivlin, in particular, has ignited a storm of protest through his speeches and words. In a speech Saturday night, Rivlin made an obvious reference to the arson at Duma:
“Flames have engulfed our country. Flames of violence, flames of hatred, flames of false, distorted and twisted beliefs. Flames which permit bloodshed in the name of the Torah, in the name of the law, in the name of morality, in the name of a love for the land of Israel. ”
Yesterday, Rivlin had this to say on Facebook about Duma:
“More than feeling ashamed, I feel pain. Pain for the murder of a little baby. Pain that my people have chosen the path of terror and have lost their humanity.
At first glance, Rivlin states unequivocally that all the violence and all the hatred are emanating from the religious sector of Israeli society. But then he excoriates all Jews: “my people have chosen the path of terror and have lost their humanity.”
That kind of sentiment may wear well on the Israeli “Left” and in their supporters around the world, but it does not wear well on the Israel street–where, again, people have been appalled by the violence of the last few days.
And appalled that nothing is being done about Palestinian terror.
Adva Biton, the mother of 3-year-old Adele who died as a result of a Palestinian “rock” attack earlier this year, spoke eloquently about this yesterday. After commenting that she deeply respects President Rivlin, Adva said this:
“Daily we see incidents, many of them serious, in which Jews are attacked in Judea and Samaria. We never hear about these things in the media. I truly regret the [Duma] attack last week, obviously it was a terrible thing. But what about us? Here they are blaming all the religious Zionists for this murder, but I am the victim of a murder too . . . I too lost a child to hate. But dozens, if not hundreds, of others in Israel have lost children to terror. Let us hear from them too, and get past the ‘liberalism’ that currently exists in which only one side is condemned.”
Well said Adva.
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.