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Please note that the regular breaking news ticker in the right hand column is being replaced. In the meantime, breaking news updates will appear below as warranted.
BREAKING NEWS:
6:16 pm Thursday: 4 missiles explode in Israel–two in the Golan and two in the Galilee. No one wounded; explosions start fires. Source: Quneitra region of Syria.
5:37 pm Thursday: Incoming missile sirens for the upper Galilee region of northern Israel.
4:15 pm Thursday: Brawl erupts at Cave of Patriarchs when Palestinians insult a group of French tourists in French. Unbelievably, police arrest the French tourists.
2:33 pm Thursday: Iron Dome also deployed in Beersheva.
1:06 pm Thursday: All of southern Israel put on highest alert for missiles from Gaza. Iron Dome deployed here in Ashdod.
5:36 am Thursday: Israeli bus near Joseph’s Tomb attacked by Palestinian “rock” throwers.
10:34 pm Wednesday: IDF soldier “moderately” wounded in the face when Palestinians threw IED at IDF post near tunnel road at Beit Jala.
UPDATES
7:00 am Israel time, Thursday, August 20 2015
**The daily Palestinian terror report:
A number of Israelis have been wounded in the last 12 hours.
As noted above, an IDF soldier was wounded when an IED exploded near him at the Beit Jala Tunnel Road.
The scene of the IED attack last night (picture: walla).
According to the latest report from the trauma unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, “the soldier was wounded in the face by shrapnel and is in moderate condition, stable and conscious.”
Earlier in the evening around 8:30 pm, an Israeli infant (1 year and 10 months old) and her father were “moderately” wounded by “rocks” thrown at them by Palestinian terrorists at the Ofer Checkpoint in Binyamin.
Picture source: 0404.
The baby is currently at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem with glass fragments in her face.
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Just after 6:00 pm in the afternoon, a Border Guard had to be evacuated and hospitalized after being hit by a Molotov cocktail thrown by a Palestinian terrorist at Issawiya. He suffered burns to his face and hands.
Between 6:00 and midnight, there were terrorist “rock” attacks at Gilead Road, Mevo Dotan, the Shuafat neighborhood of Jerusalem, Beit El, Nabi Saleh, and Maale Adumim.
The wave of violence continues to spiral out of control.
**The saga of Matishayu continues. . .
As you all know by now, dear readers, the American Jewish singer Matishayu was disinvited from the Spanish reggae festival Rototem Sunsplash last week because he refused to declare support for a Palestinian state.
To its credit, the Spanish government led by its Foreign Ministry immediately condemned the festival organizers saying that it “rejects boycott campaigns and any sign of anti-Semitism.” It further noted that: “Imposing a public declaration on Matishayu puts into question the principle of non-discrimination on which all plural and diverse societies are based.”
Late yesterday, the festival organizers admitted they had succumbed to BDS pressure, reversed course, apologized, and reinvited the singer: “Rototom Sunsplash apologizes publicly to Matisyahu for cancelling his concert and announces that it has invited him to perform next Saturday, Aug. 22, at the festival as initially planned.”
Stay tuned to find out if Matisyahu decides to sing in Spain or not.
**The comedic saga of Islamic Jihad terrorist and hunger striker Muhammad Alan continues . . .
In a decision that has angered virtually everyone on the Israeli street, the Israel Supreme Court ordered yesterday that Alan be removed temporarily from administrative detention yesterday. Nevertheless, he has apparently been ordered to remain in the Ashkelon hospital where he resides.
The basis of the decision was an MRI which apparently shows that Alan is suffering brain damage from his self-imposed hunger strike. However, it is unknown whether the damage is permanent or reversible.
Your humble servant would suggest that Alan was brain damaged to begin with and has merely exacerbated his condition for political gain.
TODAY’S BLOG:
It was an all around bad for the Palestinians yesterday.
The UN announced that its doctors had confirmed that examinations of 200 Palestinians in the Yarmouk and Yalda neighborhoods showed that there are 6 cases of typhus. UNRWA warned that unless further aid reaches the neighborhood, more cases may break out.
Nevermind the thousands of cases of typhoid that have broken out all across Syria, the world needs to come to a stop because of the 6 Palestinians.
Lebanon announced that a boat carrying 40 Palestinian self-declared “refugees” enroute to Turkey capsized and that at least 9 Palestinian “migrants” drowned. It warned that unless Europe does something, more Palestinians may soon drown as well.
Nevermind that some 2,350 “migrants” from the Middle East and Africa have drowned trying to reach Europe in the last few months, the world needs to come to a stop because of the 9 Palestinians.
Egypt announced late last night that a bus in the Sinai carrying Palestinians from the Rafah Crossing to El Arish was stopped by gunmen, and 4 Palestinians were kidnapped.
Nevermind terrorists in the Sinai that have killed hundreds of people in all sorts of unseemly ways, 4 Palestinians were kidnapped; the world must do something.
Hamas in Gaza announced yesterday that the Palestinians were about to revolt in Gaza because of UNRWA funding cuts.
Nevermind that UNRWA is the only agency in the United Nations dedicated to one group of people, or that it forks out one billion dollars a year to “take care of the poor Palestinians”, now that there is a shortage of funds, the world must act immediately to stop a Palestinian revolt.
How did we ever get to the point where the world is obsessed with the Palestinians? Is it that the Palestinians are masters of propaganda and public relations? Is it that the Palestinians are an inherently infantile people unable to fend for themselves? Is it that the world feels so threatened by the prospect of Palestinian violence that it kowtows to their every demand?
Whatever the answer is, the situation is–to use your humble servant’s favorite word–pathetic.
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.