BREAKING NEWS:
4:03 am Friday: Palestinian terrorists assault Israeli motorists on Route 443 near the Ofer Checkpoint. Four wounded including an infant.
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.
UPDATES
9:00 am Israel time, Friday, August 21 2015
**The daily Palestinian terror report:
Terrorists threw “rocks” at the Jerusalem Light Rail in the Shuafat neighborhood (9:01 am), at Jewish motorists at Othniel (9:17 am), at policemen on the Temple Mount (10:00 am), at the Mt. Scopus tunnel (2:56), on the road to the Mt. of Olives (4:12 pm), at the Mt. of Olives cemetery (6:30 pm).
These were six of an estimated 25 Palestinian terror attacks yesterday.
**Shades of the Temple Mount . . .
Just as Jews are verbally assaulted by Muslims on the Mount and are then unbelievably arrested for provocation and incitement, so were two French Jewish tourists arrested yesterday in Hebron near the Cave of the Patriarchs.
The tourists were walking down the street toward the Cave, past the Arab vendor stalls that now line the street again, when several Palestinian men insulted them in French. When they turned to confront the men, a fight ensued. When the police arrived, they incredibly hauled away the French tourists.
What kind of message, your humble servant asks, does the Israeli police action send to the Palestinian provocateurs? Or to the French tourists?
**On the infiltration front . . .
According to Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, there are now about 45,000 illegal migrants in the country (33,000 from Eritrea, 8500 from the Sudan, 3000 from other African countries, and 500 from non-African countries).
Many of these are working in south Tel Aviv and in Eilat (especially in the hotel and construction industries); some live in ramshackle conditions and stand on street corners every morning to get part-time work from contractors, and still others are in detention camps.
As you know, Israel has been making a serious attempt through the offering of financial incentives to repatriate many of these migrants back to their own countries or to other countries. This attempt has met with limited success. Thus far 8355 Eritreans and Sudanese have left Israel. Unfortunately, the number who have left this year has plummeted by more than 50% from those who left last year.
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TODAY’S BLOG:
There is a flood of information about the missile attacks on the Israeli north yesterday afternoon, and about the Israeli counterattacks which are apparently still taking place.
Here are the basic facts:
1. Incoming missile sirens sounded at 5:36 pm for northern Israel–from what is called the Galilee panhandle to the Golan Heights.
2. Five “high trajectory” missiles were fired from an area around Quneitra that is supposedly under Syrian Army control and in which a number of Iranian terror groups supportive of Assad operate freely.
3. Two of the missiles hit the upper Galilee, two of them hit the Golan, and 1 of them exploded on the Syrian side of the border.
4. No Israelis were wounded, and no buildings were hit; however, the missiles exploded very close to various kibbutzes and started several grass fires.
A firefighter trying to put out a “missile-explosion fire” on the Golan late yesterday afternoon.
5. Within hours, Israel attacked, and according to the IDF spokesman struck 14 targets in Syria with bombs, artillery, and electro-optical Tammuz missiles. The artillery fire is continuing this morning.
6. According to Syrian reports this morning–all unconfirmed–30 militants (Syrians, Iranians, Hezbollah-affiliated?) were killed in an air raid that wiped out a heavy artillery battalion and 20 more in an attack on a regimental headquarters.
7. A senior Syrian official declared this morning that the ceasefire that has existed between Syria and Israel since 1973 is over: “Israel has declared war on us.”
The first two theories put forward yesterday were that the missiles were the work of the regular Syrian Army or an Islamic Jihad group in the area.
However, as information has developed, senior IDF officials are now saying that the missiles are the work of Saeed Aizdi, the commander of “The Palestinian Al Quds Corps of Iran.”
The Syrian Army, Islamic Jihad, and The Palestinian Al Quds Corps of Iran” are all funded, equipped, trained, and led by Iran.
What happened yesterday was the opening salvo of Iran’s war on Israel along the Golan Heights.
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