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11:00 am Israel time, Saturday, September 12 2015
**The weekly Palestinian terror report . . .
From last Sunday until yesterday, there were at least 93 Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis. Your humble servant writes “at least” because not all terror attacks are reported–especially many of those taking place out in Judea and Samaria.
Of the 93 reported incidents, there 7 shooting attacks, 5 IED attacks, numerous “rock” attacks, numerous “Molotov cocktail” attacks, and 6 arson attacks.
Remarkably, fewer than ten Israelis were wounded amidst all of this violence. Aside from soldiers who were wounded in riots, a resident of Elon Moreh was shot, and a bus driver had to be hospitalized after his windshield was shattered by bullets.
**Following the absurd events in Nabi Saleh . . .
. . . in which a Golani soldier was assaulted by the Pallywood Tamimi family, there will be a rally next Thursday in Paris Square in Jerusalem to demand that our forces be allowed to respond forcefully to terrorists who attack them.
Your humble servant will be there.
**You’ll never guess where the Germans are now beginning to house incoming “refugees” . . .
However, if you said “Buchenwald”, you would be correct.
Jewish corpses at Buchenwald beside one of the very buildings now being used by the German government to house incoming “refugees”.
Buchenwald, the same concentration camp in which between 54,000 and 75,000 inmates (mostly Jews) died, still has many buildings standing.
Christian Nursing, the Berlin group in charge of housing refugees had this to say: “This is an emergency solution, but it’s inevitable. There is room . . . in the camp.”
It’s “inevitable”? There’s “room in the camp”?
Where is German sensitivity for the people who died in those buildings? Where is common human decency for the families of the dead?
**Lunacy on the roads here . . .
Israelstreet has often reported on the insane situation on the roads of Israel. Drivers break every law on the books in an attempt to get to a destination five minutes faster than the next person.
No day goes by without a person getting killed on the road.
So far this year 251 Israelis have died in automobile accidents–a 20% increase in the number of car accident deaths over those of last year.
TODAY’S BLOG:
On the eve of Rosh Hashana, Yossi Sarid, noted Israeli leftist and regular writer for Israel’s extreme left wing Haaretz newspaper, has written an opinion piece entitled “My Love for Israel Has Been Taken by Shame”.
Today’s blog is the first of two parts: today, we will have a brief response to Sarid’s rant. Tomorrow’s blog will be entitled “My Love for Israel is Stronger Than Ever.”
But let’s begin with narcissistic, post-Zionist, Sarid toxic diatribe in which he shouts to the world “I am ashamed” of Israel.
Sarid begins with this paragraph:
“I love you no longer, my homeland. This is no longer ‘my country.’ As far as I’m concerned, you can scream or be silent – do whatever you want, unbeloved land. The place of love has been taken by shame. I am ashamed, which means I still care, it still hurts, but less. See how you look, our little country, our petty country.”
[This has been the tone of all leftists since Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni lost the election back in March of this year. They simply could not and cannot understand how they could have lost. They wondered and wonder how their leftist goal of singing kumbaya with Palestinian terrorists has not been embraced by all Israelis.
What was and is striking about the tone of Sarid and his cohorts, the same tone you see in his first paragraph, is the sheer bitterness that has infused them all: “I love you no longer”, “unbeloved land”, “taken by shame”, “our petty country.”]
What is Sarid ashamed of? Here are a few of his “shames”:
“I am ashamed of a country that regards every rag as a flag. That is prepared to die for its symbols yet is not prepared to give its soul for its values . . .”
[What are we now treated to on a daily basis by the “left”? The Israeli flag should be changed, the national anthem Hatikvah should be changed–every symbol of Jewishness in the state of Israel must be eradicated; no Jewish-Israeli value is worth maintaining.
Never mind that 67 Israeli soldiers died in the war with Hamas last summer defending our country and our flag and all that they represent. Sarid and his colleagues just cannot grasp this level of commitment–that our soldiers are prepared to give their lives, their souls, for the values of this country.]
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“I am ashamed of a country that sends its soldiers to capture a child, to beat a girl. I, too, as a father, would bite your hand.”
[This of course is a reference to the incident at Nabi Saleh two weeks ago which will be addressed in greater detail tomorrow. Suffice it to say that no soldiers were sent to capture a child or to beat a girl. Sarid would bite the hand of anyone defending this country.]
“I am ashamed of a country whose blood shouts from the village of Duma and whose spillers of blood go free in Jerusalem . . .”
[Read yesterday’s blog. It is completely unclear what happened at Duma. No one has been arrested, and no one has been charged with anything. And what “spiller of blood” has gone free in Jerusalem?]
“I am ashamed of a country that persecutes its teachers and silences its broadcasters, that exiles its artists domestically . . .”
[This refers to the Hillel Shubert situation in which parents at a school refuse to let their children attend classes taught by a person who spends his life attacking Israel. Silences it broadcasters? Turn on any channel on Israel TV at any time to day. All you hear is criticism of this country. Exiles its artists domestically? Sarid thinks that all artistic events–no matter how delegitimizing to the state of Israel should be suicidally funded by the state of Israel.]
“And more than anything else I am ashamed now – on the eve of the New Year and before Yom Kippur – because of its locked gates when refugees from all over the world are begging for a gate to open. . . Even for the few who are sick, Israel cannot find place.”
[What a joke. We now have more than 55,000 African refugees in the country. We now have more than 85,000 illegal Palestinians in the country. We treat the wounded refugees from the Syrian war; we treat the sick from Gaza–even the family members of Hamas].
“’We don’t want a population that changes us, our national and religious character,’ the prime minister of Hungary said. Those are the words of a fascist, that is also the spirit of the words of the prime minister of Israel. The chancellor, Angela Merkel, announced that Germany would not limit the number of refugees to enter. ‘The right to political asylum has no limits on the number of asylum seekers,’ she said. Suddenly they sound like Jews, and we sound like Germans.”
[So now we come to Sarid’s main point: Israelis “sound like Germans”.
In other words, Israelis are like Nazis.
Where have you heard that before?
Yossi Sarid’s Rosh Hashana message–the same message proclaimed daily by Israel-haters everywhere.
From BDS and the people around the globe who have made a profession of attacking Israel. If Sarid is not undermining and delegitimizing Israel, then no one is.
And in what kind of world, is it fascist for a country–especially the only Jewish country in the world–to want to hold onto its national and religious character?]
Tomorrow, part 2: Why Your Humble Servant Loves Israel.
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.