7 Cheshvan 5776
Tuesday, October 20 2015
UPDATE 10:00 pm
9:45 pm: 20 minutes ago, two Palestinians tried to stab soldiers near Hebron. The terrorists were shot; their condition is unknown. Two hours ago, a Border Guard was wounded near Rachel’s Tomb when he was badly burned by a Molotov.
In the 9 hours since the last update, the Israeli motorist struck at 12:45 pm has died. At around 2 pm this afternoon, another Palestinian terrorist rammed into a bus stop in Gush Etzion but could not get through the concrete barriers put there since the last attack. He then jumped out of his car and ran toward those at the bus stop with a drawn knife and wounded a 20-year-old IDF soldier and 21-year-old civilian before he was shot and killed.
UPDATE 1:00 pm
12:45 pm: Israeli motorist assaulted with “rocks” thrown by Palestinian terrorists near Hebron forced to stop his car after windshield and windows smashed whereupon he is run over by hit and run Palestinian terrorist. Victim in “critical condition”–terrorists escape.
UPDATE 11:05 am
11:02 am: IDF soldier stabbed in the face by Palestinian terrorist in the Hebron Hills area outside of Beit Awwa near Hebron. Soldier is in “moderate condition” according to MADA. Terrorist shot and killed.
UPDATES 9:00 am
***Palestinian terrorists continued to run rampant yesterday:
There were multiple attempts to kill Jews with gunfire: at Psagot (9:42 pm and 9:26 pm).
There were multiple attempts to burn Jews alive with Molotovs: five were thrown at Hebron’s Avraham Avinu neighborhood (11:17 pm) setting the roof of a house on fire.
There were multiple to kill and wound Jews with “rocks”: at motorists in the Cedar Tunnel in Jerusalem (5:26 pm)–a number of Israelis wounded; on Route 60 (7:25 pm), at Kiryat Arba (5:14 pm); at a bus at Hamivtar (5:10 pm), at Beit Hadassah in Hebron (3:16 pm); at Hawara (8:32 am).
There were multiple riots targeting Israeli security personnel: at Abu Dis (7:07 pm), Bethelem (5:23 pm); Hebron (5:13 pm), Tulkarm (12:55 pm), Issawiya (12:15 pm), and at Joseph’s Tomb (4:40 am).
There was an attempt to kill Israeli men, women, and children with a missile fired from Gaza (1:40 am).
There were no stabbings yesterday, but a terrorist was captured with a knife at the Qalandiya checkpoint (10:30 am).
***Meanwhile, the campaign of Palestinian incitement and disinformation has moved into an even higher gear.
Yesterday, PLO internet sites were awash with these photographs which purport to show that a Palestinian woman was in the act of surrendering (with her hands up) before she was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in Hebron.
Take a look at the pictures, and tell your humble servant what you see:
What do you notice?
Obviously, the pictures were not taken at the same location nor were they of the same woman. In the top picture a woman has raised her hands at a checkpoint–and was not shot. In the lower picture, in Hebron, the woman tried to stab a Border Guard who shot and killed her.
***Talking out of both sides of his mouth . . .
PM Netanyahu has been leading the charge to destroy the homes of terrorists–though none belonging to terrorists who have committed murders and stabbings in the last month have been destroyed.
This morning we have the news that Netanyahu has personally intervened to stop the demolition of a large building in Beit Hanina–that was approved for demolition by the Israel Supreme Court ten years ago.
The order from Netanyahu’s office halting the demolition reads: “Because of the security tension, you do not have authorization to demolish this building.”
Do you smell the “status quo” rat?
***Speaking of rats . . .
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will be arriving in Israel on Thursday for a surprise visit. However, he wasted no time yesterday declaring in advance that he “understands the frustration of the Palestinians.”
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is now focusing his attention of working out a new set of understandings between Israel and Jordan on the Temple Mount. You can be sure that whatever Kerry works out will be deleterious to Israel and supportive of the Palestinians.
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***Speaking of the Temple Mount . . .
There were two fascinating reports yesterday from Arab sources. One report was that Israel has offered to let PLO police take over “policing on the Mount”, and the other is that Jordan offered that the “status quo” on the Mount revert back to how it was before the second intifada began in 2000.
Just the idea of the PLO running the Mount is violently abhorrent, but the idea that Jordan might go back to a time when Jews had far more rights on the Mount is intriguing (and doubtful).
***What is going on in Syria?
By all accounts, the Syrian Sunni rebels and Islamic State have been taking a pummeling from Russian aircraft. Assad’s forces have advanced in a number of places.
However, at the same time, the Iranian military leadership has taken some significant losses in the last week. This morning it was announced that the head of Iranian forces in Syria, General Nader Hamid (also spelled “Hamdi”) was killed in battle. This follows news that Farsad Hsonizadeh, the commander of Iranian special forces, was killed shortly after his arrival in Syria.
Nader Hamid, by the way, was General Qasem Suleimani’s right hand man in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
***The airline shake-up and dissembling continues:
SAS, Scandinavian Airlines, announced yesterday that it is now stopping flights from Copenhagen to Tel Aviv due to “political instability” (read “a boycott of Israel”). Formerly operating between 2 and 4 weekly flights, SAS joins the ranks of American Airlines which announced last week that it is no longer flying to Israel. American claimed that there was just “not enough business.”
On the other hand, Delta Airlines announced last week that it is vastly increasing the number of its flights from New York to Tel Aviv because of “heavy demand”, and El Al is adding non-stop flights from San Francisco to Ben Gurion Airport because of the large number of high-tech employees flying back and forth from the Bay Area to Israel.
***israelstreet bids a fond adieu to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper . . .
His government has been one of the most steadfast supporters of Israel during his term in office, and will be sorely missed.
Let’s only hope that the Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party proves to be just as good a friend.
TODAY’S BLOG
The Yemenite Synagogue in Silwan is reconstituted (picture: kolyehud).
Amidst all of the decidedly bad news emanating from Israel yesterday, there was some decidedly good news as well.
Last night, in eastern Jerusalem, the Yemenite synagogue that was built in Silwan 131 years ago was reclaimed and held its first services in more than 80 years.
The synagogue was part of the Kfar HaShiloach Yemenite compound that was built in the early 1880s when Yemenite Jews first came to Jerusalem.
The original Yemenite community.
The community thrived until the late 1920s and 1930s when Arab pogroms against Jews resulted in the British Army forcibly evacuating the people who lived there. The British promised that the Yemenites would recover their land, homes, and synagogue when the violence abated. The British never kept their promise.
Following 1948, Jordan encouraged Arab squatters to take over the compound and so they did–remaining there for more than half a century.
After 1967, the Yemenites through intermediaries began to buy back their own property and seek restitution through the Israel Supreme Court.
Last night, the Abu Nab Arab family that was ordered out of the synagogue building decades ago was finally evicted by Israeli security forces.
There is no other way to describe this than as a wonderful and joyous event. Bravo to the Yemenites and their supporters who have tenaciously waged the long fight to recover what is theirs in the land of 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.