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UPDATES 6 pm Israel time:
–>Palestinian terror yesterday (Wednesday) . . .
. . . consisted of more than 25 separate attacks, including:
*arson–terrorists set fire to the forest between Shuafat and Pisgat Ze’ev.
*shooting–terrorists fired at Israeli security personnel at the Qalandiya checkpoint.
*pipebombs and IEDs–terrorists attacked Border Guards at Abu Dis.
*firebombs–terrorists attacked at Anatot and Shuafat.
*”rocks”–terrorists assaulted Israelis at Makel, Hizma, Abu Tor, El Azariyah, Route 431, Beit El, Hares, Mir, and Gush Etzion.
–>The leftist Israeli media is atwitter today . . .
. . . about the possibility of new elections on the horizon. Of course, it has been atwitter about that since the last election took place.
This time, the media hopes that a security cabinet spat between Naftali Bennett and Netanyahu will be the crack that brings the Coalition down. The reason for the spat was Bennett’s anger at the IDF withdrawing from Area A of Judea and Samaria and the fact that Netanyahu put it on the Cabinet agenda.
Netanyahu fired back that he was the one who sets the agenda and that if Bennett didn’t like it, he would fire him. The last time that such a fight occurred between Bennett and Netanyahu was in 2014 when the Cabinet refused to act about the Gaza tunnels.
–>Immediately after the Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu took off for . . .
. . . Moscow where he met with Russian President Putin. The subject of the meeting was the continuance of Israeli-Russian understandings concerning Syria (last week Israeli and Russian planes narrowly missed each other).
Also Netanyahu wanted to make the emphatic point that the Golan Heights belong to Israel. As Netanyahu pointed out: “Regarding the Golan Heights, we will not return to the days when they fired on our towns and our children from the peaks of the Golan.”
As you know, dear reader, all roads now lead to Moscow. Last week, one of the chief architects of terror against Israel, Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, was in Moscow talking with Putin about who knows what.
–>John Kerry arrives in Egypt . . .
. . . but there is no one there to greet him. In what can only be described as a diplomatic slap in the face, not one single Egyptian government official was at the airport to greet the American Secretary of State when he landed in Cairo today.
–>Barack Obama arrives in Saudi Arabia . . .
. . . but no high-level Saudi is there to greet him. In what can only be described as a diplomatic slap in the face, King Salman did not show up on the tarmac and instead sent the regional governor of Riyadh, Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz. What was even more, Saudi TV did not even cover Obama’s arrival.
–>In an interesting U.S. Supreme Court decision . . .
. . . the Court ruled yesterday that the Iranian central bank, Bank Markazi, must pay almost $2,000,000,000 to victims of Iranian terror. Some of those victims go as far back as the 1983 Iranian bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.
The decision ends a happy end to a case that has dragged on for years.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Your humble servant often writes of Judea and Samaria.
A map of ancient Israel. Note how the Northern Kingdom (in yellow) extended across the Jordan River and to the Mediterranean coast. Also note how the Kingdom of Judah extended north of Jerusalem.
The term “Judea” roughly denotes the territory of the ancient Kingdom of Judah–also known as the Southern Kingdom of Israel. More specifically, the term today refers to most of the area of the former Kingdom of Judah south of Jerusalem in what is fraudulently known as the “West Bank” including Har Hebron and Gush Etzion.
The term “Samaria” roughly denotes the territory of the ancient Kingdom of Israel–also known as the Northern Kingdom of Israel. More specifically, the term today refers to the area north of Jerusalem in what is fraudulently known as the “West Bank.”
Judea and Samaria today.
So, something interesting and exciting happened today.
For the first time, a new highway was opened that connects Judea and Samaria.
Officially called “a new section of the Begin Expressway”, the road extends from where Samarian Highway 443 enters Jerusalem at Ramot to Route 60 in Judea that runs from Gush Etzion to Hevron. The new section includes a 180 meter tunnel that runs underneath Beit Safafa.
Aside from the strategic impact of the new highway, it also unifies Jerusalem as never before–spanning the Israel’s eternal capital from north to south.
Kolakevod to the Israel Transportation Department for completing this highway!
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.