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Monday, August 22 2016
UPDATES 8 am Israel time:
…Palestinian terror yesterday unreported in the mainstream media…
Terrorists attempted to kill Israeli, men, women, and children with Molotov firebombs and “rocks” at Ofra, Azzun, the Samaria Junction, Makel, Umm Salmona, Bama’ir, all along Road 443, Gush Etzion, Beit Horon, Doha, Dahiyat al-Barid, Hevron, Ras al-Amud, Hevron Hills, Hizma, the Hussan Bypass Road and numerous other places.
More than 30 terror attacks were reported yesterday.
…Just when you thought our government was heading in the right direction…
It was reported by Arutz Sheva yesterday that documents recently submitted to the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission by the Israel Finance Ministry contained maps that do not include the Golan Heights as part of Israel.
Intentionally.
When contacted for an explanation, officials in the Ministry declared that Israel really did not annex the Golan Heights back in 1981–it merely extended Israeli legal jurisdiction over the area. Israeli sovereignty, one official said, is in dispute.
What actually happened was that in 1981 the Knesset passed the “Golan Heights Law” which applied which applied Israeli laws, jurisdiction and administration to the Golan Heights. The word “annexation” does not appear in the law, but a de facto annexation took place.
For an officer in this government to claim now, 35 years later, that the area of the Golan Heights “in dispute” is beyond the pale. The office in the Finance Department that created the map should be reprimanded, and the official issuing such pronouncements should be dismissed.
TODAY’S BLOG:
More terror came yesterday in the form of missile attacks from Gaza.
Note the plural “attacks.”
According to the IDF, the only attack came at 2:27 pm yesterday afternoon when a Qassam rocket exploded in a residential section of Sderot between two houses. However, residents of Sderot reported hearing at least 2 explosions.
And this does not even take into account what we heard here in Ashdod in the morning.
As I have written in previous blogs over the years, our home is in far-south Ashdod with nothing but sand dunes between us and the Mediterranean. Your humble servant goes to sleep every night looking at two gas well platforms directly out at sea. We are also just a couple of miles south of the port of Ashdod which is the busiest port in Israel.
I mention all of this because during the 2014 war tens of missiles were fired out of Gaza toward the platforms and toward the port. Many of them exploded on the sand dunes between our home and the beach, and many others exploded out in the sea between the beach and the gas platforms. We became very proficient in being able to discern missile impact explosions.
So yesterday morning, when we were jolted in our home by a concussive blast somewhere between our home and the gas platforms, we knew that a missile had exploded.
Nevertheless, other than the reporting of fellow residents of south Ashdod, no mention of this event was made on any media outlet.
But perhaps the IDF response to the missile fire from Gaza during the night and even this morning tells the tale. Normally, “one missile” from Gaza merits a one bomb response from the IDF–usually in the form of a bombed sand dune or bombed empty field.
However, there have been at least six reported waves of IAF aircraft over Gaza during the night–as well as tank fire. According to Palestinian reports, the tanks actually entered Gaza, but that remains unconfirmed. According to the IDF, targets included infrastructure (read “empty buildings”) belong to Hamas, IS in Gaza, and other terror groups.
Not that any of the waves of aircraft actually did anything other than create a good show. Hamas posted these pictures this morning of the “devastation and injuries”.
First, the devastation:
The toilet that was smashed in the bombing. Of course, one wonders how the toilet got smashed, but everything else in the bathroom was unscathed by the bombing.
And now for the wounded:
The teenager on the left apparently has a wounded foot; the one on the right is suffering from some undefined malady. If this picture does not look staged to you, nothing ever will.
This morning we still have aircraft overhead, but the situation seems to have gone back to “normal”–whatever that is in this part of Israel.
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