4 Cheshvan
November 5, 2016
Palestinian terror
This has been another week in which there was an average of more than 30 Palestinian terror attacks per day. In the 5 days from last Friday until Tuesday, there were bulldozer attacks, stabbing attacks, shooting attacks, arson attacks, IED attacks, “rock” attacks, and Molotov firebomb attacks.
Remarkably, in the some 150 terror attacks recorded, “only” 10 Israelis were wounded. Some of these ten remain hospitalized, but most have been released. The fact that there were only ten is a testament to the alertness and professionalism of our security personnel.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Mahmoud Abbas and His Cement Factory
Your humble servant always finds it amusing to hear so-called “human rights” organizations harshly criticize Israel for “contaminating” Judea and Samaria with pollution.
Amusing, because for centuries Arabs have destroyed the land with sheep overgrazing, disregard for sewage, and trash dumped in all directions. It is a destruction that has only intensified with the Palestinian administration of Areas A and B.
All one has to do is stand on the top of Mt. Scopus near the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and look out toward the Dead Sea. What you will see is “green land” that suddenly turns into barren land at the precise border of Israeli Area C.
One reason that the destruction of the environment has intensified is that the PLO cares nothing about the land and only uses it to feather its own pockets with every conceivable type of environmentally unfriendly business.
Such is the case at the moment. It has just come to light that PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and one of his PLO cronies Dawood Wazir intend to build a huge new cement factory over a 3,500 hectare area (more than 8600 acres) in Area B near the Dead Sea, a 3,500 hectare area which was supposed to have been a nature reserve according to the Oslo Accords. The area is close to Mitzpe Shalem which in turn is just up the road from famed Ein Gedi.
What will be the environmental impact of the cement factory?
Concrete dust will make it difficult to breathe thereby increasing the rate of asthma among Palestinian and Israeli children in the area; the dust will also destroy the grazing lands of Bedouins in the area; irreversible damage will be done to creek and river beds not to mention the Dead Sea itself which will likely turn gray in that area because of effluent.
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All in all, the cement factory will be a health and ecological nightmare.
On Wednesday, a delegation of PLO senior officials, accompanied by dozens of Palestinian “police”, visited the area only to be met by more than one thousand Bedouins who chased them away with rocks and sticks.
The Bedouins are now appealing to the Israeli and Jordanian governments to stop the planned construction, but it may be a case of too little too late. Anything likely to enrich Mahmoud Abbas is likely to go forward.
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.