Kislev 8, 5777
December 8, 2016
The Farce At Amona Becomes Ever More Chaotic
17 days to go.
Way back on August 3rd, your humble servant blogged about the fact that we would see a parade of Palestinians coming out of the woodwork to claim “absentee property” at the Amona site.
And so they did.
32 suddenly popped up to claim 35 of the absentee plots. Well, not exactly “popped up.” They popped up after being “discovered” by left-wing organizations trying to get rid of the Amona community.
In any case, the temporary settlement proposed by the government was to move all of the 40 families (about 250 people) to the three remaining plots.
Until yesterday.
Guess what?
Two more Palestinians have been dredged up to make claims on two of the three remaining plots.
What a surprise.
Where will the Amona residents be “evacuated” to now?
The Proposed Regulation Law Passes Its First Reading
The Regulation Law inspired by the events at Amona passed its second of four hurdles last night by passing its first reading in the Knesset by a vote of 58-51.
This occasioned the following comments of Naftali Bennett, the chief sponsor of the legislation:
“For the first time, the sovereign state of Israel states that half a million people who live in Judea and Samaria are not guests, not occupiers. The inhabitants of Judea and Samaria are residents . . . It is an historic day of great pride. A day when half a million residents of Judea and Samaria, and all the citizens of Israel can raise our heads. You could call this law the Law of the beginning . . . the next step is to apply the sovereignty of the State of Israel to the community of Ma’ale Adumim.”
I sincerely hope that Bennett is correct; however whether it is a victory will depend on the Israel Supreme Court deciding whether the Law is legal or not (assuming it passes the next two readings).
Speaking of the Supreme Court, A Shocking Ruling Yesterday
In response to a petition brought by a lawyer representing two Jewish teenagers who were detained by the police and forbidden entry to the Temple Mount, the High Court ruled that police restraining orders prohibiting Jews from ascending the Mount are illegal.
That is worth repeating.
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After hundreds of restraining orders issued by the Israel Police against Jewish worshipers to the Temple Mount and subsequent detentions of those worshipers, the Court has ruled that such restraining orders and detentions are patently illegal.
Only one word.
Wow.
What is more, in the case yesterday, the Court ordered the Police to pay each of the two petitioners 5000 shekels.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Trouble at Nahal Oz: Yet Another Hamas Tunnel
You, dear reader, may have seen in your news that two more “poor Palestinians” were killed in a “resistance tunnel” yesterday in a “work-related” accident. And undoubtedly, you immediately understood that the two dead Palestinians were Hamas terrorists.
What you probably did not read was the news that was suppressed by the Israel government, namely that the tunnel that collapsed was yet another tunnel leading from the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza to the Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz.
Lest we forget, it was just over two years ago in 2014 that tunnels were discovered leading from Shuja’iyya to Nahal Oz, including one tunnel that actually opened under a kindergarten there.
You might also remember that when the war ended, then IDF Chief of Staff Benny “smell the anemones” Gantz told the residents of Nahal Oz who had fled the tunnels and the incessant missile and mortar fire that they should feel safe to return because the tunnel threat had been taken care of.
Hamas, we were assured, would not try to build more tunnels into Israel any time soon.
Some of us knew those assurances to be untrue then, and obviously they are still so today.
By the way, this morning at 5:04 am, we were rousted from our sleep here in Ashdod by two distinctive “swoosh-booms” of Iron Dome fire down in the direction of Gaza. These came after we heard numerous booms in the same area yesterday.
Are missiles being fired and intercepted? There are no reports thus far today.
But at 6:40 am this morning, there was a major shooting incident at Nahal Oz which was undoubtedly connected to the tunnel collapse. No Israelis were wounded.
What is the bottom line of this blog today?
With the IAF hitting Hezbollah convoys in Syria and Lebanon and IS firing at IDF troops on the Golan, it is easy for some to forget about our border with the Palestinian terror state of Gaza. But the people of southern Israel live with the threat from Gaza everyday.
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.