“Our Son”: Elor Azaria

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January 3, 2017

Unreported Palestinian terror yesterday . . .

Numerous (25+) terrorist incidents occurred on Monday.

“Rocks” and Molotovs were hurled at Israeli security forces at such places as Immanuel, A-Ram, Fajar, Shuafat, Loban Asharqiya, Qalqilya, Bethany, El Be’er, and Biddu.

Palestinian terrorists attempted to cause Israeli motorists to crash at Neve Dvash, the T-Junction at Gush Etzion, the Al Khader junction, Hawara,  Nebi Elias, Nachliel, Psagot, Adorim, Beit Ummar, and other locations.

Once again, in what has become a daily occurrence, terrorists threw IEDs at IDF forces near Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem.

PM Netanyahu exonerated, again, again, again, and again

Attorney General Mandelblit astonishingly announced yesterday that four investigations of PM Netanyahu are being closed. These investigations were about:

claims that Netanyahu double-billed flights abroad

claims that Netanyahu received money for flights from foreign sources

claims that Netanyahu received benefits overseas

claims that Netanyahu received prohibited funding for his 2009 election campaign

Following years of being fraudulently dragged through the mud by the Israeli media, Netanyahu was understandably angry at that media, declaring on Facebook: 

“Years of daily persecution of me and my family resulted yesterday in absolutely nothing. Did any member of the media apologize for the thousands of headlines, articles and broadcasting hours of ‘investigative journalism’ which turned out to be phony?”

Will the persecution finally stop? Of course not. All the Israeli media knows how to do is to manufacture charge after charge against Benjamin and Sarah Netanyahu.
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TODAY’S BLOG

“Our Son”, Elor Azaria

The entire episode of the Hevron soldier, Elor Azaria, continues to be a sorry spectacle of egregious interference by those in the IDF chain of command. 

As you will recall, then-Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon attacked Azariya within hours of the incident last March in which Azaria, believing the terrorist was still a threat to detonate himself, shot the terrorist to death as he lay on the ground. That terrorist had already stabbed another IDF soldier and had been shot.

Ya’alon’s prejudicial statements were followed in short order by a parade of IDF personalities condemning Azaria. Foremost on the list was IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot.

There was no “innocent until proven guilty.” Instead, there was an immediate attempt by Eisenkot and others to find Azaria guilty in the media. That attempt has continued unabated for the last nine months.

And now, one day before a verdict is going to be delivered in the case, Eisenkot still cannot keep his mouth shut. 

Today he issued yet another implied condemnation of Azaria by attacking a fundamental cornerstone of Israeli culture. Here’s what Eisenkot had to say:

“An 18-year-old man who enlists in the IDF is a soldier, and is not ‘everyone’s son.’”

Eisenkot’s point is that if the IDF Military Court finds Azaria guilty tomorrow–which they probably will in large part because of IDF interference in the trial–the country should not feel sympathy for Azaria.

Of course, an 18-year-old who enlists is a soldier and as such is sworn to defend Israel and obey orders, but one thing that has always tightly bound Israeli culture is the idea is that every 18-year-old enlistee is everyone’s son or daughter. If something happens to that soldier such as being killed in battle, it is as if everyone has lost a child.

In your humble servant’s opinion, the Azaria trial has been a travesty from beginning to end. The way that the IDF has thrown our soldier under the bus and has ruthlessly tried to convict him is a dark stain on the IDF. No one is more guilty of interference than Gadi Eisenkot.