6 Sivan 5778
20 May 2018
Happy Shavuot!
The holiday began at sundown yesterday.
From the official government website:
On Shavuot, we celebrate that God gave us the Torah at Mt. Sinai, and we celebrate the grain harvest which gives us food.
Speaking of food, we focus on dairy products, especially cheesecake, cheese blintzes, cheese kreplach, cheese sambusak, cheese ravioli (kelsonnes), cheese filled pancakes (atayef) and a myriad of other cheese delights!
And we like to eat these goodies outside: according to Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority, more than 200,000 Israelis have visited national parks today.
The News on the Israeli Street
More Molotov kites from Gaza . . .
Palestinian terrorists have set more fires today at Yad Mordechai and Nahal Oz.
And what is the response to Gazan Palestinian violence from Israel?
The IDF and the IDF commander of COGAT are actually proposing this morning that restrictions on Gaza be lifted. They now want to let tens of thousands of Gazans into Israel.
Your humble servant is without words.
And as for Judea and Samaria? The IDF and COGAT permitted 40,000 Muslims from Areas A and B to go worship at the Al-Aksa Mosque on the Temple Mount yesterday.
Your humble servant is, again, without words.
The slow trickle of countries moving their embassies to Jerusalem continues . . .
The President of Paraguay lands in Israel tomorrow to move his country’s embassy. This follow news that Honduras, Guatemala, and Moldova are also moving.
One shouldn’t underestimate the courage it takes for leaders of countries to make the move.
When the leader of Romania, PM Vasilica Dăncilă, announced plans to move the Romanian embassy the other day, the opposition immediately called for a vote to throw out her government.
This morning, the city of Rabat, Morocco announced it was severing its impending sister city relationship with Guatemala City because of the Guatemalan embassy move to Jerusalem.
The meglomaniac anti-Semite Erdogan lands in Bosnia . . .
Note “Taycip Erdogan” on the red bandanas the women are wearing and Erdogan’s picture on the placards in the background.
As we all know by now, Turkish PM Erdogan is intent on reconstructing the long dead Ottoman Empire. As part of his plan, ethnic Turks living outside of Turkey (there are about 3.5 million in Europe alone) are able to vote in Turkish elections.
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As you may not know, Bosnia and most of the Balkans were ruled by the Ottomans from the 1500s to 1878, and there is still a sizeable number of ethnic Turks in Bosnia. Erdogan has tried to cement his relationship with Bosnian Turks by providing financial support following the horrific war with Serbia–and by marrying off one of his daughters to a leading “Turkish-Bosnian.”
In any case, Erdogan was cheered as he arrived in Sarajevo today.
Coinciding with Erdogan’s visit, Turkish army Chief of Staff Halusi Akar was out on a new Turkish battleship in the Mediterranean this morning where he warned Greece not to make “mistaken calculations” concerning “disputed” Aegean Sea islands:
“We can carry out operations in the east and south-east, and if necessary, we will fulfill every duty we are given in the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea without hesitation, no one should make any mistake on this issue.”
TODAY’S BLOG
“The Bodies of Our Wives and Children”:
The Continuing Palestinian Celebration Of Death
While we Israelis celebrate Shavuot, Hamas continues to celebrate death.
Once again in an interview with Al-Jazeera, Gaza Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar proclaimed to the world that Hamas terrorists were the ones who led the attack on the Israeli border last week: “Our men took off their uniforms and joined the demonstrators.”
And once again, he proclaimed to the world that these same Hamas terrorists used women and children as human shields: “We decided to turn the bodies of our wives and children into a dam that blocked Arab collapse [preventing] many Arabs from rushing toward the normalization of relations with the robber entity that occupies our Jerusalem.”
So there you have it yet again. The terrorists killed were “Hamas men”; the shields the terrorists used were their “wives and children.”
Could it be any clearer? But nobody in the world is listening as the world rushes to condemn us for protecting ourselves.
And if Sinwar’s declaration is not enough, pages posted by Hamas on social media exhorted those coming to the border to bring “a knife, dagger or pistol . . . [and try to capture] soldiers or the settlers. Give [the kidnapped person] to us immediately because this is the point Israel is afraid of because it knows that the kidnapper can set any conditions he wants.”
Again, could it be any clearer? Peaceful, unarmed demonstrators? Of course not.
What should you remember from Sinwar’s rant?
The Palestinian celebration of death.
The bodies of our wives and children.
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.