24 Cheshvan 5779
2 November 2018
Video of the Day:
A video (courtesy Joseph Truzman) posted yesterday of a Palestinian terrorist preparing explosives to be thrown at our IDF soldiers along the border today. The Arabic at the beginning of the video is translated by Truzman in his tweet below (“Sons of Zawari Unit . . .):
Palestinian border unit sends a message to #Israel on the day of March of Return. Explosives being prepped for use at the border.
“Sons of Zawari Unit – Preparing the equipment and readying surprises for the Zionists. It’s what you see not what you hear.” #Gaza #Israel pic.twitter.com/3p8VBGYlgn
— Joe Truzman (@Jtruzmah) November 2, 2018
The News on the Israel Street
Palestinian terror in Judea and Samaria . . .
Palestinian arsonists set fires at the Kashuela Farm in Gush Etzion.
Palestinian terrorists throwing “rock” and Molotovs attacked Israelis on Road 443 near Beir Ur a-Tahta, at Gush Talmonim, Ras Karkar, Sinjil, the Horseshoe Junction, Samu, south Hevron Hills, and numerous other locations.
Ben & Jerry’s update . . .
Shortly after our blog appeared yesterday (coincidentally?), the local Ben & Jerry’s ice cream franchise here in Israel issued a statement that it was not going to produce or sell the new “Pecan Resist” ice cream being promoted by the parent company–for the precisely the same reasons that we pointed out in that blog.
In a sentence, the local Ben & Jerry’s declared that it will not support anything to do with anti-Israel groups.
Good for our locals . . . we can now return to eating Ben & Jerry’s produced here.
Today’s Blog:
“The public and the government have forgotten us.”
Palestinian terrorists launched ever more incendiary devices into communities along the Gaza border yesterday, starting six major fires.
In one fire alone, at the Giv’am Nature Reserve, more than 200 dunams went up in smoke. Here are some pictures from the various fires yesterday (all photos courtesy Moshe Mordechai JNF forester, and hakolyehudi):
The fire at Giv’am.
Another photo:
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Where would we be without our heroic firefighters?
And still another:
Obviously, this fire was out of control.
Not only were agricultural fields and forest reserves set aflame. One incendiary balloon actually landed on this vehicle on Road 234 near Kibbutz Alumim with this result:
Fortunately the driver made it out alive.
More than this, another incendiary balloon landed beside a kindergarten in the Eshkol region but was defused before it could explode and start a fire:
Note how the terrorists try to seduce children into picking up the balloons.
Another incendiary balloon was defused at a kindergarten in the Eshkol region.
In short, the terror along the Gaza border has completely returned to “normal.”
As we have written so many times in the past, it is simply mind-boggling that our government is so willing to throw the people in the Gaza communities under the bus. Even as all the violence above was happening yesterday, Israel was busily trying to figure out how to pay blackmail money to Hamas, and pouring tons of more “humanitarian” aid into the terror stronghold.
Pardon the cynicism: southern Israel can burn to the ground, but heaven forbid that Hamasniks in Gaza don’t have enough electricity to operate their hydraulic missile launchers or enough concrete to build their tunnels.
The Maariv newspaper here in Israel published an article today which contained interviews with several unnamed residents of Sderot. Their descriptions accurately portray the situation.
One resident:
“We are in daily tension here. The children are in a constant never ending trauma that extends from one round of missile and balloon attacks to the next. Every door slamming in the house sounds like a rocket in the middle of the living room. People can not walk in the street because they think a missile will fall on them. The socio-economic situation in Sderot is worse because people are afraid to work here.”
Another resident:
“The people of the south are experiencing something that cannot apparently be perceived in the public’s mind. The impact on the children here is a recurring catastrophe, and it is not clear whether they will have irreversible damage.”
Finally, a third resident concisely summed it up:
“The public and the government have forgotten us.”
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.