27 Cheshvan 5779
5 November 2018
Pictures of the Day:
The student march begins!
A few of the signs they are carrying:
The large sign reads: “Let us grow up in peace.” The smaller sign which has the smiling kite with the explosive tail attached reads: “This is an Israeli childhood.”
The students above are part of 100 students who left Sha’ar Hanegev Regional High School on a 5 day, 90 km (55 mile) march to PM Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem. Obviously they are marching to call attention to the disastrous situation on the Gaza border.
Along the way, hundreds of other students from high schools in southern and central Israel will join with these students to add their voices to what is a rising crescendo of exasperation with and anger toward the inaction of the government.
Kolakevod to these students!
The News on the Israeli Street
Another protest at the Kerem Shalom Crossing . . .
If you can believe this, Palestinian truck drivers trucking in “humanitarian” supplies to Gaza staged a protest this morning blocking the Crossing for hours.
Why were they upset?
Because the PLO has workers on the Palestinian side of the Crossing demanding 30 shekels (about $8) from every truck driver.
Speaking of Palestinian protests . . .
A darkly amusing (to your humble servant) news piece appeared on Israeli television last night. In it, an Arab reporter was in a convalescent ward of a rehabilitation clinic in Gaza. In the ward, were numerous young people hobbling about with leg injuries–none of which was even remotely life threatening. There was no discussion of how they received the injuries.
The young people were angry with Hamas.
Why? Because they had been promised 1500 shekels (around $400) if they were injured, and they had not received a single penny. They accused Hamas of abandoning them.
Tel Hevron will soon open to the public . . .
The site of Tel Hevron has finally been declared an archaeological park and as such will be accessible by the public in the coming months.
The site is important because in it have been found numerous items which attest to the Jewishness of the city.
One of the most important finds has been two large mikvehs dating to the Second Temple period:
The western mikveh at Tel Hevron–in use for more than half a millennium before Muslim Arabs appeared on the scene.
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TODAY’S BLOG:
The Missile Strikes Around Sderot Yesterday Afternoon
As the above news ticker reports, incoming missile alarms sent tens of thousands of Israelis living in the area around Sderot and Sha’ar Hanegev running to their bomb shelters and fortified places at 5:54 yesterday afternoon.
Within seconds of the alarm, local residents registered the following thread of reactions on rotter.net:
Person 1: “I’m betting it takes two minutes for the IDF to claim it is a false alarm.”
Person 2: “Or they’ll claim it was sent by lightning.”
Person 3: “More likely, they’ll say the alarm was triggered by fireworks or a machine gun.”
Person 4: “Yea, somebody was probably getting married in Gaza.”
Person 5: “Has anyone heard anything?”
Person 6: “Three explosions.”
Person 7: “Me too. The explosions were not the Iron Dome. It hasn’t fired.”
Person 8: “How do you know?”
Person 7 (again): “Because I’m looking at it.”
Person 9: “Yes, three loud explosions.”
Person 10: “We heard the explosions up here in Ashkelon.”
And on and on.
Five minutes later, the IDF spokesman fulfilled Person 1’s predictable prediction by declaring that it was “a false alarm.” He didn’t even bother to make up an excuse as to what had supposedly caused it. Obviously, he did not mention the explosions at all.
Why obviously?
Because as we have been writing in the last several blogs, there is an intense, ongoing effort on the part of our government and the IDF to rehabilitate Hamas. As we have seen in recent months, even when multiple missiles are sent, an excuse is always found which absolves Hamas of any guilt or responsibility.
The result of these constant absolutions is that Hamas knows that it can attack Israelis living on the border with impunity.
Which it repeatedly does–like yesterday.
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.