6 January 2019
Photo of the Day:
This is what “an incendiary balloon” looks like these days.
Incendiary balloons now being launched from Gaza by Palestinian terrorists are often “balloon clusters” carrying small airplanes, facsimiles of Al-Aksa, and anything else that can be rigged up to carry a bomb. The “plane” above landed in the Eshkol region this morning, but it was spotted and defused before it could explode.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Aside from balloon attacks from Gaza and more assaults against the Gaza border fence, Palestinian terrorists were busy again in Judea and Samaria, as they attacked Israeli children, women, and men with “rocks” and Molotovs at Sinjil, Levona, on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road, Jaba Surif, Tekoa, between the Lamed-Heh Checkpoint and Gush Etzion, Hawara, between Yitzhar and Havat Gilad, Hevron, and between Nili and Hashmonaim to name 10 out of some 30 locations.
Violence flares between Hamas and the PLO . . .
Two days ago, masked Hamasniks broke into the offices of Palestinian television and radio in Gaza which is run by the PLO. They proceeded to ransack the studios:
The scene at the PLO studio in Gaza City after the Hamas attack on Friday. The damage was estimated at $150,000.
Yesterday, Hamas “detained” (aka “arrested”) more than 300 PLO loyalists in Gaza in yet another display of “who’s the boss” in Gaza.
All of this was in apparent retaliation for the ongoing crackdown on Hamas activists in Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria which are under PLO control. Last Wednesday, a Hamas attempt to hold a press conference in Ramallah was abruptly stopped by PLO “security forces” who arrested members of the Hamas Parliament.
The next moment of violence is likely to come tomorrow in Gaza when the PLO is set to celebrate the 54th anniversary of its founding. The rally is supposed to begin at 12:30 pm; however, Hamas has already announced that it is not going to happen, and has declared the assembly area a “closed military zone.”
Comings and goings of unprecedented dimensions . . .
If you can believe this, 2018 saw 8.5 million Israelis leave Israel on holiday or business. 7.8 million of them flew out of Ben Gurion Airport while others flew out of Ovda airport, drove out through Egypt and Jordan, or took cruises. Of course, this was not 8.5 million unique individuals; many people departed multiple times.
381,000 Israeli tourists went to the Egyptian Sinai while another 238,000 went to locations such as Petra in Jordan.
993,000 of the travelers were children under the age of 14.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Here We Go Down The Same Road Again
In an unprecedented move today, Shin Bet published what the newest group of “Hilltop Minors” are being held for. Not only did it publish what the minors are being charged with, our security service also went to extraordinary lengths to begin the process of trying the “detainees” in the media and defend itself against charges that it is torturing the “detainees.”
But first things first.
It turns out that after a week of holding the detainees without a charge and without a lawyer–and handcuffed to chairs in an underground “facility” for as much as 12 hours at a time–the minors are being accused of throwing the rock that killed Aisha al-Rabi last October.
Aisha al-Rabi, you may remember, was the Palestinian woman who was hit in the ear by a rock while riding or driving in a car on Road 60 on the night of October 12th. We say “riding or driving” because al-Rabi’s husband’s account has changed multiple times since the incident.
To provide context, here is the blog I wrote back on October 14:
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“To hear the Palestinians tell the suspicious story, the 48 (or 45)-year-old woman was just out for a pleasant Friday evening drive with her husband two days ago. Out for an evening drive– with her driving their car down Route 60, south of Shechem near the Tapuach Junction.
Aside from the fact that no one takes an evening leisure drive on Route 60 because of the danger posed by Palestinian “rock” and Molotov throwers, and aside from the fact that a Muslim woman driving her husband around is practically unheard of, the story becomes even stranger.
According to her husband, the happy couple was set upon by “Jewish settlers” who threw rocks at their car, one of which hit her in the ear mortally wounding her.
Never mind that the husband says that he couldn’t see who threw the rocks, he says he could somehow manage to see that the rocks came from the direction of the Jewish “settlement”–and what’s more, he says he could hear the “rock throwers” speaking Hebrew.
Amazing. In the darkness of the night, the husband could see where the rocks were supposedly being thrown from, and he could hear Hebrew being spoken from inside his car–all of this while whizzing down the road with the windows closed.
In any case, Aisha al-Rabi has become a cause celebre among the Palestinians, thousands of whom attended her funeral. A Palestinian media report about the incident said that al-Rabi was “stoned to death” by “extremist military settler gangs.”
What does your humble servant think happened? Palestinians are mistakenly bombarded with “rocks” and Molotovs thrown by their fellow Palestinians all the time–especially at night when it is not so easy to make out license plates.
I suspect that is what happened here, but every left wing organization and media outlet in Israel and the world is determined to find Jews guilty.
Does this case remind you of any other?
How about Duma—where young Jews were tortured to admit to a crime they did not commit.”
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If you are a regular reader of israelstreet, you know that the confessions of the Duma 2 have already been recognized at trial as having been obtained through torture.
Whether the cases against the Duma 2 will be completely thrown out remains open to question.
But here we go down the same road again.
Another group of minors, dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night, detained without charges, and interrogated under torturous conditions to say the least.
By the way, a rabbi has already testified to the police that the minors who are being charged were with him at a different location when the attack occurred.
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