13 Sivan 5779
16 June 2019
Photo of the Day
Local community members put the finishing touches on a sign announcing Ramat Trump (Trump Heights)– a new community on the Golan Heights.
There are already 24 families ready to live in Ramat Trump, including a number of young couples aged 21-42. According to Haim Rokach, head of the Golan Regional Council, “hundreds of requests” have poured in from American and Canadian Jews wanting to live in the new community.
Thank you again to President Trump for recognizing the reality of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights!
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
In Judea and Samaria:
There have been numerous “rock” and Molotov attacks on Israeli men, women, and children. Some of the worst assaults were at Beit Sira on Road 443, between Hizma and Anatot, and at the small Yitzhar Junction.
On the Gaza border:
Another day, more fires.
After almost 100 dunams were burned in the Nahal Oz two days ago, more were burned yesterday.
Also hard hit again was the Sha’ar Hanagev area:
Note the tractor in the foreground as yet another fire scorches a wheat field.
Other fires were narrowly avoided as explosive balloons exploded in the air above the Eshkol Region.
TODAY’S BLOG
The News Today: Nauseating, Refreshing, Amazing, and Unsurprising
Some nauseating news of the day . . .
*More extortion money: the Qatari envoy is expected to turn over $25 million dollars in cash to Hamas tomorrow. Supposedly, this money is to “maintain the quiet” on the border. What quiet?
*If you can believe this, the head of Israel’s Shin Bet security service met with PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas yesterday to “beg” him to accept 600,000,000 million shekels a month in tax money being held by Israel. If you recall, Abbas refuses to take the money because Israel is deducting money based on how much the PLO is paying terrorists sitting in Israeli jails as well as money paid to families of terrorists who were killed during or after they murdered Israelis.
So why are we begging Abbas to take the money? Because we are afraid that Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria will descend into chaos.
Your humble servant is about to lose his breakfast.
*A 16-year-old Palestinian Bedouin girl was beaten and strangled to death yesterday during an exorcism “ceremony” at Al-Jib, a Bedouin community located in the seam zone near Ramallah.
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Apparently, the family was convinced that their daughter was a witch; however, other reports suggest that it may have been an “honor” killing.
Your humble servant has lost his breakfast.
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Some refreshing news of the day . . .
*The IDF re-arrested Karim al-Tamimi, the father of the Tamimi Pallywood clan in Nabi Saleh for harassing IDF soldiers. Tamimi’s entire family are Pallywood actors and actresses who spend their lives provoking our soldiers. What we can all hope for is that Karim al-Tamimi will rot in prison.
*Another “martyr” for the Palestinian cause: a Hamas naval officer accidentally shot himself to death while cleaning his “personal weapon” in Gaza yesterday.
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Some amazing news of the day . . .
*It has come to light that a young member of Neturei Karta has become an Israeli Border Guard.
Just to recall, Neturei Karta is one of the most vehemently anti-Zionist ultra-orthodox groups on the planet. They delight in burning Israeli flags and attending Holocaust denial conferences in Tehran. Indeed, Zalman Shwartz notes that he immensely enjoyed engaging in such activities as a teenager.
Shwartz as a young man–enjoying his childhood.
But then realizing that his life was empty, he decided to take a different path–and what a different path it is:
Shwartz today as a Border Guard–one of the fiercest defenders of Israel.
*A green lizard not seen in Israel for the last decade and thought to be extinct was found swimming in the pool at Sha’ar Ha’Amakim yesterday:
The lizard decided to go for a swim to avoid the high temperatures.
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Some unsurprising news of the day . . .
*This past week, the son of the Palestinian head of the Deir Qadis settlement just outside of Ramallah was married.
The father, Radi Nasser, and his son operate a garage in Deir Qadis that is heavily patronized by ultra-orthodox Jews from Modi’in Illit, an Israeli city located nearby. Some of those Jews were invited to the wedding, and photos of their participation circulated on Palestinian media:
The orthodox are easily identifiable by their white shirts, beards, and kipas.
As you can imagine, the Palestinian reaction was one of “horror” that Jews could be invited to a Palestinian’s wedding. Even more horrified was the Fatah movement of the PLO to which Nasser belongs.
The result?
Nasser was thrown out of Fatah and those unnamed people who invited the Jews to the wedding were punished by some means not announced.
*In an interview on Israeli television last night, Avigdor Lieberman declared that the next government will be a coalition of Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud, and Blue and White. In the same interview, he indicated that he would not sit in a government with the ultra-orthodox.
Likud spokesmen were quick to pounce on these statements as evidence that Lieberman is, in fact, a closet leftist obsessed with bringing down the PM Netanyahu. Of course, the Likudniks are correct.
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.