20 Cheshvan 5780
18 November 2019
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in Judea and Samaria in the last 24 hours . . .
*Elements of the IDF, Shin Bet, Border Guards, and Israel Police captured 17 wanted Palestinian terrorists overnight.
*Palestinian terrorists using Molotovs attacked an IDF post at Negohot near Hevron.
*Palestinian terrorists using IEDs and Molotovs attacked a Border Police station in the vicinity of Abu Dis.
*Palestinian terrorists attacked an Israeli bus with Molotovs on the Benjamin Bypass Road, and another bus at the Adorim Junction near Hevron.
*Palestinian terrorists threw “rocks” and Molotovs at Israeli men, women, and children at Umm Safa, Beit El, the Tekoa Junction, Psagot, Hawara, Luban a Sharqiya, Beit Haggai, and Al Aruv among other places.
No one knows what’s going on . . .
Events have taken on a frantic air in the lead-up to the Wednesday midnight deadline that Benny Gantz of Kahol Levan has to form a government.
*Last night PM Netanyahu led a Likud campaign rally in which he railed again against the possibility of Gantz forming a minority government based on support of the Joint Arab List.
*Yesterday, Kahol Lavan said that it had reached agreement with Lieberman on a whole host of issues such as allowing transportation and opening supermarkets on Shabbat, creating new laws to enable easier conversions and marriages for Israeli-Russians, and, and . . .
*There was talk yesterday that what Lieberman really wants is for Gantz to not be able to form a government so that he can try to form one himself in the 21 day period after the Wednesday night deadline during which any Knesset member can seek 61 signatures to make a coalition.
*Some members of Kahol Lavan say that Gantz will inform Rivlin on Wednesday that he can form a government even though he doesn’t have the 61 votes to do so. They say that this will give Gantz an extra few days to try to form one in the aftermath of what many expect will be indictments against PM Netanyahu.
*Some members of Likud are accusing Gideon Sa’ar of Likud of wanting to lead a group of Likud members to join Kahol Lavan.
And on and on. Who knows what’s true and what’s not? All we know is that everyone appears to be desperate.
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TODAY’S BLOG:
La Pulga Atomica Arrives!
Messi on the tarmac at Ben Gurion last night shaking the hand of Sylvan Adams, the Canadian-Israeli billionaire who organized the match.
If you thought that Israelis would be talking about nothing but the government today, you would be greatly mistaken.
La Pulga arrived at Ben Gurion yesterday, and he is all that anyone is talking about. As you may not know, La Pulga is “The Atomic Flea”, aka Lionel Messi, and he is perhaps the best soccer player in the world (there is the ongoing debate as to whether he or Ronaldo is at the top of the pyramid).
If you’re not a soccer fan, then you don’t know that Messi is from Argentina but plays for the Spanish team Barcelona. He plays forward and is the captain of both the Barcelona team and the Argentine National Team.
He arrived in Israel yesterday with the Argentine team to play a friendly match today against Uruguay–whose star Luis Suarez happens to be Messi’s teammate on Barcelona.
The pre-arrival was not without drama.
The Argentines had played another friendly in Riyadh (they defeated Brazil 1-0) two days ago and so were supposed to fly from Riyadh to Tel Aviv. However, when their plane entered Jordanian airspace they were told that they did not have permission to fly over Jordan.
The plane was then diverted to Amman until permission was granted and then flew on to Israel.
But of course that is not the half of it.
Once again, Messi and other members of the team have been the target of BDS denunciations and even death threats similar to those received last year when Argentina was scheduled to play a game in Israel prior to the World Cup. Those protests were led by Palestinian terrorist (aka Palestinian Sports Minister) Jibril Rajoub—who was subsequently banned from FIFA for a year for inciting violence against Messi:
A 2018 protest in Barcelona where the Argentinians were practicing. Note the Palestinian flag in the foreground, and the “bloodied” blue and white striped Argentinian jersey being held (beside the megaphone) in the background. What you cannot see is that jersey reads “Messi.”
In the 2018 case, the Argentines decided to cancel, and the game was not played.
Once again, BDS mounted a campaign in the last few months to stop Messi and the Argentines from coming to Israel. The Palestinian BDS group PACBI accused both the Argentinians and the Uruguayans of crossing the “Palestinian nonviolent picket line, allowing Israel to use the beautiful game to sports-wash its crimes against Palestinians.”
But without Jibril Rajoub leading the BDS denunciations, the campaign fell flat.
By the way this is not Messi’s first appearance in Israel. He was here back in 2013 when this photo was taken of him praying at the Kotel (Western Wall):
Messi praying at the Wall several years ago—that’s the Rabbi of the Wall beside him.
For sports crazy Israelis, the appearance of La Pulga Atomica is a welcome respite–even for only one night–from the missiles, terrorism, and endless threats that they face.
By the way, the 30,000 available tickets for the match tonight sold out in 5 minutes–some costing well into the hundreds of dollars.
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.