28 Cheshvan 5780
26 November 2019
Wonderful Photo Of The Evening:
Omar Shakir and his cohort of village idiots at Ben Gurion last night just prior to Shakir’s deportation out of the country. Shakir is the glum one standing in the middle with the red tie. What Shakir could not hide is the fact that he and Human Rights Watch are ardent supporters of BDS.
After a months long struggle local Human Rights Watch head Omar Shakir was deported from Israel after the Israel Supreme Court ruled that his support of BDS violated Israeli law.
His deportation should be a warning to all those BDS advocates who are already in Israel or who are planning to come.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
On the Gaza border:
See Today’s Blog below.
In Judea and Samaria:
As usual, there were numerous “rock” and Molotov attacks carried out by Palestinian terrorists against Israelis. Also, as usual, all the terrorists escaped. Here were a few of the places at which the terrorists tried to kill men, women, and children: the Gush Etzion Junction, Hizma, Al-Fawwar, the Olive Junction, Beit Sahur, and Hevron.
A follow up to yesterday’s blog . . .
A survey carried out by the Israel Democracy Institute and reported in Arutz Sheva asked 500 active duty IDF soldiers a number of questions concerning the IDF’s “purity of arms” doctrine which states:
The soldier shall make use of his weaponry and power only for the fulfillment of the mission and solely to the extent required; he will maintain his humanity even in combat. The soldier shall not employ his weaponry and power in order to harm non-combatants or prisoners of war, and shall do all he can to avoid harming their lives, body, honor and property.
This is a remarkable statement that speaks to the morality of the Israel Defense Forces and one to which all armies should aspire.
However, as leftist generals, military prosecutors, and lawyers have increasingly permeated the IDF, this doctrine has been perverted to include that soldiers should not be able to defend themselves unless a legal adviser is there on the spot to tell them that they can, or act to stop terrorists unless a legal adviser approves it in advance. As a result, we now have the absurd situation in which a legal opinion has to be rendered before an IDF soldier is allowed to do anything. Any soldier who acts on his or her own risks court martial.
Back to the survey. Here were some of the findings:
*81% of the soldiers believe that protecting their fellow soldiers and themselves is more important than “purity of arms.”
*62% of the soldiers believe that army prosecutors and the courts have “excessive influence over IDF operations” and have impeded the IDF’s ability to function.
*45% of the soldiers believe that if they make a mistake during an operation, they will be thrown under the bus by the IDF General Command.
*45% of the soldiers said that they had “refrained from taking action” against terrorists because “they feared it could lead to legal problems for them.”
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This latter finding about refraining from taking action is, of course, precisely what happened at the Ariel Junction prior to the murder of Rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal (as reported in yesterday’s blog).
TODAY’S BLOG:
The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same:
Missile Fire On Southern Israel Yesterday
As you can see from the breaking news ticker above, at 6:48 pm yesterday evening, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired missiles at southern Israel. Warning sirens were sounded, Israelis were sent running to their bomb shelters, and at least one missile exploded in the Eshkol Region about a mile and a half into Israel.
We say “at least one missile” because no one seems to know what happened to the other missiles. Did they explode in Gaza before reaching the border or did they explode in a so-called “open space” elsewhere in the Eshkol Region? Apparently, the IDF does not have a clue.
In response to this attack, what did the IDF do?
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
What did the government do?
Nothing–except talk.
The head of the Eshkol Regional Council (who has no control over anything) blathered:
“We will not tolerate the continued shooting at our communities, and we expect a determined policy [from the government] that prevents such a reality.”
Yet tolerating the continued shooting at our communities is all that our weak-kneed government ever does, and obviously, there has never been a determined government policy to stop the shooting.
Even more disconcerting than what the head of the Eshkol Regional Council said were these words that came out of newly named Defense Minister Naftali Bennett’s mouth last night following the missile fire:
”For too many years now, we get fired from time to time. So no, no, nobody has the right to fire a rocket, missile or bullet at the Jewish state.”
And yet, again, what did Naftali Bennett do after the missile fire on the Eshkol Region yesterday evening?
Nothing, absolutely nothing.
Just a few days ago on OneIsrael we were singing Bennett’s praises and writing about how we finally have a Defense Minister who does more than just talk.
How wrong we apparently were. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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.