The IDF’s Reprehensible Move To Eliminate The Tsava Adom

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17 December 2019

The News on the Israeli Street

Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .

*Palestinian terrorists attacked the Jerusalem Light Rail with “rocks”; they were captured by train security guards.

*Palestinian terrorists placed an IED on Highway 465. It was successfully defused by IDF sappers.

*Palestinian terrorists throwing “rocks” heavily damaged the car of an Israeli motorist on the Yehuda Bypass Road. Fortunately, the driver of the car was able to make it to an IDF checkpoint.

*Palestinian terrorists throwing Molotovs and “rocks” assaulted Israelis beside Neve Yair, Tekoa, the Tapuach Junction, Al Khader, Karmei Tzur, on the Tunnel Road leading to Gush Etzion, the Rachelim Junction, and the Yitzhar Junction to name a few places.

Once more to the left . . .

It is beyond nauseating how the movie industry in Israel churns out one “left wing” movie and documentary after another which seek to delegitimize and demean Israel. 

And it is beyond nauseating how movie festivals and shows run these movies and documentaries and award them.

One such documentary out now is “Advocate”. It is the story of Lea Tsemel, one of the most loathsome of Israeli defense attorneys who has made her career defending one Palestinian terrorist after another.

Perhaps none of her terrorist clients was more infamous than Abdel Aziz Salha who disemboweled and gouged out the eyes of Vadim Nurhitz and Yossi Avrahami, two IDF soldiers who took a wrong turn into Ramallah on October 12, 2000 and were subsequently murdered at the Ramallah Police Station. Who can ever forget Salha at the window of that station waving his bloody hands after the bodies of the soldiers were dumped out of the window?

But now, Advocate portrays Tsemel as the heroic lawyer fighting for the rights of her “clients.” It is altogether sickening.

However, guess what?

Advocate is now on the short list of documentaries that might be in the running for an Academy Award (0ne of 15 from an original list of 159).

Would anyone be surprised if it won?  

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The IDF’s Reprehensible Move To Eliminate The Tsava Adom

As everyone who lives in southern Israel knows, there is a moment of terror when an incoming missile siren (tsava adom-red siren) goes off. Because of the positioning of sirens on virtually every apartment building, within every neighborhood, and at locations such as schools and supermarkets, a person has the sensation that the high decibel alarm is literally beside you.

For example, your humble servant recorded this video of running to our bomb shelter in Ashdod last month on November 12. Especially pay attention to the sound level during the first 20 seconds as the alarm went off in the neighborhood and on our phones. This siren went off during the morning; you can imagine what it would have been like in the middle of the night.

Over the years, there have been rare cases of people being injured (sprained ankles, broken bones from falls, etc) when running to their bomb shelters. There have also of course been numerous cases in which people were killed or severely wounded when missiles exploded after Iron Dome misses. 

In recent years, the IDF has made a mockery of the warning sirens.

First, we began to see the IDF spokesman come out after missile launches and ludicrously claim that the alarms were “false.”

Then came the news that alarms would not even be sounded if missiles landed in open areas. This was a ridiculous joke; at our house in Ashdod, many incoming missiles explode within 100 meters of our house (in sand dunes between our house and the beach). Huge concussive explosions occur regularly with no warning whatsoever.

After this, the IDF further limited sirens by dividing towns and cities into sectors so that whereas incoming missiles used to trigger alarms all over a particular town or city, now they only trigger an alarm in the particular neighborhood which is expected to be hit. This too is ludicrous; imagine sitting in your home and hearing alarms going off in neighborhoods all around you but not in your neighborhood. Sitting in south Ashdod, we can even hear the sirens sounding in neighborhoods in northern Ashkelon.

Today comes news that the IDF is going to further limit incoming missile sirens by not sounding them at all on what the IDF calls “routine and non-tense days.”

Routine and non-tense days?

There are no routine and non-tense days along the Gaza border. Everyone knows that a missiles can be launched at any moment, day or night.

The IDF claims that not sounding an alarm is an acceptable, calculated risk because the Iron Dome will shoot down most of the missiles. According to the IDF, it is all a matter of “public courage.”

Can you believe any of this?

An acceptable, calculated risk?  What nonsense is it that the IDF has decided to accept possible civilian deaths and woundings as acceptable, calculated risks in order to reduce the number of sprained ankles? What’s more, eliminating sirens will most certainly not decrease cases of PTSD.

Public courage?  The people of the South have nothing but courage, but they deserve to know if there is an incoming missile so that they can protect their families and themselves.

The truth of the matter–just like in all the previous instances of reducing warning sirens–is that the IDF once again wants to downplay what is happening in southern Israel.

It is absolutely reprehensible.