23 Kislev 5780
21 December 2019
Quote of the Day
“There can be no compromise. We must reject any effort by the ICC tribunal to determine jurisdiction over countries such as Israel, the United States, or their citizens . . . there can be no compromise and no surrender.”
John Bolton, commenting today on ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s decision to bring war crimes charges against Israel (see yesterday’s blog).
It should be pointed out that the U.S. has already denied Bensouda entrance into the U.S. because of her opening a case against U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Bizarre Photo Of the Day
Where do you think this photo was taken?
This is from a protest in Iraq against Iran. Note the x-ed pictures of Iranian Commander Qasem Soleimani and Grand Ayatollah Khamenei. What is the biggest insult that you could give them? Claim that they are Zionists, aligned with Israel–hence the Iranian flag with the Star of David in the middle.
Also note, that the protester on the left in red has shoes in his hands because as we all know, hitting a person or a photo with the sole of your shoe is also a big insult.
What a bizarre world is the Middle East.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours on the Gaza border:
The scene at the border fence yesterday. Look very closely behind the “smoke screen.”
So what do you see in the background? First notice the three buses that brought Hamasniks to the fence. These buses are paid for by Iran. Then note the three or four ambulances to the right. Hamas devoutly hopes that Hamasniks will be wounded or even killed–so that pr photos can be made of loading them into ambulances.
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TODAY’S BLOG:
TIPH Return? Never.
As we all remember, PM Netanyahu, in one of his rare acts of fortitude, decided not to extend the TIPH mandate in Hevron in November of last year.
Thus, the odious Temporary International Presence in Hevron came to a long overdue end. The main impetus behind the decision was the unsavory conduct of TIPH observers toward local Jewish residents. TIPH observers were filmed puncturing the tires of a car owned by a Jewish resident of Hevron and slapping a 10-year-old Jewish boy in the face.
Your humble servant often saw TIPH “observers” on various trips to Hevron. In every case, they were intrusive and obnoxious. When they weren’t driving around taking photographs of every Jew they could find, they were roaming the streets and getting into the faces of IDF soldiers in the area.
This used to be a typical scene. TIPH “observers” getting in the face of an IDF soldier in Hevron and attempting to intimidate.
In case you have forgotten, TIPH was established in 1994 with the mission to monitor “the situation in Hebron and record breaches of international humanitarian law, [and] the agreements on Hebron between Israel and the Palestinian authority, and human rights, in accordance with internationally recognized standards”.
TIPH observers came from Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey. As you can imagine, given its mission and the countries from which observers came, TIPH was not even remotely the benign impartial observer mission it was supposed to have been. In effect, it became an arm of the PLO used to attack and delegitimize Jewish presence in Hevron.
One member of TIPH, Karen Aggestam summed it up like this: “TIPH is not expected to be neutral, since its mandate is to monitor the welfare of the Palestinian residents of Hebron in recognition of the existing asymmetry between Israelis and Palestinians.”
I mention all of this today because an Israeli NGO has obtained a police report from last year which purports to show that TIPH was not so bad after all. According to the police, there were relatively few incidents in which TIPH observers acted egregiously.
Based on this report, another odious organization, Peace Now, is suggesting that TIPH should be allowed to return to Hevron.
Your humble servant has only one word to say: Never.
Never should TIPH ever be allowed back in Israel.
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.