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24 January 2020
Photo of the Day
A beautiful photograph today of the Kineret (Sea of Galilee) in the foreground and snow-capped Mt. Hermon and surrounding mountains in the background.
Tweets of the Day
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Translation of both tweets (the above tweet was the second):
The era of talk is over–full sovereignty now. Within weeks, sovereignty must be applied. We have the opportunity to apply Israeli law to 100% of Yishuv communities, even before the elections, without recognition of a Palestinian state, with the consent of the United States. It’s not an election trick – it’s not a pretty speech – these are acts that need to be done quickly.
Applying sovereignty over the Jordan Valley alone will be the biggest historic missed opportunity in the last fifty years, leaving half a million residents of Ma’aleh Adumim, Ariel, Alfei Menashe, Ofra, Susia, Ariel, Gush Etzion and other localities [without Israeli sovereignty].
It’s time for action!
Indeed it is a time for action, but according to the latest reports out of Washington, PM Netanyahu is loathe to take the opportunities. According to senior Trump Administration officials, Netanyahu has let it be known in the last week that he opposes extending Israeli sovereignty to Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
If this is true, it should come as no surprise. As we have often written here, Netanyahu never has a problem throwing Judea and Samaria under the bus.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
In Judea and Samaria:
The 465 Bypass Road, between Efrat and the T Junction in the vicinity of Umm Salmona, the area near Tulkarm, Tekoa, and Al-Aruv: these were 5 of some two dozen locations where Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis with “rocks” and Molotovs.
Along the Gaza Border:
*Ashdod, the Negev Regional Council, the Shafir Regional Council, Kiryat Gat (3), the Sha’ar Hanegev area: these were 5 locations where explosive balloons launched by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza landed.
*Remember yesterday’s missile attack on the Nir Am area? Today, the IDF declared it was no attack at all. In another excuse, the IDF spokesman said that the incoming missile sirens were triggered by “an internal explosion in Gaza.”
What a joke. The missile warning system is triggered by high trajectory and high velocity projectiles coming toward Israel.
On the Iraq-Syria border . . .
Israeli jets attacked Hezbollah and Iranian positions along the Iraq-Syria border last night, apparently in an effort to destroy missiles being transported from Iraq to Lebanon.
At first, Hezbollah announced this morning that no damage had been done. About an hour later, it announced that one of its commanders had been killed in the attack.
Governmental insanity . . .
It was announced today that the Israel Water Authority is planning to double the amount of water that will be pumped out of the Kineret. This comes because the lake has risen by 137 cm because of winter rains.
It is still more than a meter below capacity, and predictions are that the spring and summer will be even drier than usual.
What are the fools in the Water Authority thinking about? For years, we have all watched in despair as the Kineret has sunk to ever lower levels. Finally, we have rains that are bringing it back, and now we are going to pump more water out?
And out to where? To farmers in Jordan and Israel.
It is just plain unbelievable.
TODAY’S BLOG
Observations About The International Holocaust Forum
It was January 27, 1945 when Soviet troops entered Auschwitz–11 days after the Germans abandoned the concentration camp and took remaining prisoners on a death march during which 15,000 more died.
What did the Russians find? 648 corpses of prisoners recently murdered; 7000 emaciated barely surviving prisoners; 4 gas chambers with a crematorium; 348,820 men’s suits; 836,515 women’s dresses; pyramids of eyeglasses and dentures; 7 tons of women’s hair.
What was eventually discovered?
—1,095,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz; 960,000 were murdered
—140,000 non-Jewish Poles were sent to Auschwitz; 74,000 were murdered
—23,000 Gypsies were sent to Auschwitz; 21,000 were murdered
—15,000 Soviet prisoners of war were sent to Auschwitz; virtually all were murdered
—25,000 people of other nationalities and backgrounds were sent to Auschwitz; 15,000 of them were murdered.
The International Holocaust Forum which was timed to coincide with the liberation of Auschwitz has been taking place in Jerusalem for the last few days–focused on Israel’s Holocaust Memorial of Yad Vashem.
Delegations from 50 countries, including 41 heads of state, gathered to remember.
Notably, there were no representatives from Poland or the Ukraine–both of which supplied guards to concentration camps.
During the Forum, we have heard many sincere speeches, expressions of regret, and promises that a Holocaust will never be allowed to happen again despite the ever-rising tide of anti-Semitism in the world.
Nevertheless, your humble servant always takes such forums, symposiums, and conferences with a grain of salt because the same governmental officials who attend them often use their participation in them as a means for covering their anti-Israel statements and actions. Their logic is simply that “no one can accuse me of not supporting Israel if I attend a Holocaust event.”
One final note. Following the Forum, a number of “dignitaries” have been rushing to Ramallah and elsewhere to express their support for the Palestinians. For example, where was Prince Charles today–three days before the very anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz? He was in Bethlehem shaking the hand of PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas–who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the subject of how the number of Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust has been greatly exaggerated.
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.