Yom Shishee, Friday
21 Adar 5781
March 5, 2021
The Stupid Comment of the Day
“From what I have heard and I understand, the environment has experienced a terrorist incident. It really does not matter if it is intentional or unintentional.”
David Yahalomi, Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection
Yes, David, the environmental catastrophe of oil coating Israel’s beaches would have been the same if the terrorism were intentional or not, but to say it doesn’t matter if it was intentional is beyond the pale.
For one thing, David, considering we now know that the oil was leaked by Iranians on a Libyan ship, we should be greatly concerned that the Iranians will perpetrate another act of environmental terror.
The News on the Israeli Street
The daily Corona (Covid-19) update . . .
Please note that these numbers encompass from 8 pm Thursday to 4 pm today (Friday):
796,465 Israelis have been confirmed with the virus since the pandemic began last March.
There are 5,146 newly confirmed cases.
690 are in critical condition—a decrease of 9
218 of the most critically ill are on ventilators—a decrease of 6
5,834 have died–an increase of 19
There are currently 39,970 active Corona cases in Israel.
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An estimated 4.9 million have now received at least one dose of vaccine. 90% of Israeli adults over the age of 16 have now received at least one dose of vaccine.
The total number of confirmed cases keeps rising. By tomorrow, we will be at more than 800,000. What in the world was Netanyahu talking about yesterday when he declared: “The plague is behind us.”
Tell that to the 5000+ people who found out yesterday that they have Corona–or the families of the 19 people who died.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Don’t Shoot, Shoot! The Mixed Messages Of IDF Commanders
It is not a good time to be a soldier in the IDF.
With a General Command obsessed with political correctness and a Military Prosecutor’s Office eager to haul every soldier before a court-martial, the sad fact is that soldiers have effectively been neutered.
Two events in the past few days illustrate the point.
As you dear readers know, the military bases in southern Israel continue to be the targets of endless robberies perpetrated by Bedouins in the area. Everything from rifles to hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition have gone missing.
Soldiers at one the bases reported yesterday that a senior IDF officer came to their base the other day and told them that under virtually no circumstance should they shoot at a thief whom they catch in the act of something like ammunition theft. Even if the thieves are armed with guns and are stealing guns, the response should be non-violent.
Only if the thieves are firing at the soldiers in “an extreme situation” are soldiers allowed to shoot–and then only in the air or at the robbers’ legs. The senior officer repeated that the best thing to do is not to fire at all.
Contrast that directive with that in the second case which involves what we reported several days ago concerning a soldier who was on a night hike, got ambushed, and had his weapon taken away.
It turns out that this soldier was part of the elite “Egoz” unit, the Lt. Col. commander of which had some choice words today.
His comment was that any soldier in his unit who allows his weapon to be taken should not be in the unit at all: “Even in combat the soldier should not be taken prisoner unless he is, God forbid, a corpse. This is the minimum standard in the unit. No prisoner, no kidnapping. Only striving for contact until the victory.”
He went on to say that the soldier who allowed his weapon to be taken is being dismissed from the Egoz Unit.
All your humble servant can say about the Egoz commander is thank goodness there is still a military standard in some part of the IDF. This is the military doctrine that all soldiers should adhere to—“striving for contact until the victory.”
Not a doctrine of passively shrinking into the shadows.
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.