Yom Reva’ee
Wednesday
5 Av 5781
July 14 2021
The Photo and Quote of the Day
June 11, 1967: Israeli soldiers celebrate taking the Temple Mount restoring Jewish sovereignty there for the first time in centuries. If they celebrated like this today, they would be arrested.
“The Temple Mount is in our hands.”
These immortal words were declared by Gen. Moti Gur back in 1967 when his paratroopers took the Temple Mount during the Six-Day War.
They were also spoken by Tom Nissani, the CEO of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation on the Temple Mount while he was on the Temple Mount several days ago.
Nissani was promptly arrested and detained for six hours–and had his telephone and camera confiscated. The charge against Nissani is that speaking “The Temple Mount is in our hands” endangers “security of life and property.”
When Nissani was finally released, the Police Supervisor issued an order banning him from the Mount for two months.
How far we have sadly fallen since 1967.
*Thanks to hakolhayehudi for elements of this story.
The News on the Israeli Street
The daily Corona update . . .
*If there is one thing that has characterized government actions since the Corona pandemic began, it is complete incompetence. One Corona entity has no idea what another Corona entity is doing, and decisions are made without regard to science.
Yesterday, the Corona Cabinet of the new Coalition government decided that a person only has to be quarantined for 7 days instead of 14 after exposure to Corona if they get a negative test result on the 7th day.
How did they reach this decision?
Not on the basis of any scientific study, but merely (in their words) “to increase public cooperation and trust.” PM Bennett added: “We set measures that the public can meet, and expect the public to respond fully.”
Do Bennett and the government really believe that catering to public approval increases public trust?
What malarkey.
*The Ministry of Health reports this morning that 51 Corona patients in Israel have the Delta Plus mutation.
Palestinian terror in the last 48 hours . . .
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Palestinian terrorists opened fire at the Qalandiya Crossing this morning in a drive-through shooting attack. A security guard was slightly wounded. The terrorists escaped, and a manhunt is underway.
Click here to see the shooting attack.
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis with Molotovs and “rocks” near the small Yitzhar Junction, at a location east of Nili Square, between Nili and Na’ala, in Huwara near Einbus Square, between Marda and Ariel, Beit El, on Road 465, on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road, and at Al-Khader among other places.
Palestinian terrorists attacked a bus between Chumash and Shavei Shomron, and another bus between the Tunnel Checkpoint and Al-Khader.
Palestinian terrorists attacked an IDF post near Negohot on Mt Hevron.
Palestinian terrorists throwing Molotovs set fire to a large area near Karmi Tzur.
Speaking of terrorists, it is reported today that the PLO is refusing to let Qatar transfer money to Hamas in Gaza via the banks that it controls in Gaza.
Bougie and Erdogan again . . .
As a follow-up to our news yesterday about President Bougie Herzog’s absurd reaching out to vicious anti-Semite Turkish President Taycip Erdogan, read noted Jerusalem Post columnist Herb Keinon’s opinion piece today on exactly the same subject.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Are Young American Jews A Lost Cause?
A survey carried out by GBAO Strategies from June 28-July 1 online commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute would seem to suggest that this is quickly becoming the case.
The survey asked questions after the recent mini-war between Palestinian Gaza and Israel–a mini-war that was completely initiated by Hamas and Islamic Jihad and resulted in more than 5000 missiles and mortars fired at Israel.
Among the findings of the poll insofar as Jews under 40-years-old are concerned:
*20% agreed with the statement “Israel doesn’t have a right to exist.”
*33% agreed with the statement “Israel is committing genocide.”
*34% agreed with the statement “Israel is an apartheid state.”
The agreement with these statements comes as no surprise as young “progressive” Jews increasingly deprioritize Israel and prioritize the values of the self-proclaimed “progressive” wing of the U.S. Democrat Party.
Of course, there is nothing “progressive” about thinking that the only Jewish state in the world has no right to exist, or about fraudulently terming Israel an apartheid state that is committing genocide.
It probably won’t be long until a “progressive” value that young American Jews will hold will be to disavow themselves of anything Jewish, Israel or otherwise. That is certainly the direction in which Reconstructionist and Reform “Judaism” is heading.
Are young American Jews a lost cause? Your humble servant does not want to go that far, but the handwriting is on the wall.
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.