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Yom Shishee

Friday

7 Av 5781

July 16 2021

Quote of the Day

“I think we may reach a situation where we need a closure . . . It’s not tomorrow morning or next week, but in a few weeks. We may be closed down on the holidays. The masks will stay with us for at least a year.”

Deputy Minister of Health Nachman Ash

The daily Corona update: 849,654 cases since the pandemic began; 855 new cases confirmed yesterday (the most in one day since March); 6,443 Israelis have died.

A total of 99 Israelis are now hospitalized with Corona–a number that is steadily increasing.

Of the 855 new cases, 89 are Israelis who returned from a vacation abroad.

Banner of the Day

Screen shot of an anti-government banner hung at the entrance of Jerusalem last night. Roughly translated, it reads: “The Jewish people want a Jewish state.”

The News on the Israeli Street

Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .

An IDF patrol captured two Palestinian terrorists attempting to breach the security fence on the southern Gaza border.

Palestinian terrorists throwing Molotovs attempted to burn Israelis alive in their cars at the Ma’ale Levona Junction, the small Yakir Junction, and in Silwan among other places.

Palestinian terrorists using “rocks” attacked a bus on the Jerusalem Road to Ma’ale Adumim badly wounding the bus driver in the eye As a result, the Union of Transport Committee closed down the transportation lines between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim between 8:00 pm-10:00 pm in protest over police inaction. Union head Tamar Ohana had this to say:  We are forced to stop the lines for fear of the safety of drivers and passengers. It is unfortunate to discover that only such measures lead the police to action.”

On the Israeli-Arab front . . .

It was revealed this morning that during the recent mini-war with Palestinian Gaza, the IDF intended to truck tanks to the border should a ground incursion have been necessary.

But guess what? All of the truck drivers (hundreds) who truck tanks around Israel all the time are Israeli-Arabs.

And they refused to drive the trucks, and so the tanks never arrived.

Such is the nature of our vaunted IDF these days.

Israelis pay no heed . . .

PM Bennett and others in the government have spent the last few weeks encouraging Israelis not to travel abroad and risk contracting one of the many Covid-19 variants floating around.

But Israelis are desperate to get out of the exorbitantly expensive Israeli hotel scene on vacation no matter the risk.

The scene at Ben Gurion Airport yesterday was that of a chaotic madhouse as people endured long lines at testing kiosks and check-in stations.

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37,000 Israelis flew out of the country. The destinations of choice were Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus. 

The Netanyahu trial is postponed yet again . . .

It has barely even started, and your humble servant has already lost count of how many times Netanyahu’s trial on Cases 1000, 2000, and 4000 has been delayed.

Yesterday, the State Attorney’s Office requested yet another delay–this time until September 13.

Almost certainly, the trial will be postponed again after that because Yom Kippur begins on the evening of Wednesday, September 15–and there are more holidays after that.

TODAY’S BLOG

Why In The World?

Your humble servant just doesn’t get it.

Israel packed up and left Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria 27 years ago when the Oslo Accords were signed. When that happened, the administration of both areas was taken over completely by the PLO (aka the Palestinian Authority).

During those 27 years, one wonders how many billions of dollars were given to the PLO by international donors (it has been estimated at $50 billion) to build a Palestinian country complete with schools, hospitals, social institutions, and businesses–given to the PLO while the terror organization has waged an ongoing terror campaign against Israel?  

All of which brings us to U.S. envoy Hady Amr–the deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs–who arrived in Israel this week and ran straight to Ramallah to meet with PLO head Mahmoud Abbas and other senior PLO officials.

Then Amr proceeded to Jerusalem to warn Israel that the PLO is on the verge of an economic and political breakdown.

To warn Israel?

That the PLO is about to have an economic and political meltdown?

Amr blathered this: “I have never seen the Palestinian Authority in a worse situation.”

So what?  Why in the world are we Israelis supposed to bail them out?

It is the same situation in Gaza. Israel packed up and left way back in 2005–nearly 16 years ago. 

Since then,  billions more have poured into this failed Palestinian state, and yet, we Israelis are supposed to bail them out. In fact, the lead op-ed in the Jerusalem Post yesterday declared that we Israelis have a responsibility to donate money and humanitarian supplies to Gazans.

Your humble servant just wants to throw up.

Doesn’t anybody recognize that the money given to the infantile Palestinians goes straight into the pockets of the PLO and Hamas–and then straight into their Swiss bank accounts?

And why does the world–even the leftists in Israel–think that it is Israel’s obligation to help the Palestinians?

Shabbat Shalom from Israel!