Yom Reva’ee
Wednesday
3 Shevat 5782
January 5, 2022
The Israeli Food of the Day
Masabaha: a perfect bowl for a winter day.
What is masabaha? Basically it is humus with whole chickpeas (garbanzo) mixed in. In Israel, it is usually served in a bowl, warm and a little soupy.
The Sunset of the Day
Sundown over the Mediterranean last night from our house here in Ashdod.
The Intriguing Photo of the Day
Rachel’s Tomb just outside of Bethlehem.
As you may not know, Rachel’s Tomb is an important site of pilgrimage for Jewish women who go there to ask their “mother” for help–especially in getting pregnant. This morning, the government announced that the Tomb would be closed to all Jews tomorrow because it is a Christian holiday (the Feast of the Epiphany).
With all due respect to the holiday, your humble servant wonders why religious sites are not open to all denominations at all times. For example, why is the Temple Mount closed to Jews on every conceivable Muslim holiday–even including Mohammed’s birthday?
The News on the Israeli Street
The daily Corona update . . .
11,595 more Israelis were verified with Corona yesterday. This is the most Israelis verified on one day since the pandemic began.
The positive test rate was 6%.
The R factor is 1.93.
124 Israelis are hospitalized in serious condition; 35 are in critical condition on ventilators.
The total number of Israelis who have died during Corona remains at 8,247.
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists using Molotovs and “rocks” attacked Israelis on Road 446 near Na’alin, on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road, at Hizma, at the Mishor Adumim Junction, on Road 465 in the area of Deir Nizam, on Road 55 near Ma’ale Shomron. and near Tapuach among other places.
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Palestinian terrorists were captured on Road 417 by special police forces who found these in the terrorists’ car:
Two machine guns and a detonation device.
Thank you to Josh at Rescue Without Borders SSF/Rescue Judea and Samaria for the above reports.
TODAY’S BLOG:
“A Mindset That Smacks Of Appeasement And Fear”
We have often bewailed on OneIsrael about how Israel has lost its way.
Whatever certitude, resolve, and self-assurance our government and IDF once had has long since been replaced timidity, doubt, and abject fear.
It was a fear that was on display yesterday and again this morning.
Yesterday, our government “made a deal” with the Palestinian terrorist hunger striker in Assaf Harofe Hospital. That deal specifies that as of this morning, the terrorist will begin eating again, and in February he will be released.
After this cowardly deal was announced, the prisoner’s room in the Israeli hospital was immediately festooned with PLO flags, and Islamic Jihad crowed that “the Zionists have been defeated.”
Unfortunately, Islamic Jihad is exactly correct (though your humble servant doubts that this government could ever be called “Zionist”). The deal was nothing more than an outright surrender to the fear that Islamic Jihad will begin firing more missiles at Israel.
This morning, the government passed the “Electricity Law”. In essence, it specifies that electricity will be supplied to all of the approximately 50,000 illegal buildings constructed by Bedouins in the Negev and the Galilee.
The Law is the brainchild of the Islamist Ra’am Party which threatened to leave the Coalition unless it was passed. Fearful that Ra’am would carry out its threat, the Coalition kowtowed to its demands.
Ironically, the Law passed at the same time that electricity was cut off to the tiny Jewish Chomesh yeshiva compound in northern Samaria, and comes on the heels of the government’s refusal to connect other fledgling Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria to the Israeli electrical grid.
Yesterday, Douglas Altabef, the Chairman of the Board of Im Tirtzu, wrote a piece in the Jerusalem Post entitled “The Year We Reclaim Our Resolve”. It echoes what we have been saying here at OneIsrael. I close today with several paragraphs from his article:
“I worry that we have lost the thread. The thread is that of our conviction in the justness, rightness and humanness of the Zionist dream and enterprise, and the willingness to act in accordance with that conviction.
Nowadays, we have adopted an accommodative mindset at every turn that smacks of appeasement and fear. In classic diaspora fashion, we worry what the Americans will think and what the Europeans will do.
We have forgotten our history and have replaced that awareness with a craven attitude towards the Palestinians and their benefactors that is rationalized as avoiding violence. We make concessions with no hope of reciprocity, other than the possibly of keeping a lid on things. Even worse, we have rationalized a dual set of laws and values for our own citizens, turning a blind eye to lawlessness whether it involves construction, extortion, or […] rioting.”
Sadly, Altabef could not be more correct.
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.