Yom Shishee
Friday
14 Nisan 5782
April 15 2022
CHAG PESACH SAMEACH!
HAPPY PASSOVER HOLIDAY!
Pesach (Passover) 5782 begins at sundown tonight in Israel.
We here at OneIsrael wish all of you a wonderful seder with family and friends–and a wonderful holiday period.
From Passover.org:
Reliving the history of our people.
From Createwishes:
The Pesach plate!
From eventbrite.com:
Parting the Red Sea. Isn’t it odd how the name “Moses” is only mentioned once in the seder?
And of course the seder would not be the seder without matzot and the 4 glasses of wine!
Make sure to eat and drink well tonight!
The News on the Israeli Street
The PLO and Hamas are locked in a fierce struggle to gain primacy over the Al-Aksa Mosque on the Temple Mount. The questions for them are simply who can foment the most violence and who can better provoke Israeli soldiers and police.
This struggle has been abetted by our government with its loosening of restrictions on Palestinians coming to the Mount. Today has seen violent riots with dozens of rioters detained by police. According to Arab sources, 152 rioters were “injured”, 2 seriously. Apparently, the “injuries” were caused by rubber bullets and tear gas inhalation.
Many of those detained were put on buses and transported to the Ma’ale Adumim area where they were immediately released. They will be back at the Temple Mount by tomorrow.
Another part of the struggle for primacy on the Mount is who can deliver the most inciteful fake propaganda. This photo was just put up on Palestinian social media:
The Arabic reads that Zionists are making sacrifices near the Al-Aksa Mosque.
What this is actually a photo of is a chametz burning ceremony before Passover in the anti-Zionist Toldot Aharon community in Mea Shearim–which is several miles from the Old City and the Al-Aksa Mosque.
But never mind the truth. Already there are apparently tens of thousands of more Palestinians rushing to the Old City to “defend” Al-Aksa and “redeem it with their blood.”
Amidst all of this, Israel has already been condemned for what is happening on the Mount by the usual cast of motley characters: Jordan, the European Union, the PLO, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Ra’am Party which is threatening to leave the Coalition if the violence does not subside.
This ridiculous condemnation is the same that we go through every Ramadan no matter how many concessions we give to the Palestinians. When Ramadan and Passover coincide, it only makes things worse.
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.