Yom Chamishee
Thursday
8 Tammuz 5782
July 7 2022
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The Photo of the Day
Sunrise over the Golan Heights this morning (photo Menahem Gabriel).
The Video of the Day
The Discovery of the Day:
The Oldest Writing Of Its Kind Ever Found in Israel
Actually not of the day but ten years ago at the Gihon Spring in Ir David (the City of David) in Jerusalem–but not translated until the last few weeks:
The tablet that was discovered. Look closely, can you make out the writing?
A drawing of the tablet’s writing:
What language do you think this is?
The tablet which is 26.7 cm wide and 20.8 cm long contains 63 letters and 20 words in Proto-Canaanite script. In other words, it is dated to between the Middle to Late Bronze Age–when Jerusalem was a Jebusite city prior to the arrival of King David.
What does it say? It is a curse against the person who was in charge of Jerusalem at the time–either a Minister or King. It has taken ten years to decipher it.
The News on the Israeli Street
Today’s startling Corona update . . .
12,019 Israelis tested positive yesterday (out of 35,695 tested) bringing to 74,131 the number of active patients in the country.
The positive test rate was 33.67%; the coefficient of infection was 1.04%.
364 Israelis are seriously ill; 66 are critically ill—53 of these are on ventilators.
11,042 have died. A startling increase of 58 dead since the last Health Ministry report.
58 dead.
And there are only a few voices suggesting that people start wearing masks indoors again.
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
IDF forces with 3 captured terrorists (photo IDF).
IDF troops operating in Hevron, Silwad, Malach, Na’alin, Beit Amin, Tekoa, Tarkumiya, and al-Khader captured 24 Palestinian terrorists–including 14 in Silwad alone.
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli buses between Hizma and Anatot and near Luban a-Sharqiya.
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli motorists on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road between Karmi Tzur and Beit Omer and at the north Halhul Junction, between Ariel and the Giti Avishar Junction, between Har Gilo and the Tunnels Checkpoint, and between Hizma and Adam among other places.
Security forces captured the Palestinian terrorists who was responsible for the stabbing
The Israel-Turkey “rapprochement” continues . . .
Following the assistance that Turkey just provided Israel in tracking down Iranian terrorists targeting Israelis in Istanbul comes news this morning of a new aviation agreement.
As you may not have been aware, Turkey has not allowed Israeli airlines to fly to Turkish destinations for several years despite the fact that Israel has allowed Turkish Airlines to fly to Israel.
The ostensible point of contention was the fact that Israel puts undercover armed security guards on all planes, though the reality is that Erdogan used this is an excuse to cover his vehement anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism.
In any case, now that Turkey desperately needs tourist money, Erdogan is suddenly friendly to Israel again.
TODAY’S BLOG
The Brazen Palestinian Takeover Of Jewish Historical Sites Accelerates
Some of the Herodian ruins at Sebastia. Part of the famed colonnade is visible down the road.
The Palestinian erasure of Jewish history from Judea and Samaria continues while no one in our government lifts a finger to stop it.
Just a few days ago, the Palestinians held a ceremony at Sebastia (8 miles northwest of Shechem) to commemorate its “Palestinian origins.”
In case you may not remember, the original name of Sebastia was “Samaria” and “Samaria” came to refer to the central area of the land of Israel–and still refers to it today.
Samaria served as the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th and 8th centuries prior to its destruction after a three-year siege in 720 BCE by the Assyrians. The Assyrian king Sargon II wrote: “Samaria I looked at, I captured; 27,280 men who dwelt in it I carried away.”
For the next 700 years, Samaria was captured and destroyed repeatedly by the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and others, until it was rebuilt in 27 BCE by King Herod–who renamed it Sebastia. Following the Herodian period, Sebastia was taken over by the Romans, Crusaders, Syrians, and Turks–and by 1596 had deteriorated to being home to only 20 families (according to the Turkish census).
Why is your humble servant relating this history?
Because at no time did “Palestinians” have any connection to the city much less being its founders.
Incredibly and moronically, it was Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres who in 1994 signed off in the Oslo Accords to placing Sebastia in Area B–meaning that the Palestinians were given administrative control over the area while Israel was supposed to maintain security control.
But Israel does nothing to thwart Palestinian intentions, and those intentions are to take over sites and announce to the world that they have always been “Palestinian.” It is a complete rewriting of history.
That rewriting continued yesterday as a Palestinian delegation showed up at an ancient Maccabean fortress near Modi’in to claim it as their own.
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.