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Yom Shnee

Monday

21 Tammuz 5783

July 10 2023

The News on the Israeli Street 

The war in Judea and Samaria.

Shooting attacks:

The dead terrorist at Neve Tzuf.

A Palestinian terrorist with a rifle and IED was shot dead at the Neve Tzuf Checkpoint in Samaria just before noon today. No soldiers or civilians were wounded.

Palestinian terrorists fired on IDF forces at Nur Al-Shams near Tulkarm.

Palestinian terrorists opened fire on Israeli civilians at the Gitti Avishar Junction.

Palestinian terrorists attacked IDF forces operating in Shuafat.

Stabbing attack:

A Palestinian woman attempted to stab Israelis at the Ammunition Hill light rail station in Jerusalem. She was shot in the leg and moderately wounded. No Israelis were wounded.

“Rocks”, IED, Molotov attacks:

Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road near Beit Omer, in the Bir Zeit Bridge area, north of the archaeological site on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road and at two dozen other locations.

TODAY’S BLOG:

Pay To Protest

The scenario of the next 24 hours goes like this.

First, the Knesset will approve the first reading of the so-called “Reasonableness” clause in the judicial reform at some point this evening.

Second, we will awaken tomorrow morning to massive disruptions all over the country by the same anarchists who are burning fires in the streets. 

As was pointed out in the leftist Jerusalem Post this morning by regular columnist Herb Keinon, the problem for the anti-government leaders is that their movement is not attracting any new anarchists: 

“. . . while picking up steam again, the protests are not expanding. True, tens of thousands of people are turning out week after week in Tel Aviv and elsewhere to protest, but it appears to be the same tens of thousands . . . the organizers of the protests have not succeeded in widening the demographic of the protesters . .  . It’s the same old same old. The same old slogans, the same old speakers, the same old methods, the same old demographics turning out to protest week after week. A protest movement, even it continues for 100 weeks, runs its course if it cannot attract new people to join, and this protest–by all appearances–has been unable to do that.”

Not that the anarchist anti-government leaders are not trying.

One story published this week, reported that children in run-down south Tel Aviv are now being paid to “protest.”

And of course, the anarchists are trying to enlist the aid of shopping mall owners, hotels, restaurants and anyone else they can find to let their workers off tomorrow so they can join the so-called protest.

The mall owner of “Big” announced yesterday that all of his malls  throughout the country will close tomorrow. He was immediately hit with a backlash from the tenants of those malls who said that the mall owner was ruining their businesses–and they would not close.

Whereupon, “Big” has announced this afternoon that it will in effect pay tenants to close by not charging them rent tomorrow.

All in all, whether we are talking about Sudanese children in south Tel Aviv or business owners in Big, this “Pay To Protest” smacks of pathetic desperation.