Yom Shleeshee
Tuesday
21 Av 5783
August 8 2023
The Threat of the Day
“Our missiles cover Israel from the north to Ashdod, we will return Israel to the Stone Age.”
A Hezbollah spokesman on Lebanese radio this morning.
The News on the Israeli Street
The war in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem.
Shooting attacks:
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on civilians near Kfar Khobar.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on IDF troops in Zabada near Jenin.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on IDF troops in Yavd.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire on IDF troops in the Askar neighborhood of Shechem.
IED, “rock”, and Molotov attacks:
Palestinian terrorists attacked an Israeli family in this car near Singil. Look at the small hole in the upper right of the windshield. The “rock” that went through at this point wounded the husband who was driving; he had to be evacuated to a hospital. The wife and children in the car were treated for trauma.
Palestinian terrorists tried to murder Israelis on Road 60 between Singil and Shilo (Israeli wounded in the head, MADA paramedics attacked), Road 465 west of Ma’ayan Meir, Road 466 between Givat Assaf and Beit El, Turmus’aya (Israeli wounded), Road 446 near Shukba, near Araka, between Azzun and Shomron, and at two dozen other locations.
Follow-up to the attack in Syria two nights ago . . .
It turns out that six Syrians and Iranians were killed in the attack including a senior Iranian engineer in charge of a new project. Other targets included Hezbollah trucks, an underground storage facility, and anti-aircraft batteries.
The Netanyahus take a short vacation . . .
In advance of 7 international travels in the coming three months, PM Netanyahu and his wife Sara are taking a well-deserved two days of rest at one of your humble servant’s favorite hotels: the Panda Hotel in Neve Atif— high up in the Golan right on the Lebanese border near the base of Mt. Hermon.
Of course, having heard this announcement, hundreds of anarchists set out for Neve Atif yesterday to try to disrupt the Netanyahu’s stay.
However, Neve Atif is only accessible by extremely narrow, curving roads–and is permanently gated against possible terrorist incursions. The police have now set up roadblocks all over the area, and no one but hotel guests and local residents can get through. Ironically, anyone waving an Israeli flag or having one attached to their car (sadly, a symbol of the “protests”) is being turned back.
But to show you how crazy the “protesters” have become, take a look at this photo from yesterday:
Going overland to try to elude police roadblocks, this group was nevertheless intercepted a short time later and forcefully turned back.
Don’t go to a hospital in Israel . . .
New statistics show that in 2018 and 2019, just over 7,600 Israelis died from exposure to infection in hospitals.
In hospitals.
Termed “bacteremia“, the infections usually killed 25% of the patients within 30 days, and the rest within a year.
Between 2018 and today, an estimated 25,000 more Israelis have died the same way–more than died from such diseases as colon and breast cancer.
This information has personal significance to your humble servant. My 93-year-old father-in-law has now been hospitalized for 54 straight days for a stroke, and broken hip for which he had surgery 4 weeks ago. Yesterday, it was determined that he too has now contracted bacteremia in the past few days, and will be treated for it this afternoon.
Don’t leave your children in locked, parked cars . . .
Yesterday on a hot afternoon, another child was left in a locked car in Jerusalem. When he was spotted by passersby, one of the back windows of the car was broken out, and the boy was taken to a hospital in “serious” condition.
In hopes of avoiding such negligence on the part of parents, the head of United Hatzalah rescue services made the following short video yesterday describing how to fry schnitzel. Be sure to watch it until the end.
Click here to see how to fry schnitzel.
TODAY’S BLOG:
We Are Our Own Worst Enemy
“There has been an increase in nationalist crime and Jewish nationalist terrorism in recent months, which pushes Palestinians who were not involved in terrorism to carry out terrorist attacks.”
This outrageous statement was made on Israeli radio yesterday by the IDF Spokesman. That spokesman is part of a unit that is thoroughly infested with self-described “progressive liberals” who will go to any length to blame Jews for Palestinian terror.
In the view of the IDF Spokesman Unit, any Jew living in Judea and Samaria is a “nationalist terrorist”, whereas any Palestinian living a Judea and Samaria is “a poor peaceful Palestinian.”
It is the same unit that came to work wearing pink last week so that they could show uniformity when they went to see the movie “Barbie”.
The statement above was made in reference to the events at Burka three days ago.
As you will recall, a 19-year-old Palestinian man was killed by a Jewish community member from Oz Zion.
As soon as the news of his death was broadcast by all Palestinian media, the Israeli left went into action.
Every single leader of the left from Yair Lapid to Gideon Saar condemned the Jewish community member for “murdering the Palestinian” as did every left-wing media outlet in Israel from Yediot Ahranot to the Jerusalem Post. He was also condemned by members of the IDF General Staff as well as the IDF Spokesman’s Unit.
They rushed to condemn him without one shred of evidence that he had perpetrated any crime.
And of course, all of those condemnations quickly found their way into the international media that used the opportunity to roundly condemn Israel once again.
This cycle of “Palestinian media–>Israeli left including the IDF General Command and Israel Police–>Israeli media–>international media” condemnations has repeated itself ad nauseum over the years.
Now, belatedly, the media is finally picking up the actual facts of the story. Lying on the ground with a gaping wound in his head from a “rock” thrown by a Palestinian and about to have his head completely smashed in, the community member fired in self-defense.
And yet, all evidence to the contrary, the Israeli Police are still trying to arrest the community member this morning who is still lying in a hospital bed in intensive care recovering from brain surgery.
We are indeed our own worst enemy.
Addendum: a sad story from Bnei Brak this morning, told by an unnamed person to inn.com:
“Yesterday an 83-year-old Jew named David Bilinkov died; he was wounded in the Yom Kippur War, and in fact the war was not over for him until he died.
David was orphaned by his mother at the age of five. In the Yom Kippur War he was shot in the head, and half of his body was paralyzed for the rest of his life. After the war, everything had to be relearned, including reading.
Despite the severe injury, and even though he had no family, he was a person with a good mood, who did not complain and always asked others for peace.
For decades he would spend every Shabbat with his neighbors in Housing D in Bnei Brak, the Bodenheimer family, my wife’s grandparents.
I remember David dragging himself with difficulty to sit at the Shabbat table every week. Many other members of the neighborhood took care of David over the years, each in a different way.
In recent years he was in a nursing home in Petah Tikva. He made sure to send money from there to charity, to take care of others as well.
Yesterday at the funeral he returned to the housing he loved so much. Many, many residents of the neighborhood also returned to pay their last respects to the special figure who had been part of the landscape all these years.
In the eulogies, they talked about his good nature and the fact that he didn’t complain, about his sociability, about his amazing memory (he remembered every birthday of our children) even though after the war his memory was erased and he had to relearn the alphabet like Rabbi Akiva did at the age of 40.
Sometimes we hear about someone who was injured in a security incident, and after a few hours or days it drops off the public agenda. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and here is one Jew, David, who carried the injury for 50 years.
The notice of mourning today reads ‘Mitzvah: all his relatives died’. A deceased person who has no relatives – we are all his relatives. We have started several initiatives to study Torah for the uplifting of his soul, and the public is invited to join in any idea and way, for the uplifting of the soul of David Ozer ben Yitzchak.”
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.