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7 pm Israel time, Thursday, May 14 2015
**Iranian ships fired shots over a Singapore-flagged cargo vessel in the Persian Gulf this afternoon. The ships then entered the territorial waters of the United Arab Emirates.
By the way, the Iranians are still holding the Marshall Islands-flagged Maersk Tigris and its crew after hijacking and kidnapping them last month. The Iranians are continuing their attempt to extort money from the Maersk company.
Do you remember what the Obama Administration idiotically said about the Maersk Tigris? “The Iranians will release it in a few days.”
**What is going on with PM Netanyahu?
If you happened to have been in Israel during the January-March election campaign, you would have seen that the two Likud stalwarts who appeared everywhere encouraging people to vote for Netanyahu were Gilad Erdan and Miri Regev.
And yet now, when ministerial portfolios are being doled out, both Erdan and Regev are ending up on the short end of the stick. Every request for a position by Erdan has been rejected, and Regev is being relegated to the second tier of ministerial appointments.
Is this because Netanyahu senses a threat from Erdan and Regev? Almost certainly “yes” in the case of Erdan. Interestingly, Netanyahu’s treatment of Erdan follows almost exactly a sickening pattern he established with Moshe Kahlon and Gideon Sa’ar, two other rising stars in Likud who were throttled by the PM–and both of whom eventually left Likud.
Even more than this, what in the world is Netanyahu thinking about in terms of leaving the Foreign Ministership unfilled? Could it really be that he is saving it for Isaac Herzog? Your humble servant cringes nauseatingly at the thought–but again it would fit Netanyahu’s pattern of placing a leftist in the government to give him “cover”–as he did with Tzipi Livni in the last government.
Herzog as foreign minister would be an unmitigated, unadulterated (pardon the redundancy), complete disaster.
**Here are Netanyahu’s latest appointments:
Moshe Ya’alon: Minister of Defense
Yuval Steinitz: Minister of Energy and Water Resources (including being Minister in charge of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, and member of the Security Cabinet)
Yisrael Katz: Minister of Transportation and Minister for Intelligence Affairs, and member of the Security Cabinet)
Miri Regev: Minister of Culture and Sports
Ofir Akunis: “a minister” in the Communications Ministry–but Minister of Communications remains in Netanyahu’s hands
Haim Katz: Minister of Welfare
Danny Danon: Minister of Science, Technology and Space
Yariv Levin: Minister of Tourism
Tzipi Hotovely: Deputy Foreign Minister
TODAY’S BLOG:
Palestinian terrorist incitement to violence is something that Israeli leaders often decry to the international community, but it is something that goes in one ear and out the other.
Why do we in Israel demand an end to Palestinian incitement?
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Simply because we in Israel see its effect everyday as our fellow citizens are stabbed, shot, assaulted, and run over by Palestinian terrorists.
What forms does the incitement take? Endless speeches extolling violence by PLO and Hamas leaders; endless “textbooks” used in Palestinian classrooms depicting Jews in abominable ways; endless naming of streets, schools, and public buildings after terrorist murderers; endless calls to violence in the Palestinian media including social media; endless events like the one described yesterday in which the 3 terrorist murderers of the Israeli reservists were honored.
There is no end to it.
Today we have had more examples of the relationship between incitement and terrorism.
Perhaps the most egregious was what happened at the Gush Etzion intersection of Alon Shvut at 1:15 pm. To understand what happened, one only need to look at three “cartoons” that appeared in the Palestinian media in recent months.
The first appeared on the Fatah (PLO) Facebook page this past November:
Note the car has the colors of the Palestinian flag.
The meaning of the cartoon is clear. Palestinians should use their cars as weapons to run over Jews. Here is a more recent one with the same message:
The writing in this “cartoon” exhorts Palestinians to run over Jews. Note the Kipat HaSela (Dome of the Rock) in the background.
Here is yet another one–in which the message is obviously that the Palestinians have a religious obligation to attack Jews.
Let’s go back to what happened today.
At 1:15 pm, a Palestinian terrorist, 22-year-old Muhammad Arfaaih from Hebron, veered his black Subaru at a high speed into the hitchhiking station at the same Alon Shvut intersection in Samaria where the kidnappings of the three teenagers took place last summer and a stabbing and car-ramming took place several months ago.
Note the left front of the car which crashed into the Israelis–and note the front windshield that was cracked when one of the victims was tossed into it.
Four Israeli young men were wounded by crashing impact of the car, two “seriously” and two “moderately”. They varied in age from 16 to 24, and all of them were affiliated with the nearby Yeshivat Har Etzion or the high school in Efrat. Miraculously, no one was killed.
The direct result of Palestinian incitement: 0ne of the young men wounded today (picture: zaka, 0404).
Perhaps the next time that you hear about Palestinian “incitement”, dear reader, you will remember the true meaning and result of that incitement.
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.