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11:57 am: Israel’s Shin Bet security service captures an Israeli-Arab IS/Daas cell in Jaljulya planning to leave for Syria. More information will be forthcoming.
9:28 am: Palestinian stabbing attack thwarted. Palestinian terrorist from Hebron attempts to stab Border Guards near the Cave of the Patriarchs. No Israelis wounded; terrorist captured.
9:16 am: Palestinian shooting attack. Palestinian terrorists open fire on Jerusalem Police in Jebal Mukaber neighborhood of Jerusalem–the neighborhood whose checkpoints were idiotically removed by the Jerusalem Police last week. No police were wounded; terrorists escape.
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***Palestinian terrorism in the last 24 hours . . .
In what has now become a daily occurrence, Palestinian terrorists fired on IDF soldiers in several locations. For example at Turmusaya near Shiloh, three terrorists opened fire on an IDF jeep. Our soldiers returned fire killing one terrorist. The other two were captured. No soldiers were wounded.
To be an Israeli motorist or bus passenger in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem these days is to take your life in your own hands. Here are some of the “rock” and Molotov firebomb attacks yesterday in reverse chronological order: at Funduq (10:35 pm), at the 160 bus near Beit Ummar (10:24 pm), at Ofra (5:55 pm), at Ras al-Amud (4:18 pm), at Kiryat Arba (3:34 pm), at Adam (2:16 pm), Hebron (2:04 pm), at Sussia (12:13 pm), on the road beside the Cave of the Patriarchs (12:10 pm), at Hebron Hills (11:50 am), at Awa (10:13 am), beside El Be’er (9:52 am), at Mt. Carmel (8:19 am), and on and on.
Numerous Israelis were treated for shock in the above attacks.
***The ludicrous case of the rocket fire from Gaza yesterday . . .
If you have the “red siren” app on your telephone (no matter where you are in the world), you know that at 2:33 pm, Israelis in Zone 219 of southern Israel–the Sha’ar Hanegev area–were sent running to their bomb shelters by incoming missile sirens.
In the next few seconds, residents in Sderot reported hearing two explosions, and in the Chof Ashkelon area nearby, people heard three. One person in the area even took a picture of an Iron Dome intercept over his head.
Nevertheless, the IDF claimed it was all a false alarm. The IDF spokesman even put out the word (that the media then parroted) that no missiles were fired, and that the Iron Dome interceptor was “erroneously fired at machine gun fire” from Gaza.
Are you following this? A $1 bullet caused a $50,000 missile interceptor to be fired?
Except that none of this IDF hogwash was true.
At 12:29 am this morning, the IDF proudly announced that it had bombed “Hamas infrastructure (empty buildings and sand dunes) in Gaza in response to the missile “strikes” at southern Israel.
Note the word “strikes”; not only were there three missiles fired in the afternoon, but also there was another single missile fired in the evening that exploded close to the border fence.
Does this entire episode inform you yet again, dear reader, why no pronouncement of the IDF spokesman can be believed? Not only does does the Spokesman’s Office issue outright lies about missiles being shot, but it also lies about what the IAF hits in Gaza. Ludicrously, it does everything it can to protect Hamas.
***The ludicrous case of the Red Crescent, continued . . .
As you know from reading this blog, a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic ambulance was the first on the scene of the terrorist shooting attack last Friday night which resulted in the murders of Jacob (father) and Natanel (son) Litman, the wounding of another son, and the traumatizing of four more family members (mother and three daughters).
However, the Red Crescent Ambulance did not stop to aid the victims, a fact verified by one of the daughters as well as the MADA paramedics who finally arrived about 10 minutes later and saw the Red Crescent Ambulance parked some distance away from the point of attack.
Two days ago, Israel filed an official complaint with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) pointing out the failure the Red Crescent to treat the wounded Israelis. Yesterday, the ICRC ludicrously declared: “The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has immediately provided factual accounts, firmly rejected these allegations, and unequivocally reaffirmed its commitment to impartial response. The PRCS’ record of principled and strictly humanitarian action is uncontested and well recognized. The ICRC assessment is that the PRCS operates with professionalism and in full respect of the principles of the RCRC movement, including impartiality.”
Pure unadulterated horse manure.
But the ICRC is right about one thing: “the PCRS record is uncontested and well recognized.” For that matter, so is the ICRC record.
Both the ICRC and PCRS are well-recognized for their egregious anti-Semitism for having excluded MADA out of the organization for decades.
Israel has launched an international campaign against the Red Crescent that will go nowhere, but it is good that we are doing something.
***Speaking of doing something . . .
Israelstreet is happy to report that the Israel Foreign Ministry is also acting against the European boykott of products from Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Israel Golan Heights.
It was announced yesterday that not only have individual ambassadors from the 28 E.U. countries been summoned to the Israel Foreign Ministry for reprimands, but also contacts with these E.U. countries are being downgraded. In layman’s terms, E.U. ambassadors will no longer have direct access to the Israel Foreign Minister–they will need to deal with deputies and even sub-deputies.
In addition, E.U. access to Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Israel Golan Heights is being curtailed as are E.U. “building projects” in the areas.
In this latter regard, the boykott may have a silver lining after all. The E.U. has been openly flaunting every Israeli regulation in putting up Palestinian settlements throughout Area C of Judea and Samaria. Perhaps (we are not holding our breaths), this will come to an end.
***Speaking of a silver lining . . .
Ramot, part of municipal Jerusalem–with a population of more than 50,000.
It appears that the European boykott and events in Paris have finally spurred PM Netanyahu into long-overdue action. Yesterday, the Prime Minister’s Office approved marketing of land for construction of 18 new housing units in Ramot (where your humble servant’s son lives) and 436 new units in Ramat Shlomo.
These units have been frozen for more than 5 years.
Let’s hope that more projects in the pipeline will soon be given the go-ahead.
TODAY’S BLOG: The IDF Dramatically Downsizes
Almost unnoticed among the news this week has been an announcement by IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot that the IDF is about to undergo a major downsizing in the face of extensive budget cuts.
Of course the downsizing is being characterized as a move to enhance IDF “readiness and multi-branch interaction” which hopefully will take place, but the net effect is to reduce the size of the Israel Defense Forces.
One of the most dangerous cuts is to the IDF Bedouin tracking unit–which will lose 25% of its soldiers.
Bedouin trackers–an indispensable unit in the IDF, yet they are being reduced in number because of “smart fences.” A bad idea.
Also on the chopping block is Army Radio, Galei Tzaal.
Army Radio has been providing broadcasts for decades–and improves the morale of IDF troops.
But the axe is going to fall hardest on “career” soldiers whose numbers are being cut to from 44,000 to 40,000. The reason is simply that career soldiers are the most expensive in terms of long-term pensions. A large number of soldiers will now be forced to leave the service when they are 35 at which time they will receive a severance grant before trying to find a job in the private sector.
But the cuts are not all bad.
*The number of officers in the IDF General Staff at the Kirya in Tel Aviv is being cut. As events of the last decade have indicated, the IDF General Staff is a bloated, left-wing bureaucracy that often acts to the detriment of Israel.
*There will also be reductions in the Behavioral Science, Military Censor, and Military Rabbinate units.
In fact, there are two other units that your humble servant would like to see eliminated completely: the IDF Spokesman’s Office and the COGAT unit.
If they were scrapped tomorrow, we’d all be better off.
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.