16 Elul 5777
7 September 2017
The News on the Israel Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
*Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli motorists with “rocks” and Molotovs between Elon Moreh and Itamar, in Gush Etzion, at Beit Ummar, at various places along Road 443, near Hawara, and at the Jerusalem Tunnels among other places.
*A stabbing attack was thwarted at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron when alert Border Guards spotted a man moving suspiciously.
*Masked Palestinian terrorists armed with knives breached Yeshivat Chumash last night and attacked students who were there studying Torah. The students were able to fend them off and summon security forces; however, the terrorists escaped.
The Palestinian Medical Tourism Disaster . . .
This morning comes news that the loathesome Palestinian degenerate Saeb Erekat has somehow managed to wrangle his way back on to the National Transplant List–despite denials by the National Transplant Center.
If we are to believe the news, Erekat has vaulted his way back to a high place on the list.
Erekat, one of the most despicable anti-Israel villains on the planet, is in desperate need of a lung transplant following years of heavy smoking. If he receives a lung transplant in Israel, the head of the Transplant Center should be fired.
Erekat’s “situation” has brought into sharp relief the whole problem of Palestinians flooding into Israeli hospitals and taking places that should be for Israelis. There are numerous examples among the PLO and Hamas leadership. Mahmoud Abbas’ wife recently received care at Assuta Hospital; many members of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s family have been treated here; the current leader of Hamas in Gaza who daily vows Israel’s destruction, Yihye Sanwar, underwent a life saving operation at a hospital in Israel.
But it is not just the Palestinian terrorist leadership seeking treatment here. The recent scandalous situation in the pediatric oncology department at the Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem–in which Israeli children were turned away–was caused by the ward being full of Palestinian children.
According to the Lavi organization, Palestinians are now consuming hundreds of thousands of hospital days in Israel–virtually all of which are paid by Israelis. This is double the number of just 5 years ago.
The situation is out of control.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Evicted After 50 Years!
A Happy Ending For the Shamesneh Sqatters
If you haven’t been in the United States or Europe for an extended period of time, you most likely have not been treated to the nonstop parade of self-proclaimed “humanitarian” NGOs that come begging for money.
Groups like “Breaking the Silence”, “The New Israel Fund”, “B’Tselem” and others are regular stars of the “Let’s Trash Israel” lecture circuit.
Over the years, one of the most egregious of these groups has been the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement–of which I have already written extensively (click here for an extensive piece I wrote about Sheikh Jarrar). It focuses on what the Palestinians call the “Sheikh Jarrah” neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem, and what we Israelis call the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood.
One part of eastern Jerusalem just north of the Old City Walls. Up the hill to the left of the photo is the Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus. Note that the orange section in the middle: the Sheikh Jarrar/Shimon HaTzaddik (Simon the Righteous) neighborhood.
The Sheikh Jarrar Solidarity Movement makes its money by describing Palestinian “misery” and Israeli “brutality”–the bread and butter of all the “humanitarian” pro-Palestinian NGOs operating in Israel. Articles are written, lectures are given, and movies are produced.
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One such movie, “My Neighborhood,” describes the travail of “poor” young 14-year-old Mohammad Al-Kurd and his “pitiful” family who were protected from a Court-ordered eviction for years by a motley assemblage of Israeli and international leftists who took up residence outside the family’s front door.
All of which brings us to the Shamesneh family. For some 50 years the family has been squatting in a home that belonged to a Jewish family before 1948.
In 1948, the Jordanians ethnically cleansed eastern Jerusalem of all Jews, and the Jewish family who owns the home where the Shamesneh eventually squatted was forced to abandon their home and flee with what they could carry on their backs.
However, since 1967, Israelis who can prove ownership of property in eastern Jerusalem can reclaim it.
And so a long fight began.
Finally in 2009, the Shamesneh family received a notice of eviction.
Which was immediately appealed. For years.
Another notice of eviction came on January 1, 2013. Once again, a series of appeals halted the eviction.
In the meantime, the Shamesneh family became the newest Pallywood stars with articles and movies about them.
Like a bad reality TV show: the Shamesneh family squatters posed outside of the Jewish home they had squatted in for the last 50 years.
In my undercover role, your humble servant watched an entire movie about the Shamasnehs in 2014 in a church in northern California. Here’s a paragraph that appeared in The New Yorker magazine back on April 9, 2013:
There are ten family members living in two miniscule rooms at the house . . . : Mohammad and Amaal Shamasneh; their six children, ranging in age from eleven to twenty-two; and Mohammad’s elderly parents. “We grew up here,” Mohammad Shamasneh said recently, in Arabic, as Amaal plied my translator and me with cakes and strong coffees. “I have all my memories here. I have all my history here, and for someone to come out of nowhere, and to say that there is an heir to this property, and claim it is their property, it is as though they are taking all my history, all my life, and cancelling it.”
Miniscule, children, elderly, all my memories . . . well, this is the story of fraudulent story of Palestinian misery and Israeli brutality.
The good news is that this story has a happy ending.
After 50 years of illegally squatting, and nine years of resisting eviction orders, the Shamesneh family was evicted at 7 am on Tuesday morning by the Israel police.
And the house was returned to its rightful owners.
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.