26 Sivan 5778
9 June 2018
The Picture of the Day:
How do you celebrate your 71st wedding anniversary? By making aliyah to Israel!
Deborah (91) and Norman (93) Levitz became Israel’s newest citizens yesterday when they arrived at Ben Gurion from Chicago. They were then taken to their new home in Beit Shemesh. Mazeltov!
The News on the Israeli Street
Hezbollah refuses to leave southern Syria . . .
Here on israelstreet, we have already reported on the phenomenon of Hezbollah fighters along Israel’s northern border donning Syrian Army uniforms. Yesterday, we discovered that this act of subterfuge was more widespread with Hezbollah forces throughout southern Syria now fighting in Syrian uniforms.
And dying.
Nasser Jamil Hadarj, a senior aide to Lebanese head Hassan Nasrullah was killed in the fighting yesterday.
But the bottom line here is that the agreement by which Hezbollah and Iran were supposed to pull their forces out of southern Syria is worthless.
The American withdrawal from the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Appeasement Agreement has World Cup results . . .
Nike has announced that it is supplying shoes to all of the teams participating in the World Cup except one–the team from Iran.
For their part, the Iranians are “outraged”; their Portuguese coach, Carlos Queiroz, has filed a formal complaint to FIFA, the governing body of world soccer. According to Queiroz: “Every player is used to his equipment, and it’s not fair to change their habits a week before such important games.”
Your humble servant has only one thing to say:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What goes around, comes around.
Speaking of the Nuclear Weapons Appeasement Agreement . . .
As we all know, the European Union, led by European FM Federica Mogherini, has been the leading force behind trying to maintain the Agreement and prop up Iran. Hardly a day goes by that Mogherini does not engage in another rant blasting President Trump’s decision to withdraw.
So it should come as no surprise that on his recent whirwind visit to Europe, PM Netanyahu refused to meet with Mogherini.
One would think that this refusal would have been met with praise back in Israel and indeed it has–except among those expected to oppose Netanyahu in the next election. One such person is Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid Party who blathered this piece of nonsense today:
“I am not enthusiastic about the positions of Federica Mogherini, the EU foreign minister, but she is not the enemy. I met her more than once. Netanyahu’s decision to boycott it is a mistake. It is impossible to meet only with those who agree with him.”
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What hokum. With every action she takes and every statement she makes, Mogherini proves time and again that she is the enemy of Israel– whether Lapid has met her or not. And by the way, Netanyahu did not only meet with those who agreed with him. What about the despicable Macron? Or Theresa May?
TODAY’S BLOG:
What Can We Learn From Yesterday’s Funerals In Gaza?
Yesterday’s violent demonstrations on the border were a distinct disappointment to Hamas.
In the first place, not very many “people” showed up, and secondly, “only” four terrorists were killed while attacking Israeli soldiers.
Another way to measure the Hamas failure is by looking at the funerals of two of those four terrorists. Here’s a picture from one:
What’s missing in this picture?
Answer: “People.”
There are only about 15 people carrying the dead terrorist through the streets. In a place where such processions have regularly garnered thousands if not tens of thousands, only 15?
And where are the hordes of international photographers that always accompany such processions? As you can plainly see, there is only one photographer at the scene.
Here is a second procession from yesterday:
What’s missing here?
Answer: the same as above.
This is not to say that there are not large funerals in Gaza, but it is to say that it’s not so easy for Hamas to generate outpourings of crowds anymore.
Maybe they never could.
After all, there was never anything even approaching the one million person march that Hamas called for. Do your everyday Palestinian Gazans have Hamas fatigue? Do Palestinian Gazans see that nothing has changed on the border?
Do Palestinian Gazans understand that there is no going to Israel ever?
They probably don’t have, see, or understand any of the above, but your humble servant would like to think so.
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.