26 Tammuz 5778
9 July 2018
Broken Record of the Day:
“We reject the Trump Peace Plan, and we will not allow anyone, including the Israeli government, to interfere with the money being transferred to the families of the martyrs.”
PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, speaking last night at meeting of the PLO Central Committee and emphasizing that the PLO will continue paying money to the families of terrorists.
“We reject. We reject. We reject.” This is all the Palestinians have ever done. However, with a number of Arab countries apparently on board with the Trump Peace Plan, the problem for Abbas is that a good portion of the Arab world–not to mention the Trump Administration–is now rejecting him.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Yet another fire in what is left of the Beeri Forest.
Another day, another 24 fires in such places as the Beeri Forest, the Shokeda Forest, and the Simchoni Forest. Hundreds of more dunams were torched, and still the IDF reacts helplessly to the onslaught.
Israeli jets hit T4 again . . .
Isn’t it odd how Israeli aircraft can bomb the daylights out the Iranian T4 base hundreds of kilometers away near Homs, Syria, and cannot stop incendiary devices being launched on our southern border?
In any case, another part of the base was struck last night destroying more missiles and weapons being stored by the Iranians and their proxies. Nine militants at the base were reportedly killed. In the course of the attack, the Israeli planes flew directly over Damascus.
The most powerful countries in the world . . .
The magazine U.S. News and World Report has issued its annual list of the world’s strongest countries. The list is based on political, economic, and military power. A total of 80 countries were evaluated; here were the top 10, beginning with most powerful:
The United States, Russia, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates
Israel? Number 8 in the world? Interestingly, the magazine summed up Israel in one lukewarm paragraph:
“Despite its strained relationship with many of its neighbors and its population of only eight million, Israel has a large presence on the global stage, thanks in part to its close relationship with the US. Despite the Palestinian conflict, the country has a strong economy.”
Your humble servant would offer this paragraph instead:
“Despite its strained relationship with many of its neighbors and its population of only eight million, Israel is a leader in virtually every form of scientific and technological endeavor. Its presence on the global stage is underscored by teams of Israeli volunteers which quickly appear at the site of every natural disaster or calamity. Israel’s economy has one of the highest growth rates in the world and one of the lowest numbers of unemployed.”
Another laughable leftie is denied entrance . . .
Following in the footsteps of the vehemently Israel basher Ariel Gold who was turned back at Ben Gurion Airport this past week, another pro-Palestinian Israel-hating Jew was not allowed through the Allenby Crossing from Jordan last night.
Benjamin Ladraa, who has trekked across Europe and the Middle East for the last 11 months attacking Israeli “occupation” and “human rights violations” at every venue along the way, had his journey unceremoniously stopped by Israeli authorities.
Again copying Gold, Ladraa posted this selfie and tweet:
Ladraa may be smiling, but Israel just had the last laugh.
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By the way, Ladraa has it all wrong. What happened last night did not happen because of the “power of his activism.” It happened because of the recognition that his message is not one of peace but of anti-Israel hatred.
Another blow against lefties . . .
The IDF’s Chief Education Officer announced yesterday that the left-leaning Mandel Institute will no longer be involved in the “training” (read “indoctrination”) of young IDF officers at the IDF Tactical Command College.
Why Mandel was ever involved is beyond your humble servant’s comprehension. According to a news release: “Under the guidance of the Chief Education Officer, an in-depth investigation of the program was carried out, and at the end of which the Brigadier General Farayzin decided that the Mandel Institute would stop training the young officers.”
Given the IDF General Command’s decided tilt to the ideological “left”, the decision to drop Mandel was surprising.
TODAY’S BLOG:
No, Pope Francis, Christians Will Not Disappear from the Middle East
An abandoned Christian home in Bethlehem; note that the anti-Christian graffiti has been painted over. Christians have been leaving Bethlehem under pressure from Palestinian Muslims ever since the Oslo Accords gave control of the city to the PLO back in 1994 (photo: Fox News).
The statistics are startling. From comprising 20% of the population of the Middle East back in 1900, Christians now comprise only 4%.
We all know the reason why.
Wherever Muslim extremists have taken control, from the Taliban in Afghanistan to Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to the Palestinians in Bethlehem, Christians have been either killed or persecuted to the point that they leave for somewhere else.
We all know this to be true . . . except for Pope Francis.
In a speech to Catholic church leaders in the Italian city of Bari on Saturday, Francis blamed “superpowers” and their “search for profits” as the driving force behind the Middle East’s “war clouds, violence, destruction, occupation, various kinds of fundamentalism, forced emigration and neglect.”
It is actually not too surprising that Francis, the social activist, would try to pin the blame for the dwindling Christian population on superpowers and corporations, nor is it surprising that the one word that was missing from his litany was “Muslim”–since many of Francis’s closest friends are Muslims such as Mahmoud Abbas.
In any case, the Pope concluded that Christians may disappear from the Middle East: “[There is] a danger that the presence of our brothers and sisters in faith will disappear and change the face of the region.”
No, Pope Francis, Christians will not disappear from the Middle East because there is one place where they are flourishing and their numbers are increasing.
Israel.
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.