25 Kislev 5779
3 December 2018
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Chanukah, our 8-day holiday of freedom and light, began last night at sundown. Israelstreet wishes each of you a wonderful holiday full of family, friends, latkes and souvganiot!
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in Judea and Samaria . . .
Palestinian terrorists throwing Molotovs and “rocks” attacked Israelis on a bus near Hizma, and in cars at Jinspott, Immanuel, on the Gush Etzion Road near Hevron, al-Bireh, Beit Anun, on Road 458 south of the Gidon Junction, Kiryat Arba, Beit Surik, and El Khader among other places.
Speaking of Palestinian terrorists . . .
The government finally approved a bill yesterday that will freeze all medical payments to terrorists.
If you can believe this, terrorists who have killed and/or wounded Israelis have been receiving Israel’s National Health Insurance while they are in prison. Not only have Israelis been paying for these terrorists to recover from whatever wounds they might have received while carrying out their terrorism, but also for any other health problems that the terrorists have during their subsequent years in prison.
This law is long overdue, but it will probably only be a matter of time until the Israeli Supreme Court rules that the new law is not “humanitarian” and does not take into account the “rights” of the terrorists.
Meanwhile down in the South . . .
In what has to be one of the most absurd Cabinet decisions of all time, the Netanyahu Security Cabinet approved PM Netanyahu’s 700 million shekel plan to “strengthen civilian resilience in Sderot and other border communities.”
Strengthen civilian resilience? The citizens of southern Israel have shown nothing but resilience in the face of a decade of constant attacks by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza. What this money is for is not for “civilian resilience” but for dealing with the aftermath of Israeli Security Cabinet cowardice.
The only way that life in the South will ever improve is if the threat is removed–and that will likely never happen as long as the same pusillanimous people lead our government.
Elsewhere in the South . . .
The Ministry of the Economy agreed yesterday to invest 170 million shekels to develop six new factories in Dimona, Arad, Netivot, and Yeruham.
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It is expected that the factories will employ more than 300 workers.
This investment is part of an attempt to get Israelis to move to the periphery and out of the super-densely overpopulated coastal regions of the country.
TODAY’S BLOG:
“Minimizing The Relative Progress In The Transfer of Money”
It’s blackmail time again.
Despite the massive assaults on the border fence, the firing of 500+ missile and mortars at southern Israel, and the continued launching of hundreds of incendiary devices into our southern communities, Israel is once again facilitating the forking over of another $15 million dollars from Qatar to Hamas.
However unlike the last blackmail payment, both Israel and Hamas are aiming this time to “minimize the relative progress in the transfer of money.”
Say what?
In other words, no photographs will be permitted of the suitcases carrying the cash, and no official statements about the blackmail will be made by the Israeli government or Hamas. The handover of cash will be strictly under the table this time.
According to our idiotic National Security Council Chairman, Meir Ben-Shabbat, all of the 15 million dollars paid last time was paid to “authorized Hamas institutions” and not to “terrorist organizations.”
Excuse me, but your humble servant thought that all parts of Hamas–including authorized Hamas institutions–are part of one terrorist organization named Hamas.
By the way, contrary to what Ben-Shabbat would have us believe, the first blackmail payment went largely to “employees” of Hamas’ military wing (aka “terrorists), the Hamas “defense establishment”, and the families of terrorists who have been wounded or permanently dispatched since last March.
Pathetic. Outrageous. Infuriating. What word would you use to describe how Israel facilitates the payment of blackmail money to Hamas?
Your humble servant would choose all three.
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.