27 Kislev 5779
5 December 2018
Happy Chanukah!
It is already the happy 3rd day of Chanukah here in Israel (image courtesy of rotter.net).
The Totally Bizarre Photos of the Day:
At Khan Al-Ahmar yesterday.
If you can believe this, the nightly demonstration at Khan Al-Ahmar last night featured praise for the Palestinian’s newest hero, recently fired CNN analyst Marc Lamont Hill–who was fired for proclaiming that Palestine should be “free from river to the sea” (the Hamas mantra). Attending and participating in the demonstration were members of the PLO, fake “journalists”, and other terrorists.
More photos from last night.
Khan Al-Ahmar is located about 5 miles from where your humble servant is currently sitting in the Ramot suburb of northern Jerusalem. Why is still has not been razed can only be answered by PM Netanyahu who refuses to allow the court-ordered demolition to take place.
The News On The Israeli Street
We’re number one! . . .
As noted above, your humble servant happens to in Ramot this morning, a huge northern suburb of our eternal capital of Jerusalem.
According to Euromonitor International yesterday, Jerusalem ranks number 1 in the world this year in terms of % increase of tourist visits. 38% more tourists have visited Jerusalem this year than did last year. This comes on top of a 32% increase in 2017.
Palestinian terror in Judea and Samaria in the last 24 hours . . .
Hawara, Al Aruv, the North Efrat Junction, Tulkarm, Hizma, Road 60, the El Khader Junction, the tunnels checkpoint, Beit Anun, Beit Furiq, Hevron, the large Yitzhar Junction, Anatot, Beit Haggai Junction, Deir Nizam, Itamar, and Tapuach were all places where Palestinian terrorists assaulted Israelis with Molotovs and “rocks” yesterday–as reported by citizens to Rescue Judea and Samaria, hakolohayehudi, and rotter.
Along the Gaza border . . .
Germany, whose Chancellor Merkel continues to spend her time calling European heads of state demanding that they not move their embassies to Jerusalem, proposed a 54.4 million Euro payout to the the Palestinians in Gaza yesterday. Supposedly, the money would be used for elecricity and infrastructure, but we all know where it would actually go.
On the Iranian front . . .
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Satellite photos confirmed yesterday that Tehran is sinking.
Yes, sinking.
At a rate of 25 centimeters per year.
The most densely populated city in its part of the world, Tehran is sinking because of the continuing extraction of water from the aquifer that runs under it.
TODAY’S BLOG
Four Theories About The Timing of Operation Northern Shield
As it turns out, your humble servant was correct in his assumption that the IDF has long known about the tunnel that was suddenly revealed yesterday as part of Operational Northern Shield. An IDF spokesman at a news conference let it be known that Israel has known about it since 2014.
That revelation infuriated residents of the North yesterday because they had been told for years by the IDF that there was no tunneling going on and they were imagining the digging sounds they reported.
Actually, the 2014 date may even be another IDF lie. Reports yesterday indicated that Brig.Gen. Yossi Langotsky, a tunnel expert, told the IDF 14 years ago that Hezbollah was tunneling into Israel. He apparently was ostracized in the IDF for making the report.
There was still no explanation from anyone yesterday about why the tunnel was suddenly made public now. Your humble servant suggests four possibilities in order of probability from most to least:
1. The tunnel project is meant to distract the public from impending indictments of Netanyahu in Cases 2000 and 4000. [The option favored by the Israeli media.]
2. The tunnel project revelation is meant to distract the public from the government and IDF’s utter failure with Hamas. [The option favored by those of us in the South].
3. IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot is being replaced in January. The tunnel project is meant to cover his hind end from accusations that he did nothing in regard to Hezbollah during his term in office.
4. The tunnel project revelation is a prelude to an attack on Iranian-Hezbollah missile factories in Lebanon–the connection being that by allowing Hezbollah to take root in and under Lebanese soil, Lebanon has forfeited any right to claim it should be immune from Israeli attack.
The truth is that Operation Northern Shield has been in the works for some time, but all 4 of the above probably played a part in the decision to go forward now.
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.