22 December 2018
Photo(s) of the Day
On Friday morning, the above five were just common, ordinary, unknown Hamas terrorists. But during the day, in the process of attacking IDF soldiers with grenades, Molotovs, IEDs, and bombs, they were all dispatched and became martyrs.
Pardon the black humor, but what do you call five dispatched Hamas terrorists?
A good start.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
On the Gaza border:
Tens of thousands of Hamas foot soldiers attacked the border fence yesterday. As noted above, five were permanently dispatched; approximately 40 more were wounded.
One of those wounded was a Palestinian “journalist” operating in Gaza. “Reporting” from the fence near Al Bureij, the “journalist” was critically wounded when an IED thrown by a Palestinian terrorist blew up beside him.
In Judea and Samaria:
The primary flashpoints yesterday were at Qadum and Shechem where 34 terrorists were wounded while attacking IDF troops. Here is a short video from Palestinian television showing the firebomb attack on an IDF convoy in Shechem.
Missile production speeds up in Iran . . .
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced yesterday that they are accelerating development of ballistic missiles.
Ostensibly, this acceleration was said to be in reaction to American sanctions on Iran; however, coming as it did hours after President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, one can only surmise that one location of new Iranian missiles pointed at Israel will be in Syria.
Israeli technology to the rescue . . .
In case you have missed it, Gatwick Airport outside of London was closed for most of the last few days because of mystery drones that continued to reappear in the skies over the airport. More than 800 flights were canceled, and 120,000 passengers were stranded.
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Now, the airport has reopened thanks to the British Army deploying advanced anti-drone technology from the Israel’s Rafael Industries. According to Rafael, the “Drone Dome” provides “innovative end-to-end system designed to provide effective airspace defense against hostile drones used by terrorists and criminals to perform aerial attacks, collect intelligence, and other intimidating activities.”
A glitch in Israel’s rain radar . . .
A malfunction last week in the Israel Meteorological Service’s rain radar caused Israel’s cloud seeding efforts to be suspended. In recent years, seeding clouds with silver iodide has increased precipitation in Israel by 13%.
TODAY’S BLOG:
The Incident At Beitin: What Would You Have Done?
Try to wrap your mind around this set of facts, dear reader:
Two nights ago following numerous Palestinian shooting and car ramming attacks in the area, soldiers of the Netzach Yehuda Battalion of the Kfir Brigade set up a checkpoint at the intersection leading to the Palestinian settlement of Beitin. Their mission was to intercept terrorists who were attempting to escape back into Areas A and B after carrying out terror attacks in Area C.
Shortly thereafter, a car approached the checkpoint from the direction of Givat Assaf where two IDF soldiers were recently killed in a drive-by terror attack.
The car was ordered to stop. It did not.
Soldiers fired into the air; the car did not stop and accelerated toward the checkpoint.
At this point, the soldiers opened fire on the car, killing the driver and wounding another passenger in the front seat.
Subsequently, it was discovered that the driver of the car was a self-identified Palestinian from eastern Jerusalem, and that there was no weapon in the car. Of course, the car itself was a weapon.
So what do you think was the totally predictable outcome of this incident yesterday?
The IDF’s Military Advocate General’s Office announced that it is opening an investigation of the soldiers who fired on the car. That Office, which does all it can to deny IDF soldiers the ability to protect themselves, will undoubtedly haul up the soldiers before a court-martial.
Think about all of this for a moment. What would you have done had you been one of the soldiers and been confronted with such a car coming toward you? Of course, you would have fired at the oncoming car.
Soldiers who justifiably feared for their lives because of an oncoming vehicle in a terror zone which had ignored orders to stop will be treated like criminals.
It is beyond appalling but so completely predictable.
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.