7 Adar I 5779
12 February 2019
The Absolutely Correct Quote of the Day:
“Gaza is in fact a state in every respect: it has borders; it has an army and military industry; it has a Ministry of Health and a Ministry of Education. Israel must recognize Gaza as a state . . .”
Mordechai Kedar, speaking at a conference in Beersheva yesterday
How many times have you heard your humble servant express the same point: it is not “Gaza” or “the Gaza Strip”; it is the Palestinian state of Gaza.
Kedar continued:
“The state of Gaza is not just a state, it is a state writer who requires her enemy Israel to provide her with food, electricity and health. When a Gazan woman becomes entangled at birth, she is transferred through Erez Crossing to Israel and at our expense she gives birth to the next Shahid. If we cut this umbilical cord, if we recognize them as a state, we will oblige them to take care of their own food and electricity of their own.”
Your humble servant could not have said it better Dr. Kedar. What in the world keeps Israel from cutting the umbilical cord?
The Disgusting Photo of the Day:
What do you think you are looking at?
What are you looking at is a truck-crane with a wrecking ball destroying several small buildings belonging to a Jewish community member in Itamar. Our government has had months to raze the entire illegal Palestinian settlement at Khan Al-Ahmar and is yet to lift a finger.
But it has plenty of fingers to assault Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
The News On The Israeli Street
Still no “Pay To Slay” law enforcement . . .
We continue to wait on PM Netanyahu–acting as Defense Minister– to produce the necessary documents to reduce the amount paid to the PLO in the same amount that is paid to the families of dead terrorists.
What he is waiting on is unknown because we already have the numbers.
A study by Israel Hayom published today reveals that the PA has paid at least 230 million shekels (about 63 million dollars) in the past year to some 13,656 terrorist families.
It should be noted that in 2018 the PLO also paid 500,000,000 shekels (five hundred million shekels) to the terrorists in prison or terrorists who have been released from prison.
It is way past time to act PM Netanyahu!
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
In Judea and Samaria:
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Molotov and “rock” attacks targeted Israeli men, women, and children at Neve Daniel, the north Efrat Junction, the Gush Etzion Road near Hevron, and at 20 other locations.
At Beit Yatir, an Israeli farmer was bludgeoned in the head while he was out working his fields. He was evacuated to a nearby clinic in “fair” condition.
Just outside of Shechem (Nablus), IDF forces captured two terrorists armed with pistols and knives.
On the Gaza border:
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza launched dozens of more incendiary balloons. Some of them landed and exploded as far away as Ofakim. Police reported that other balloons that struck kibbutzes in the area not only carried explosives but also carried “toxins.”
There have been major clashes at Zikim following the arrival of a Palestinian “flotilla” which sailed for a couple of miles up the coast from southern Gaza. This is the 23rd such “flotilla” in recent months.
TODAY’S BLOG
“We Must All Hang Together”
“We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Benjamin Franklin, famously speaking at the U.S. Continental Congress just before the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
(and)
Bezalel Smotrich, head of the National Union Party in Israel, speaking today . . . sort of . . .
Of course, Smotrich did not say this in the same words as Benjamin Franklin, but he expressed the same sentiment.
What he was referring to was the realization which is slowing hitting the “right” that if Israel’s four parties on the right–National Union, Jewish Home, Otzma, and Yabad–do not run together under one banner, none of them will receive enough votes to have representatives in the next Knesset.
And if they do not have any representatives in the Knesset, they will not be there to join a coalition headed by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party.
And if they are not there to part of that coalition, there will be no new government coalition made up of parties on the “right”, and instead, we might see a coalition formed by parties on the left–and that would be a disaster for Israel.
In essence, we would all hang separately.
So let’s hope, dear readers, that Smotrich’s advice is followed and that sometime in the next 10 days during which a party and its list must be submitted to the elections board, these four parties will come together.
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.