21 Nissan 5779
26 April 2019
Photo of the Day
Out on the Gaza border this morning.
Take a close look at the two people holding flags. The man on the right is holding two Palestinian flags. The man on the left, who is wearing a press vest, is waving an Algerian flag.
There are two points to be made.
First, press vests are handed out in Gaza like candy–especially to Hamas terrorists. There are no such things as “journalists.”
Second, the flag scene in Gaza is crowded with every Palestinian-supporting country in the world trying to gain publicity and credibility by “fighting” against Israel. Turkish flags, Libyan flags, Syrian flags, Hezbollah flags, Iranian flags, and Algerian flags are just a few of the flags interspersed among Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Palestinian flags.
The News On The Israeli Street
Palestinian terror on the Gaza border . . .
An estimated 4000 terrorists have spent the last few hours throwing grenades, Molotovs, “rocks”, and other projectiles at our soldiers guarding the border fence.
What a surprise . . .
The foreign coalition in Syria–Russia, Iran, and Turkey–issued a joint declaration today condemning the American recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
No surprise . . .
Khaled Masha’al, Hamas political head, announced in a press conference today that Hamas is having to manufacture its own weapons in Gaza because Israel and the U.S. have made it much more difficult to smuggle them in.
TODAY’S BLOG:
The Honey Road: From IDF Chief Of Staff To Israeli Politician
What has happened to recently replaced IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot?
Let’s face it. In recent years, the leadership of the IDF has turned into a leftist, passive, pusillanimous entity that will do anything possible to avoid pro-active action against terrorists in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria.
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At the same time, the IDF General Command has devolved into rank political correctness–proud of the fact that it prosecutes and hamstrings IDF soldiers for defending themselves (remember Elor Azariya), and proud of the fact that it exposes IDF soldiers to enemy fire in order to avoid taking out terrorists (think of the bizarre 2015 episode at the Shifa Hospital with Benny Gantz).
The fact is that virtually every IDF “military” leader these days does not want to be one. They all are chomping at the bit to enter politics. And for some reason, which your humble servant cannot understand, they all think that in order to be a politician they must be a politically correct leftist.
We have to look no further than this month’s election. Who were the main heads of the “center-leftist” Blue and White Party challenging Netanyahu? Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, and former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon.
It is all extraordinarily pathetic.
Following in the pathetic steps of the above three has been IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot whose term ended in at the end of March. As we all know, Gadi Eizenkot spent his term of service forming a close relationship with Hamas and subsequently bombing empty buildings and sand dunes.
So when Eizenkot said “I will understand where I want to go, in search of the next significant thing that I want to do,” we all knew exactly where he was going and what his plans are for the future.
It turned out this morning that Eizenkot is headed to Washington, D.C. where he will become a “research fellow” in the leftist think tank founded by Martin Indyk, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
And guess what after that?
He has requested that his mandatory “cooling off period”, the amount of time he must wait before entering Israeli politics, be shortened from 4 years to three years or even two.
But read Eizenkot’s incredibly disingenuous comment:
“I did not shorten my cooling-off period because of a desire to enter politics.”
What a joke. Of course Eizenkot wants to enter politics–and to enter at the first opportunity.
After all, politics is where the money is made.
It is the honey road.
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.