21 Tammuz 5779
24 July 2019
Ridiculous Quote of the Day
“We want quiet, but we are preparing to embark on a campaign for a large-scale military operation that will launch a military strike that the Islamic Jihad and Hamas have not absorbed to this day. I cannot elaborate, but the partners in these preparations, who are sitting here, know very well that these are not nothing, we want quiet, but we are preparing for a battle.”
PM Netanyahu speaking yesterday on Mt. Herzl at the annual ceremony for the soldiers who died in 2014 during the war with Palestinian Gaza.
“Preparing to embark on a campaign for a large-scale military operation that will launch a military strike that the Islamic Jihad and Hamas have not absorbed to this day?”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Who is kidding whom? Since the 2014 war with Gaza ended, 2519 missiles and mortars have rained down on the citizens of southern Israel. What has our government done to stop this?
Absolutely nothing.
Netanyahu is all campaign bluster when it comes to Gaza. But when he says that he cannot “elaborate”, he is telling the truth—there is nothing to elaborate about.
The News On The Israeli Street
From the Gaza border:
The daily attacks on the security fence continue yesterday with Hamas trucking hundreds of terrorists to a point where they could attack our soldiers:
The daily “parade”. This picture was taken yesterday by a Hamas photographer.
Disgraced former PM Olmert was in the South yesterday speaking to residents of Sderot. At a point in his talk, he became annoyed with the tone of questions from the crowd who thought that it is immoral that our government does nothing to protect our citizens.
Olmert’s response: “Do not preach to me about morals. In the wars with Gaza, we even suffered in Jerusalem, but we did not complain.”
Can you believe this? How can convicted criminal Olmert have the gall to talk to anyone about morals? And “we even suffered in Jerusalem”? Is he talking about the fact that Jerusalem received two or three missiles while the South has been on the receiving end of more than 10,000?
From Judea and Samaria:
Twenty three more terrorists were captured last night by members of the Ephraim Brigade. Caches of weapons, ammunition, and money were discovered.
More than a dozen “rock” and Molotov attacks were carried out by Palestinian terrorists throughout the area.
From Jerusalem:
Remember the Saudi blogger who was attacked yesterday by Palestinians as he came off of the Temple Mount after praying at the Al-Aksa Mosque?
The police arrested three residents of eastern Jerusalem in connection with the attacks.
However, and unfortunately, the Saudi was stripped of his Saudi citizenship last night by King Salman of Saudi Arabia for his pro-Israel blogs (just like other Saudi bloggers, it would not be surprising if he ends up dead). In the same breath, the King denounced Israel for demolishing the illegally built buildings beside the security fence in the Wadi Hummus area of Sur Baher. The king termed it “aggression and dangerous escalation intended to harm the presence of Palestinians in Jerusalem and to change the composition of its residents.”
So much for moderate Saudi Arabia.
Israel on the attack again:
The IAF struck more missile storehouses in Syria last night. These were in the Dara’a and Quneitra areas:
The attacks were just across the border.
Not surprisingly, the attacks in Iraq two days ago are now thought to have been carried out by Israel.
TODAY’S BLOG
Thank You To the U.S. House of Representatives!
The House passed Resolution 246 overwhelmingly yesterday by a vote of 398-17 with five abstentions. This was after the brouhaha caused by Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib who urged its defeat.
The wording of the purpose of the resolution was very specific and reads in its entirety:
RESOLUTION
Opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel.
Whereas the democratic, Jewish State of Israel is a key ally and strategic partner of the United States;
Whereas since Israel’s founding in 1948, Congress has repeatedly expressed our Nation’s unwavering commitment to the security of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state;
Whereas American policy has long sought to bring peace to the Middle East and recognized that both the Israeli and Palestinian people should be able to live in safe and sovereign states, free from fear and violence, with mutual recognition;
Whereas support for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians has long-standing bipartisan support in Congress;
Whereas it is the long-standing policy of the United States that a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should come through direct negotiations between the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, with the support of countries in the region and around the world;
Whereas it is a hallmark of American democracy for citizens to petition the United States Government in favor of or against United States foreign policy;
Whereas cooperation between Israel and the United States is of great importance, especially in the context of rising anti-Semitism, authoritarianism and security problems in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa;
Whereas the Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS Movement) targeting Israel is a campaign that does not favor a two-state solution and that seeks to exclude the State of Israel and the Israeli people from the economic, cultural, and academic life of the rest of the world;
Whereas the BDS Movement targets not only the Israeli government but also Israeli academic, cultural, and civil society institutions, as well as individual Israeli citizens of all political persuasions, religions, and ethnicities, and in some cases even Jews of other nationalities who support Israel;
Whereas the BDS Movement does not recognize, and many of its supporters explicitly deny, the right of the Jewish people to national self-determination;
Whereas a founder of the BDS Movement has denied the right of the Jewish people in their homeland, saying, “We oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No Palestinian, rational Palestinian, not a sell-out Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”;
Whereas university-based BDS efforts violate the core goals of the university and global cultural development, which thrive on free and open exchange and debate; and
Whereas the BDS Movement promotes principles of collective guilt, mass punishment, and group isolation, which are destructive of prospects for progress towards peace and a two-state solution: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) opposes the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS Movement) targeting Israel, including efforts to target United States companies that are engaged in commercial activities that are legal under United States law, and all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel;
(2) affirms that the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement undermines the possibility for a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by demanding concessions of one party alone and encouraging the Palestinians to reject negotiations in favor of international pressure;
(3) urges Israelis and Palestinians to return to direct negotiations as the only way to achieve an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict;
(4) supports the full implementation of the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014; 128 Stat. 4075) and new efforts to enhance government-wide, coordinated United States-Israel scientific and technological cooperation in civilian areas, such as with respect to energy, water, agriculture, alternative fuel technology, civilian space technology, and security, in order to counter the effects of actions to boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel; and
(5) reaffirms its strong support for a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resulting in two states—a democratic Jewish State of Israel, and a viable, democratic Palestinian state—living side-by-side in peace, security, and mutual recognition.
Your humble servant may not agree with everything in the Resolution, but congratulates the House on making a formidable anti-BDS statement.
So, you might ask, who were the 17 House members who voted against the Resolution?
16 were Democrats–led by Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
The others were: Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, André Carson of Indiana, Debbie Dingell of Michigan, Jesús García of Illinois, Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Barbara Lee of California black, Betty McCollum of Minnesota, Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, Chellie Pingree of Maine, Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, Bobby Rush of Illinois, and Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey.
Shortly before the vote, Tlaib tweeted this:
“House Foreign wants to move forward with HR246 anti-BDS bill to silence opposition of Israel’s blatantly racist policies that demonize both Palestinians and Ethiopians. Our 1st Amendment right to free speech allows boycott of inhumane policies. This bill is unconstitutional.”
So now Tlaib is a champion of the Ethiopian-Israelis?
And to think, absurdly and outrageously, that she will be coming here soon.
But for now, Kolekevod to the U.S. House of Representatives!
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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.