24 Tivet 5780
21 January 2020
Absurd Quote of the Day
“After the elections, will will work to apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley in coordination with the international community.”
Benny Gantz, head of the Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) Party
Apply Israeli sovereignty in coordination with the international community? What planet is Gantz living on? The number of countries in the world that will support Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley is minuscule at best.
The latest news is that PM Netanyahu will have a Jordan Valley Annexation Law brought to the Knesset floor next week. Seeing is believing.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
In Judea and Samaria:
The result of one of several attacks at Tekoa last night.
Tekoa (two Israelis wounded), Kiryat Arba (“a number of” Israelis wounded), near the Maccabim Checkpoint, Kfar Beit in Gush Etzion: these were a few of the places where Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis with “rocks” and Molotovs.
Along the Gaza border:
*Three armed Palestinians infiltrated into Israel this evening. They were intercepted by IDF forces in a wooded area. In the ensuing firefight, all three terrorists were killed.
Yet another explosive “balloon” yesterday–this one hit in Sdot Negev.
*Explosive “balloons” of all shapes and sizes struck several places along the Gaza border yesterday. No Israelis were wounded and no fires were started (because of the heavy rain).
*The balloon cluster that made it to Jerusalem yesterday at Mesilat Zion prompted an unnamed senior government official to declare that if a balloon or balloons reach Jerusalem during the upcoming Holocaust conference, then the IDF will severely attack Hamas.
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What are we to infer from this statement? Obviously, that the lives of politicians visiting Israel are more important that the lives of Israelis living in southern Israel.
Do you realize that . . .
. . . PM Netanyahu has not yet been indicted? After all the media hoopla, after all the pre-trial hearings, after all the political chaos, the prime minister still has not been formally indicted.
What’s the hold up?
Attorney General Mandelblit cannot file the formal indictments in the Jerusalem District Court until the immunity question is settled in the Knesset (or Netanyahu decides to withdraw his immunity request).
But even if the Knesset decides to reject immunity for Netanyahu, the prime minister still has recourse in the form of a petition-appeal to the High Court of Justice.
Another example of a Netanyahu promise broken . . .
In the past few weeks, we have observed that Netanyahu’s modus operandi is to go out in Judea and Samaria after a terror attack, make promises of new construction or something else, and then freeze whatever it is that he has promised.
Two years ago, Netanyahu traveled to Gilad Farm after the murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach and promised that he would immediately have Gilad Farm connected to the national power and water grid thereby providing normal electricity and water to the community.
Well, those two years have passed and guess what?
Gilad Farm still has no electricity and no water.
TODAY’S BLOG
10 Suicide Attacks, 4 Attempted Kidnappings, 300 Shooting Attacks
Today’s Blog will be short but not sweet.
Speaking yesterday, Shin Bet Director Nadav Argaman said that 10 Palestinian suicide attacks, 4 attempted kidnappings of IDF soldiers, and 300 shooting attacks against Israelis were thwarted during 2019.
For all the talk that comes out of the mouths of pro-Palestinian supporters about how the Palestinians eschew violence, the numbers speak for themselves. The PLO and Hamas remain as committed to killing Israelis as ever–and would have killed who knows how many last year were it not for Israel’s Shin Bet.
The battle between Israelis and the forces of evil emanating from Gaza as well as Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria never stops.
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.