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10-11 April 2020
The News on the Israeli Street
The daily Corona update . . .
*As of 5 pm Saturday, there are 10,525 verified cases of Corona in Israel; 132 Israelis are being kept alive on respirators; 96 Israelis have died; 1,258 Israelis have recovered.
*Despite the travel ban into Israel, flights have continued to land at Ben Gurion Airport–particularly ones from the hard-hit areas of New York City and Newark.
A photo of passengers arriving at Ben Gurion Airport yesterday.
A significant percentage of passengers on these flights have tested positive for Corona (1/3 of all new Corona cases in Israel). As of Sunday morning, no flights will be allowed to land in the country until a legal mechanism is put into place that will enable the government to force all passengers to go to a Corona Hotel.
*According to the most recent update, the following six cities (in order) are the ones with the steepest rises in confirmed cases: Beitar Illit (33%), Bat Yam (25%), Jerusalem (12%), Beit Shemesh (11%), Bnei Brak (10%), and Ramat Gan (9%).
*In a bizarre incident on Thursday, the PLO in Ramallah announced that a Palestinian woman from Bethlehem had been admitted to an Israeli hospital some weeks ago, recovered, and had returned to Bethlehem. Your humble servant is not trying to be unhumanitarian, but in a situation in which Israel does not have enough hospital space for Israelis, one wonders who authorized the admittance of a Palestinian?
*Speaking of Palestinians, there are now 253 confirmed cases of Corona among Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, and 13 among Palestinians in Gaza. On Friday, the Palestinians in Europe (aka the European Union) announced that they would send € 71 million to Ramallah to fight Corona. Of course, we all know that € 71 million will really go straight into the pockets of the Mahmoud Abbas and his corrupt cronies. In addition, the utterly corrupt World Health Organization along with China, Qatar, and other Arab countries announced they were rushing assistance to the “poor Palestinians.”
The rains keep falling . . .
Another rainstorm has just soaked northern and central Israel to the tune of 36 millimters in the Golan, 29 in Katzrin, and 50 in the Jordan Valley. In the Golan alone, this past winter has seen more than 1 meter of rain!
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As a result, the Kineret is now only 9 inches short of full capacity–something not seen for many years.
TODAY’S BLOG:
The Insane Policy of the IDF: No Attack Without Warning
We have often written on OneIsrael how the Israel Defense Forces have been gradually transformed over the years by the humanitarian-obsessed IDF General Command from an aggressive, hard-striking fighting force into a passive, reactive military outfit.
Whether we are talking about rules of engagement that only permit IDF soldiers to fire in response to being fired upon in Judea, Samaria, or along the Gaza Border–or contacting Hamas and letting it know which buildings in Gaza are going to be struck before carrying out air strikes, the overriding directive in every case is that “no attack is sanctioned unless the enemy has been warned in advance.”
Anyone who violates this directive is immediately subject to demotion or court martial. It is a directive that not only subjects individual IDF soldiers to greatly increased danger, but also exposes Israel as vulnerable to attack.
Your humble servant mentions this today because on Friday the IDF spokesman warned the Syrian Army and Hezbollah that an attack on their joint positions along the Israel-Syrian border is imminent.
My question is simply: “Why in the world does Israel feel compelled to warn enemy forces in advance of an impending attack?”
There is nothing to be gained and everything to be lost.
The only result of such warnings is that the enemy lives to fight another day–and Israeli citizens are made even more vulnerable to attack.
It is an utterly insane military policy.
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.