All Warm And Cozy In Their Beds: The Unmitigated Hypocrisy of Our Government

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Yom Shleeshee

Tuesday

23 Shevat 5782

January 25 2022

Photo of the Evening

The snow has begun falling in the Golan.

The major snowstorm that blanketed Athens, Mykonos, and Santorini two days ago with temperatures at -10 C has made it to Israel this evening. Meteorologists predict a heavy accumulation in the Golan, the hilltops of Judea and Samaria, and in Jerusalem. Temperatures are expected to plunge below zero C.

Photo of the Day

Neither rain nor sleet nor hail will keep terrorists from trying to smuggle weapons across the Jordan border into Israel.

IDF forces and police spotted 3 suspicious vehicles on the Arava (Highway 90) yesterday. Upon intercepting them, they found 53 different weapons: 39 pistols, 10 Kalashnikov rifles and 4 M16s.

Unfortunately for every 3 vehicles that are stopped at least a dozen get through on the Jordan border which has become a hotbed of weapons smuggling.

The News on the Israeli Street

The news today is all about Corona:

There are an amazing 549,199 active cases of Corona in the country.

83,653 new cases were diagnosed yesterday.

856 Israelis are in very serious condition with another 245 in critical condition on ventilators.

8,488 have died. The daily rate has increased to more than 2 dozen per day.

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Hospitals are all reporting that they are on the brink of collapse not only because of the sudden massive influx of patients but also because of the dire shortage of doctors, nurses, and staff brought about by their contracting Corona.

On the Netanyahu front . . .

The former prime minister announced yesterday that, contrary to news reportage, he will not take a plea deal that would lead to his disgrace or inability to carry on with politics.

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All Warm And Cozy In Their Beds:

The Unmitigated Hypocrisy of Our Government

There is hypocrisy and there is utter hypocrisy. How would you describe this situation?

It was barely a month ago that our sorry excuse for a government voted for the “Electricity Law” which was created with for the express purpose of providing electricity to illegal Bedouin settlements scattered throughout the Negev and Galilee regions.

In the process of voting for that law, the Coalition voted against an amendment that would have provided electricity to the dozens of young Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. To put it a different way, the government happily threw these communities under the bus.

Fast forward to yesterday when Israeli television channels broadcast videos of shivering children in these communities huddled around makeshift stoves and campfires trying to stay warm in the freezing cold. 

These videos were coupled with news pieces about how security personnel are readying their vehicles to carry gasoline-powered generators to these communities to create “hot spots” to provide power during the expected intense snowstorm on Wednesday and Thursday.

A security guard putting chains on his tires in advance of the coming snow and ice storm so that he can deliver generators to young Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

So what do we have this morning?

Our thoroughly disgusting “Defense” Minister Benny Gantz announced that he is “working to approve” the connection of electricity infrastructure to “most of these communities.”

Gantz, who as “Defense” Minister has total decision-making power over Area C of Judea and Samaria, says that he will make “a final decision” on the matter in the coming days. Again, all Gantz has to do is sign an order and it will be done. 

But Gantz and the government are using electricity as a weapon against the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria. You may recall that it was Gantz who specifically ordered the cutoff of electricity and water to the Chomesh yeshiva compound in northern Samaria earlier this month in order to try to force the last holdouts of the yeshiva out.

Just after Gantz’s announcement, FM Yair Lapid chimed in that the young communities are “illegal outposts”, but that “Israel has a commitment there.” Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked declared:  “the connection to electricity in the young settlement is one of the most burning issues and important to me on a personal level.”

Tonight when the temperature drops below zero, and Gantz, Lapid, Shaked, and Bennett are all warm and cozy in their homes, you can be sure that they will not give a whit for the men, women, and children of Judea and Samaria.