Yom Chamishee
Thursday
3 Sivan 5782
June 2 2022
The Pathetically Sickening Quote of the Day
“When you are a Palestinian child living next to a separation wall, what do you think this child will grow up with? What do you think a child who sees the houses of their parents, their brothers and sisters demolished because he or she was a suspected or real terrorist will feel? What kind of hatred will burn in this child? What do you think will happen?”
European Union Representative Sven Kuehn von Burgsdorff (a German), speaking at the “Middle East Peace Conference” in Jerusalem yesterday.
What a biased piece of horse manure.
Let’s rephrase the German’s remarks:
“When you are a Palestinian child living next to a separation wall which was erected after 169 suicide bombings that murdered more than 1100 Israelis, what do you think this child will grow up with? What do you think a child who sees the houses of their parents, their brothers and sisters demolished because he or she murdered Israelis will feel?”
What kind of world are we living in when a German EU representative can come to Israel and malevolently dismiss the terror perpetrated against Israelis?
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists attacked this car on the Hussein Bypass yesterday. It was one of 5 attacked at the same spot.
Other attacks:
Palestinian terrorists struck Israeli motorists with “rocks” and Molotovs between Adora and Telem, north of the British Police Junction near Mizra a-Sharqiya, on Road 55 between Azzun and Nabi Elias, on Road 55 at Ponduk, north of Kiryat Arba, at Gilad Farm, at Curve 160 between Kiryat Arba and Hevron, at the Pharmacy Checkpoint in Hevron, near Har Gilo, at Luban a-Sharqiya, at the Avraham Hassano Junction, between Alei Zahav Square and Baruchin, and at dozens of other locations.
Palestinian terrorists stole equipment and vandalized property at an Israeli vineyard near Migdalot.
TODAY’S BLOG:
The Importance Of Our Israeli Flag
The huge PLO and Israeli flags that were hung in Ramat Gan yesterday. Shortly after they were raised, the PLO flag was taken down after a nationwide outcry (Photo Avraham Sasson).
Your humble servant grew up in rural Georgia (a town with a population of about 2,500). Every Memorial Day, my brother and I were rousted out of bed at about 5 am in the morning by our father. Into the family station wagon we went along with some 1,000 American flags.
For the next six hours, we went to every cemetery in the town and county, and put an American flag on the grave of every person who had served in the U.S. Armed Forces. We placed flags on the graves of Revolutionary War soldiers to soldiers who fought in the Korean War (this was prior to Vietnam). We even made a special trip each year to an African-American church whose cemetery contained the grave of a Buffalo Soldier.
Not merely a disconnected “symbol”, the flag was and is an integral component of who we were and what we believed in. It was always to be treated with the maximum respect.
I was thinking about this on Sunday in Jerusalem as we walked in the Flag Day March. My shirt had an American flag on the back over which was written that along with faith and family, the flag is of the utmost importance. Interestingly, as we were walking through the Muslim Quarter back up to the Jaffa Gate, I felt a gentle tap on the back.
A smiling man told me how much he appreciated the message on the shirt, and then asked me if I was from the southern United States. I told him “Yes” and asked him where he was from. His answer: “Atlanta.” It turned out that we had grown up only about 120 miles apart. Again, he reiterated his respect for the flag–as we both waved the Israeli flag.
On Tuesday after the Flag March, the Jerusalem Post published its oped of the day–this one entitled “Flag Overkill.” In it, the editors concluded that the PLO and Israeli flags are “just symbolic”. The editors continued: “Granted, symbols are important, but they are not all important . . . A strong, confident country is not spooked or unnerved by someone else’s flag. Israel’s sovereignty is not at risk because of some Palestinian flags.”
The editors of the Jerusalem Post could not be more mistaken.
There is no such thing as Israelis exhibiting “flag overkill.” Every Israeli flag that we see on homes, highway overpasses, schools, government buildings or in the hands of children and adults reminds us of who we are–and instills pride.
Israel’s sovereignty is definitely at risk in such places as the Temple Mount–partly because we have given the Islamic Wakf permission to wave PLO, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad flags there. Because our enemy’s flags can be waved at will, these terror organizations have come to believe that the Temple Mount is theirs.
Now we see PLO and Hamas flags being waved on Israeli university campuses, in Israeli-Arab towns and cities, on buildings in Ramat Gan (above) and in other venues throughout the country. What message does this send our enemies?
And yes, unlike what the Post editors declare, the Palestinians are our enemies–Oslo Accords or no Oslo Accords. Any entity whose sole purpose is the delegitimization and elimination of Israel is our enemy.
One way we fight that enemy is by waving our flag.
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.