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15 Elul 5782

September 11 2022

The News on the Israeli Street

Palestinian terror . . .

**The IDF reports that there have been more than a hundred shooting attacks since the beginning of the years with 80% of them focused in Samaria.

Shin Bet reports that another 200 shooting attacks have been foiled.

**Border Police officers thwarted a stabbing attack at the Al Jib checkpoint near Givat Ze’ev Sunday morning.

Gallivanters gallivanting again . . .

They just can’t stay home. PM Lapid is off again today–this time to Berlin of all places for yet another unnecessary meeting.

This will be followed early next week by yet another “Defense” Minister Benny Gantz junket to Washington.

You might be scratching your head and saying “Wasn’t Gantz just in Washington?”  Yes he was, a mere 3 weeks ago on a junket that took him to Florida and Japan as well.

Israeli taxpayer money down the drain. Again, and again, and again.

Ayelet Shaked flails about . . .

It was a mere month ago amidst all kinds of hoopla that Ayelet Shaked and Yoav Hendel announced the formation of a new party, Zionist Spirit.

As of this morning, Zionist Spirit is no more. After weekly polls showing that the party would not pass the threshold to enter the Knesset, Shaked has thrown in the towel and decided to join the old Beit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party.

Shaked’s fall from grace has been meteroric. From the darling of the “right”, she is now widely reviled because she entered the Coalition government based on the Islamic Ra’am Party.

Hot and hotter . . .

A new study shows that the rate of warming in the Middle East is nearly twice that of the global average.

According to data between 1981 and 2019, the temperature rise in the Middle East was 0.45 degrees C per decade–while the world average was 0.27 degrees C.

The study projects that “without taking necessary measures, by the end of this century, the air in [the Middle East] will warm by five degrees Celsius, which will likely be beyond the natural ability of people to adapt to the heat in certain countries.”

Moving out . . .

“We have two small children, and I don’t think it’s possible to give them the best possible future here. I know what they say and all the criticism about Berlin and Germany, and it’s not something we didn’t think about, but we’re in different times and I’m sure we can give ourselves a better life there.

We have to put the cards on the table – the cost of living and what happened here in the last year just broke us. I’m not even talking about the complex security reality here. Every day something else gets more expensive, apartment prices are already a joke mixed with sadness. It’s not destiny to live here.”

An Israeli housewife in an interview yesterday . . .

No other amplification is necessary.

TODAY’S BLOG:

The Disaster in the Galilee

Speaking of no other amplification being necessary, consider this graph of the evolving population of the Galilee region over the last 41 years:

Look at the bar graph. All you need to know is that the blue bars are the Jewish population while the gold bars are the Israeli-Arab population.

As you can see, the Jewish population is completely stagnant and is even proportionately less now (14.6%) than in 1979 (18.7%).

Even more dramatic is the actual population difference: there are now  more than 500,000 Israeli-Arabs as opposed to a paltry 100,000 Jews living in the area.  

And the disastrous trend appears irreversible.