The “Security Establishment” Call For More Dangerous Concessions To The Palestinians

Yom Reva’ee

Wednesday

22 Av 5783

August 9 2023

The Photo of the Day

If you said “a whale shark“, you would be correct. This unusual visitor was spotted by Nature and Parks photographers yesterday.

The Shocking News of the Morning

Not only the Israeli Police but also the abominable Israel Attorney General both petitioned the Supreme Court to keep in custody Jewish community member Elisha Yard involved in the Burka incident a few days ago.

Shockingly, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ronen issued this statement today: “It is going too far for the Supreme Court to intervene.”

She could have added: “intervene in a case of obvious self-defense”. The Police and Attorney General could care less about justice in this case. They are both concerned with how Israel appears in the international media.

The News on the Israeli Street

The war in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem.

**Shin Bet announced yesterday that it had thwarted a terror cell connected with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine operating in Judea and Samaria from carrying out shooting attacks in Israel. The cell was masterminded by Alam Kaabi, originally from Shechem who was imprisoned in Israel but then deported to Gaza as part of the Gilad Shalit deal, and subsequently moved to Lebanon. The cell totaled some 15 terrorists.

**A Palestinian terrorist from Hevron tried to ram through the Qalandiya Checkpoint into Jerusalem last night. He was stopped when Jerusalem Police shot out the tires on the car he was driving. A nearby driver in a car was injured when the terrorist’s car hit his. The terrorist was captured. Click here to see a 23 second video of the incident.

**Elsewhere, a Palestinian terrorist in a car threw a knife at Israelis in a car north of Ofra. No one was wounded.

Shooting attacks:

Palestinian terrorists opened fire on an Israeli bus near the Palestinian settlement of Umm Safa on Road 465. No Israelis were wounded; the terrorists escaped.

Palestinian terrorists opened fire on IDF troops in Beit Omer, north of Hevron.

IED, “rock”, and Molotov attacks:

Palestinian terrorists attacked northeast of Ramallah at Singil, on the Jerusalem-Gush Etzion Road between the Al Khader Junction and the Efrat Junction, near the Tapuach Junction, in the vicinity of Ariel, near the T-Junction in Gush Etzion, and at many other locations. 

Can you believe it? . . .

The outpost set up by Hezbollah in Israel on Mt. Dov is still standing—and still manned by Hezbollah terrorists.

This morning, Israel pusillanimously announced that “the IDF is pushing to resume talks on removing the outpost.”

Your humble servant wants to regurgitate.

The outpost should have never been allowed to be built and should have been blasted off the face of the planet once it was.

And all our vaunted IDF and government can do now is to “resume negotiations” to remove it?

Unbelievable.

The weather . . .

Israel continues to be immersed in a heat wave which is predicted to only get worse next week.

For example, high temperatures in Eilat will range from 111 F to 120 F for the week beginning on Sunday.

TODAY’S BLOG

The “Security Establishment” Call For More Dangerous Concessions To The Palestinians

It appears that there is no end to concessions that the “security establishment” in Israel is willing to give the Palestinians in order to curry favor with the Biden Administration and the European Union– and support “normalization with Saudi Arabia” (the new security mantra).

This list (in addition to the ones already reported here several days ago) appeared today:

1. Reduce IDF access to Area A. In other words, limit our ability to root out terrorists who have already struck Israel or plan to. This can only lead to more Israelis being murdered by Palestinian terrorists.

2. Allow more Palestinian construction in Area C, and stop destruction of illegally built Palestinian infrastructure and homes. In other words, further reduce our sovereignty in our ancestral home by encouraging Palestinians to move from Areas A and B to Area C.

3. Crack down on so-called “Jewish crime” in Judea and Samaria. The so-called “security establishment” has bought the Palestinian narrative about “Jewish terrorism” hook, line, and sinker. The brave community members out in Judea and Samaria are fighting to defend themselves from the daily onslaught of Palestinian terror.

4. Minimize the closing of crossings allow the entry and exit of trucks loaded with goods from Israel to the PA territories and vice versa thereby facilitating business relations between citizens on both sides of the crossings, and of course the entry of more than 150 thousand Palestinian workers every day to work in Israel. In other words, facilitate the already rampant smuggling of weapons that goes on.

5. Continue the pilot program which enables Palestinians to fly abroad through the Ramon Airport near Eilat. Why is this Israel’s responsibility? Instead of busing Palestinians to Ramon, why aren’t they bused through the Rafah Crossing to an Egyptian airport or through Allenby to a Jordanian airport.

6. Develop the gas field off the coast of Gaza. How in the world is this going to stabilize the Palestinian economy? Every dollar in revenue will go straight into the hands of terrorist Hamas and the terrorist PLO.

7. Release “sick and elderly” Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prison. Those supposedly “sick and elderly” prisoners are ones that murdered or attempted to murder Israelis. They should rot in prison. They would return to terror the minute they stepped out prison gates.

8. Release the corpses of dead terrorists. Can you even believe this? Why would we even contemplate giving back bodies of terrorists when Hamas has been holding onto the body parts of our dead soldiers since 2014?

The question is whether any of these outrageous and dangerous proposals will even be brought to a vote in the Cabinet or merely presented by Netanyahu as a fait accompli like the 4 new concessions he announced last week.

Our only hope is that they will be brought to the Cabinet where Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir can at least vehemently object.