Yom Chamishee
Thursday
30 Tevet 5784
January 11 2024
UPDATE 5:00 AM
The Pathetic Blinken Visit To Ramallah Yesterday
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken in Ramallah making his mandatory visit to PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Look at the red circle, do you notice anything missing?
Isn’t it amazing that after the hundreds of millions of dollars of American taxpayer money that has gone into the pockets of the PLO, Abbas is perfectly content to trash American diplomats at every visit–refusing to display the traditional large American flag when they come to Ramallah. All we see is just a tiny table model.
He won’t display the flag; he demands more money; he continues to pay salaries to murderers and their families, and, and, and. And the U.S. continues to swallow all of this and slobber all over Abbas as the person to take over Gaza on “the day after.”
Unbelievable.
*Try to wrap your mind around this.
Israel let 150 trucks carrying flour into Gaza yesterday. We know from our hostages who have been released that they are lucky to receive half a pita a day to eat.
Half of a pita.
Why in the world didn’t we tie increased humanitarian aid to the Palestinians to humanitarian aid to the hostages?
*We now know that 25 HamISIS terrorists who have been wounded since October 7 have been treated in Israeli hospitals.
At times they were put in hospital rooms beside our wounded soldiers.
Just disgusting.
UPDATE 5:00 PM Yesterday
*As we have been writing for days, the war in Gaza is winding down. Today we have a statement that “there is effectively no more Hamas rule in Gaza” coming from the ever-unctuous mouth of War Cabinet member Benny Gantz. One hour ago, Gantz held a press conference in which he insisted that the war is continuing according to plan except to say that the number one priority now is the return of the hostages.
*A new Qatari proposal calls for HamISIS to change its name, the leaders of HamISIS to be exiled, and the hostages to be released in stages in tandem with the withdrawal of IDF forces.
*On top of all this and in response to Biden arm-twisting, Israel has now apparently signed off on 400 more humanitarian aid trucks–and a withdrawal of forces from the crucial north/south axis in Gaza. If those troops withdraw, there will be no way to stop Gazans who fled south from returning to the north.
*Our soldiers continue valiantly fighting and dying in Gaza. Last night, the IDF announced the death of Maj. Elkana Neulander of Efrat. Maj. Neulander was a combat medic. May his memory always be for a blessing.
*In the last hour, mortars have struck Nahal Oz on the Gaza border, and missiles have hit Arab Al Aramshe on the Lebanese border.
*Numerous drones and missiles from Yemen were shot down last night over the Red Sea.
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.