Yom Rishon
Sunday
4 Shevat 5784
January 14 2024
UPDATE 9:00 PM
The Last 24 Hours in the South
A missile barrage from Gaza targeted Ashdod early this evening (18:52):
Ashdod and Yavne targeted this evening.
Most of the missiles were intercepted; one exploded at the Yavne Junction on Highway 4. No Israelis were wounded.
The Last 24 Hours in the North
An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon hit a house in Moshav Yuval this afternoon killing Barak Ayalon (48) a member of the community’s security team and his 70-year-old mother Merav–and wounding his father:
The home in Moshav Yuval that was hit by the anti-tank missile (note the hole in the side).
Merav and Barak Ayalon:
Because Barak was a member of the community security patrol, he has been listed as a fallen IDF soldier.
*4 Hezbollah terrorists were identified and killed near Mt. Dov as they infiltrated into Israel. In the firefight, 5 IDF soldiers were wounded–two seriously, and three moderately.
The Last 24 Hours in Judea and Samaria
2 Palestinian terrorists broke through a military roadblock near Misad in the Judea Mountains and opened fire on our troops. They were chased down and killed. In their car, soldiers found automatic weapons, ammunition, and an axe.
The Last 24 Hours in the Red Sea
American and British aircraft are now attacking Hodeidah in Yemen.
The Insanity Continues
October 7th was not enough to change the way we think. Israel just can’t get over its addiction to cheap Palestinian workers, and its nonsensical idea that the Palestinians are infants that cannot get along without our care.
Try to wrap your brain around this paraphrase of Shin Bet remarks on the subject of why Israel is now going to admit huge numbers of workers 45 years of age and older into Israel to work: “Many of them are not interested in escalation. Their economic situation allows them to live at a high level and take commitments from the banks in the West Bank that have run into difficulties due to the unemployment imposed on them. The continuation of the situation may lead them to extremism, and they know Israel and its weak points well.”
Say what?
Many of them are not interested in “escalation” (aka “terrorism”) . . . but some of them are?
Allows them to live at a high level and “take commitments” (aka “take loans”) from the banks that have run into difficulties . . . they cannot pay back the loans, so this is now Israel’s responsibility?
Due to “the unemployment imposed” on them . . . Israel is responsible for the unemployment caused by Palestinian terrorism?
The continuation of the situation may lead them to extremism, and they know Israel and its weak points well . . . just like the terrorists of October 7, they know where and how to attack Israel?
It is all just unbelievable.
We are so locked into the utterly failed concept of pre-October 7 security that we cannot see that we are going to produce another October 7th.
By the way, where are all the workers from Sri Lanka, India, and elsewhere who were supposed to replace the Palestinians? Apparently, their skills are just “not up to the standards” of Israeli contractors.
Bullsnort.
Israeli contractors simply do not want to pay more wages to foreign workers than they pay to Palestinians.
A Few Money Facts
*Thus far, the war has cost Israel 200,000,000,000 shekels (about $54 billion dollars).
*Israel Bonds surpassed $2.7 billion dollars in worldwide investments during 2023–helping out Israel at our darkest moment.
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.