Yom Shabbat
Saturday
12 Nisan 5784
April 20 2024
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Our OneIsrael Campaign For Our Soldiers
IDF soldiers on the ground need basic protective gear, armaments, and supplies.
Even during the recent Iranian attacks soldiers were forced to lie in open trenches to protect themselves from incoming missiles and drones as they have been doing for months on the Gaza and northern borders.
OneIsrael is now engaged in a campaign to help protect our soldiers. This campaign will extend through Passover and to Shavuot.
Please consider donating to our campaign by clicking on the donate button in the right hand column on this page. All donations go directly to our soldiers.
Thank you to those of you who have already contributed to the protection of our brave men and women in uniform!
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UPDATE 9:00 AM
On the Ground in Gaza
Sderot was targeted by incoming missiles at 8:02 pm last night.
Five missiles targeted the city; one was intercepted–the others apparently exploded in “open spaces”. It remains mystifying to us here at OneIsrael how the Palestinian terrorists in Gaza continue to fire missiles at the citizens of southern Israel.
In Gaza itself, IDF forces continued their operations in the Nuseirat neighborhood, and 6 terrorists were killed in Rafah. The IDF now projects (optimistically) a scaled block-by-block entry into Rafah in 2-3 weeks.
Israel’s Attack on Iran: More Than We Thought
The extent of Israel’s attack has become clearer over the past 24 hours. Not only did the IAF hit the AFB near Isfahan, but also three missiles fired from an F35 (outside of Iran) destroyed the air defense radar site that is part of the protection of the Natanz nuclear facility–again demonstrating to the Iranians how easily Israel can attack Iranian nuclear sites.
Another Israeli Attack?
In our first update yesterday, we published the report of an Israeli strike on a building in Baghdad in which a meeting of high-level Iranian Revolutionary Guards with Iranian proxy leaders in Iraq was taking place. Interestingly, there has been no further information about this possible strike.
Adding to that possible strike, we have the news last night of the total destruction by missiles of the headquarters of Iraq’s Babylon Command at the Kalsu military base:
One photo from last night’s attack taken by an Iraqi on the ground.
And another:
A massive explosion.
At first, the Iraqis accused the U.S. of carrying out the attack, but this morning their focus has turned to Israel because the base was the home of Iranian proxy terrorists. Click here to see a video of the destruction.
On the Ground in Judea and Samaria
*Islamic Jihad forces engaged in a major firefight with IDF soldiers in the Tulkarm “suburb” of Nur Al Shams yesterday. The result was that the commander of the Tulkarm Al Quds Battalions, Muhammad Jaber “Abu Shuja”, was killed along with 3 other terrorists..
*Following in the footsteps of the Bidenites who started the “sanctions parade”, the European Union yesterday imposed sanctions on Jewish community members Benzi Gofstein (head of Lehava), as well as Elisha Yered and Meir Ettinger (leaders of the Hilltop Youth). This was done in cooperation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Why these? Just one example: Lehava is often described as “an extremist far-right Jewish supremacist organization” because it strictly opposes Jewish assimilation and tries to rescue Jewish women who have married Muslim men and want to escape their situation. Of course, intermarriage is precisely the type of activity which has been leading to the decline of Judaism in the United States and Christianity in Europe–and is therefore extolled by liberal progressives everywhere.
Benny Gofstein responded to the sanctions on him and his organization yesterday: “The anti-Semites in the European Union did not impose sanctions on the thousands of Gazans who raped, slaughtered and looted the communities of the Gaza border in October, but instead on we Jews who try to maintain our Jewish identity. The sea is the same sea, the Arabs are the same Arabs, and the Europeans are the same anti-Semites. We will not shy away from them – we will continue our determined struggle against assimilation . . .”
Elisha Yered also responded to the EU’s decision: ” . . . I am happy to be included in this “list of honor.” After decades in power, the anarchists on the left lost the fight in Israel, and the majority of the Israeli people today support our communities in Judea and Samaria, and love and appreciate its pioneers who have succeeded in recent years in returning hundreds of thousands of dunams to Jewish ownership, thwarting the PLO plan of gradual takeover and the establishment of the Palestinian state.”
Speaking of a Palestinian State
Thanks to the Biden Administration for casting a welcome veto in the Security Council several days ago denying the PLO full membership in the U.N.
On the other hand, those who abstained (the U.K. and Switzerland) and those 12 who supported the PLO (France, Japan, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Russia, Mozambique, Malta, Guyana, Ecuador, China, Slovenia, Algeria) should hang their heads in shame for attempting to reward the Palestinian terrorists with a state.
The “Humanitarian” Farce in Gaza
Poor starving Palestinians? Truckloads of humanitarian cigarettes waiting to be delivered yesterday.
Smoking cigarettes and going to the beach:
Just another day at the beach for hundreds in central Gaza.
If we have heard it once, we have heard it a thousand times about how the poor Palestinians in Gaza are starving to death. Perhaps the most distressing aspect of this charade is how the Israeli government has played along with the narrative.
Israel proudly boasts through the IDF spokesman and the infamous COGAT unit (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories) that 22,763 aid trucks have entered Gaza so far bringing 250,000 tons of food and 350,000 tons of “humanitarian” aid. At the moment, more than 700 “humanitarian aid” trucks are waiting outside the Rafah Crossing to be brought in.
We now even have COGAT publishing tweets about how we have alleviated the suffering of the poor Palestinians:
The world doesn’t care how much food is available in Gaza–it prefers to believe the “suffering narrative.”
And this:
Is it any wonder that the Gazans are among the most obese people in the Arab world?
An unnamed Israeli source said this yesterday: “There is no shortage of food in Gaza, nor has there been. The stores are full, the markets are bursting with goods. Fruits, vegetables, shawarma, pita bread, there is everything.”
Remember the above photos when you next hear about the poor starving Palestinians in Gaza.
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.