Tuesday
Yom Shleeshee
4 Adar 5785
March 4 2025
UPDATE 9:00 AM ISRAEL TIME
The View from Ashdod
“The Holocaust and Jewish security are being used to justify the massacres and ethnic cleansing in Gaza after October 7 . . .”
Film director Jonathan Glazer in a letter which was read last Friday at the 2025 Cesar Awards to the cheers and applause of the crowd in Paris.
It was a similar message to that which Glazer said when accepting the Best International Feature Film award for “The Zone of Interest” in Hollywood on March 10, 2024:
“Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation that has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”
Fast forward to Sunday night when we were treated to these messages from the co-directors of “No Other Land” which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature to the exuberant applause of the crowd.
First up was Palestinian Basel Adra who opined and condemned amidst more applause:
“About two months ago I became a father, and my hope to my daughter: that she will not have to live the same life I am living now. Always feeling settler violence, home demolitions and forceful displacement that my community, Masafer Yatta, is living and facing every day under the Israeli occupation . . . We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people.”
Next up was his co-director, ultra left wing Israeli Jewish Yuval Avraham who first castigated Israel for the “atrocious destruction of Gaza and its people” before seemingly mentioning as an afterthought the need for freedom of the hostages “brutally taken in the crime of October 7.”
Avraham went on to blast Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in “the West Bank” and finally condemn the United States for blocking the path to a solution: “the foreign policy in this country is helping to block the path.”
Again, happy standing applause from the Hollywood crowd.
In this blog, we will not go into the history of the several tiny Palestinian settlements of Masafer Yatta which were set up by Bedouins in the area in the 1980s after the IDF declared it was a firing zone.
The simple fact is that left-wing “Jews” revel in playing to their fellow left-wingers to the utter detriment of Israel. Nothing appeals to the film crowd like fraudulent accusations against Israel, and demeaning the Holocaust.
Which leftist film makers exult in doing–even to the point of renouncing their Judaism.
It is a sorry and disgusting state of affairs.
On the Ground in Gaza
*Israel has apparently given Hamas 10 days to extend the ceasefire according to the Witkoff Outline. Hamas steadfastly rejects the Outline.
*Hamas declared this morning that it will “never demilitarize”.
*From the IDF Spokesman yesterday:
“Earlier today (Monday), a suspicious motorized vessel off the coast of northern Khan Yunis, which was violating security restrictions and posing a threat, was struck by the IDF. Prior to the strike, warning shots were fired to distance suspects from the area.
Additionally, IDF troops identified two suspects approaching them in southern Gaza, posing an immediate threat. The troops opened fire toward the suspects to remove the threat, and hits were identified.”
*Famine in Gaza? Tables and tables overloaded with food were set up throughout Gaza last night in celebration of Ramadan:
There is no famine in Gaza.
On the Ground in the North
*Syrian and Iranian social media accounts went crazy last after a video (from which the above photo is a screenshot) was posted of an Israeli flag going up in the central square of Sweida, the capital of the Druze in southern Syria. Apparently the flag was raised as a sign of appreciation for the Israel’s support for the Druze community in Syria.
*From the IDF Spokesman yesterday:
“The IDF struck a military site where weapons belonging to the previous Syrian regime were stored in the area of Al Qardaha.”
More on the Terror Attack in Haifa Yesterday
It turns out that the terrorist was a mentally ill Druze man who carried out the stabbings. The 73-year-old man he stabbed to death was Karim Dahamsha an Israeli-Arab Muslim:
The security guard who killed the Druze terrorist was a Druze.
Some Normalcy in Israel
The slopes of Mt. Hermon have reopened to skiing after a year and a half.
And so it goes in Israel this morning . . . so far . . .
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.