No One Is Laughing Anymore

Yom Reva’ee

Wednesday

24 Tishrei 5783

October 19 2022

 

Quote of the Day

“We will protect freedom of worship of Muslims at Al-Aqsa . . . In Ramadan, a million people came to pray at Al-Aqsa, and we made sure that they they could go up and pray because it is our duty as a government to allow freedom of worship for any Muslim who wants to come and pray at Al-Aqsa . . . We do not allow Jewish prayers on the Temple Mount.”

PM Yair Lapid speaking in an interview on an Israeli-Arab radio station yesterday.

How is it that we have an Israeli prime minister who brazenly flaunts the fact that there is no freedom of religion for Jews at the holiest place in Judaism? A million Muslims can go to Al-Aqsa to pray, but not 1 Jew can pray on the Mount.

Such is the sickening situation in Israel today.

The News on the Israeli Street

The war in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem: Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .

Shooting attacks in Judea and Samaria:

There were another half dozen shooting attacks yesterday. The most egregious:

Palestinian terrorists opened fire at the Shaked community in northern Samaria. At least 4 homes were hit by machine gun fire. Fortunately no Israelis were wounded.

Palestinian terrorists opened fire on Israeli motorists driving on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road near Beit Omer.

Palestinian terrorists opened fire on IDF soldiers in Shechem.

Other attacks in Judea and Samaria:

Palestinian terrorists using IEDs, Molotovs, and “rocks” tried to murder Israelis on Road 458 between the Gideon Junction and Duma, near Beit Omer, on Road 55 at Pondok, between Ivy HaNahal and Ma’ale Amos, near the Al Khader Junction, on Road 55 near Karni Shomron, between Neve Menachem and the Paz gas station, at the Maayan curve south of the Karmi Tzur Junction, at the Nabi Salah pillbox on Road 465, and at Luban a-Sharqiya as well as at a dozen other locations.

Palestinian terrorists using rocket launchers hit a vehicle near the Gilead Farm.

A Palestinian terrorist was shot between Migdalim and the Alon Junction while throwing Molotovs at IDF soldiers,

On the election front . . .

Raviv Drucker, Channel 13’s “investigative reporter” who has done nothing in the last 8 years except viciously “investigate” Benjamin Netanyahu and his family, has paid the chief witness against Netanyahu in the current court cases 300,000 shekels for secret tape recordings concerning Netanyahu. These recordings will be played for the next two weeks before the election.

The Jerusalem Post has gone full bore on the attack against Otzma Yehudit head Itamar Ben Gvir–labeling him on the front page of the newspaper this morning as a “white supremacist” and a “fascist.” It appears that Ben Gvir grows stronger in the polls with each attack.

The rabbi who heads the influential Gush Etzion yeshiva came out strongly today in support of Ayelet Shaked and her Beit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party.

For reasons that no one can quite understand, PM Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) unleashed a scathing attack on Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beiteinu)  yesterday.

Talk about a double slap in Biden’s face . . .

The already disastrous relationship between U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of Saudi Arabia deteriorated even more today.

Not only is Saudi Arabia refusing to support Biden’s oil policy, the rulers in Riyadh this morning said that they want to join BRICS–the organization of the “five major emerging economies” (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). As you can imagine, the group is headed by Russia and China.

TODAY’S BLOG

No One Is Laughing Anymore

Do you remember how former PM Netanyahu was ridiculed for saying that Iran would become a European problem as well as an Israeli one?

No one is laughing anymore.

Today we have reports that:

Iran has supplied Russia with hundreds of “suicide drones” that the Russian army is using against military and civilian targets.

Iran has made a deal with Russia to supply the Russian army with ballistic missiles.

Iran has sent “advisors” to the Crimea to teach Russians how to use the drones and missiles.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards are now joining up with Russian forces to fight Ukraine.

Stop and think for a moment what would be the situation if Iran had nuclear weapons.

Do you think for a second that they would hesitate to send them anywhere in the world to be used by their terrorist proxies? Or that Iran would not use the weapons themselves against anyone in our Middle East neighborhood?

In sum, everything that Netanyahu predicted about Iran is coming to pass.