ISRAEL (IINO)
The Palestinian Authority Is Trying to Have It Both Ways, But It Can’t By Hugh Fitzgerald
May 14, 2023 – Israel is doing its best to help the Palestinians economically. It recently raised the number of permits allowing Palestinians to work in Israel, to 100,000 for those living in the West Bank and 20,000 for those living in Gaza. Those jobs pay more than twice what Palestinians earn at home. And when relative calm is restored, Israel could raise that number still further. But Israel will continue to withhold, from the taxes and tariffs it collects for the PA and transfers to it, an amount equal to what the PA spends on its “Pay-For-Slay” program. The minute the PA gives up that program, which rewards past, and incentivizes future, terrorism, Israel will willingly transfer the full amount of what it has been withholding. More on the PA’s refusal to accept the challenge can be found here.
IDF detains terrorists who shot and wounded two soldiers Ido Ben Porat
The IDF arrested terrorists who shot two soldiers, wounding them in the PA village of Huwara.
May 14, 2023, 10:06 AM (GMT+3) – This morning, the IDF apprehended the two terrorists who carried out the shooting attack in the PA-controlled village of Huwara on March 25, 2023, wounding two IDF soldiers in Shechem (Nablus).
The two arrested terrorists have been named as 24-year-old Iyad Tahruri and 21-year-old Zaev Mezar, residents of Shechem.
During the operation, soldiers surrounded the hideout where the two were trying to evade capture and instructed the terrorists to come out. The two were apprehended after turning themselves in with an M16-type weapon, cartridges, and ammunition in their possession. The suspects were transferred for further questioning. No soldiers were injured in the raid.
The shooting attack in March left two Kfir Brigade soldiers in their 20s – Eilon Tzobal and Uri Hajabi, both students at the pre-military yeshiva in Sderot, injured. They were treated at the scene before being evacuated to Beilinson Hospital.
Following today’s raid, all the terrorists who participated in the murder of the Yaniv brothers and American-Israeli David Stern have been apprehended by security forces.
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[Ed.: Yes, I found a mistake! Terrorists who shoot us are not civil criminals, they are enemy combatants. You shoot and kill them, not arrest them.]
Group funded by Israeli government to host ‘Nakba Day’ event
Culture Minister called on to enforce law against Tishreen Association, which received NIS 142,050 from the ministry last year.
May 14, 2023, 4:20 PM (GMT+3) – The Tishreen Association will hold an event at its headquarters in the city of Tayibe to mark ‘Nakba Day’ tomorrow, which will be hosted by the left-wing Lochmim L’Shalom (Combatants for Peace) organization.
Pro-Palestinian organizations often hold ‘Nakba Day events on May 15 to mourn the failure of the effort to destroy the nascent State of Israel in 1948.
Tishreen received NIS 142,050 in funding from the Israeli Culture and Sports Ministry in 2022. In 2021, the organization received NIS 134,235 from the Culture Ministry.
Section 3-b of the Budget Foundations Law authorizes the Finance Minister to reduce funding to an organization that carries out “activity that is contrary to the principles of the state,” including by “commemorating Independence Day or the day of the establishment of the state as a day of mourning.”
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Shai Glick, the CEO of the B’Tzalmo organization, wrote to Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar to demand that he enforce the law by removing the Tishreen Association’s funding
[Ed.: Nothing wrong with that; we pay our enemies to kill us here in the U.S. as well. It’s the new ‘normal’.]
Warning sirens sounded in southern Israel – despite ceasefire
Less than a day after ceasefire between Israel and Islamic Jihad goes into effect, warning sirens sounded in Ashkelon, Gaza frontier.
May 14, 2023, Updated:8:02 PM – Less than 24 hours after a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization went into effect, officially ended Operation Shield and Arrow, Red Alert sirens were heard Sunday in the southern industrial zone of Ashkelon and in Kibbutz Zikim.
Sirens were also reported in Gaza frontier towns.
According to an IDF spokesperson, one rocket launch was detected in the Gaza Strip. The rocket landed in an open field, and there are no reports of injuries or damage.
An official from the Joint Room of the Palestinian Resistance Factions – the unified front of Gaza terrorist groups which claimed responsibility for the recent rocket attacks – said Sunday’s launch was accidental, telling Al Jazeera that the organization remains committed to the ceasefire with Israel.
“The rocket fired at Israel was the result of a technical malfunction. We are still committed to the ceasefire.”
[Ed.: Oops! A friend wrote, when he heard about IINO possibly agreeing to a cease fire, “WTF? Israel agreed to a cease-fire. That’s bullshit. They need to bomb the fuck out of them.” Eloquent! I wish I could have been quoted for saying that!]
Netanyahu: Our operation against Islamic Jihad was ‘perfect’
May 14, 2023, 4:58 PM (GMT+3) – Israeli prime minister brags of ‘perfect’ operation in Gaza. ‘We eliminated dozens of terrorists, hit missile arsenals, anti-tank units.’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touted the recently completed Operation Shield and Arrow against Islamic Jihad terrorists in the Gaza Strip as being “perfect” in its execution, claiming the operation surprised the terrorist organization.
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday, Netanyahu lauded Israeli security forces for the operation, which led to the elimination of six top Islamic Jihad terrorists and dozens of other members of the organization.
“Last night, we successfully concluded five days of fighting against the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization. Before starting the operation, the directive I gave, together with the Defense Minister, to the IDF and ISA amounted to two words: ‘Initiative’ and ‘surprise’.”
[Ed.: He’s got that WRONG! If it was “perfect”, Gaza would be a parking lot. Maybe he should set his standards of perfection a bit higher? If Israel’s government was leading us through the Sinai desert today, we would still be lost…]
In light of ceasefire: Southern Israel returns to normal life
At 12:00, Homefront Command restrictions on the Gaza periphery will be gradually removed. Erez and Kerem Shalom crossing partially open.
May 14, 2023, 8:11 AM (GMT+3) – In light of the ceasefire announced on Saturday night between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, the IDF Homefront Command decided Sunday morning to gradually loosen restrictions put in order during Operation Shield and Arrow.
All restrictions were removed from towns in the Western Negev, Central Negev, Western Lachish, and Lachish areas.
At noon, the restrictions on the Gaza periphery will be removed as well. Despite this, only minimized activity will be allowed in these areas, and educational activities will not take place, this excludes special education, which can be held if the students can reach a shelter on time.
Places of work can operate in places where it is possible to reach a shelter.
Gatherings and services in these regions are restricted to 10 people in open areas and up to 100 in a building. Beaches are closed to the public.
COGAT Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian announced the partial and gradual openings of the Kerem Shalom and Erez crossings.
[Ed.: Kumbaya!!! Isn’t that special!]
Scholars expound on Mount Ebal curse tablet with oldest Hebrew text By Etgar Lefkovits, JNS
The 3,200-year-old find could prove Israelites were literate when they entered the land.
May 13, 2023 – A lead tablet found at a site where millions of Jews and Christians believe the Israelite leader Joshua built an altar contains the oldest Hebrew text ever found in the Land of Israel as well as the name of God, an academic article published Friday concludes.
The peer review of the small 3,200-year-old curse tablet discovered at Mount Ebal in Samaria more than two years ago is expected to reignite the debate in the archaeological community over the find. It could prove the Israelites were literate at the time as well as shed light on the date of the Exodus from Egypt.
“The text … is the oldest Hebrew text found within the borders of ancient Israel … by at least two centuries,” the article published in Heritage Science states.
“The big point here is that we have evidence of Hebrew writing in Israel earlier than has previously been established, as well as mention of two of names of the Hebrew God, all from the site where the Bible said Joshua built an altar,” Scott Stripling, the provost at the Bible Seminary in Katy, Texas, who uncovered the tablet, said in a telephone interview with JNS.
… “You are cursed by the god, yhw, cursed. You will die cursed—cursed you will surely die. Cursed you are by yhw-cursed,” a translation of the inner inscription reads, according to the article.”
[Ed.: I admit to having a somewhat demented sense of humor, but I find it hilarious that the oldest Hebrew text ever found would say essentially ‘FUCK YOU’!]
