Went for a long walk through Tel Aviv to Jaffa today. Behaved like a tourist and took photos of the clock tower. It was built by a Jewish architect in 1900. So it’s neither old nor Turkish, even though it was constructed under Ottoman rule.
I had to go to Sderot today. The town is right on the border with Gaza and on 7 October 2023, Hamas terrorists went from house to house slaughtering innocent people in their homes. Many of those Hamas has kidnapped come from Sderot.
Sderot seems an odd choice for a day trip, but I need an ID card, and the only office that had time available was in this town. The ID card should arrive by post in a couple of weeks.
One of the must-see features in Sderot is the lookout place where you get a great view of Gaza. Unfortunately, the sun and a sand fog made it difficult to take a good photo.
Anyhow, Sderot is now off my bucket list.
As some of you might know, I have a thing for skyscrapers, so today, when I took a really long walk through Ramat Gan, I captured these buildings with my mobile.
“Citing people familiar with US and Israeli intelligence assessments, Bloomberg reported Iran could launch strikes involving high-precision missiles and drones targeting military and government sites in Israel,” the Times of Israel reports. “One of the people quoted in the report said it was a matter of when—not if-Tehran will attack Israel.”
This is just nuts.
Exodus, part two.
If there’s anything good coming from the flood of anti-Semitism, it’s that Zionism gains support and interest among Jews worldwide. Jewish people everywhere realise that Israel is home and a safe haven.
The lead character in the world’s most famous courtroom drama is gone.
Anna-Greta Leijon could have been Sweden’s first female prime minister had it not been for the “Ebbe Carlsson affair”. Now she’s gone.
I slept through it all. Was very tired and took a sleeping pill on top of that. Had been shown the basement shelter by my landlord’s son earlier in the evening. Everyone was tense. But in Tel Aviv, the night was quite calm. Not so in other parts of the country. Hundreds of missiles and drones interrupted by the Israeli Defence Force. Targets seem to have been in the Negev, Galilee, and Golan Heights.
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting later today. This meeting will not result in anything. Russia will of course block any resolution against their Iranian friend. Dictator thugs cooperate against democracy and decency.
Anyhow, people are now discussing a possible Israeli response. We’ll see what happens.
@nick_from_israel on Threads:
It’s honestly embarrassing to consider how much money the Islamic Republic must have spent on all those drones and missiles they fired at Israel, only to accomplish nothing but to injure a 7-year-old Bedouin Muslim girl.
@senwarren on Threads:
I strongly condemn Iran’s attacks. The U.S. supports the Israeli people during this difficult moment and Israel’s right to defend itself against this dangerous aggression.
We need an urgent deescalation and a ceasefire in Gaza to prevent a wider regional conflict.
A few days ago, she spoke of Isreal being guilty of genocide. Now she seems to have come to her senses.
The Swedish Parliament is debating a proposed law that would make it easier for trans people to change gender in the population register. The far right is going berserk and deliver one insult after another. I can’t understand how this can be so controversial. The law wouldn’t do anything harmful to anyone. It’s a reform to make life a little easier for trans people wrongly gendered in government papers.
According to an article in The Hill, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, recently explained to Jews what the phrase means. “Here,” he said, “you don’t have a future, and, from the river to the sea, the land of Palestine is for the Palestinians and for the Palestinian people only.”
This is a call for genocide, a second Holocaust. This in contrast to the nonsense that Israel wants to kill off all Gazans.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a criminologist and law professor in Jerusalem, voices the delusional hate that makes up much of the pro-Palestinian narrative. From the Times of Israel:
“We need to look at them [Israeli Jews? as criminals and we need to analyze them from a criminal perspective. This is how I see it as Nadera. And it’s not dehumanizing them at all. It’s just realizing we are dealing with vicious criminals and somebody should stop them.”
I’m so sick of these absurdities.
Israel, early Friday morning local time, launched a retaliatory strike against Iran, ABC News reports.
“As dignitaries stood on stage in Warsaw to mark the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a lone figure got up to join them: a man wearing a hoodie with the colours of the Palestinian flag,” the Times of Israel reports. The man placed flowers atop a pile assembled for the occasion, then moved to the side of the stage where he unfurled a large Palestinian flag and stood with his head down, according to an attendee at the event.“
The Palestinian movement knows no shame. The Arabs in “Palestine” were Hitler’s allies after their meeting with him in Munich in 1941. Now their supporters hijacked the memory of the Holocaust they themselves supported. Their leaders not only supported Hitler, they joined Germany’s Nazi Party.
The American universities should be ashamed for their outburst of anti-Semitism. The are a cesspool for racism.
Satellite images of the Iranian air base struck by alleged Israeli forces last week appear to show extensive damage to a radar system unit near one of Tehran’s secret nuclear sites, Iran International reports.
Ha!
“There’s hundreds of people taunting me and waving the middle finger at me, and then this person waves a Palestinian flag in my face and jabs it in my eye,” Sahar Tartak, the editor-in-chief of Yale Free Press, told the New York Post.
I suppose this, too, is “anti-Zionism” and not old-school anti-Semitism.
The Daily Mail writes about ”the bizarre Las Vegas conference where Trump-loving sheriffs, felons and conspiracy theorists vowed to form militias to patrol polling places and seize voting machines to stop Biden.” My God!
The world has gone mad—at least in Trump quarters. But we knew that already.
The Washington Times writes that Republican senators urge Biden to mobilise the National Guard to protect Jewish college students, and Politico runs an article about how anti-Semitism has exploded at one of America’s most famous universities.
This according to Jeffrey Lord in the American Spectator.
Iran’s proxies to the north are become ever more aggressive.
So, after the Supreme Court ruled that states should be allowed to decide for themselves whether abortion are legal or not, the hawks in Arizona found a law from the nineteenth century banning women from choosing to terminate their pregnancy. Now, it seems, the state’s sane politicians have found some courage and passed a bill to reinstate women’s right to their own bodies. Good for them.
“We have always known that we cannot be protected by anyone besides ourselves, which is why an overwhelming 95% of the Jewish community are Zionists,” Zina Rakhamilova writes in the Jerusalem Post.
The Times of Israel runs an article I have written. Read it here.
I visited Haifa yesterday. It was my first visit to Israel’s third-largest city. It’s a beautiful port that has played a big part in the return of Jews to our homeland. Ships from Cyprus transported Jewish refugees from Europe. Meanwhile, Jewish refugees from the Arab countries entered Israel from the south. I can see myself living in Haifa in the future.
When I got back to Tel Aviv from my day trip to Haifa yesterday, I turned to Sky News for the latest updates. What I saw made me furious. After a bizarre report from the anti-Israel protests at American campuses, they had invited an anti-Semite to the studio. She sat there, telling one cliché lie after the other, without any real questions from the interviewer.
Bring them home, now!
From the Times of Israel:
A video has surfaced of one of the leaders of the anti-Israeli protests at Columbia University stating repeatedly and emphatically that Zionists “don’t deserve to live” and should be killed.
“The existence of them and the projects they have built i.e. Israel, it’s all antithetical to peace. So yes I feel very comfortable—very comfortable—calling for those people to die,” Khymani James said in the January video.
“Be glad, be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists,” he added.
Afterwards, when Khymani James realised that he had been caught, he start playing the victim. From Newsweek:
“When I recorded it, I had been feeling unusually upset after an online mob targeted me because I am visibly queer and Black.”
The anti-Israel camp really has problem with reality. Anyone who knows anything about Gaza would know that there’s no such thing as a rabbi. 😂
Read about the hoax in the New York Post.
Yesterday, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak told a class that Israel’s success in defending itself against the missiles and rockets fired by Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas is thanks to the students who study the Torah, not the military. This is just nuts.
When asked about the anti-Semitic that threatens Jewish students at American university campuses, Ilhan Omar said, “I think it is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe and that we should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”
Disgusting!
The New York Times has interviewed Yair Lapid.
Ah, the insanity. Apparently, it’s OK to be an anti-Semite as long as you have dark enough skin colour. Sick!
A hypertension drug has been shown to slow down aging in worms, an effect that in humans could hypothetically help us live longer and keep us healthier in our latter years. This according to a new study published in Aging Cell.
From the Wall Street Journal:
The sense of opportunity Efraim Alkoby found in New York was rocked last month when someone splattered red paint on the kosher cafe he owns on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Alkoby, who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem, said he learned to be tolerant during his 30 years in New York. Now, someone opposed to Israel’s war in Gaza wrote “form line here to support genocide” on the sidewalk outside Effy’s Cafe.
She’s an idiot.
New York City policemen in unmarked cars have arrived outside a building taken over by pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University, Times of Israel reports. A banner unfurled from the building’s window reads “intifada”. Intifada is the Arabic term used for mass murder of Jews in globally.
When asked, “Should Israel move forward with an operation in Rafah to finish the war with Hamas, doing its best to avoid civilian casualties even though there will be casualties, or should it back off now and allow Hamas to continue running Gaza?”
57% of those aged 18-24 said Israel should move forward with a Rafah operation.
Stronger support was found among those over 65, where 84%: said yes.
Read about at the Jerusalem Post.