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Back to Back Terror Attacks: When Does it Stop?

Six people were wounded in a terrorist attack in Maaleh Adumim on Tuesday afternoon near a shopping mall in the city One person, age 40, was in serious condition.

An off-duty officer in the Border Police who was on his way to get a haircut heard shooting and yelling and began searching for the terrorist who was found to be shooting towards and into the mall. He opened fire at the officer, the officer returned fire, eliminating the terrorist.

Later in the day on Tuesday evening a terrorist attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at a bus stop at the Eshtamoa Junction in the southern Hebron Hills. The terrorist was neutralized.

Wednesday morning a terror attack occurred at the Hamra Junction east of Shechem. A woman in her 30’s was lightly wounded in the face by flying shards of glass when a terrorist fired on her car from a passing vehicle on Highway 57. The woman’s husband and two children, who were in the car at the time of the shooting, suffered no injuries. This attack took place near the same location that recently took the lives of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee.

Sources:
Terrorist Opens Fire in Maale Adumim, Five Wounded, by Jewish Press News Desk, August 1, 2023

Terrorist attempts to stab soldiers near Hebron, by Israel National News, August 1, 2023

One wounded in Jordan Valley terror shooting, by JNS Update Desk, August 2, 2023

 

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Homesh Scores Another Win

The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the petition by left-wing organizations against the resettling of the village of Homesh and ordered its erasure. The erasure comes due to the annulment of the Disengagement Law from Northern Samaria and the state’s announcement that it intends to regulate Homesh.

Try as the opposition might, nothing can stop what is coming. The official act of regulating Homesh is now in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hands. It’s high time for the current right-wing government to act on its principles and promises and regulate the community of Homesh sooner rather than later. Israel’s future is waiting.

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Supreme Court denies petition against resettlement of Homesh, by Israel National News, August 2, 2023

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Right Before Our Very Eyes

A resident of Efrat noticed from the balcony of his house that Palestinian Authority Arabs were carrying out surveying work in the valley adjacent to the town’s fence, which is in Area C, under full Israeli control.

Documentation and a report to the Regavim movement revealed that the Council of Artas, the Palestinian Authority village located between Bethlehem and Efrat, issued a call to the residents of the area to register their lands in the complex known by them as Umm Rukba in the Palestinian Authority property registry. The announcement to the public was even published on the council’s Facebook page.

Regavim has repeatedly warned that this is a phenomenon occurring in recent years on a huge scale and is just another example of systematic land grabs.

“The Government of Israel, Minister-in-Charge Smotrich and members of the Cabinet – wake up! Gush Katif 2 is happening before our eyes every day and there is no enforcement and no significant action, not even in the current government, against this serious and dangerous phenomenon. The Palestinian state is being built before our eyes and within arm’s reach of us.”

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Palestinian surveyors working within Area C, by Israel National News, August 3, 2023

 

 

 

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Terrorist Goals Supported by Charities

Hamas operatives have been operating in Europe under the guise of journalists and charity workers to raise funds to support the terror organization, the Ad Kan group has revealed.

According to Ad Kan CEO Gilad Ach, the group realized that while Israel was fighting Hamas militarily, it was not battling its illegal fundraising efforts abroad. Hamas has also been working with activists for years who have founded many supposedly human rights organizations, including ones that seem legitimate.

Israel’s ongoing defensive measures to prevent and route out terrorism has a newly exposed component. Then again, it’s not so new if you remember the popular saying, “follow the money.” We extend a big shout out to our friends at Ad Kan for bringing this issue to the forefront and for their tireless work to keep Israel safe.

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Terror disguised as charity: Report exposes Hamas’ illegal global fundraising operation, by Hanan Greenwood/Israel Hayom, July 31, 2023

 

 

 

 

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Sovereignty Can’t Wait Four More Years

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that “we will one day be able to have railways connect Saudi Arabia and Israel.” This came just hours after a New York Times piece suggested that the kingdom was expecting the Jewish state to make significant concessions to the Palestinians as a precondition for normalization.

While the train to normalization has long left the station, the rails it is traveling on will have to pass through Washington. The Biden administration has been trying for months to have the normalization be linked to a breakthrough with the Palestinians, and that explains why The New York Times ran that piece. Essentially, in order to get Riyadh, Netanyahu will have to please Ramallah, the article said. But Jerusalem officials have been rejecting this idea, and the conventional wisdom is that the royal palace in Saudi Arabia has also rejected it.

We reject The New York Times assessment too. The application of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria must stop being used as a political football. With the increasing revelations of the Biden corruption scandal that are waking people up daily, the best thing for this negotiation is that it drags out or stalls altogether. With that said, the hope is that Biden will be forced to step down or removed from office. We then pray for a true friend of Israel to be installed as the next US president and put a stop to the hostilities towards Israel.

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To seal normalization deal with Riyadh, sovereignty push will have to wait 4 years, by Ariel Kahana/Israel Hayom, July 31, 2023

 

 

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When Should Israel Put Out the Fire?

Kibbutz Malkiah farmers on Sunday reported heavy damage to their kiwifruit plantation following a fire that was started over the weekend north of the Lebanese border and quickly spread to Israeli territory. Members of the kibbutz, which was established in 1949 in the Upper Galilee, suspect that this was deliberate arson by Hezbollah operatives, who have recently been leading a series of provocations along the border. The fire destroyed 7.5 acres of trees that were ready for harvest.

Secretary General of HaBithonistim Lt. Col. Yaron Buskila on Monday told 104.5FM that “the security establishment and the prime minister are aware of the repeated and unusual provocations carried out by Hezbollah on the northern border. This has become a major violation that harms the security infrastructure or the sovereignty of the State of Israel, such as the two tents erected on Israeli territory.”

This arson is a terrorist attack and an invasion of Israeli sovereignty. We pray the IDF acts swiftly on this before an escalation of terror against its citizens causes further harm.

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Israeli Farmers Blame Hezbollah Agents for Widespread Arson, by David Israel/Jewish Press, July 31, 2023

 

 

 

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Senator Cotton: Butt Out Biden!

US Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) last week slammed President Joe Biden’s attempts to influence Israeli politics in the aftermath of a vote that Israel’s governing coalition says is the first step in a sweeping plan to reform the country’s judicial system.

“Joe Biden’s meddling in Israel’s internal politics is unprecedented and inappropriate,” Cotton said in a statement to The Algemeiner. “He has no business telling one of our most important allies how to govern their own country.”

Well said. Enough said. Thank you, Senator Cotton for your support of Israel’s right to exist and function as a sovereign nation.

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‘Unprecedented and inappropriate’: Sen. Tom Cotton slams Biden’s ‘meddling’ in Israel’s affairs, by Andrew Bernard/The Algemeiner, July 24, 2023

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On the Eve of Tisha b’Av Jews Were Still Mistreated

Beyadenu, dedicated to bringing Jews to the Temple Mount, last Tuesday reported a severe deterioration in the treatment of Jewish ascenders to the holiest place to Jews. This worst of police behavior coincided with the Three Weeks between the 17th of Tamuz and the 9th of Av, which culminated last Thursday.

Beyadenu pointed out that while in years past, internal government politics accounted for police mistreatment of Jews on the Temple Mount, in 2023, with a floor-to-ceiling right-wing coalition, there are no more excuses, and this right-wing government must be held accountable to the public for these police harassments.

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Report: The Closer We Get to 9 B’Av the Worse Police Treat Ascenders to Temple Mount, by David Israel/Jewish Press

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It’s Official – It’s Reasonable! Phase One Original Plan Advances

The Knesset plenum on Monday afternoon approved changes to the reasonableness standard, passing the bill with a majority of 64 Knesset members.

Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Yoav Gallant pushed for a last-minute compromise, despite the harsh opposition by ministers Yariv Levin and Itamar Ben Gvir. They also pushed to delay the legislation for judicial appointments for a period of more than six months.

The attempts to reach a compromise between the coalition and the opposition continued until the last moment, but opposition leader MK Yair Lapid announced that negotiations had failed and blew up the talks.

Considering the opposition’s position, it was decided to continue to advance the bill as originally planned.

The haters and doomsday naysayers of Israel are out in full force today. Hysteria, rage, concern, road blockages, and more protests. It’s over – Israel is doomed! They view the passage of this bill as a terrible day for Israel, the end of democracy in Israel, blah, blah, blah. Joe Biden said the vote is “unfortunate,” but we know all this rhetoric is not the truth. Today is simply an amazing day for Israel and just the beginning of advancing and developing this already great nation. Sometimes we forget that since its founding, and for all Israel has achieved in a short amount of time, Israel is still a very young country. Today’s vote to fix an ailing judicial system puts Israel on track to implement the best practices to run the country that should be in place at this time in the Jewish Nation State’s history. We hope the opposition will get over it somehow! 🙂

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Knesset approves first phase of judicial reform, by Israel National News, July 24, 2023

 

 

 

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In Just a Matter of Days…

The Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee on Wednesday voted 9 to 7 to delete the Reasonability Clause regarding government level decisions from Israeli courts’ protocol. The bill is now ready for a plenum second and third reading on Sunday and will make it the first and exceedingly minute step on the way to accomplishing the Netanyahu government’s ambitious judicial reform. As expected, even this tiny victory was drowned out by the incessant battle cry of “Busha, busha” (Shame, shame) from the losing opposition.

Earlier, while the committee debate was still going, another riot broke out, when several advisers to the opposition MKs barged into the committee chamber and verbally attacked Chairman Simcha Rothman and other coalition members.

The burning question is what will the left do when they find out that ultimately the implementation of this piece of judicial reform actually benefits Israelis? The answer is that they will continue to use any means at their disposal to take down the current government. It’s OK. Israel will move forward with the judicial reforms process. Nothing can stop what is coming and it’s all good for Israel.

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Anarchists Raging as Reasonability Amendment Passes Committee Vote, by David Israel/Jewish Press, July 20, 2023

 

 

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