18 Sept 2022: Sinkhole opened up in one lane of the Ayalon Highway on Shabbat, the 17th of September. While religious Jews generally do not drive on Shabbat, secular Jews, Muslims, and Christians who do not observe Shabbat use cars as they wish. This sinkhole in a Tel Aviv highway suddenly appeared during Shabbat; thankfully, no cars fell in. Generally, each town and city passes zoning laws which determine how many shops (if any) or restaurants are permitted to open on Shabbat; there is some variety place to place because of the different religious views which people hold.
Large sinkhole photo & article; Jerusalem Post, 18 Sept 2022 pg 1.
The late Major Bar Falah, pictured on the front page of “Israel HaYom (Israel Today)” Hebrew newspaper, 15 Sept 2022 pg 1.
15 Sept 2022, Samaria: Last night in Samaria, there were clashes between Arabs and the Israel Defense Forces. An Israeli commander fell in the battle. Rough translation of the front page: “The heavy price of the war on terror: vigilance in the Jewish state after the fall of the late Major Bar Falah in an encounter in Samaria– The IDF on high alert.”
6 Sept, 2022: Germany apologized for failing to keep the Arab killers away from the Jewish athletes; while the leader of the Palestinian Authority government utterly failed to apologize for these murders committed by people from his movement.
Portraits of the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre are displayed at the Fuerstenfeldbruck airfield in Bavaria yesterday (5 Sept 2022). Germany aplogizes for failure to protect Israelis in 1972 Munich Massacre (in which Arabs snuck into the housing where Jewish athletes from Israel sayed). Source: Jerusalem Post, 6 Sept 2022 pg 1.
Less than one month ago, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas had the platform in Germany, and outraged Germans and Jews by trivializing the Shoah (Holocaust). Link here:
4 Sept 2022: The three suspects, members of the same family from the northern Samaria PA-governed city of Jenin, drove a truck with Israeli license plates, and staged a moving attack on the loaded passenger bus traveling on the highway.
Security forces investigate a shooting attack on a bus on Rd 90 in the Jordan Valley on 4 Sept 2022. Source: Jerusalem Post, 5 Sept 2022 pg 1.
The driver holds Israeli citizenship (rather than Palestinian Authority) which might explain why the attack car has Israeli plates. The driver is father of one of the other two militants.
The investigation is ongoing.
Two of the militants were captured by the IDF, while a third had escaped.
“The shooting on Sunday was the 11th attack in the past month… [and] the sixth terrorist attack in less than one week.”
IDF troops walk near the scene of the stabbing incident hear Kiryat Arba, on 2 Sept. Published in Jerusalem Post, 4 Sept 2022, pg 1.
2 Sept, 2022: “An IDF soldier was moderately injured in a stabbing attack near Kiryat Arba on Friday afternoon, according to the IDF Spokesperson Unit.
“The terrorist approached an IDF military post and stabbed one of the soldiers that was standing guard.”
Please continue to pray for safety against all attacks, and please continue to support those who work in Israel.
23 Aug 2022: A Health and Wellness story: Not only is Israel a part of the Middle East, it also borders Africa, along with everything: the flora and fauna, the crops, nations and people who are under economic oppression.
This creepy-crawly story is about the bugs. And not just any old bedbugs or fleas. When I lived in the Back Bay area of Boston, or in Los Angeles, both of these locations had cockroach issues. The ones in the Back Bay were much smaller, and with the cold climate much of the year, not so prevalent. Yet, there was a greater problem there since that part of the city was built upon filled marshland and the shallow bay. In other parts of the city, and in other parts of the state, the roaches were not a problem. In Hollywood and North Hollywood, the bugs were bigger and more numerous, with the warmer desert-style climate and year-round heat. In such a place as that, with infestations “built in” to most apartment buildings, one learns quickly to never leave a dirty dish in the sink. Ever. It will become bait in no time.
But those were nothing compared to the African Cockroach which can also fly, in addition to being huge.
Update 25 Aug 2022: This evening one of these roaches flew into the kitchen; landed on the floor; gained altitude again, and flew over my head towards the wall and crawled into hiding somewhere. Mind you, all the windows and doors were closed or with bugscreens. That one somehow managed to sneak through the cracks in the frame.
In all my time in Boston and Hollywood, I never heard of stories such as this. Then again, maybe it’s because I had no newspaper subscription in those days.
The doctor reports that he gets a call like this once every couple of years. Jerusalem Post, 23 Aug 2022.
The doctor reports that the patient usually experiences a great amount of pain and fear. Jerusalem Post, 23 Aug 2022, pg 6.
Image credit: Ben Garrison. The games that tyrannical global bankers play with the population using the Main-Stream Media to spread their messages.
I encourage everyone to be prayerful and circumspect about how information and news is acquired. If one tries to avoid it completely, chances are, the messages from the MSM will creep into the ears, like bugs, because those messages are flying around everywhere: the curated search results from web search sites, the background noise at the market or cafe, the radios, the tv sound, and the comments and opinions from all the people who are exposed to those noises.
It takes prayer and focus to actively search out news and commentary that is written with a level of honesty and a level of agreement with your own world view. Clearly, the banksters have quite their own world view, and they are delighted with their ability to try to force it upon all others.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s message to the West: “Israel, as everyone knows, is not obligated by anything [is not a party to the Iran deals] and will do what it needs to stop a nuclear Iran and prevent Iran from using its terrorist proxies [like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad] in the region.” Jerusalem Post, 19 Aug 2022 pg 1.
18 Aug 2022: The difficulties of conducting work in a troubled land: When one stays in “victim mode” constantly, one can never do any wrong; your neighbors can never do any right; and it is permissible to exaggerate your neighbor’s wrongs, to lie, and falsify, with no limits.
Pals Trivialize Holocaust; Germans and Israelis Outraged
“Especially for us Germans, any relativization of the Holocaust is unbearable and unacceptable.” — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaking to Bild after Abbas’ holocaust trivialization comments in Berlin. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-714943
So – this is what happened. On 16 Aug 2022, Germany hosted Mahmoud Abbas to give a speech in Berlin. Abbas is leader of the Fatah party and of the Philistinian leadership in Samaria. After the speech, a reporter asked Abbas why, after 18 years in power, has he not apologized for the Palestinian terrorists who killed 11 Jewish athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Abbas’ response – in Arabic – was to allege that Israel has committed 50 holocausts against the Pals. Ridiculous. (He said “holocausts” in English; the Hebrew term is “Shoah”). Clearly, the non-Israeli Arab population has grown from 1 million to 5 million since Israel became a state in 1948. Today, that’s 3 million in Samaria and 2 million in Gaza. Separately, there are around 2 million Israeli Arabs living in Israel with full citizenship, voting rights and all.
While this is clearly incorrect, this is only part of a global trend. “Combat Antisemitism Movement” has reported that there were over 214 public comments in the last year trivializing the Shoah, with 37.4% coming from the USA, followed by UK, with Germany in third place. The report is entitled “Holocaust Trivialization Report: A Burgeoning Threat in 2021-2022 Trend Manifestations and Analysis.”
“The countries that showed the highest rates of Holocaust trivialization were the US, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Canada.” https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-714904
Therefore, Abbas is not unique in his holocaust trivialization. However, looking around the world, we cannot find many public officials other than Abbas who wrote their doctoral thesis in holocaust denial. At a Soviet university in Moscow, he wrote his thesis on the ridiculous claim that the Jews collaborated with the Nazis to create the Holocaust in order to fabricate an excuse to relocate to Israel.
In one press conference, Abbas accuses Israel of “50 holocausts” against the Palestinians, and then talks of building trust? That combination obviously can’t work, and Abbas knows it. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-714940
Incidently, the German Chancellor also rejected Abbas’ use of the word “apartheid” when referring to Israel’s treatment of Arabs:
“Naturally we have a different assessment with a view to Israeli politics, and I want to expressly say here that I do not espouse the use of the word ‘apartheid’ and do not think it correctly describes the situation,” Scholz said. The German chancellor rejected the use of the word ‘apartheid‘ in a meeting with the PA president • Liberman: Abbas is alive today only because of security coordination with Israel. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-714856
Without drastic change, this Pal leadership could never make any sincere offers of peace with the Jews. And most of the Pal population agrees with the leadership.
The Fatah party commended Abbas for his comments in Berlin, saying, “Abbas, you are strong.”
Abbas intended to “remind the world of the suffering of the Palestinian people, who deserve an apology for the crimes committed against them.” –Munther al-Hayek, senior Fatah official. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-714930
Germany is so furious, they’ll probably not invite Abbas for a very long time. [Update: As of 5 Sept, 2022, Germany officially apologized for its failure to protect Israeli athletes from the Arab murderers in the 1972 massacre].
19 Aug 2022, Jpost pg 2.
“Israel’s ambassador in Berlin, Ron Prosor, told The Media Line that German politicians are ‘furious with (Abbas) for exploiting the stage he got.’ From what I see, I doubt Abu Mazen will be invited here again any time soon,” Prosor said, using Abbas’ nom de guerre. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-714985
Victimhood: What is the answer–how can the cycle of victimhood ever be broken? Messiah is the only answer.
2022-08-13 Arabs from Bethlehem fired at Jews at Rachel’s Tomb; no injuries. So, these Arabs would be non-Israeli, since Israel gave Bethlehem to the PLO in 1994. And yes, this refers to that Rachel: Wife of Jacob, who was the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham. Remember that Bethlehem is known as “The City of David” for example in Luke 2:11. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-714648
2022-08-14: Saturday night, 1:24 am, near David’s Tomb in Jerusalem, an Arab with Israeli citizenship open fire on a bus. Yes, that David, King David. Eight wounded, including a pregnant woman (critically injured, her baby delivered by C-section). Four or five Americans visiting from Williamsburg NY are among the wounded. Almost no mention of this in USA media outside of the expected comments from the US Ambassador and the NY Governor.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-714669
The Israel Police closed off all of the suspect’s chances for escape and hiding, and shooter has turned himself in, hiring a taxi to deliver him with his gun and knife in a 12-minute ride to the police station. The terrorist got a receipt. Always, always get a receipt. The taxi driver complained that as a result, he lost 3 hours of work, while police took his taxi for search procedures.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-714695
The terrorist is a 26 year old Arab citizen of Israel with a criminal record an no known links to terror groups.
The attack has been praised by all these organizations which operate in Gaza: Islamic Jihad (which shot 1,000 missiles at Israeli civilians last weekend), PLO, and Hamas, which stayed out of the war last weekend, probably for financial reasons.
“Last night, a terrorist shot at a bus in Jerusalem wounding 8 people, including a pregnant 30 year old woman and a 60 year old man who are in critical care. We pray for their full recovery.This attack on Israel’s capital, a city sacred to all three religions, must be condemned.” pic.twitter.com/1XAYZBVSe9
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) August 14, 2022
2022-08-15 “Blame the victim:” Iran says Salman Rushdie and his supporters are to blame for his attack.
2022-08-05 thru 07: Gaza launched a 3-day war, with 1,100 missiles launched at Israeli civilians. No mention of this in USA media. No Israeli casualties, and of the Gaza casualties, the majority of them were caused by the Gaza missiles. Estimates from the Associated Press have it that about 27 of the 48 casualties in Gaza were caused by missiles from Gaza landing in Gaza. Further investigations will probably continue to update the figures.
