Soldier injured in Samaria

Oct 3, 2022, Samaria:  The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is stretched to the limit during this Fall Festival season of 2022.   20 minutes uphill from here in Samaria, Nablus is a Roman-era name (in Greek) for Shechem, an ancient Hebrew town.  This is the location where Joseph’s bones are buried; yes, that Joseph, Pharaoh’s right-hand man in Egypt.

Jerusalem Post, 3 Oct 2022 pg 1.

 

On 2 October 2022 in Shechem, Israeli Jews had a peaceful rally.  They came under fire from Arab non-Israelis from the area. The overall council head of Samaria, Yossi Dagan, was photographed crouching behind an automobile for cover, pistol drawn, defending children.  This was a peaceful rally with many children present – Arabs opened fire for no reason other than their hurt feelings that Jews simply exist in Samaria.

 

References:

IDF can’t keep up West Bank operation due to logistics shortage

2 Oct 2022 The IDF cannot continue a long-term military operation in the West Bank due to logistical support deficiencies, State Comptroller Matanyahu …

 

Soldier lightly injured in Palestinian fire at settler rally by Nablus

2 Oct 2022 Other soldiers immediately returned fire and are in pursuit of the shooters. The rally had been held to protest a shooting incident in the …

 

 

Dangerous Fall Holiday Season

11 Oct 2022: It’s the season of the Fall Feasts of the seventh Biblical month (the first month being the month where Passover lands, in the spring).  The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has been working overtime, calling up reserves for weeks, to counteract the Arabs’ stepped-up efforts to cause panic and mayhem among the Jewish population.

An 18-year old girl, Sgt. Noa Lazar, was killed in an antisemitic attack.  Thus, the IDF’s “Operation Break the Wave” continues work in order to break the wave of violence and antisemitism.

Jerusalem Post, 11 Oct 2022 pg 1.

 

Manhunt continues for Jerusalem shooter who killed IDF soldier

17 hours ago Security forces are said to have identified the suspect, and believe that he might be hiding out somewhere in Shuafat.

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-719342

 

Sgt. Noa Lazar, 18, killed just shy of birthday – ‘You were a treasure’

Sgt. Noa Lazar was originally from the northern community of Bat Hefer. She was a fighter in the IDF’s Military Police Erez battalion.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-719235

 

Related:

Operation Break the Wave: Ten arrested across West Bank overnight

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-719367

Remembering Sgt Liel Gideoni (1994-2014)

30 Sept 2022, Samaria:  You probably know that I go out prayer walking around the village every day.

This morning, I saw a bumper sticker that stood out to me.  What a smile!

This guy is special, and deeply missed by his family. Liel was just 20 years old at the time.

The morning of Aug 1, 2014, around 7 or 9:30 AM, terrorists from Gaza suddenly emerged from a terror tunnel dug by Hamas, with materials financed by Iran.  It was an ambush against the Israeli soldiers, less than 72 hours after the US and the UN had brokered a cease-fire.

 

An example of bumper stickers in Israel. This one is a memory of the late Sgt Liel Gideoni, from Jerusalem, who served in the Givati Brigade of the IDF; Gidoni was killed on Aug 1, 2014 in an ambush in southern Gaza shortly after the “cease fire” was announced.

With English letters, Liel’s surname is sometimes spelled with or without the “e.”

Liel Gideoni was posthumously promoted to Sergeant.

https://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Hamas-says-missing-IDF-soldier-may-have-died-during-ambush-in-southern-Gaza-369783

 

Highway Sinkhole on Shabbat

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.

 

IDF Commander in Samaria killed in clashes with Arabs

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.”

 

 

Germany apologizes for its part in 1972 Olympics disaster

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:

The Cost of Victimhood

 

6 Sept 2022 Article: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-716366

 

Worst side of mixing sports and politics: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-716319

 

The Munich Massacre also killed our faith in the postwar order: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-716323

Arabs Shoot Jewish Bus Driver In Face; Passenger Takes Over, Steers Bus to Stop

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.”

Source: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-716279

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Stabbing Attack Against Israelis

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.

Source: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-716180

 

African Cockroaches 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.

 

 

Ref:  https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-715220

 

Careful About Info Sources

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.

 

African Cockroaches in Israel