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השיבוש מכוון גם נגד רחפנים של חמאס וטילי שיוט של איראן. חוקרים אמריקאים איתרו לאחרונה משבש עוצמתי במירון. החסימות מפריעות לתעופה האזרחית ומסכנות מטוסים בנתב"ג
President Herzog met a bipartisan delegation of US Senators this morning (Sunday) in Tel Aviv led by Senate Majority, Senator Chuck Schumer. With Schumer were Republican Senators Mitt Romney and Bill Cassidy, and Democratic Senators Mark Kelly and Jacky Rosen. They expressed their solidarity with the State of Israel. (GPO)
Sderot to be Evacuated. Residents will be evacuated from Sderot, at 11:00 today, Sunday, 15 October. (GPO)
Who is responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza? I mean, who needs to worry about the civilian population in Gaza? Not Israel. Israel is at war with the regime in Gaza. The war aims to remove the regime's capacity to govern and pose a military threat to Israel. So, Israel's first responsibility is to its citizens: crushing Hamas.
Gazans have been urged to move south of the city of Gaza located in the north of the strip.
As Aaron Lerner (IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis) points out:
Gazans are not being told by the IDF to travel hundreds of kilometers to reach safety outside of the war zone delineated at this time by Wadi Gaza. Not scores of kilometers. We are talking single digits! Distances which could have been traversed at a snail's pace within the 24-hour warning period. The distance between the northernmost section of Gaza City and Wadi Gaza is no more than 5 kilometers (about 3.1 miles). The northernmost point in the Gaza Strip is only 7 kilometers from Wadi Gaza. UNWRA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) could cooperate in moving civilians this short distance or cynically contribute to encouraging human shields for Hamas to remain in place.
Foremost, Hamas is responsible for the people of Gaza. The Palestinian Authority and UNWRA could play a constructive humanitarian role if they'd set aside their animus toward the Jewish state. The oil-rich Arab world can help, too. But just as you don't ask Ukraine to take responsibility for Russian civilians while it strikes at Russian military targets, don't ask Israel to take responsibility for the Gazans. Hundreds of Afgan civilians were inadvertently killed by the British military in Afganistan. The number of Iraqi civilians killed inadvertently by the US numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
The aims of Hamas are genocidal. It is us or them. If Hamas hides behind civilians, the onus for their deaths is on Hamas, not on Israel. If you don't get that, your moral compass is askew.
I have been channel-hopping in watching coverage of the war. Channel 14 is “all-Bibi-all-the-time” and devotes disproportionate air time to defending their hero. Mainly, this involves panels of pundits blaming Israel’s unpreparedness on someone other than Bibi, on the amorphous “left.” Haim Ramon (a has-been politician from Labor and later the defunct Kadima) is a frequent punching bag. Not sure why.
Channel 11 consistently provides solid non-showy coverage, though I switch to 12 when Ayala Hasson comes on. The veteran journalist was brought over to 11 to try to win over some of the Channel 14 crowd. It has not worked, as ratings for 11 are the lowest of all the channels. My go-to channel is 12. They have the best line-up of talent, even if (former) boy genius Amit Segal gets on my nerves sometimes. I don’t see much of 13 just because I can do only so much clicking with my arthritic fingers.
For all the channels, my policy is when panel members start shouting and talking over each other, I mute the sound.
Speaking of muting, Netanyahu has received justified criticism for going on TV Friday night. The last time a prime minister went on TV Friday (Shabbat) night was Yitzhak Rabin in 1994 during the kidnapping (eventual murder) of Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman by Hamas in Oslo days.
When an anchor tells frazzled Israelis the prime minister has asked to address the nation on a Friday night, the assumption is the news is big and bad. But when Bibi went on TV this past Friday night, it was to blow off hot air. Many people say that the channels should not immediately go live when he is on until they can establish he’s saying something of substance. But in a time of war, that’s not a good idea.
Things are getting weird when friends and family are sending around a pro-Israel op-ed that ran in the vitriolically anti-Zionist Guardian. But one of their Jewish in-house writers (who’s never been on the fringe left anyway) wrote a column people find worthwhile. So here it is. I prefer Al Jazeera to the Guardian. But that’s a matter of personal taste.
Catching up on the weekend papers...
The Secrets Hamas Knew About Israel’s Military (NYT)
The Erev in the Trafalgar Square area must be back up. Neturei Karta is my favorite anti-Zionist group. The secular anti-Zionists are so vanilla, but these characters ... thank you, Woody Allen. And by the time they got home, the chulent was burned. (Daily Mail)
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