Insane Statements on the Israeli News and a "Secret"

This has to be short. I just got back from a very long day at work. I then turned on the television and didn't know whether it was good or bad that the news was on. During the past week or so, as the ceasefire held, there were regular programs instead of the constant news updates and interviews with so-called experts, politicians etc.

Remember I work in Yafiz, Sha'ar Binyamin with lots of Arabs. Some are fellow workers and others are customers. Though far fewer Arab customers the past month and a half...

We don't hear the news at work, barely rumors, and I heard nothing all day from when I left home at 1pm until I got home after 11pm.

So I was surprised to see the television crew so animated, as if on "war footing." After listening for a few minutes or less I caught on. They were waiting to hear if the ceasefire would be extended or end with a "bang."

I have no idea who was talking, and honestly, I don't know what channel my husband had left on. When I heard someone say:

"Nobody wants war, not us nor the Gazans."

Duh!!??!!

Why do they let lying crackpots on TV?

There has never been any sign that Gazans don't want war. Your ordinary Gazan may want to get out of the way of our rockets and not want to be human shields, but they have shown no sign that they don't want Hamas to attack Israel.

For the gazillionth time I beg my fellow Israelis to stop projecting. It's very dangerous. The Arabs don't have the same culture that will do anything to preserve life that we have.  I'm going to let you in a a secret... Arabs also make the dumb mistake of projecting. Do you know why they haven't been shopping much in Jewish stores of late? Their leaders tell them that we will attack and murder them. And they believe those lies. Why do they believe the lies? It's simple. They are projecting what they would do to us.

Ninth of Av, When Will We Ever Learn?

As I thought that I had read of enough Kinot, those sad, depressing elegies said on Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of the Jewish Month of Av, which is the date so many awful things happened to the Jewish People over the millennium, I turned on the television news.

Protection doesn't come from the Iron Dome, which only works when G-d wants it to.
Photo, Times of Israel

Oy, this year with a war going on and the three Israeli Hebrew news channels just broadcasting war news, I don't have to worry about catching a musical or comedy. I find the news much less pleasant than the most depressing readings in my special Tisha b'Av siddur.

One commentator was saying that the Arab terrorist group Hamas which controls/rules/was elected to govern Gaza is or will be telling everyone that they are the victors over Israel. They could have gone on, but Israel gave up. They won the war. Unfortunately, I agree with them. We blinked first, and we blinked on numerous occasions.

• We blinked when we sent out the warning notices to protect innocent civilians in Gaza.
• We blinked when our pilot turned back and didn't bomb a building, because he saw there were children there.
• We blinked when we suggested or agreed to ceasefires.
• We blinked when we sent in food and medical supplies.
• We blinked when we took in injured Gazans to our medical facilities.

We blinked as if we were having some sort of neurological fit/attack. The State of Israel has not acted in a way to prove to the world that we want to protect our country, our innocent civilians and our children, spouses, siblings, nephews, grandchildren, neighbors, friends who are the soldiers in the IDF. Our government has forgotten their basic main responsibility, which is to protect us!

Yossi Beilin  Photo: AFP/GETTY

At one point on television I thought I was listening to Yossi Beilin, one of the extreme Leftists involved in the illegal, although later ratified, Oslo Accords. It was just that the speaker seemed a bit too young to be him.

Danny Ayalon

The speaker, who ended up being Danny Ayalon, was talking about controlling Gaza by bringing in "effective, reliable monitors" to police it. His suggestions of Egypt and Abbas's Fatah had me wondering about his sanity. Or could I have been hallucinating? Just a very short while ago Egypt was in total turmoil, political and security anarchy. How could anyone be sure that they would be up to such a job. They are happy that Fatah is in Gaza with Israel getting the brunt of their terrorism. And how could anyone forget that just days before things "exploded" here, Fatah and Hamas signed a treaty? I found a recent CNN interview in which he described some of his ideas.

There is a very basic flaw in his reasoning, and that is "projection," when one projects their own values on other people. Israelis, especially on the Left or Center use this as the basis of their belief that we can live in peace with the Arabs, because, according to their theory, your typical Arab has the same wish for a peaceful coexistence. They keep blacking-out, deleting from their minds the pictures of Arab mothers celebrating the suicide bombings and other terror attacks by their children, because they resulted in the deaths of Jews.

In the Tisha B'Av prayers, Eicha, Kinot etc we read that G-d punishes us for worshiping foreign gods and false prophets. When will we ever learn....?