Posted on 01/04/2010 2:28:18 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Last night, having been stranded in Gilo, I took a cab home. The gate off Highway 60 was open, but with sentries on duty. Before they let my cab driver through, one of them, armed with a rifle that he clutched nervously, opened first his door and then mine, quizzing us each in turn. He demanded to know what I was doing coming in at that hour (10:30), and when I told him I was coming home for the night, he demanded that I tell him quickly my building and apartment number (in Kiryat Arba, building numbers are sequential, regardless of what street they're on. I think it's in order of when they were built.) I rattled off house and apartment number nonchalantly enough, so he let us through. This is very out of the ordinary. Tonight, coming home much earlier by bus, I noted not only IDF forces patrolling he tzomet (junction) between my township and the Kirya, but also armed citizens standing watch along with them. All of this is extraordinary. Normally, the Kirya and my township (Remat Mamre/Charsina) are two sleepy hamlets, nestled between one sleepy Arab (actually Kurdish, I'm told) hamlet and Hebron. The gate at the bottom of the hill is manned, but open, and people come and go at all hours without any hassles. The tzomet on top of the hill only occasionally sees soldiers, except when they're hitchiking or on their way to some trouble, like the stabbing incident at the gas station next to the gate last month. Kids and teens run around the streets at all hours, blissfully safe and secure.
So what was going on? Why the armored vehicles and jittery sentries, the quizzing of late night homecomers? Then I read the papers. Oh, yeah. Another piece process has been announced, with lots of Israeli concessions to the Palis planned, and a new era or some damned thing or other. No wonder.
May Divine Providence watch over you and over all Israel.
Thanx.
The link is an interesting read and is an observation from a woman professor named Haim Harari on the Muslim situation:
Haim is a male name, and in the description at the bottom of the article the professor is referred to as “he”.
With the Iranian military manuvers scheduled for next
month, I would expect tension to continue to rise.
Please keep us informed of what is happening there.
This direct contact is what makes FR the most up to date
source of news and information.
Tet68.
“Piece process” — funny if unintentional, brilliant if not. Be safe!
*ping* - heightened security in Kiryat Arba described by an eyewitness freeper.
*ping* - heightened security in Kiryat Arba described by an eyewitness freeper.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420959/posts
IDF Redeploys Active Duty Combat Troops to Northern and Gaza Borders
http://world.brunei.fm/2010/01/04/re...-in-west-bank/ ^
Posted on Monday, January 04, 2010 7:07:59 PM by jhpigott
RESERVE TROOPS OF ISRAELI DEFENCE FORCES TO REPLACE REGULAR FORCES IN WEST BANK
GAZA, Jan 4 (NNN-KUNA) — The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have decided to replace regular combat troops in permanent positions in the West Bank with reserve troops, according to reports reaching here from Israel.
The move is aimed at allowing combat troops move faster to frontlines in case of any eventuality in the future, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported on its website, Ynet Sunday. It will strengthen the combat unit garrisoning in the northern frontline, close to the Lebanese borders, and the southern frontline near the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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GOD HAVE MERCY ON ISRAEL AND ON US ALL.
G*d Bless you and keep you, my friend.
Hine lo yanum ve lo ye shan shomer Yisroel (trying hard to transliterate into Hebrew with English letters, forgive my stumbling attempt)
Behold, He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.
I’ve been calling it that for years now, and it’s slowly seeping into the conservative vocabulary. Here’s a poem in which I used it for the first time:
October 16, 1998
THE PIECE ACCORD
Piece broke out in Israel once again today.
The banquet followed swiftly and was done.
The Secretary savored the aroma.
The Veep chawed it like brown tobacco plug.
The PM had to swallow it despite the bulkiness.
The President devoured it like a cream-filled
Tasty Twinkie.
The Chairman shat it out,
And Hamas turned the switch and flushed it down.
The bombs went off somewhere again.
Somebody little died and earned 900 seconds
Of moot fame
Again again again again again.
And everyone was hungry for a piece just like before.
Tonight while at Gush Etzion Junction, I saw a team of IDF troops performing what seemed like random stops and searches on Pali vehicles. They shined the flashlight on the end of their rifles at the driver in the vehicle, tell him “Ila al’ajar,” and he pulls over to the side. They take him out of the car and ask to see his ID, check his trunk and belongings, and then when he’s found in the clear, let him go on his way. I saw them do this twice, once with a passenger in a yellow cab service van, and once with a private driver. Neither man resembled the other in the least, so I don’t think they were looking for anyone in particular. Traffic was not stopped for this, and for the two vehicles that they searched in this manner, a few hundred Palis and Israelis went by without being stopped.
Wow. Something is going on!
Be safe, my FRiend.
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