Israel Uncensored: Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria Oh My

[Music] now hastin here Israel uncensored on the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm it is Monday morning January the 14th 2019 the 8th of schrott five seven seven nine hope you're doing well in your part of the world don't forget you can always get in touch with me during the week Josh at the Land of Israel calm on Facebook it's Joshua hastin and on Twitter at Josh hastin I actually also just started a new page on Facebook it's called Josh hastin Israel advocacy and journalism another outlet in which I plan to use to post different articles that I'm writing in addition to these podcasts and other pro-israel advocacy information so go give it a like give it a follow again Josh haste in Israel advocacy and journalism a brand new page which I just created on Facebook we're going to get to the news here on the program because as always a lot to discuss here in Israel and throughout the Middle East Times of Israel reports after Israel struck two targets in northern Gaza on Saturday night the Hamas terror group which rules the territory warned the Jewish state against a dangerous escalation so Saturday night Israel the military carried out airstrikes in response to yet another rocket launched by somebody in Gaza one of the terror groups in Gaza the rocket landed in Israeli territory and thank God there were no injuries but wait a minute I thought we had a ceasefire right so much for the ceasefire anyone who's lived in Israel long enough or has been following the story down on Israel's southern border with Gaza knows there's no such thing as a ceasefire just several days ago Hamas sent over a huge explosive device attached to a bunch of balloons and how this latest round started even though we were supposed to have a ceasefire what it what a joke that is so again IDF fighters targeted to of Hamas is underground structures in Gaza the IDF said in a statement we will continue operating to defend Israeli citizens the rocket that prompted the airstrikes landed in an open field as I said no damages or injuries the mayor of the stoat negative Regional Council Council tamarrod on calling on the government to respond more harshly to rocket launches from Gaza on Friday this past Friday another one of these so-called great march of returns took place thirteen thousand Arabs participating in it says here demonstrations I would call them violent attempted infiltrations into israel rock throwing firebombs grenades being thrown at israeli troops burning tires trying to breach the security fence Israel of course responding as as necessary the Air Force attacked two hamas posts on friday in response to that violence an israeli soldier was lightly injured by a rock throughout Friday's events one arab was killed this is this part of the story is insane here again I'm still referring to this Times of Israel article in recent days Hamas has ramped up its threats of renewed violence along the Gaza border after Israel halted the transfer or of fifteen million dollars of Qatari funds to the terror group the funds are part of a series of six fifteen million deposits Israel's allowing to Qatar to make their in Gaza so again on one hand we say that we are fighting the terror we're attacking their underground structures attacking empty buildings attacking different Hamas operational centers and on the other hand we are allowing in theory this one was delayed Qatar sent over these 15 million dollars in cash payments over to Hamas which of course they're supposed to use to help their people over there yet every time we transfer things over to Hamas or allow the transfer of goods and services and money or whatnot they just use them to build more tunnels more more of these incendiary devices launch more Rockets on and on so I don't understand the the the logic which goes into allowing these money transfers former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman now that he's no longer in business says that the government should not be transferring the money it only may be used for Hamas astera terrorist activities I agree with him but the question I have for the former defense minister is now he's going to speak up I mean he threatened before he was the fence Minister that if he would get the job that he would take out the head of Hamas within 48 hours that never happened and here we are an election cycle so of course it's a game of politics criticizing the Israeli government saying they're not doing enough I'm not saying I disagree with Lieberman I agree with him that is really shouldn't transfer money over to Hamas to allow money to be transferred over to Hamas yet where was he when he was the Minister of Defense and they were firing hundreds of rockets at Israeli population centers so again politics it's all about politics as I mentioned before a week ago Hamas officials decided they were going to continue this the launching of these incendiary devices they had a meeting with the heads of what's called actually have a kite unit a kite unit the hoes who are behind launching of these dangerous dangerous weapons which are which thank God I mean we they've burden so many fields down in the South but thank God you know some of these devices have been found outside of nursery schools nothing nothing serious has happened but you know I don't know how long how much longer we need to take the risk of not doing what needs to be done in order to combat the threat of these incendiary kites and in balloons and whatnot at that meeting the Hamas meaning the unit this kite unit they received a new budget to prepare for the next round of violence but wait a minute I thought we had a ceasefire it's all a joke there is no ceasefire they're getting ready on the other side preparing their strategies as to how they're going to attack the Jewish state speaking of attacks on Friday I actually didn't get this information until after Shabbat Saturday night this happened just at the beginning of Shabbat IDF soldiers foiled a stabbing terror attack next to the gavotte Sava neighbourhood in Kiryat Arba you can go online you act you can actually see the terrorist the Arab terrorist trying to attack anyone in sight there the soldiers and other personnel security personnel from Kiryat Arba and the terrorists was then shot and and he was killed but nobody was injured in the attack there at the beginning of Shabbat in Kiryat Arba you can go check to check out the pictures and the videos online if you can stomach it but here you have a jihadist armed with a knife trying to murder and getting what he deserved Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu as reported by The Jerusalem Post took responsibility on Sunday for Saturday attacks at the Damascus Airport Israel hit Iranian arms warehouses at the airport over the past 36 hours again that would be Friday and into Saturday according to Prime Minister Netanyahu in a rare admission that Israel was taking part in these strikes against against Syria or Iran Ian targets in Syria now our outgoing army chief isin cot said something on the radio the other day hinting that the Prime Minister should not admit that Israel's behind these strikes yet the Prime Minister decided to open his cabinet meeting Sunday morning announced that Israel was in fact behind that strike and that Israel has taken action against Hezbollah and the Iranian targets hundreds of times what's interesting though is even though Eisen cut seemed to criticize the Prime Minister for mentioning that Israel was taking part in these strikes in a New York Times interview Eisen God himself said that Israel had dropped two thousand bombs on Iranian and Syrian targets in Syria in 2018 alone so I'm not sure why he's hinting that our prime minister shouldn't mention anything about attacking Syria yet he told the New York Times that Israel's in fact that acting attacking Syria again in politics maybe politics is behind everything around here the accumulated number of recent attacks that the prime minister proves that we are determined more than ever to act against Iran in Syria this Netanyahu telling his cabinet on Sunday morning in other related news also in the Jerusalem Post the IDF uncovered a sixth Hezbollah tunnel completing what was called operation northern shield the tunnel which had been dug at a depth of 55 meters that's a hundred and eighty feet below the ground was the most important one detected since the operation began in December again we're talking about Hezbollah in the north digging underground tunnels trying to reach Israeli communities and trying to carry out acts of terror and murder going into the closest community we've seen it with Hamas and now because Bala trying the same tactics trying to attack Israeli communities on the northern border but this 6th and the 6th the finding of the 6th tunnel now ends this operation northern Shield but the question really is even though this this military operation is apparently over how many tunnels are still being dug and what will Israel do in the near future in order to quash this this threat of terror tunnels being dug from Lebanon in two northern Israel and here the J Post reports while the military announced the end of the operation and noted that it is simultaneously monitoring several locations worthless Bellis is still digging underground I wonder what they're digging underground so I'm not my question is how's the operation over if we know Hezbollah is still digging underground bottom line it is not over this is probably just the beginning the IDF it says will also continue a broad defense effort along the named Lebanese border to ensure closed Bala does not try to dig future tunnels into Israel by integrating various means such as the ongoing construction of the border wall with Lebanon so now we have a border wall in Egypt we have the separation fence barrier in Judea and Samaria and here comes another wall more walls that's all we need is more walls right I personally am against all these walls I know that the southern wall or fence if you will has prevented the illegal illegal immigration from North African countries I know that's brought that down to a pretty much a standstill but these other fences I know I was down there on the Gaza border to see this new technological fence going in underground fence above ground fans sensors and all the rest but we are just building so much money's being used to put these band-aids up all over the country now in the north as well to build these fences but not solve the problem and again this is not the same situation on our northern border and Judea and Samaria it's not the same situation as the wall that the President of the United States wants to erect on the Mexican border our southern fence or wall is probably that's probably the most similar in terms of the purpose or what not but a lot of these other fences are basically band-aids it means we're not going to solve the problem we're gonna kick the can down the road and we'll see what Hezbollah does next I mean that's the bottom line let's talk some some legal issues he I'd like to discuss and kind of disturbing to put it to put it mildly terrorist through some post reports that terrorist gets 18 years for the murder of a British student under the Jerusalem light rail Jamil Tamimi was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Jerusalem district court on Thursday and a plead plea deal for the murder of Hanna blot on a 23 year old 20 year old British exchange student who was stabbed to death in April 2017 on the Jerusalem light-rail 18 years that's all for murder that's all that's all this guy gets he doesn't get the death sentence he doesn't get life in prison he gets 18 years which you know for him may sound like a lot but he is now 57 so in other words he'll be released and there's good behavior perhaps I don't know he'll be released in his mid-70s so what did the Court decide while it was found that the terrorist Tamimi could differentiate between right and wrong it was also found that he was mentally unstable leading to the expected reduced sentence according to the indictment filed by the Jerusalem District Courts office the attack took place extremely close to the old city where tens of thousands of visitors were observing Passover and Easter again this is in 2017 he purchased a thirty point five centimeter long knife Tamimi who lives by the way in Jerusalem on the day of the murder then he called his son's to arrange a visit apparently the kids didn't want to see their father he had already been receiving treatment at a mental health center and I guess he was so upset that his kids didn't want to see him he decided to purchase a knife and stabbed in this case I'm not sure if she's Jewish or not but a tourist on the Jerusalem Light Rail that's how he took out his aggression murder and yet somehow you only get 18 years in jail so if you're angry and you take it out on others in the form of murder only 18 years in prison here's another court decision I believe this is the same court the Jerusalem district court if I'm not mistaken a terrorist who planned to assassinate the Prime Minister of Israel he only got 11 years just 11 years why so short a sentence according to J&S where I also do a good share of writing a resident of the schewe fought neighborhood in Jerusalem was convicted of planning terrorist attacks against Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior officials including former Jerusalem air near Bar cot he was sentenced for yeah that's Jerusalem District Court handed down the sentence sentence for just 11 years most of the details are under gag order on this case some say he was being handled by terrorists and Syria they're the ones behind this he was convicted and of charges including aiding the enemy and time of war conspiracy to commit terrorist acts that would result in murder he also plan to carry out attacks on buildings owned by the American consulate in Jerusalem and against the delegation of Canadian officials who were in Israel yet only 11 years I'm not exactly sure what the this leniency is all about in all these cases but it seems like it is a pattern here out of the Jerusalem district court light sentences for those who murder and those who carry out attempted murder or are planning a murder of our prime minister that's all he got I'm not exactly sure what's going on there at the same time the J Post reports that border police arrested a Palestinian they call a Palestinian Saturday night for allegedly firing a weapon on a border police station in the a Buddhist a Buddhist neighborhood just on the border there of Jerusalem in November suspect a resident of that community of a Buddhist arrested near Malaya do même know there were no injuries in the incident that took place in November again he tried to shoot at our troops at border police in his neighborhood there of a Buddhist and he was in fact a this just came off of my email I just got this now from the NGO monitor organization just printed it out a press release just here several minutes ago the title is anti-semitism BDS and European funding the WCC's activists in israel and what it says here is the West Bank the World Council WCC's the World Council of Churches they have sent nearly 2,000 activists to Israel since 2002 training them in anti-israel advocacy and dispatching them to communities around the world the project is paid for in part by European and other governments and new report from NGO monitor finds so here you have anti-israel activists getting trained coming over here and getting training in anti-israel activity and then going around and spreading this hate in this anti-semitism to different communities around the world the anti-israel activists are part of the acumen ecumenical accompaniment program in Palestine and Israel that's the name of the organization ei PP I a WCC flagship initiative participants are sent to quote witness life under occupation this WCC activities unique and has no parallel and other conflict zones in other words they pretend that there are these humanitarians and care about what they call our people under occupation which of course is absolute nonsense yet they're not active in any other conflicts they're not helping people and other places around the world this is clearly just an anti-israel initiative carried out by the World Council of Churches WCC anybody know about this group if you know about this group I don't know too much about this WCC feel free to get in touch with me let me know who they are what they're all about so how does it work the ei PPI they misuse tourist visas entering Israel and they have no legal status here despite marketing itself it says in the report and the press release rather as a human rights program the ei PPI emphasizes political activity sorry political advocacy NGO monitor research finds that upon returning to their home countries many activists engage in anti-israel demon demon demon ization including BDS campaigns comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa and of course to Nazi Germany because that's just a cool and popular thing to do compare Israel to Nazi Germany right that happens all the time the organization at times draws upon theological opposition to Israel's existence and crosses into overt anti-semitism so now the information is out there and the question I guess is now for our leaders what are we going to do about it how are we going to prevent these haters from coming into Israel and getting a false narrative and then spreading that narrative around the world so the question is how do we identify these people and stop them at the border the World Council of Churches and their ei PPI initiative that's a question for our government officials of how to stop these people the New England Patriots the New England Patriots yes on the field those who know me since I am from Indianapolis I'm not a fan of the football team New England the New England Patriots that being said Bob Kraft the owner is what a mensch what a great human being he's just been awarded the genesis prize remember that prize that was given to Natalie Portman last year then she boycotted the ceremony and didn't accept it remember that well now this year this is called chuhwa okay repentance because the genesis prize got it right this time giving it to Bob Kraft a wonderful philanthropist and pro-israel advocate and businessman and just a great great human being so he's getting that award and I was actually just using that as background to talk about well first of all the Patriots won last night big in the NFL and their success of course continues Bob Kraft I heard him say it himself ever since he started supporting Israel and football in Israel and other projects his New England Patriots have won five Super Bowls but the focus here is actually on Julian Edelman one of the players on the team who identifies as being Jewish and he actually was in Israel I had the privilege of meeting him as well I think it was two years ago he came to visit Israel he put he was wearing a pair of cleats during one of his recent games they had a whole campaign called hashtag my cause my cleats in which the NFL allowed players to design their shoes their cleats which they used to play in football games so you had a lot of players wearing these individually created specialized cleats Julian Elliman when he went on when he took the field several weeks ago wearing cleats he dedicated his artistic design on his shoes to the victims of Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue and now a California firm has paid $10,000 for those cleats and they're gonna be donating the money to charities in Pittsburgh the New England Patriots this reported by Israel national news the Patriots receiver wore that wide receiver wore the cleats stamped with the words The Tree of Life in Hebrew with an Israeli flag at a December 16th game against Pittsburgh and solidarity with the victims of the October 27 shooting Golden West food group they purchased the cleats made the donation to the combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston and the donation from the sale will then go on to the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh to benefit the victims families and to help strengthen the city's Jewish community according to this Boston group so so again a California California firm pays ten thousand dollars for the shoes donates it to the combined Jewish Philanthropies in Boston and Boston is going to use it to help those in Pittsburgh recovering from this horrific anti-semitic shooting there at the synagogue in Pittsburgh back in October but bottom line here is Julian Edelman whose father is Jewish has been to Israel identifies with the Jewish people he is a a true mensch that him and his and the owner of the team as I said before Bob Kraft they're they're just great people so much much respect for Julian Edelman for supporting the victims of the Pittsburgh attack we are going to end with some with two different stories here more good news from Israel it is actually by the way I don't know if I mentioned it at the beginning I mean it is winter here in Israel I know it's not the same as winter in New York or Boston or Toronto wherever you may be listening from but it is cold here it is probably about 3540 degrees Fahrenheit about five degrees Celsius more or less and we've been getting rain and there's another storm on its way we're supposed to get maybe maybe some snow in Jerusalem and in mountainous regions in Israel on Wednesday but what is this doing this is helping our king nerrit lake of galilee rise and according to Wynette the Kinneret rose three more centimeters over the weekend the Sea of Galilee it says over the Kinneret continued rising over the past few days gaining an additional three centimeters and again folks every centimeter counts every little centimeter counts here in the Sea of Galilee since the beginning of last week the Kinneret rose 30 point five centimeters and a total of 53 centimeters since the season began since the winter began this is huge news because we've been experiencing over the last several years a drought here in Israel this is this is rain of blessing there's no other way to look at it is a blessing to receive rain and Israel is such a big deal the Kinneret still has some work to do needs to rise even further hopefully this week's predicted rain and snow will assist in the lake of galilee rising even more and finally just more proof how israel is truly the startup nation and creating unbelievable technologies which are being used around the world benefiting society and you know i'm a believer that people should love israel not just because we're the startup nation and that jews should come home to israel and appreciate israel because of our biblical heritage and our modern-day heritage and everything else that goes with the land of israel but this is definitely a plus and a bonus the fact that israel is creating these devices in order to improve humanity and this latest technology is no different according to The Times of Israel the Israeli startup coral detection systems unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week a product that is that it says is able to quickly detect drownings in swimming pools and alert rescuers the first of its kind hexagonal shaped device is positioned at the edge of a swimming pool and it monitors the pool via a built-in underwater video camera that uses computer computer vision and artificial intelligence to detect movement the device monitors the pool 24/7 and analyzes what's going on in the water in case of drowning or dangerous circumstances the vice sounds an alarm to alert people in the vicinity to help the victim and simultaneously sends an alert to the pools owner's via their smartphones so if God forbid somebody something's wrong in your pool you'll get notification on your phone it sends an alarm off to alert people in the area if God forbid somebody is drowning another unbelievable technology made in Israel folks made in Israel technology and I would predict that this device will be introduced at swimming pools all around the world and will save lives start-up nation folks that is what we are amongst other things okay let's not leave it at that but this is an amazing technology and another contribution to humanity made in the Jewish state of Israel and that's all the time we have on today's show hear from a blustery and cold windy gush etzion Israel my name is Josh Houston this is Israel uncensored on the Land of Israel Network at the land of israel calm would love to get your feedback on shows on this show on other shows I'd love love to hear by the way if you prefer a type of show like today where it's mostly news and up-to-date information on Israel or do you prefer when I interview others when I have guests on the show or maybe you like both I would love to get your feedback let me know what you think of the show you 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