Required Reading and News Roundup

I'm off to military reserves (again) today and tomorrow, so I've pre-blogged a few articles which should show up during the day.

In the meantime, mandatory reading is as follows:

- The Barbaric Arab Blood Lust is NOT based on Jews living in settlements. Rather, its based on Jews living in Israel. Read Sarah Honig's excellent historical analysis.

- Why Moderate Arabs are horrified by the policies of the current US Administration, by the always excellent, Professor Barry Rubin.

Round up of a few events of the past 24 hours:

12:30 AM (Sunday morning) Rock throwing against Jewish cars on road 55; no injuries, yet damage caused.

12:20 AM (Sunday morning) Rock throwing from "Ouja" in the Jordan valley against a school bus returning school children to Jerusalem from a Shabbat weekened in the Golan Heights. No injuries. Bus windshield smashed.

10:20 PM (Saturday Night) Reports of shooting attack at the entrance to the community of Eli; no injuries reported.

10:50 PM (Saturday Night) Road 60 between Gush Etzion and Kiryat Arba; arabs blocked the road with large rocks, and when a Jewish car from Carmei Tzur arrived and slowed down at the roadblock, Arabs lobbed dozens of stones and at the car and tried to lynch the occupants. They managed to escape, but the car suffered very heavy damage.

8:40 PM (Saturday Night) Arabs throw rocks on highway 55 near Azzun, wounding an Israeli motorist.

8:00 PM (Saturday Night) Arabs throw 7 Molotov cocktail firebombs at Beit Yehonatan in Shiloach/Silwan area of Jerusalem.

2:00 AM Friday Night/Saturday Morning; My son reported that 2 mortars landed about 300 meters from the yeshiva he was sleeping at near the Gaza and Egyptian borders.

Stay Safe people -- a good week to all.

--Jameel



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