Egozi’s Fury – Soldiers Running From Boulders

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Online I watched a video that looks as if it was made by a disturbed director – a convoy of IDF vehicles passing through a neighborhood in Eastern Jerusalem and from the rooftop, where the video was being shot from, boulders are being thrown at it – not large rocks but boulders. Then the vehicles speed up and drive away.

Such an incident in any other country – as democratic and human rights-conscious as it may be – would have ended with the soldiers exiting their vehicles, shooting towards those throwing the deadly boulders and ending the attack with a deadly cold weapon, but in Israel the combination of a weak government and various legal advisors on whom it leans – the order to the soldiers is to run.

I felt ashamed for the soldiers.

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Europe’s alarm clock is one of an inferior kind. They haven’t woken up when the waves of refugees have washed over their countries. They haven’t woken up when at the refugees’ demonstrations, ISIS flags were waved. They still haven’t woken up when it became apparent that under the cover of the refugees, members of Islamic terror organizations have successfully infiltrated.

If this alarm clock is not replaced soon, some countries in Europe are due for a very loud and painful wake-up call.

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The king of Jordan has published a statement that the Temple Mount belongs solely to Muslims. The king knows that without the undercover assistance given to him by Israel he would have lost the throne long ago. So if he said it as lip service to the Palestinians – oh well. But if he really meant it, then I would like to see him hanging on without the assistance of Israel.

The Muslim terror in the area is threatening Jordan as much as the next country and without Israel and U.S. assistance, ISIS flags would be flying across government buildings in Amman.

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Gal Hirsch has removed his nomination for Chief of Police. Someone who could have made the changes the police force desperately needs went home after a wave of personal slanders.

This saga of Chief of Police nominations has crossed every line of stupidity, shame and any other bad word in the dictionary. Instead of backing Hirsch completely, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Minister of Interior Gilad Erdan went the easy way.

In the state the Israeli police is in now, with some of its seniors going home with big stains on their resumes, in a state of a new Intifada which is proven by the government’s stupidity – in such a situation the saga should have ended a long time ago.

But the Israeli government doesn’t make decisions and when they are made, they are not followed. Binyamin Netanyahu and his government have brought empty, meaningless talks to a degree of craftsmanship.

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What is the connection between the supermodel Bar Rafaeli’s wedding and homeland security? Well, I’ll tell you.

What happened with the case of closing the aerial territory over the area where the wedding is being held is an example of how country has lost all direction in how it is being run. In the United States, had the Federal Aviation Administration made a decision regarding flight safety, neither the president nor the Supreme Court try and change it.

But this is the country of mess. And now for the facts: the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel  has made a professional decision to close off the aerial territory during the wedding due to the presence of aerial vehicles filming the event. This is an area where temporary closing it down would have caused to trouble at all, but after hearing some criticism, Minister of Transportation Israel Katz has made a populist choice to undo the decision.

This is an intolerable act. The Civil Aviation Authority is the qualified body, but all the lines have blurred here in Israel. The aerial territory was in fact closed since anyone who wanted to fly over it had to receive permission from the authority controlling aerial traffic in Israel. But to those who don’t understand any of this, the minister is some sort of keeper of civilians’ rights. The fact that he stomped the qualified regulator, that’s a different story. This would have fit a country in East Africa.

On second thought, we’re even worse than those countries.

We’re dealing with homeland security. Notice how decisions are being made here. I suggest that you shouldn’t sleep all too well at night.