Traveling up the road to Ma’ale Levona from Sinjil at 17:30 in the evening, the vehicle I was riding in was confronted with and the road blocked by two Israel Police vehicles. After some discussion, the police agreed to move the vehicles and allowed the vehicle I was riding in to pass. Traveling from there to the main road into the village, I could see a long line of traffic backed up on the main road. The following is reported live as dictated to my son, Shimon, who typed this as I spoke.
At the entry road to Ma’ale Levona there is a tremendous road block. There are border guards in full combat gear, there are police, and Yassminikim in black. The main road into the village was blocked with stones and we ran over them at 17:40 this evening (7 December 2009). Fortunately the vehicle was not damaged. It is impossible to enter Ma’ale Levona at this second. The presence of police, military vehicles, and the stones in the road seem to indicate that there either is or has been a confrontation between forces of the state and the residents of Ma’ale Levona. This is confirmed by the presence of a large number of residents at the gate of the yishuv (village). A barrier of rocks is slowly being removed from the roadway and we are progressing home. Walking into the village, I was stopped by a kid who wanted to make sure I live here.
The following are the observations of my son Shimon.
At around 2:15 p.m. one of our neighbors told me Border Guards wanted to get into the yishuv (village) to inspect it for new buildings. However the residents would not let them in. Buses that stopped by the village were not allowed into the gate at all. So the passengers who desired to enter either walked up the road (about ? kilometer) or waited for a ride from the village to get in. The reason I know this is that the bus I was on returning from Jerusalem was stopped at the gate, and I was allowed in by my neighbor, who knew me.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Dan(Miller)
Ruvy,
If I had any prayers I would say them for you and for Israel. I don't, so you have my very best wishes instead.
President Obama's administration belatedly got around to recognizing the realities of the situation in Honduras. It must have been painful. Maybe, just maybe, it will get its head out of its posterior and do something right for a change in Israel. That seems unlikely and grossly out of character, but I can hope.
Maybe even Netanyahu will have a change of heart.
Dan(Miller)
2 - Ruvy
Thanks for the kind thoughts. Arutz Sheva insists that the army returned to deliver its "freeze" orders. But I haven't seen any evidence of this. Their report was posted at 18:55, when I was working on this article.
3 - Silas Kain
Ruvy, this is the kind of news that needs to be reported more often here in the U.S. American Jews need to realize that Netanyahu is NOT the Savior of Israel as they seem to believe. American Jews also need to understand that the affairs of the State of Israel must and can not be dictated by the U.S. government. The Israeli people - whether Christian, Muslim or Jew, have the right to define their own destiny. We in America would best serve the people of the Middle East by spending more time concentrating on our own domestic problems.
Imagine if we tapped into the ingenuity of the American people. If we could find alternatives to petroleum, we would become less dependent on Middle Eastern nations for our very survival. If we learned how to make textiles more efficient we wouldn't have to be dependent on clothing being shipped to our shores from Asia. And if we learned that taking care of ourselves was more important than saving the Holy Land, we'd be more Christ-like.
4 - Ruvy
This too needs to be reported out of Israel; and this. You need to see that we can and do laugh - at ourselves and at you.
5 - Ruvy
The good news was that residents of P'sagót kept out the scum from the Civil Administration in a fashion similar to the way the residents of Ma'alé Levoná did.
The bad news is that a huge demonstration was scheduled for this evening in Paris Square, near the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem. police are preventing buses from reaching the site in Jerusalem.
Another example of selective enforcement of the law by the illegal régime of American puppets in Jerusalem. It is time to draw out the steel of Matatayhu to deal with the scum at the top, who worship the evil prince of the setting sun, Barry Soetoro/Barak Obama.
6 - Joanne Huspek
Unfortunately for us, we are so full of ourselves that most of us can't recognize real news when it hits us on the head.
7 - Christine
Happy Hanukkah, Ruvy!
8 - Dan(Miller)
Amen to what Christine and others said, Ruvy. For those who want to get current, here and here are two places to start. My guess, from afar, is that civil war is on the horizon.
Dan(Miller)
9 - Silas Kain
Ah Lichtige Chanukah, Ruvy! Gay ga zinta hate.
10 - Ruvy
Shavúa tov - Hánukka sameáH!
Thank you for all your kind wishes. It will truly be a happy Hánukka for me (un a lichtige Hanukkeh far mir) when the government annuls the Oslo Accords, dissolves the PA, takes the Temple Mount out of Arab hands, and places tender orders for the construction of 20,000 Jewish homes in Hebron, and 100,000 Jewish homes for the rest of Judea and Samaria.
Till then - well.... we await the steel of Matatyahu to right things here.
11 - Silas Kain
Ruvy, I listened to Sophie's My Yiddishe Mamma this morning and thought of you. Hope all is well there this day.
12 - Ruvy
Silas,
I don't speak Yiddish with an American accent, as did the late Sophie Tucker. I speak it with a Yiddish accent from eastern Poland. I learned that language from contemporaries of hers - MY father, uncle, aunts and cousins. When I first learned prayers in Hebrew, I learned them in the accent used in the tiny shuls in eastern Poland where my father would pray. It is very different from what I hear and speak now in Israel. The Haredí Jews, with the long sidelocks and black coats, imitate this accent in their prayers. To me, a Jew who is virtually a secular pig in their eyes - this accent comes naturally. It's painful to listen to these Haredím make a mockery of my father's style of prayer - not because they are making fun of it but because they just do not know. They mock their ancestors in Poland, Russia and Austria with their ignorance. Better that they should pray in the accent of the modern Hebrew they speak every day in the market. Then they could pray from the heart.
I listened also to Sophie Tucker. Better, you should listen to this recording in Yiddish - slower more mournful - filled with tiny mistakes. But the accent is from Poland - and is on the money.
From the recording:
A Yiddishe mame,
Zi makht dokh zis di gantze velt,
A Yiddishe mame,
Oy vey, vi bitter, ven zi felt,
Yihr darft dokh danken Got,
Vus Ikh hot yihr nokh bay zikh.
Oy vey, vi troyerik zu sein.
Ven zi geyt avek tzu gikh
In vásser, in fayer
Volt zi gelófn far yir kind.
Nisht hubn zi tayer,
Dus is gevis di greste zind.
Oy vi glíklekh un raykh
Iz der mentch, vus hot
Az a shayne metune geshenkt fin Got,
Nuch an altishke Yiddishe mame,
Mame Mame mayn!
Translation:
The Jewish mother makes the world sweet.
A Jewish mother, how bitter life is when she is not there.
you must thank God that she is still with you.
How sad to be when she passes away too soon.
She would run through fire and water for the sake of her child.
It is the worst of sins not holding her precious.
Happy and rich is the man who has got this beautiful gift of God,
to have still an old Jewish mother
Mother Mother of mine.
13 - Ruvy
And now to move from the sentimental mush of yesteryear to the cold realities of today. "Occupied territories" are a mere myth. Therefore, foreign pressure to force us out of our homes should be dealt with as the acts of war they are. This means that actions must be taken against not only the traitors in Jerusalem, but the pernicious scum in London who have for 8 decades tried to sink a Jewish entity here.
14 - roger nowosielski
Fuck Jewish entity. It should be human entity, if you know any better.
If I were your God, I'd be the first to disown you for your hatred and your sinful, evil heart.
15 - Ruvy
That's okay Roger. You are not any kind of god, and folks like me are grateful for it. If you were, I would feel terrified never knowing whether the sun would rise the next day, or whether the earth would suddenly begin to fall into it. A woman would not know whether she could even walk the streets at all without some "divinity" coming down for a quick feel and a fuck. A more confused, disordered and disheveled universe could not be imagined with you as its "divine entity". Even Foucault and Hannah Arendt would raise their fists condemning "god".
16 - Ruvy
To return to more serious events: Ynetnews carried reports of the OIC calling for "intervention" in the torching of a mosque near Shekhém. Apparently the alleged arsonists were Jews, as Hebrew grafitti "we will burn all of you" and "price tag" was found near the mosque. The term "price tag" refers to retaliation for the police or army destroying Jewish homes in Samaria or Judea.
I do not know who did this torching of a mosque - but I'll say this. There is much retaliation against Arab violence here that has come due, and if this was a Jewish act, the Arabs should be grateful that an attempt to destroy the mosque with worshipers inside was not made. For example, just from this evening, and Israeli car was attacked near Bethlehem. Earlier in the day, an Arab was caught near Jericho with a knife and tear gas. At the same time, Arabs stoned a car near the village on Hushan in Judea. Fortunately nobody was wounded - but seeing what Arabs routinely do in rock attacks, that was not likely the intent. What I have reported above is just from a three hour interval of time.
17 - zingzing
ruvy: "A woman would not know whether she could even walk the streets at all without some "divinity" coming down for a quick feel and a fuck."
ahh, christian mythology. the "loving" god.
dan: "My guess, from afar, is that civil war is on the horizon."
that would be pretty quick, wouldn't it? what a horribly stupid thing that would be. of course, the economy and housing situation would be less pressured, as, you know, there aren't as many people because they're dead and stuff... so that would be an end to the problem.
18 - roger nowosielski
That was quite a soliloquy, Ruvy. But as it stands, Arendt and Foucault and sundry already raise their fists against God, such as he/she is.
And what's wrong with with "a quick feel and a fuck"? Zeus have done it all the time, and the women were grateful for a "touch of divinity."
19 - roger nowosielski
the touch of ...
20 - Ruvy
An Arab stabbed a woman in the back Saturday night and fled. This was not a personal feud, this was an attack on a Jew because she was a Jew. Attempted murder, based on terrorism, in other words. I don't see any reason why I should regret Jews burning a mosque, considering what the Arab bastards did to Joseph's Tomb, and what they have attempted to do to Rachel's Tomb and a number of other synagogues. The Arabs have it coming. And with each murder they attempt, the more vicious the revenge that will be on the way. They will be made to pay for their bloodthirst, just as Jewish traitors in J-lem will be made to pay for cooperating with foreign imperialists against Jews.
21 - Ruvy
Some good news, finally. Israel's relations with the Vatican are on the verge of collapse, according to Arutz Sheva. Vatican demands for control of Mount Zion, for example have been put off for 15 years. At least so the Vatican appears to be complaining.
Good!! These Jew-hating bastards deserve NO role in what happens in OUR country. They should be grateful we do not take over the Vatican properties altogether and kick the bastards out.
22 - Ruvy
Boaz Haetzni has a habit of telling unkind truths in Hebrew. Anyone who wants to understand about Netanyahu and what a weak asshole he is, needs to read this opinion piece in Arutz Sheva.
23 - Christopher Rose
Yes, Ruvy, the correct response to a crime is another crime. That always works.
24 - Ruvy
I'm so glad you approve, Chris. Your approbation is always an important part of my day....
25 - Ruvy
While the murderer, Peres, preached love and peace, an Arab showed the true face of their love and peace, and Hamas made plans to extend its love and peace to Judea and Samaria. I go on patrol tonight. If an Arab shows his face and doesn't produce damned good reason for being on our grounds, I shoot to kill. I also believe in "love and peace"....