Halt of construction materials being allowed into Gaza

Many of you may wonder on times about media writing about building materials not being allowed into Gaza. Why is that so? Is it true? What is wrong with building materials - certainly needed in highly populated area?
Well, it is like with a kitchen knife. There is nothing wrong with it and it is absolutely first need article that normally should be allowed for anybody, except when you are asked for it by somebody trying to murder you. If you were a prison guard and one of the inmates would ask for a kitchen knife I don't suppose you would treat him the same way you would have if you were a shopkeeper and a client would ask you for a kitchen knife, isn't it so?

Here is an answer to this riddle.

Hamas - being in power in Gaza - is the one to admit transports of goods send to Gaza via Israel (by Israel and all other parties). Palestinian terrorists from Hamas are the ones who try to infiltrate Israel to either kill or capture Israelis (during long captivity of captured soldier Gilad Schalit there have appeared disgusting posters in Gaza saying about how female soldier should be captured to keep him company).
Preparations to infiltrate Israel by terrorists include building tunnels like the one which was just discovered. Its construction included 24,000 concrete slabs delivered to Gaza by Israel and manufactured in Israel. They were supposed to help construct houses for civilians, but they were used to construct tunnel by Hamas terrorists. To kill those who gave the slabs in the first place.

Would you give a kitchen knife to your neighbor in need? Sure. Would you give a kitchen knife to somebody trying to kill you and making no secret of it? I don't think so.
Do you understand now WHY building materials are often not allowed into Gaza? It is an amazing goodwill of Israeli authorities (from my point of view of somebody not directly in danger of being killed just for who I am) that occasionally they are still delivered.

Praising the child's murder :(

Mainstream media in Europe won't write about it (as they have written about every little incident putting Israelis in bad light) so let me do it as it may interest you. On Saturday, two weeks after shooting by sniper IDF soldier in Hebron, a 9-year-old girl was shoot by Palestinian terrorist in Psagot - a town in Judea. Terrorist escaped by hole in the fence.

Shooting a child is the most tragic part of the story, but the most infuriating is putting by administrator of official Fatah's facebook page this comment:
"The sniper of Palestine was here. He saluted Hebron, and rested in El-Bireh. He left the signature of [real] men in different parts of the homeland. He saluted and left, and moved on to a different place, with a new signature, as he tells the stories of those who love the homeland."

I just remind you that it is official PA Autonomy authority, financed and supported by EU (not only but significantly) with our taxes and called  "peace talks partner"   or "non-radicals".

I will spare you my comments, they could have been vulgar...

40 years ago...

It is exactly 40 years since the breakout of Yom Kippur war.

Few days after closing by Austrian authorities refugee camp for Soviet Jews on their way to Israel (after an attack by Palestinian gunman) and after the families of Soviet diplomats were evacuated from Syria (on the 4th of October) the war started on the highest Jewish holiday. The Yom Kippur war, just like the 6-days-war, was in a sense a hot episode of cold war (Syria being supported by Soviet Union). On the same day when Soviet diplomats were evacuated Syrians gathered 1,200 tanks on a 40 mile long border with Israel (for comparison: in 1941 when Germany started attack on its former ally Soviet Union they used 1,400 tanks on 1,000 mile long front line).

Israeli army was on high alert yet, in the anticipation of the highest holiday, reservists were not mobilized, though soldiers returning for a holiday to their homes were very often called back right away (it happened for example to Icchac Rabin's son).

In synagogues soldiers were often found by those delivering mobilization papers - the event with no president before. At 2 p.m. sirens sounded and at 2.30 radio broke the silence (there is no radio or TV  broadcasting on Yom Kippur) to announce that the alarm was for real. An hour later another announcement made things clear: public communication was to start immediately, hospitals put on high alert and those in shape permitting such transfer were to be moved form hospitals home making place for military casualties. War has started.

The war was, of course, won, otherwise Israel would have ceased to exist (that was the goal of the attackers) but the price was heavy. In Sinai the whole 3rd Egyptian Army was held by fortifications manned by 436 soldiers, many of them new immigrants. Quite often the commanding officer was killed in early stages of war  and the command was executed by corporals or even privates.
One of such forts (fort "Quay") was holding for a week before (when only 20 hand-grenades and few belts  of light ammunition were left) it surrendered. Taking what was left of his men, after having washed in last drops of water, and collecting Torah scrolls, soldiers were marched to captivity. Egyptians searched for a long time for heavy machine-guns refusing to believe there were none.

Let us not forget about the events forty years ago....

And here is the link to Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood resentments :(