We are happy! Our Prime Minister wrote the following to President Elect Trump:

“Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback! Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.

This is a huge victory!
In true friendship,
Yours,
Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu”

Whatever happens, the threat of the terror-supporting Democratic party – Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign’s Director of Muslim outreach, Nasrina Bargzie, is one of the lawyers who represented an Islamic scholar denied a visa by the Department of Homeland Security over his terrorist ties – will be gone in the near future. Thank you God! Thank you all the people who voted, for Trump even (especially?) those who overcame their deep dislike and did the right thing. It is deeply appreciated by every Israeli.

If we are not dancing in the streets here, it is only because election night was also the moment our Prime Minister decided to fire the Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. Many are outraged that he did this in the middle of a war, just as Iran is threatening us with annihilation. Perfect timing for all our anxiety levels! But others, and my daughter is one of them, are delighted. Gallant has clashed with the Prime Minister for months over differing concepts of what needs to be done in this war. Gallant advocated an early ceasefire in Gaza, and was against the beeper operation and assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Many to the right saw him as still enslaved to the “old concepts” that got Israel in this mess to start with.

For example, in an interview on Arutz 7, Yitzchak Bontzal, father of fallen paratrooper Amit, described a meeting with Gallant which left him shocked and outraged. “When we talked about ‘the day after’ Gallant said: “we’ll leave Gaza in the hands of good Palestinians.” I couldn’t believe it! Haven’t we learned anything from the failures of Oslo?” Similarly, the father of Avinatan Or, a hostage in Gaza, expressed satisfaction, and suggested Netanyahu fire Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi as well while he was at it. “We are blessed to have gotten rid of the person who was Defense Minister on October 7; who arrogantly refused to cooperate with the decisions of the Cabinet and Prime Minister. Who wanted to leave the Philadephi Corridor – allowing Sinwar to escape with our hostages to Egypt – and didn’t want to go into Rafah. Who lengthened the war and didn’t want to bring it to a close with a decisive victory.”

Others feel that the move was simply a political ploy to keep Netanyahu in power by appeasing the haredi coalition partners by passing what is being cynically called “The Draft Evasion” law that will allow government subsidies to yeshiva students who refuse to serve in the army. Haredim hated Gallant because he issued 7,000 draft notices for haredim. I myself have suspicions that may be at least partially the case, given that Yisrael Katz was appointed in Gallant’s place. Katz is no stranger to kow-towing to the haredim. I say this from personal experience.

Years ago, when Katz was Minister of Transportation and the haredim were bullying women to sit in the back of public buses in Israel, and throwing off women who didn’t “dress” the way haredim wanted them to dress, we who opposed this had a meeting with Katz. You have no idea how accommodating MK Katz was to that disgusting haredi initiative, forcing us to take him and his Ministry to the Supreme Court, where we won.

Whatever the reasons or justifications, the timing couldn’t be worse, throwing the country once more into domestic turmoil, causing huge demonstrations. Last night, Tomer Bar, head of the Air Force who was on his way to his headquarters perhaps to prepare for an imminent Iranian attack, found himself stuck in a huge traffic jam because of the protestors!

What the hell?

I’m not going to be out in the street with signs. But we can do better than Katz as a replacement.

While we couldn’t be happier about Trump, we are worried that the Biden-Harris’ lame duck administration, freed from worrying about the voters, might take their revenge on Israel in the crucial weeks ahead, forcing us into dangerous compromises with our enemies. There is also the worry that Jared Kushner – who was the moving force behind the Abraham Accords, and the American Embassy move to Jerusalem –  will not be part of the new Trump administration. We badly need him there to be a good influence.

But we are encouraged that immediately following the election victory Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, was invited to the Presidential Inauguration. Dagan was active in supporting Trump in meetings with the Jewish community in Pennsylvania, evangelicals, and American citizens in Israel. A heartwarming gesture of good-will towards people in Judea and Samaria whom the Biden Administration was busy “sanctioning” for no good reason.

Teheran has put up a new giant poster in Hebrew and Arabic in “Palestine Square” which reads: “America will discard you like used toilet paper.” How poetic! More like a prophecy about what the Iranian people are hopefully about to do to the mullahs.

Heavy barrages of rocket fire from Lebanon hit Israel today, some of it towards “Trump Heights” in the Golan. One rocket fragment landed in the parking lot of Ben Gurion International Airport. No one was hurt, although some flights were delayed. Another rocket fragment was photographed bizarrely sticking out of the smashed windshield of a parked car in Ra’anana (a suburb of Tel Aviv). A terror attack by car ramming and knifing also took place today at the Shiloh intersection. A young Jewish man and woman were slightly injured. The terrorist was shot and killed by a member of the public. Two people were also injured after heavy rocket fire from Hezbollah an Kibbutz Avivim, which is less than a kilometer from the Lebanese border.

Israel is busy bombing border villages that became Hezbollah outposts filled with weaponry. The crocodile tears of those talking about the destruction of “historic villages” are full of hypocrisy. Hezbollah destroyed them by turning them into armed camps with the full cooperation of the stupid villagers. Zero sympathy.

Lebanese media report at least 45 dead and 59 injured in 33 Israeli attacks today in the Beqaa Valley and Hermel – Baalbek. The overall number of attacks in Lebanon today was high.

And if you can believe it, according to Massad Boulos, Trump’s campaign coordinator for the Arab-American community and Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, the end is in sight: “Trump will fulfill his promise to end the war in Lebanon before he is sworn in as President. I [Massad Boulos] will be appointed as the representative for the Lebanese side. Trump will appoint another representative for the Israeli side, and the negotiations to end the war in Lebanon will commence accordingly.”

All in the family… In that case, let’s get Jared and Ivanka involved too!

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