Tuesday 13th ,
a day of terror. Here below just some of the incidents in one day.
In Jerusalem, three
Israelis were killed and several others wounded in two separate attacks
including a vehicular ramming followed by a stabbing spree in the neighborhood
of Geula where seconds
after running over pedestrians on the Kings of Israel Street, the terrorist got
out of his car and stabbed people on the street.
In
addition a shooting attack on the number 78 bus in the Armon Hanatziv
neighborhood. One of the gunmen was killed in the incident and the other
wounded. The morning's attacks came a day after several other attacks in
Jerusalem including one in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood in which a
Palestinian teenager, aged 13, stabbed an Israeli teenager, aged 13,
while he was riding his bicycle.
A terrorist stabbed and slightly injured a man waiting at a bus stop near
Ra'anana's City Hall this morning. The terrorist, a 22-year-old from Jerusalem,
was neutralized and seriously injured.
Israeli woman was
wounded after reportedly being stabbed by attacker in second incident in
Ra’anana. Four people were hurt in the attack. The attacker fled, but was then
arrested by the police.
JEWISH LIVES MATTER
By
Michael Freund October 12th
Full
article go to: http://tinyurl.com/pcwoo3h
The past
three weeks have seen an increasingly brutal series of Palestinian terrorist
attacks against innocent Israeli Jews, but much of the international community
either does not know or seem to care.
Toddlers
have been wounded, parents murdered in front of their children and Jewish holy
sites desecrated, but the conscience of the world has not been pricked. Not one
lousy bit.
In the
past week alone, 13 Jewish kids became orphans, their lives forever altered by
the cruelty and savagery of our foes. A nine-year old was forced to stand by
the freshly dug graves of his parents and recite Kaddish, an experience that no
Jewish child should ever have to endure.
Yet few
outside Israel seem aware of what is happening, and fewer still are shedding
tears. It is time for this to change and for pro-Israel activists worldwide to
spread a simple yet powerful message. In the parlance of Twitter, it is this:
#JewishLivesMatter.
We
shouldn’t have to do this. We shouldn’t have to convince the media or anyone
else of something so basic, a value so obvious and fundamental to being human
that it staggers the mind that it needs to be articulated or verbalized.
But
consider the following example, and you will see exactly what I mean.
This past
Saturday night, Palestinian terrorist Mohannad Halabi attacked 22-year-old
Aharon Banita and his wife and children as they walked through Jerusalem’s Old
City during Succot. Halabi stabbed Banita to death and wounded his spouse and
two-year-old child, before proceeding to murder Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi, who had
heard the commotion and emerged from his apartment to try and stop the
bloodshed.
Palestinian
shopkeepers saw what was happening and refused to intervene. Instead, according
to Banita’s widow, they spat upon her as she cried for help. When police
arrived on the scene, they shot and killed Halabi as he attacked them.
The
following day, in its World Digest section, The Washington Post headlined an
Associated Press story about the incident as follows: “Palestinian is killed
after fatal attack.” Yes, you read that correctly.
The
implicit message behind the Washington Post’s callous choice of words is as
unmistakable as it is offensive: Jewish lives don’t matter. When the lives of
two Jews are cruelly snuffed out by a Palestinian terrorist, they simply don’t
warrant wasting the extra ink needed to include them in a large-type headline.
But it is
not just the mainstream press that engages in this ugly and gruesome game. The
problem goes much deeper and is far more troublesome than that.
Indeed,
the insensitivity toward the value of Jewish life was on full display on
Tuesday, when UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon went out of his way to condemn
the killing of Palestinian terrorists while failing to mention or even
acknowledge their Israeli victims.
Ban said
he was “profoundly alarmed by the growing number of deadly incidents in the
West Bank, including east Jerusalem.”
He then
referred to the death of four Palestinians, including three terrorists killed
after perpetrating attacks against Israelis, and said the following: “The
secretary general condemns the killings and looks to the government of Israel
to conduct a prompt and transparent investigation into the incidents, including
whether the use of force was proportional.”
Ban did
not utter one word – not a single syllable – about the Jews who were killed.
Incredibly, he came to the defense of the murderers, demanding an investigation
into their deaths, while completely ignoring those whom they killed.
What can
one say in the face of such moral obtuseness? It beggars belief that the
world’s top diplomat, the man charged with the mandate of preserving
international peace and security, would denounce the killing of murderers but
not that of their victims.
It is an
intuitive anti-Semitism that is at work, one that speaks volumes about those
who cannot muster the minimal moral courage needed to decry the murder of
innocent Jews.
We cannot
remain silent. We dare not turn taciturn and allow this to pass unnoticed.
Let’s raise our voices and shout from the roof-tops, flood social-media and
storm the fortresses of ignorance and anti-Jewish bigotry.
Seventy
years after Auschwitz it should not need to be said, but apparently it still
does: Jewish lives matter too. It is time we remind the world of this simple
and unassailable truth.
Use the
hashtag #JewishLivesMatter and spread this message at every opportunity. In the
days of antiquity, the Jewish people gave the world ethical monotheism and the
basis for morality. In our times, it would appear that we need to do so again.
Video of the week: Abbas justifies violence
and murder as "protection of holy sites" http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=15845
Second video of the week: Rafah Cleric Calls upon
Palestinians to Stab Jews; http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/5098.htm
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