The Legacy of the Maalot Massacre

Tablet ^ | MAY 13, 2024 | HILLEL KUTTLER

[artichokegrower]

An intersection opposite the central bus station in Tzfat illustrates the interwoven trauma between that city and the Galileean town of Maalot, a half-hour’s drive away. At the intersection, one sign designates the road’s name as 22 Children of Tzfat Street, while a sign at the adjacent bus stop calls it 22 Children of Maalot Street.

Fifty years after a notorious terrorist attack that killed 28 Israelis near and in Maalot, including 22 students on a field trip from a Tzfat high school, places and people testify to the lingering pain.

[artichokegrower]

It’s there in Maalot’s Founders Museum, where a wall placard tells of the tragedy that began May 13, 1974, when three Palestinians who’d trained in Lebanon infiltrated Israel through the border fence a few miles north, setting off a series of security failures and attacks that culminated in the same terrorists taking more than 100 Israelis hostage in the Netiv Meir School and murdering the 22 students.

Wish thses college kids here in America would realize who they are aligning themselves with.

[lightman]

In many cases they DO know...”Children of the Corn”.

[Eagles6]

The little brains full of mush don't care.

They're tools of the "revolution", part of something bigger, giving meaning to their empty, shallow lives.

Pampered little snowflakes, without a thought of their own.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[kiryandil]

Dress them in IDF uniforms and boot them out of low-flying copters over Gaza.

With cellphones, so's the Hammie Boys can upload the fun to the Internet.