Posted on 05/18/2004 8:27:47 PM PDT by yonif
(Lamentations 1:16) 'For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; because the comforter is far from me, even he that should refresh my soul; my children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.'
(Lamentations 2:11) Mine eyes do fail with tears, mine inwards burn, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the breach of the daughter of my people; because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the broad places of the city.
In yet another murderous and heinous Palestinian Arab sponsored terror attack last Sunday (5/2/04), a pregnant mother and her four daughters were murdered by terrorists belonging to the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization and Yasser Arafat’s Fatah terrorist organization. This occurred at a time the family was traveling from the Gush Katif Jewish residential block of Gaza towards the Israeli city of Ashkelon to meet up with the father of the family. These six human beings were massacred at the Kissufim Road junction by two terrorists.
The evil began after terrorists leaving the Palestinian Authority ruled town of Dir el-Balah approached the road that leads into Gush Katif and started shooting at passing Israeli cars. Using their Kalashnikov assault rifles, the Islamic murderers fired upon the Hatuel family car causing it to sway to the side of the road. It was then that the terrorists ran up to the car and from point-blank range shot the mother who was in the eighth month of her pregnancy (with a son) and her four daughters. Even after they were long dead, they continued firing into the bodies of the Jews until their immediate ammo was finished. Emergency forces that arrived following the attack had to spend some time collecting the body parts which had spread all over the radius of the car, as a result of the mutilation. An IDF investigation also found that the terrorists videotaped the slaughter of the family while their victims bled to death.
As IDF troops rushed to the scene from nearby posts the terrorists threw explosive devices and fired upon the soldiers before they were eliminated. Two IDF soldiers and an additional civilian were injured. The murdered victims and their ages were: Tali Hatuel, (34), her daughters, Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Meirav (2).
This terrorist attack happened on the heals of an event in the Israeli political process, as on this day Likud Party members went to the polls to vote on Ariel Sharon’s plan to remove Jews from Gaza and northern Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”). Sharon’s plan was defeated, rightfully, by a Likud Party which stressed that ceding land to terrorists will do nothing but invite more terrorism against Israel by groups who seek to push the Jews into the sea. Polls even before this terror attack happened found Sharon’s plan destined to defeat.
The Hatuel family father at the funeral for his wife and children said that he would never forget his family members which to him were like “flowers.” The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, had harsh words, “This bloodbath will be etched in the history of our country. An earthquake occurred. No one in the world has a right to remain na?ve in front of these brutal acts. Where are those who speak in the name of Allah? How do you hold Allah in a false way? The Arab leaders of the world should be ashamed of themselves. Time after time again you do not take a stand. The people of Israel will stand with the victims. We have experienced such devastation before. We will stand fortified in our souls and return war.”
The president brings forward important points. Where is the outrage of the Arabs, or better yet, Muslim world? Why do they remain quiet? Do they believe these people who fire at point-blank range at Israeli children are freedom-fighters? Is this practice part of their religion? Or did this family have it coming because it was traveling in “occupied” territory?
The Spanish government, for example, released a statement first condemning the “settlers” as people who were holding Israel hostage with their ideology, and then condemned the murder. In effect, it blamed the victims. Countries around the world and “human rights” organizations kept quiet. Where is UNICEF the so called defender of the life of a child? In South Korea, human rights organizations indeed came out – IN RESPONSE to the Israeli military operating against those murderers. They came out not to call for the defense of the lives of the children, but to condemn Israel (by protesting in front of the Israeli Embassy) for going after those who took the lives of the children.
Israel is “occupied” territory in the eyes of every Arab and Islamic government, who regard Israel as illegitimate. Even many in the Western World still officially do not recognize the borders of Israel. After over fifty years of existence, Israel still has to prove to the world that it had a right to exist. Look at communist China, a country which is actually even younger then Israel by one year - it is recognized today in the world. Even India, another country that is a year older then Israel is recognized by the world as legitimate. It’s sad, that pro-Israel people like me still have to argue with those who believe Israel should not be on the map. That is the crux of the problem. It is not about borders, not over Jerusalem, and not even over “refugees.”
It is long past time for all to realize that it is a conflict between Israel and THOSE WHO SEEK to destroy her. We must furthermore understand that there cannot be a compromise or peace between two such entities unless the latter changes. We must support Israel’s right to defend itself against these enemies of peace. They are no middle ground.
You are probably wondering how the Arab street in Gaza and Judea and Samaria responded to these attacks. The Palestinians gave out sweets and celebrated in the streets of Gaza, Israeli media reported. In addition, Palestinian Authority official radio called the murdered Israeli children, “Israeli terrorist settlers” and declared that the terrorists perpetrating the attacks were heroes. Is peace possible with such an entity which views the murder of children as a heroic practice? Should such individuals have a state of their own?
But of course the world continues to be delusional. Instead of backing Israel and its quest to destroy its enemies, you have countries who make up the Quartet (US, EU, UN and Russia) calling for Israel to give more and more land to terrorists, and for it to come to the table to negotiate “peace” with those who wish to destroy her. It seems the results of the Oslo Accord crucible in the 1990s, which have taken the lives of 1300 and counting Israelis ever since, have not been looked at. Instead, the world continues to believe that there can be peace attained between a democratic country and a terrorist regime, known as the Palestinian Authority (and peace between Israel and an Arab world committed to her destruction). These very same countries and organizations continue to send money year after year to the Palestinian Authority, in the hopes it will get stronger and fight terrorism. It is like funding the Taliban in the hopes that it would go after Al Queda where you don’t get the results you want and the money you sent that entity flows to the hands of terrorists.
The world must stop its honeymoon with Yasser Arafat and his organization. It must understand and recognize that they themselves are targets of the militant Islamic ideology which views every non-Muslim as a combatant and as an enemy. An ideology Yasser Arafat himself subscribes to. This cancer cannot be negotiated with, but must be eliminated for the sake of all those Muslims in the world who continue to be poisoned by this dogma, especially in the Arab and Islamic world.
The past week murders of these Israelis should continue to serve as a wakeup call to the world. You see, it isn’t about just about these Arabs engaging individuals such as soldiers. Their goal is the extermination of the Jewish presence in the Middle East through the targeting of the young, families, and other innocents, just like they worked to make their own Arab countries judenrein following the establishment of Israel in 1948. That is and has always been their goal. These people are undeserving of any Israeli gestures such as the giving of land and any sort of autonomy, until they end their campaign of hate, and hostility, their celebration of their “martyrs,” brainwashing of their children, and use their funds for butter not guns.
The murders of these six Jews continue to tell the story of what is happening. The genocide of the Jews never did end; it simply passed on to new militant Islamic rulers to execute. These are regimes that use their own religious interpretation to attempt to seal the fates of Jews in Israel, and other “infidels” throughout the world, just like the Nazi regime plotted the fate of European Jewry based on its ideology. It will take the strength of all peace loving persons to reverse this trend, a united front that MUST include Israel. After all, Israel is on the forefront of this terrorist war. And if Israel were to ever, God forbid, fall to its enemies – you can be sure that we, the United States, would soon fall after.
Until next year and wishing everyone a safe and fun summer,
YF
Ping.
You won't hear the UN swing into action on this subject. Its meeting at the moment to condemn Israel's defensive military operations in Rafah.
SIX victims, not five.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Good job.
bump. Should fix my caption. In the column, however, I do say six victims.
Well done.
I just hope Israel pays NO ATTENTION to the UN! Thank heavens Israel went out on a limb and destroyed the nuclear facility in Iraq over 20 yrs. ago. If Powell and W will just keep quiet and let Israel do their thing, we will be a lot better off!
Oops! I forgot, yonif, to thank you for all your info. on FR! Hope you enjoy yourself over the summer. Take care.
These are devoids. Things that just look human. What's wrong with the Muslims? Look at this innocent woman. And these precious little girls. And they video taped them as the life seeped from their bodies?
eye for an eye. Way past time to bury Arafat.
Thanks.
On a related note, some minutes after I posted this column on FR, I just looked at the Israeli media wire which just said that the house of the terrorist murderers who were responsible for the deaths of these six has reported to have been destroyed by the IDF during their operations in southern Gaza (which are still continuing at this hour)
Good work!
Thank you for all your posts. Have a safe and fun summer :-)
It's not nearly enough. I hope our government takes the leash off the IDF very soon.
It's pretty simple why this happened.
We are dealing with SAVAGES.
The US continues to have a double-standard toward "our" terrorist response and Israel's response.
Soulless monsters who pray to a soulless god.
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