March 14, 2011, 5:45 PM
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Ruth Fogel was in the bathroom when the Palestinian terrorists pounced on her husband Udi and their three-month-old daughter Hadas, slitting their throats as they lay in bed on Friday night in their home in Itamar.
The terrorists stabbed Ruth to death as she came out of the bathroom. With both parents and the newborn dead, they moved on to the other children, going into a bedroom where Ruth and Udi's sons Yoav (11) and Elad (4) were sleeping. They stabbed them through their hearts and slit their throats.
The murderers apparently missed another bedroom where the Fogels' other sons, eight-year-old Ro'i and two-year-old Yishai were asleep because they left them alive. The boys were found by their big sister, 12-year-old Tamar, when she returned home from a friend's house two hours after her family was massacred.
Tamar found Yishai standing over his parents' bodies screaming for them to wake up.
In his eulogy at the family's funeral on Sunday, former chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau told Tamar that her job from now on is to be her surviving brothers' mommy.
In a rare move, the Prime Minister's Office released photos of the Fogel family's blood-drenched corpses.
They are shown as they were found by security forces.
There was Hadas, dead on her parents' bed, next to her dead father Udi.
There was Elad, lying on a small throw rug wearing socks. His little hands were clenched into fists. What was a four-year-old to do against two grown men with knives? He clenched his fists. So did his big brother.
Maybe the Prime Minister's Office thought the pictures would shock the world. Maybe Binyamin Netanyahu thought the massacre of three little children would move someone to rethink their hatred of Israel.
That was the theme of his address to the nation Saturday night.
Netanyahu directed most of his words to the hostile world. He spoke to the leaders who rush to condemn Israel at the UN Security Council every time we assert our right to this land by permitting Jews to build homes. He demanded that they condemn the murder of Jewish children with the same enthusiasm and speed.
He shouldn't have bothered.
The government released the photos on Saturday night. Within hours, the social activism website My Israel posted a short video of the photographs on YouTube along with the names and ages of the victims.
Within two hours YouTube removed the video.
What was Netanyahu thinking? Didn't he get the memo that photos of murdered Jewish children are unacceptable? If they're published, someone might start thinking about the nature of Palestinian society.
Someone might consider the fact that in the Palestinian Authority, anti-Jewish propaganda is so ubiquitous and so murderous that killing the Fogel babies was an act of heroism. The baby killers knew that by murdering Udi, Ruth, Hadas, Yoav and Elad they would enter the pantheon of Palestinian heroes. They can expect to have a sports stadium or school in Ramallah or Hebron built for them by the Palestinian Authority and underwritten by American or European taxpayers.
And indeed, the murder of the Fogel children and their parents was greeted with jubilation in Gaza.
Carnivals were held in the streets as Hamas members handed out sweets.
Obviously YouTube managers are not interested in being held responsible for someone noticing that genocidal Jew hatred defines Palestinian society - and the Arab world as a whole. But they really have no reason to be concerned. Even if they had allowed the video to be posted for more than an hour, it wouldn't have made a difference.
The enlightened peoples of Europe, and growing numbers of Americans, have no interest in hearing or seeing anything that depicts Jews as good people, or even just as regular people. It is not that the cultured, intellectual A-listers in Europe and America share the Palestinians' genocidal hatred of the Jewish people.
The powerful newspaper editors, television commentators, playwrights, fashion designers, filmmakers and professors don't spend time thinking about how to prepare the next slaughter. They don't teach their children from the time they are Hadas and Elad Fogel's ages that they should strive to become mass murderers. They would never dream of doing these things.
They know there is a division of labor in contemporary anti-Semitism.
The job of the intellectual luminaries in Western high society today is to hate Jews the old-fashioned way, the way their greatgrandparents hated Jews back in the days of the early 20th century before that villain Adolf Hitler gave Jew hating a bad name.
Much has been made of the confluence of anti-Semitic bile pouring out of the chattering classes. From Mel Gibson to Julian Assange to Helen Thomas to Charlie Sheen to John Galliano, it seems like a day doesn't go by without some new celebrity exposing himself as a Jew hater.
It isn't that the beautiful people and their followers suddenly decided that Jews are not their cup of tea (or rail of cocaine). It's just that we have reached the point where people no longer feel embarrassed to parade their negative feelings towards Jews in public.
A DECADE ago, the revelation that French ambassador to Britain Daniel Bernard referred to Israel as "that shi**y little country," was shocking. Now it is standard fare. Everyone who is anyone will compare Israel to Nazi Germany without even realizing this is nothing but Holocaust denial.
The post-Holocaust dam reining in anti-Semitism burst in 2002. As Jewish children and parents like the Fogels were being murdered in their beds, on the streets, in discotheques, cafés and supermarkets throughout Israel, fashionable anti-Semites rejoiced at the opportunity to hate Jews in public again.
The collective Jew, Israel was accused of everything from genocide to infanticide to just plain nastiness.
Israel's leaders were caricatured as Fagin, Shylock, Pontius Pilate and Hitler on the front pages of newspapers throughout Europe. IDF soldiers were portrayed as Nazis, and Israeli families were dehumanized.
No longer civilians with an inherent right to live, in universities throughout the US and Europe, Israeli innocents were castigated as "extremist-Zionists" or "settlers" who basically deserved to be killed.
Professors whose "academic" achievements involved publishing sanitized postmodern versions of anti-Jewish Palestinian propaganda were granted tenure and rewarded with lucrative book contracts.
Today, when properly modulated, Jew hatred is a career maker. Take playwright Caryl Churchill's 1,300- word anti-Semitic monologue "Seven Jewish Children."
The script accuses the entire population of Israel of mass murders which were never committed.
For her efforts, Churchill became an international celebrity. The Royal Court Theater produced her anti- Jewish agitprop. The Guardian featured it on its home page. When Jewish groups demanded that The Guardian remove the blood libel from its website, the paper refused. Instead, it left the anti-Semitic propaganda on its homepage, but in a gesture of openmindedness, hosted a debate about whether or not "Seven Jewish Children" is anti-Semitic.
From London, "Seven Jewish Children" went on tour in Europe and the US. In a bid to show how tolerant of dissent they are, Jewish communities in America hosted showings of the play, which portrays Jewish parents as monsters who train their children to become mass murderers.
"Seven Jewish Children's" success was repeated by the Turkish anti-Semitic action film "Valley of the Wolves- Palestine," which premiered on January 28 - International Holocaust Memorial Day. The hero of that film is a Turkish James Bond character who comes to Israel to avenge his brothers, who were killed by IDF forces on the Turkish-Hamas terror ship Mavi Marmara last May.
No doubt owing to the success of "Seven Jewish Children" and "Valley of the Wolves-Palestine" and other such initiatives, anti-Semitic art and entertainment is a growth sector in Europe.
Last month Britain struck again. Channel 4 produced a new piece of anti-Semitic bile - a four-part prime-time miniseries called "The Promise." It presents itself as an historical drama about Israel and the Palestinians, but its relationship with actual history begins and ends with the wardrobes.
In what has become the meme of all European and international left-liberal salons, the only good Jews in the mini-series are the ones who died in the Holocaust. From the show's perspective, every Jew who took up arms to liberate Israel from the British and defend it from the Arabs is a Nazi.
WHAT ALL this shows is that Netanyahu was wasting his time calling on world leaders to condemn the murder of the Fogel family. What does a condemnation mean? France and Britain condemned the massacre, along with the US. Does that exculpate the French and British for their embrace of anti-Semitism? Does it make them friends of the Jewish state?
And say a British playwright sees the YouTube censored photographs. No self-respecting British playwright will write a play called "Three Jewish Children" telling the story of how Palestinian parents do in fact teach their children to become mass murderers of Jews.
And if a playwright were to write such a play, The Royal Court Theater wouldn't produce it. The Guardian wouldn't post it on its website. Liberal Jewish community centers in America wouldn't show it, nor would university student organizations in Europe or America.
No, if someone wanted to use the photographs of Yoav's and Elad's mangled corpses and clenched little fists as inspiration to write a play or feature film about the fact that the Palestinians have no national identity outside their quest to annihilate the Jewish state, he would find no mass market.
The headlines describing the attack make all this clear.
From the BBC to CNN the Fogels were not described as Israelis. They were a "settler family." Their murderers were "alleged terrorists."
As far as the opinion makers of Europe and much of America are concerned, the Yoavs and Hadases and Elads of Israel have no right to live if they live in "a settlement."
So too, they believe that Palestinians have a right to murder Israelis who serve in the IDF and who believe that Jews should be able to live freely wherever we want because this land belongs to us.
Until these genteel Jew haters learn to think otherwise, Israel should neither seek nor care if they condemn this or any other act of Palestinian genocide. We shouldn't care about them at all.
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post.
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As Libya's genocidal dictator for life kills off half his fellow Muslims the international community talks tough and dithers.
Is this where Israel is putting it's trust ?
The last time they were successful at anything was in restraining,rebuking and hamstringing Israel against the Islamic hordes Hizbollah and Hamas.
I have to ask;
Why is Israel so obedient to these devious,lying fakepeace hustlers who always come on time(unlike Libya) to rescue the Muslim butchers and steal victory from Israel ?
After such a long history of abuse what drives Israeli leaders into such acts of self abusive obedience to evil European and American leaders?
Why do you act like slaves when you have your own nation now ? Diaspora is over,no ?
An article I read this morning..
Lets stop pretending
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=212000
..reveals a serious flaw among Israel's best and brightest and why things are going from bad to worse for Israel.
It's a fatally failed strategy.
His closing words are a death sentence for Israel.
"And until that time the international community must ostracize and isolate the Palestinian Authority, just as they do Hamas, and stop pretending there is a peace process."
Who but a fool keeps waiting and keeps thinking the Europeans,the French,the British,the worthless international community or America will lift a finger until the destruction is done?
Isrsael has seen them act against Israel and for the enemy without wavering for decades and to think they will finally change their spots ?
Welcome to 2011 Caroline,
If Israel does not lead it will never get done.
Israel keeps looking to their destroyers to save them.
Not until this insanity of looking to others to save Israel and Jews is buried deep under the soil and Israel begins to lead and act forcefully against the rising threat.
Sadly this suicidal insanity is steering the Israeli ship of state into the waiting iceberg.
Caroline,
I, and I imagine many decent people in the world have become numb. We are losing our ability to respond to these atrocities and, now, faced with nature's atrocity in Japan. At least I realize I am becoming such and am quite depressed.... the truly despicable are those who don't know they are becoming numb, and celebrate the chaos as if it were an awakening or a liberation or something. Surely there is a reckoning coming?
John
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/middleeast/15israel.html?_r=1&hp
Caroline, I had a feeling that this would be the subject of your next column. I also figured that you would unload with both barrels of your pen. What you said, needed to be said. I wish more people had the courage to say it. So many people around the world are both heartbroken and furious at the same time concerning this terrible outrage by these depraved terrorists. Here in the USA I think a lot of us need to start a grassroots revolution: a writing campaign to our representatives and senators to stop funding the PA. We are tired of our aid being stolen by corrupt politicians and being used as blood money to fund terrorism. We are tired of our friends and allies be murdered with our tax money.
If luck holds, this will partly do for Obama's one and only term. This together with "International Law" and 'Human Rights", as we see a cold-blooded massacre of large numbers of Libyans whilst the US and the EU wring their hands in utter impotence. The EU and the US presided over the genocide of the Rwandan Tsutsis, the mass murder of the Muslim Bosnians. Meanwhile, Carl Bildt, a Swedish politician endlessly parading his anti-Israel and anti-Jewish venom, plunges his hand into blood-oil, which his company extracts from Africa, whilst displacing and murdering Africans who stand in the way.
Caroline, that was an excellent column. I would expand the argument and suggest that the publication of the slaughter reflects the moral cowardice of Netanyahu. How? Instead of standing firm against Israel's enemies, internal and external, Netanyahu releases the photographs in the expectation that the world will suddenly realize the monsters that Israel is dealing with. In certain respects, perhaps Netanyahu thought that those photographs would make is job easier. The man is clueless and spineless. As you accurately stated the world does not care about Jewish lives. Instead, of grovelling to Obama and EU Israel should tell them to get lost, and curtail military cooperation. Afterall America assurances are worthless, just ask Mubarak and the Libyan rebels. On a larger level perhaps you should consider a column concerning the State of ISrael, Is it a well fortified ghetto or is it a nation state? Sadley I feel it is the former, not the latter.
Best wishes,
Benjamin
Caroline, I don't think anyone with a conscience can be numb to this atrocity, this act of barbarism. The question is, where do we go from here? Netanyahu's speech might have been moving to the few who cared, but that is the issue. Nobody cares. When will Israel and for that matter Jews everywhere realize that we are hated. We have always been hated. The only way we have survived is by standing up to our enemies. We are a "stiff necked" people. Actions speak louder than words.
Not even this atrocity will stop Netanyahu from appeasing the anti-Semites.
When I see the human cost of my country's ongoing betrayal of Israel, I'm even more deeply ashamed of it. I hope the U.S. will soon regain the kind of leadership that will make us again the kind of friend to Israel that we should be.
It has always seemed to me that there's something deeply wrong with Israel's efforts to ingratiate itself with nations that murdered millions of Jews.
The Holocaust is the most recent and greatest massacre of all. But there were many before then. European and Middle Eastern Jewish history is splattered with the blood of so many Jews who were tortured, burned alive, or murdered in every possible way by Western and Eastern Europeans, and by Muslims as well. To say nothing of the rapes, confiscation of belongings, mass expulsions.
And let's not forget how the US and Britain closed their doors to Jews desperately trying to escape the Holocaust. The British didn't want them in Britain and didn't want them in Palestine. Let them burn.
I feel literally NAUSEATED to watch a series of Israeli leaders all bowing to foreign leaders, not only trying to gain their approval, but actually setting policy according to their dictates.
Those foreign powers don't have any legal or moral right to demand anything from the Jews. They should, instead, go on their knees and seek forgiveness.
Where is the Memorial to ancient Jewish victims of the British and the Spaniards and the Cossacks? And the memorial to victims of Muslim terror that date back from several centuries, before there was a Palestinian issue?
Israel must stop the SILENCE ABOUT EUROPE'S BLOODY PERSECUTION AGAINST THE JEWS before the Nazi period, US denial of help during the Holocaust, and MUSLIM terror and their complicity with the Nazis.
Expose all that to young generations. Teach your children about it, so that they won't bow to representatives of countries with Jewish blood on their hands.
Be proud, Israelis. Stand proud on your land. You don't need anyone's permission to declare your ownership and to protect your home in any way you see fit.
U.S. Trained Forces Arrested in Bloody Slaying of Israeli Family.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=274857
The Israeli media is slow to release this information because the hands of
Israeli government officials who permitted this 'training' are also bloody.
There is no accountability for the criminals in the Israeli government.
Caroline...geographically I am at the far ends of the earth from Israel, but in every other way the connection runs very deep. What has happened to the Fogel family does not initiate anger and disgust, it only adds to what already is alive within me and countless thousands of individuals around the world. We have not suddenly witnessed an atrocity, we have been witnessing them for years and raising the cry from our hearts `How long O LORD?!'
I am a simple person - not well educated or versed in these matters but I will never understand how bombs can be dropped on America and she has the right to go to war - while bombs and far worse are inflicted on Israel every day and she has to have permission to defend herself. A father, when he sees his child under threat does not wait for a neighbour (or friend)to give approval to protect his precious treasure. He will do what ever it takes...is Israel now `fatherless'. I pray not!
The other night I watched again the movie `A Woman Called Golda' - what would she have done about the Fogel family I wonder - would she have just built some houses that the American leaders can condemn while forcing negotiation with murderers. I would hope not!
Yours is a hard road Caroline, we know that and we are grateful that you `watch' - Please know we pray for you and for your family. Shalom
Caroline I started to watch the youtube video and I had to quit. This is another barbaric act carried out by the Palestinians and the world looks the other way. I was horrified.
There are no words to fully express my sorrow for this family.
How long will the world go about wearing anti-Semitism blinders.
Where is the outcry from our Pope and the leaders of the various Protestant denominations.
Their silence is deafening.
How sad.
I'm very sorry, so very sorry. As a midwestern US christian Mom, I cry and pray for you and your country. I know God hears, may He hurry!
Besides crying and praying, what can we in America do but work as hard as we can to get a friend of Israel elected president to replace this horrible accident of history? Now, if only American Jews would join in that effort, it can happen.
We ache with sadness for the Fogel family and for Israel. This is truly awful. The anti-Semitic reaction to this slaughter is glaring and stark and ugly. I'm so very, very sorry.
Israel, surely it is time. It is time to stand and look the bully square in the eye and be the best that you can be. You belong in the land where the God of Israel has set you. It is your inheritance for all eternity. Claim it. God is marching across the earth to claim you. He is dealing with the nations; He is going to show the whole world that He alone is God and that Israel is His. He is on His way anyway- but honour Him- let Him find you willing to stand, sure of your place, in spite of the global clamour that tells you otherwise.
The 'settlers' honour God by building in Judea and Samaria. To the Israeli leadership (and the entire Israeli left): you cannot be both 'for' Israel and willing to divide the land. The two are incompatible. If you are willing to surrender parts of Israel's inheritance in order to secure your future then you undermine the very people you should be strengthening, you hurt yourselves and you weaken Israel terribly.
Israel, the world cannot save you. As it is, on the course it is currently steering, it cannot even save itself. Be willing to stand apart from the world and in that place know that God alone will protect and strengthen and save you.
Well, if any country as Israel or USA or any country of the West was supporting this kind of atrocities, all the world would say " we cannot negotiate or deal with this kind of > anymore".Why are we obliged to deal with Palestinians, Hamas or PA? These people are just respecting "the strong" as Islam teach them, that's it.
Fearing international "condemnation"?....that's already done anything we are doing. And what you can see: the "great power" are frozen to do anything in all the events we are seeing since many weeks! But the Muslims are perfectly aware of all of that, and a strong Israel will not escape of their sight, believe me.
What can any individual say in the face of this type of ancient hate? This force of evil.
Child killers who's only god is Moloch or Baal
As a Gentile that reads lots of History. I still don't get the reason for 5 attempts by Humanity to wipe the Jewish people off the Earth.
Its insane. One can only conclude there are forces outside the human norm, with a great grudge. Along with the usual demonic behavior of some of Humanity.
I support Israel completely in its settlement of this Land that has cradled your people for almost 3000 years. I just wish you had better leaders. Never give these monsters another inch of YOUR land.
Canada does stand by you. PM Harper makes no bones about that.
Your remarks are right on . The crickets are chirping in every MSM propaganda news agency on the Planet.
Your wrong though about the pictures. For people like me, it just redoubles our stance at work or home for Israel. It lays bare the hypocrisy of the Press.
The MSM wants to hide the monsters, the liberals embrace them.
You-tube may have shut it down, but 2 hours is an eternity on-line. Too many folks captured them to save for their own Blogs.
It has made an impact.
To be honest I couldn't look at the pics myself.
Its why I don't watch CSI. Its too real, & happens more than people know. I couldn't watch the Russian kids being killed either.
G-D will avenge the children. I pray for the day that Psycho ranch known as Gaza has a date with an asteroid.
JMO
I don't claim to be well-read on domestic affairs, but from what I understand the Israeli left is largely responsible for the demonization of Jews who live in Judea and Samaria (what my father calls "the Disputed Territories").
As you write in the article, the prevalent stance in the world media was that "settlers" have it coming to them. It seems to me that the Israeli left should also be indicted for decades of lending a hand to the media and to the Palestinian propaganda machine.
I want to thank you, Ms. Glick, for this article, which clearly was written from the heart. But when I finished reading it, I did what most people do when the get to the end of an important article - I thought about who to forward it to. And unfortunately, as I went through my mental files of Jewish friends and family in the U.S., I couldn't think of anyone who I'm confident would be able to put their loyalties to the left aside long enough to entertain the possibility that liberals and so-called intellectuals are guilty of fomenting anti-Semitism.
Dear Ms. Glick-
You write:
"Ruth Fogel was in the bathroom when the Palestinian terrorists pounced on her husband Udi and their three-month-old daughter Hadas, slitting their throats as they lay in bed on Friday night in their home in Itamar."
"Palestinian"??? It is time to state the truth forth rightly. No such thing!!!
We need to be accurate as well as educational. And I have no question in my mind that a vast majority of your important task is in fact to educate in order to dispel this ugly myth. They are not "Palestinians" for there never was such thing as a "palestinian" nation or people. This lie is part of the problem we face. And hopefully, if the Jewish people wake up in time, there never will be such an evil entity. So what shall we call them? They are real live Evil Arab Monsters who need to be dealt with exactly as the term implies.
I said it before and I will say it again. It is high time that we wake up. The Talmud states very clearly and instructs specifically. "He who rises up to murder you, kill him FIRST" First! not second - and not even at the same time. The Torah demands that we preempt! This is a call to our feckless so-called "leaders" who foolishly buy into the destructive and fallacious narrative of a "palestinian people". We need our leaders to begin to do their job and protect the Jewish People in the Land of Israel. When our leaders begin to carry out this righteous preemptive policy - fear will overtake the hatred these the Arab Monsters harbor towards us and it will be less necessary to actually "live by the sword". We do NOT need or want their love, only their fear and respect. G-d is waiting for our government (and us) to do the right thing. We DEMAND that they do so!
Even now, days afterward, I have tears in my eyes as I recall this latest horror, and rage in my heart as I consider the limp responses from both the US and Israeli govts.
What I want to know from the so-called Israeli government is, Why does the village of Awarta still exist? Why have you departed from the strategy of Joshua? Destroy the canaanite without mercy (else they will destroy you)!
If, as news reports indicate, the police have tracked the murderers to Awarta, and if, as news reports indicate, murderers have come from this village before to slaughter a family in Itamar, then why does this village still exist?
One does not partner with cancer - one cuts it out, one irradiates it, one uses chemicals - all in order to kill it off and remove it from one's body. Only this can one prevent the cancer's return. B ut one does not sit down and bargain with a cancer.
Surround Awarta with tanks and bulldozers. Give them 1 hour to surrender the murderers to justice. If they refuse, remove the cancer and kill all who resist. "If someone is coming to kill you, rise up and kill him first!" Berakoth 58a.
How much longer? How many must die?
May HaShem give us all both the courage to do what must be done to avenge these martyrs and to protect from our enemies, and may we be granted forgiveness and healing of our own souls once we do what we must do as well as we ought.
And, frankly, to hell with all palestinians and their supporters - within the government and without.
It is time that Israel stood up for itself, and stopped apologising for it's existence. I heartily agree with your comments Caroline and hope someone is listening.
As a Christian who loves Israel, I know that your God stands with you. It's very important right now that the people of Israel put their trust in Him
He will curse those that curse you, and bless those that bless you.
Thank you, Caroline. You can say it louder but not clearer... thank you, and G-d bless you for speaking up for the rest of us.
Caroline, the kicker isn't that if such a play were written The Guardian et al would never publish it; it's that if Three Children played in every theater in the United Kingdom and was featured in every news sheet or journal, no one of these bleeding hearts would so much as twitch a hair. That would be more uncool than wearing the wrong brand or ordering the wrong drink. They just don't give a flying jihad . These people bleed only for puppies, pandas and people so different - so other- that they can be romanticized - monsters become freedom fighters and the most hair-raising evil is a popular cause. Notice that even for those who pay lip service to the concept of being appalled by bloody murder, the savagery must be in relation to especially young children in order to elicit a tsk. Because young children may be comparable to puppies; soft, cuddly, dependant, helpless. And, if Jewish, endangered. That makes it a Green issue. It is a great comfort to me that I am a Jew descended from Jews, and not one of those contemptible people.
'It is a great comfort to me that I am a Jew descended from Jews, and not one of those contemptible people.'
Hoody,
If you are honest with yourself you will have to admit that the majority of Jews fall into your category of 'contemptible people'
Jewish leadership have for a long time come to bow and pray at the pagan temples of the goyim.
Netanyahu and Barak can be found praying daily at the pagan temple of nopeacejustlies.
They serve their false gods with great religious devotion and Israel(except for the settlers)love it so.
They look to the contemptible people for peace showing great contempt for the Holy One of Israel.
That is your great sin,house of Israel.
The Jewish people in America helped to elect the new Nazi's of the Fourth Reich as it rises up taking baby steps to destroy the Jewish people.
The godless Jewish grasshoppers are as contemptible as their evil partners whom you described so well and will meet the same damned fate.
I am former 'Economic Advisor' to the Japanese Government, and former speech writer for his majesty, Prince Hitachi. I read your articles and thoroughly enjoy your sharp perceptions. Today I contacted 3 major Japanese newspaper bureau chiefs in New York, and I supplied them with information and questions as to why nothing was written about the murders of the Fogel family. One response I got from Mainichi was initially this. We are too busy with all that is happening in Japan (Tsunami and aftrt effects), and also he stated that American news media were silkent on the matter of this massacre. I told him about how the Japanese Ambassador in Israel was offered aid in this horrific crisis by the Israeli Government, and that no matter what the crises in Japan, even if 1 Muslim is killed inadvertently by an israeli attack in Gaza, in reprisal for a terrorist attack against Jewissh citizens, you will always have space in your newspapaer to print a story villifying the Israel, never mentioning the cause for tha attack. At that, he promised to contact the bureau chief in Israel and send a copy of your article which I sent to him along with the video of the murder scene, which I found on Israel Matzav blog site.Hopefully, there will be some honest reporting in their paper, albeit belated.
Thank you!
Robert Blum, Ohio, USA
The right wing (?) Likud is shedding tears for this family and the grief of the survivors. Yes, actual tears.
But last February 23 the entire Likud joined forces with the Arab parties to reject a National Union bill calling for the annexation of Judea and Samaria. There were only four National Union votes in favor. The right wing MKs either voted against or slipped out of the room before the vote, hoping nobody would notice.
In other words, they delegitimized the land where these settlers lived.
But they cry at funerals.
Please read Yoel Meltzer's article The Lesson of Purim. He writes:
"Those politicians who occasionally allow various considerations to stand in their way of publicly declaring their support for extending Jewish sovereignty in Judea and Samaria should know that perhaps it was just for this reason that they were propelled into such key positions. Each one of them has been afforded the rare opportunity of having the influence to help save the Jewish people, in this case by publicly promoting Jewish sovereignty in Judea and Samaria as opposed to a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria.
"What’s more, to continue claiming that the time is not yet right for the raising of such ideas is wishful thinking. The time will never be right! It is foolish to continue waiting as each day that goes by brings us that much closer to the existence of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria being a done deal"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4043321,00.html
This is the NAZI'S all over again!
Thank you Caroline for posting this story
and the pics. I am reading the book
BONHOFFER, About a preacher who was killed
for trying to kill Hitler. This is happening
all over again!!!
How much of our tax dollars are going to the
Palestinians? This is the very first budget
cut that needs to be made. Please do publicize
the amount.
We all need to stand up to this!!!
Count me in.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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