Israel Matzav: Boo. Hoo. 'Palestinian' terrorist's grave defaced

Friday, May 02, 2014

Boo. Hoo. 'Palestinian' terrorist's grave defaced

In what the police are immediately assuming is a 'price tag' attack by right wing Israelis, the grave of Muslim preacher Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the inspiration for the Hamas terror brigade by the same name, was defaced in Haifa overnight Thursday night according to a report on Israel's Channel 10 news.

The Muslim "Al Qassam" cemetery in Haifa joins the list of targets nationwide, as Israeli authorities struggle to prevent suspected far-right assailants from defiling more non-Jewish property.

One of the graves was spray-painted with the words "Tag mehir (‘price tag’) Tzipi Livni," while another read "Thanks for Memorial Day" along with the name of US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Al-Qassam, whose exploits during the Palestinian struggle for independence against the British and the Zionists inspired generations of Palestinians, is the namesake of the Hamas military wing. The name conjures up traumatic experiences for Israelis who for over the past decade have been living under the threat of incessant Qassam rocket fire from Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, a 19-year old Afula woman was murdered on Thursday in Migdal HaEmek, possibly by terrorists, as she talked on the phone with her cousin.

"We started to worry. At 2 p.m. we realized something happened," the father told Arutz Sheva, recalling the events of how his daughter went missing after leaving for a job interview. "We contacted the police and I gave a description (of Shelly), and then they told us to come to the station, and I realized something had happened."

Regarding the motivation behind his daughter's murder, he said "I believe it was nationalistic, and still can't digest (her murder). She was a very responsible girl."

"They shouldn't rest until they find her phone, maybe there are fingerprints on it," added the bereaved father, noting that she had been in the middle of a phone call with her cousin apparently at the time of the murder.

While on the phone, Shelly said "there is someone scary here, I'm being strangled!" Shelly appeared to be referring to a woman [extrapolated from Hebrew grammar - ed.].

"There's no security in this country," said Shelly's father. "My message to parents is not to send your children alone, we don't digest the fact that in the state of Israel you go to your workplace and don't come back. They just butchered my girl."

The funeral of Shelly Dadon will take place on Saturday after Shabbat, at 10:30 p.m. in Afula's cemetery.

The murderer apparently fled to a nearby Arab village. But the government seems to be much more interested in the 'price tags' than in Shelly Dadon.

Shelly's cousin Alon noted there has been a remarkable lack of condemnation of the attack from Israel's government.

"I want every MK to know what is going on here," he said. "If this had been a 'price tag' graffiti incident, the whole State would have been up in arms. But when a young girl is murdered on her way to a job interview, they are all silent."

"We demand that they bring [the killer] to justice," he added.

By contrast, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and others were swift to condemn an alleged act of "price tag" vandalism earlier this week, especially in light of a damning report from the US State Department over the "Jewish terrorism."