I received this by email this week from One Family, an organization that helps families of terror victims. I'm sure many of you recall the story of Hallel Yaffa Ariel, the 13-year old who was murdered in her bed by terrorists on June 30.
Let's go to the videotape. Explanation below.
Hallel Yaffa Ariel was murdered on June 30th, 2016 (Sivan 24th) by a vile man while sleeping in her bed, at the age of 13.
Her
family wishes to commemorate her life at the place where she was killed
- by turning it into a Visitor Center to the family's winery in Kiryat
Arba. So they launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise the money.
This is a Headstart campaign run by the Ariel family, endorsed by OneFamily.
The Ariel Judea Winery is
a micro-winery producing wine from the Ariel family's vineyards near
their home. Hallel used to enjoy working there with her father. The Hallel
Winery Visitor Center will establish a living connection between Hallel
and the winery, vineyards, and the Kiryat Arba area - where Hallel
spent her childhood.
The Hallel Winery Center will promote Jewish-Israeli identity, personal growth, prosperity, and love. Help the family plant roots in the spot where it was hit by Israel's enemies.
Please join the project and help make the Hallel Visitor Center a reality. With your help, they will achieve their vision! All
of your donations to this campaign go directly to the Headstart
crowdfunding campaign helping the family realize this project.
This the home of the terrorist who murdered 13-year old Hallel Yaffa Ariel HY"D (May God Avenge her blood) in her bed last Thursday morning.
This is Barack Obama:
Third, we must address the grievances that terrorists exploit,
including economic grievances. As I said yesterday, poverty alone does
not cause a person to become a terrorist, any more than poverty alone
causes someone to become a criminal. There are millions, billions of
people who are poor and are law-abiding and peaceful and tolerant, and
are trying to advance their lives and the opportunities for their
families.
But when people -- especially young people -- feel entirely trapped
in impoverished communities, where there is no order and no path for
advancement, where there are no educational opportunities, where there
are no ways to support families, and no escape from injustice and the
humiliations of corruption -- that feeds instability and disorder, and
makes those communities ripe for extremist recruitment. And we have
seen that across the Middle East and we've seen it across North Africa.
So if we’re serious about countering violent extremism, we have to get
serious about confronting these economic grievances.
Anyone still wonder why the US has no effective answers for Islamic and 'Palestinian' terrorism?
A reminder that I am in Boston where the Sabbath does not start for several more hours and therefor I am able to still be online.
Just before the Sabbath started in Israel, Kiryat Arba (a Jewish suburb of Hebron) resident Yaakov Litman and his 18-year old son Netanel were murdered by 'Palestinian' terrorists.
TERROR VICTIMS: 2 Israelis shot dead by Arab terrorist identified as Yakov Litman from Kiryat Arba & his son Natanel pic.twitter.com/MzC5GX4Oe0
It seems that Yaakov and Netanel were on their way to their future son-in-law and brother-in-law's aufruf (the calling to the Torah that takes place the Sabbath before the wedding) in Meitar, which is just outside Be'er Sheva. Yaakov's daughter, Netanel's sister is scheduled to be married on Tuesday night (Hat Tip: Leah P via Yeshiva World News).
In case you're wondering, under Jewish law, I believe that the wedding is postponed until after the shiva (one week) mourning period (the rule is different if the bride does not know of her father's death before the wedding).
55-year-old Avraham Asher Hasno HY"D (May God Avenge his blood) of Kiryat Arba in Judea got out of his car today to fight 'Palestinian' terrorists who were throwing rocks at Israeli cars. Hasno was deliberately run down by a 'Palestinian' truck (see pictures above - hopefully police and the IDF will at least catch the truck driver). Then the 'Palestinians' celebrated Hasno's death.
Arab terrorists threw rocks at several cars at Al
Fawar junction, southwest of Hevron, prompting Hasno to get out of his
car. At that point an Arab driver ran him over in a truck before fleeing
the scene.
The paramedic who treated Hasno at the scene revealed shortly
after returning from the incident that he had witnessed a
blood-chilling sight while performing resuscitation attempts for the
victim, which eventually failed as he died of his wounds.
Around the site where he was trying to save Hasno's life, the shocked
paramedic said dozens of Arabs were standing around, and they clapped,
celebrated and cheered as the victim lay critically wounded and dying on
the pavement.
The Arabs celebrated with "cruelty that is hard to describe among human beings."
Hasno had gotten out of his car to confront the Arab terrorists
according to Hevron activist Baruch Marzel, who revealed that the
authorities refused Hasno's request to carry a gun.
The blood-curdling celebration at the sight of a dying man brings to
mind the callous response Arab passersby and shopkeepers showed Adele Bennett, who earlier this month ran for help while seriously wounded from a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City.
Bennett's husband Aharon as well as Rabbi Nehemia Lavi were murdered
in the attack, and her two-year-old child was lightly wounded. And yet
Arab residents laughed and cheered as she ran for help, mocking and
hitting her. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called to close the stores of the Arab shopkeepers who took part.
Netanyahu tells Obama to stick it where the sun don't shine
Projecting strength a week before the Israeli elections, Prime Minister Netanyahu has effectively told President Obama to take his objections to 'settlement expansion' and stick them where the sun don't shine. On Wednesday, the Housing and Construction Ministry issued a tender for 200 new housing units in Efrat (which is part of the Gush Etzion bloc which President George W. Bush promised would be retained by Israel as part of any 'final settlement' with the 'Palestinians') and Kiryat Arba.
This is from the first link.
According to Channel 2, the tenders are for 84 new housing units in
Kiryat Arba near Hebron, and for an additional 114 tenders in the West
Bank settlement of Efrat.
...
The publishing of tenders for new settlement units on Wednesday drew condemnation from Netanyahu's political opponents.
Will this help Likud in the polls? Maybe. Until now, at least, Netanyahu has not been seen as the Likudnik most likely to go to bat for housing in Judea and Samaria.
MK's from Shaul Mofaz's Kadima party are angry with him because he did not object to the construction of 851 new Jewish housing units in Judea and Samaria. They are particularly peeved that he did not object to the construction of homes in the Jewish stronghold of Kiryat Arba, outside of Hebron.
When the plan to build 851 housing units in the West Bank was announced Wednesday night, Mofaz objected to the plan to build in Kiryat Arba while acquiescing to build in the [settlement] blocs [near the green line]. Netanyahu initially removed Kiryat Arba from the list of building projects at Mofaz’s request, but the prime minister put it back on the list later that night after protests from the Right.
Mofaz faced criticism for not torpedoing the move not only from rebel MKs who want to leave Kadima and those who backed Mofaz’s rival Tzipi Livni in the March 27 leadership race but also from legislators who backed him.
“I support Mofaz but his silence on Kiryat Arba is very grave,” MK Shai Hermesh said.
“Kadima should have been criticizing this decision all day. Instead of getting credit as a moderate prime minister for abiding by the court’s decision on the Ulpana outpost, by building in Kiryat Arba, Bibi is once again absorbing international criticism on an issue that not only does the international community oppose but also his coalition partners.”
MK Shlomo Molla, who is eager to split from Kadima, went further. He said that he and other Kadima MKs would demand explanations from Mofaz at Monday’s Kadima faction meeting.
“Mofaz should have urged the prime minister to cancel the plan,” Molla said. “I am so angry at my party that no one is protesting. It is sad how irrelevant Kadima has become on such an important issue. It is intolerable that we have become spare change in a right-wing coalition.”
Yeah. After all, they were just so effective in three years in the opposition....
Looking forward to the next election, and the end of Kadima. It cannot come too soon.
'Palestinian Authority,' with European assistance, strategically housing 'Palestinians' to cut off Kiryat Arba from the Machpeila Cave in Hebron
With the assistance of the European Union, the 'Palestinian Authority' has been moving 'Palestinians' into housing among the Jewish community of Hebron. If enough 'Palestinians' move in, it may cut off the Jewish suburb of Kiryat Arba from the Machpeila Cave (tomb of the Patriarchs) and from the Jewish community in Hebron.
A security source revealed on Sunday that in the last year and a half, the Palestinian Authority, through a body named “the council to rehabilitate the old city”, has begun to house Arabs in areas of Hevron inhabited by Jews.
“These houses, previously uninhabited, have been filled with Arabs who were 'imported' from west Hevron, Beit Kahel, and Halhoul, some of which were previously engaged in terror activity or have served time in Israeli prisons for criminal offenses,” said the source and added: “The Palestinian Authority's move is part of a clear strategy that no one denies: it is creating a separation between Kiryat Arba and Hevron.”
The source noted that “The Palestinian Authority has understood that terrorist attacks will not stop the approximately 600,000 Jews who visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron each year, and has concluded that there is a need to house hundreds of families in the eastern Casbah in order to create separation.”
“Already in recent months,” added the source, “we have witnessed significant friction in the area between Arabs and the IDF and the Border Police as well as with the local Jewish residents and outside guests. Beyond the friction there have been several attacks of pedestrians on Shabbat, and some vehicles have been stoned at the crossing near the eastern Casbah.”
In summary, the source said that “This situation brings the Tomb of the Patriarchs, which is a heritage site, into a most serious security situation. Instead of having the tombs of our forefathers accessible to every Jew at any day and hour, coordination of the arrival of Jews in the Tomb of the Patriarchs will be required and the PA would thus succeed in keeping so many Jews away from the Cave of the Patriarchs.”
And the Israeli government still worries about what Europe thinks. What could go wrong?
Education Minister Gidon Saar announced on Tuesday that for the first time since the Oslo accords were signed, the Government of Israel is going to encourage all Israeli students to visit Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs, and its entirely Jewish suburb, Kiryat Arba.
Israel must make it clear that Jews will remain in the city of Hevron, Education Minister Gidon Saar (Likud) said Tuesday. “We must not mislead the Arabs into thinking that one day there will be no Jews living in Kiryat Arba and Hevron,” he said during a tour of Judea.
A Jewish presence in the Biblical city is crucial “in order to maintain our ability to visit and pray in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, one of the most important places to the Jewish people,” Saar explained.
He said he would act to bring all Israeli students to visit Hevron, particularly the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Currently, all Israeli students are to visit Jerusalem at least once during their school career.
Some of you may be surprised at the reference to Jerusalem. Sadly, it has to be said. Most of Israel's secular Leftists do not leave the Tel Aviv or Haifa metropolitan areas. They don't visit Jerusalem. The IDF brings them to Jerusalem - and particularly to the Western Wall for their swearing-in ceremonies - because many of them have never been here and have no idea for what they are fighting. Really.
I hope Saar's plans to take all the Jewish kids to Hebron materialize. But I hope the IDF changes its no fire rules first so that it can protect all those kids.
IDF soldier attacked by 'Palestinians' outside Kiryat Arba
An IDF soldier was attacked at the entrance to the Hebron suburb of Kiryat Arba on Thursday night. The soldier was injured and the 'Palestinian' attackers were arrested.
An Israeli soldier was attacked and wounded by a group of Arabs at the entrance to the Judean city of Kiryat Arba on Thursday evening. The Arabs reportedly hit the soldier with various objects and threw a glass bottle at him, injuring him in the head.
The assailants were arrested and turned over to Israel Police for further investigation.
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