Abu Mazen last night in Beit Lechem: We oppose murder or bloodshed of any person without connection to his sex/origin/religion. Our opposition will continue to be peaceful and we will not encourage otherwise.
Today, a 15-year old was arrested in connection with the murder of Daphna Meir HY"D (May God Avenge her blood), a mother of six children who was murdered in her own home in front of her children on Sunday. How does a 15-year old become incited to murder?
This video is from 'Palestinian' television in October of 2015. The senior 'Palestinian' official was commenting on the murders of Eitam and Naama Henkin HY"D (on which Abu Mazen had no comment - see the link).
When a child is fed this kind of support for murder with his mother's milk and thereafter for all of his brief life, is it really surprising that he decides that his duty is to murder Jews in front of their children (God Forbid)?
Abu Mazen doesn't oppose bloodshed. He lives for it. He's a liar.
And for this we can thank President Hussein Obama and his European Union friends, which continue to let the 'Palestinian Authority' off scot free for this type of incitement.
The 11-year old has told police that he wanted to die a 'martyr.'
The 11-year-old, a sixth grader from Shuafat,
is the youngest assailant arrested to date in the current upsurge of
Palestinian terrorism. He is too young to face charges under current
Israeli law; the 14-year-old is facing charges of attempted murder.
In their interrogation, the two children said
they carried out the attack as an act of revenge, without planning in
advance and with no encouragement from any adults.
“I met my cousin at the entrance to school,”
said the 11-year-old, who was not named.
“The headmistress refused to let us in because our parents had not paid
tuition. My cousin told me that on the way to school he wanted to carry
out a stabbing attack but did not succeed because all the travelers were
senior citizens,” said the boy.
The 14-year-old allegedly convinced his
younger cousin to carry out an attack. The two first boarded a bus and
looked for the opportune moment and target.
“We travelled from Shuafat to Damascus Gate in
order to stab a soldier but did not do it because the soldiers were in
groups and we didn’t find one standing alone,” recalled the 11-year-old.
“Then he told me ‘let’s do an attack together to revenge the death of
Muhammad Ali.’ He opened his bag and showed me the knife. At Damascus
Gate I bought a pair of scissors and then we boarded the light rail and
looked for Jews to stab.”
Two light rail security guards boarded the
train, but the boys decided “not to stab them because there were two of
them. Later on one of them got off and we immediately attacked the one
that remained.”
“I stabbed him in his head, my cousin stabbed
him in his chest and stomach until the guard pushed me and fired three
bullets in my stomach,” said the 11-year-old.
The two cousins had decided they were ready to
die as shahids, or martyrs, he said. The younger one said in the
interrogation that none of their family members knew about their
intentions.
My youngest son (son #5, child number 8) is an 11-year old 6th grader. He was raised differently....
This type of behavior is the result of incitement in the official 'Palestinian' media. It's being paid for by you, me, and anyone else who pays taxes to a country that supports the 'Palestinian Authority.' It is long past high time that the 'Palestinian Authority' and its leader, Abu Bluff, pay a price for their support of terrorism by incitement in the media.
Gaza kids were encouraged to play in the streets during Operation Protective Edge bombing runs
I am sure that most, if not all of my readers who have children would do just about anything to protect them. But in Gaza, things are different. Elder of Ziyon posted this video showing how Gaza children were encouraged to play outside during Israeli air raids in the summer of 2014.
Let's go to the videotape.
You don't think Hamas (which 'loves death more than life') would actually want to cause child casualties, do you? You bet they would. Read the whole thing.
And you thought it was only Hamas that had the military style Kindergarten graduations.
Here's a tweet from Israel Radio's Gal Berger with pictures from a Kindergarten graduation in Ein Arik, a village just outside Ramallah - 'Palestinian Authority' territory:
One small incident that sums up Israel's conflict with the 'Palestinians'
If you're wondering why Israel cannot make peace with the 'Palestinians,' here's an incident that should go a long way in explaining the problem.
37 children between the ages of 5 and 12, who lost their fathers in this past summer's Gaza war, were to have been brought to Israel on Sunday for a day of relaxation and recreation sponsored by Israel's Kibbutz movement (i.e. the Israel Left). At the last minute, Hamas canceled the previously granted permission for the children to go. No, they were not worried about the children's safety. They worried that the children might - gulp - return home less hostile to Israel.
Eyad Bozum, a
spokesman for Hamas, said the children were prevented from traveling
Sunday to "protect the culture of our children and our people" from
normalizing relations with Israel.
He says Hamas turned the children back when they arrived at a
crossing into Israel. He says Hamas would make sure such an attempt
"will never happen again."
...
[Kibbutz Movement representative Yoel Marshak] waited for hours
Sunday morning for the children to cross together with representatives
of Israel's Bedouin community, who also took part in putting the event
together.
"We did everything we could to allow them to enter Israel,"
Marshak said, standing over a table full of candies the organizers had
brought the kids. "We passed on their names to the relevant state bodies
and they were all okayed. This is a very rare step on Israel's side,
but sadly it was Hamas' men at the crossing that created issues."
According to Marshak, "Arab media is very angry with Hamas, there
were a lot of people waiting to meet these kids, we received a lot of
support and help. We will continue to work, mostly at the diplomatic
level, to allow them to come. If not today, then in the future."
In response to the report, Hamas said that it rejects any kind of
normalization with Israel, saying "these types of encounters are Israeli
attempts to brainwash the children so that they forgot the Palestinian
issue and give up their principles."
Somehow, I don't expect 'peace' to break out before I return home later this week. War seems far more likely. Do any of you wonder why?
Brutal IDF troops give 'Palestinian' kids.. their lunches
IDF troops caught two 'Palestinian' children rummaging through garbage on Sunday... and gave them their lunches.
"After talking to our
friends, it was clear to us we couldn't let those kids keep looking
through dumpsters for food, while we had extra food," the corporal said.
Normally, IDF soldiers
meet Palestinian children when they riot, throwing stones and Molotov
cocktails at the troops. But after hearing the kids' plea: "We're
hungry, we have no food at home and we're looking in dumpsters for
something to eat," the paratroopers decided to give them a loaf of
bread, meatballs, fruit, vegetables, hummus and snacks they had bought
for themselves.
"One of the children told me he already searched through all of
the dumpsters around. I told them to wait a few minutes until I got
back," the soldier said. "We went out to them and sent them on their way
with food and drink."
Before meeting the children, Corporal Oren wrote on his Facebook
page that the pillbox he was stationed at was pelted with stones. "We
were preparing to disperse the crowd, which was continuing the massive
stones onslaught against us. I was preparing one of the crowd dispersal
measures we had," he wrote. "At that moment, my sergeant noticed a
little girl standing outside her house, between us and the rioters. He
told me to cease fire and that I wasn't to fire until we made sure the
girl is safe inside her home. During that time we were exposed to the
stone throwers and were hit a lot and hard, but at no point did we even
think to do anything while innocent children could get hurt."
He went on to say: "I hope the two stories I told you - as
someone who is out on the field experiencing things without mediation -
helped paint a certain picture of what soldiers deal with every day.
Next time you hear someone in Israel or abroad slamming the IDF, saying
we're not a moral army, you're welcome to send them my way."
This is not exactly a safe thing to do. In the past, the 'Palestinians' have used children to hide adults and even occasionally as suicide bombers.
Video: 'Palestinian' kids throw fire bombs into Jewish home
This video was shot in the 'mixed' neighborhood of Abu Tor, which is not far from Jerusalem's Old City. In it, you will see 'Palestinian' kids throwing fire bombs at the Jewish home from which the video was shot.
Egyptian-American writer Magdi Khalil tells al-Jazeera Arabic that Hamas is garnering sympathy using the corpses of Gazan children. He clearly blames Hamas.
Let's go to the videotape.
My only disappointment is that he didn't turn the tables on the moderator and ask why al-Jazeera's sponsor (the government of Qatar) is also Hamas' chief sponsor.
The ad was rejected by The Times, which claimed by way of
explanation "that the opinion being expressed is too strong and too
forcefully made and will cause concern amongst a significant number of Times readers'."
The advert has already run in a number of major US publications, including The Times' sister publication, the Wall Street Journal, as well as The New York Times and The Washington Post.
But the decision to run it in the Guardian - which is
well-known for its hostile editorial line towards Israel - will come as
particularly surprising, and raises further questions about The Times' decision not to run it.
Condemning the decision by The Times to reject the ad, Rabbi Boteach accused the paper of "catering to bigotry."
The Guardian and the Independent are the last two British papers I would have expected to run that ad.
A full-page advertisement from Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Shmuly Boteach, which calls on Hamas to reject child sacrifice, and which has run in several newspapers in the United States, has been rejected by the Times of London, which claimed that the ad was 'too strong and forceful.'
The ad sponsored by The Values Network, which was founded by Rabbi
Shmuley Boteach, has run in The New York Times, Washington Post and
The Wall Street Journal, among other U.S. newspapers. The rejection was
first reported by the New York Observer.
The London Times refused the ad because “the opinion being expressed
is too strong and too forcefully made and will cause concern amongst a
significant number of Times readers,” according to a statement from a representative of the newspaper, the Observer reported.
...
Headlined “Jews rejected child sacrifice 3,500 years ago. Now it’s
Hamas turn,” the ad began running last week. It reads, in part: “In my
own lifetime, I have seen Jewish children thrown into the fire. And now I
have seen Muslim children used as human shields, in both cases, by
worshippers of death cults indistinguishable from that of the
Molochites.
“What we are suffering through today is not a battle of Jew versus
Arab or Israeli versus Palestinian. Rather, it is a battle between those
who celebrate life and those who champion death. It is a battle of
civilization versus barbarism.”
Countering the London Times statement, Boteach said in his own, “Elie
Wiesel is one of the most respected human beings alive, a Nobel Peace
Laureate, and is the living face of the Holocaust. No greater expert on
genocide exists in the whole world. His call for the end of child
sacrifice by Hamas, who use children as human shields, and a stop to
their genocidal charter, which calls for the murder of Jews everywhere,
could only offend the sensibilities of the most die-hard anti-Israel
haters and anti-Semites.”
I can't envision a single newspaper in the the UK (other than the local Jewish newspaper) running an ad like this. Maybe the Telegraph or the Mail, but I doubt they would run it either. Who says there's media bias out there?
The image at the top of this post was one of the tamer ones I found when searching "dead Palestinian child" for an image. As you might recall, the picture was from Operation Pillar of Defense and the child was the son of a BBC journalist who lived in Gaza. Three months later, the United Nations 'human rights council' (of all entities) determined that the child had been killed by Hamas.
Perhaps that's one of many reasons why James Delingpole speaks for many of us when he says he has had with the 'Palestinians' grotesque use of images of children to arouse sympathy.
The point they are trying to make goes like this: here is a dead
child; killing children is evil; Israel killed this child; therefore
Israel is evil.
Are you buying this argument? I'm not. I don't even think it
qualifies as an argument. In fact, I think it has about as much insight
and depth as one of those posters with kittens on it saying: "Today is
the first day of the rest of your life."
What I loathe about it is its mixture of hectoring presumption and manipulative dishonesty.
Presumption: "If you support Israel, then you clearly don't care
about dead children," it says. (Is there anyone in the world who isn't
moved by the sight of a dead child? I don't think so. The people who are
implying otherwise are beneath contempt).
Dishonesty: other than the truism that war is hell, the photograph actually tells us nothing.
We have no idea whether this boy was actually a victim of the
fighting in Gaza - or of the far bloodier and uglier civil wars in Syria
and Iraq.
If he was indeed a Palestinian, we have no idea whether he was killed by Israeli fire or by Hamas ordinance.
Nor, even if he was killed by Israeli fire, do we know the
circumstances. Maybe it was a tragic mistake; maybe, he was one of those
innocents that Hamas likes to use as human shields in its rocket
launching sites; maybe he was being used as a "tunnel rat"; maybe he'd
tried to flee with his family to a shelter only to be driven back to his
apartment by Hamas who recognise the propaganda value of dead children.
Hospitalized soldiers: Terrorists charged with babies in hand
I think the picture above was intended to be humorous. It's not. It really happened.
Parents of wounded soldiers spoke to Kol Yisrael on Tuesday
and shared some of the disturbing stories they had heard from their
sons. They said soldiers have repeatedly seen young children in
Sheijaya, Gaza, be sent out into the streets with guns to try to attack
IDF troops.
One parent reported that terrorists had run at IDF soldiers with a
gun in one hand and a baby in the other, apparently in hopes that the
soldiers would see the child and hold their fire. If soldiers fired, the
parent added, the child’s death could be used as propaganda against
Israel.
“They’re continuing the same trick of using children as human
shields, just as they did in Operation Cast Lead,” one father said.
Women are used as human shields as well, he added.
He expressed frustration at figures on the Israeli far-left who have
accused IDF soldiers of committing war crimes. Israel’s soldiers do
everything they can to avoid hurting innocent people, he said.
Hamas: 'We will send children to throw hand grenades at Israeli soldiers'
To my recollection, the IDF has not faced mass use of children as canon fodder by terrorist organizations. I can recall one or two incidents when Israel patrolled southern Lebanon and Hezbullah sent a boy or two with a grenade strapped to him, but nothing more than that.
On Friday, a Hamas spokesman announced on Hamas' al-Aqsa television in Gaza, that Hamas had manufactured 250,000 hand
grenades that would be given to Palestinian youth to use to fight Israel
instead of rocks.
If this actually happens, it would be a new low in Hamas' use of civilians to protect its terrorists.
Let's go to the videotape.
I wonder if the 'human rights' groups will have anything to say about this.
I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
