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On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:24:02 -0700, Miriam Cohen <mimiigal@cox.net>
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Ephraim wrote:

Five years after Sbarro bombing, bereaved mom mulls others' losses
By Frimet Roth

JERUSALEM, Aug. 8 (JTA) - With war raging against Hezbollah, it's
easy to overlook Israel's other threat. The events of this day, five
years ago, provide a stark reminder of the enemy across our southern
border: Hamas.

On Aug. 9, 2001, Izzadin al-Masri, the 22-year-old son of a well-to-do
restaurateur, and Ahlam Tamimi, a 20-year-old university student and
part-time journalist, set out. Hamas had trained and equipped them.
Tamimi had scouted for and located the target - the popular
Sbarro's restaurant in downtown Jerusalem.

Tamimi, in revealing Western clothing, was disguised as a young Israeli
woman. Masri had a guitar case slung over his shoulder, packed with 5
kilograms of explosives - along with nails, screws and bolts to
exacerbate the injuries.

Chatting in English and carrying a camera, they passed an Israeli
checkpoint between eastern and western Jerusalem. When they reached the
unguarded entrance to the crowded pizzeria, Tamimi and Masri parted. He
entered the eatery alone and detonated his bomb.

My 15-year-old daughter, Malki, had entered moments earlier with her
friend, Michal Raziel. I know from speaking with a survivor that the
girls were standing on line waiting to order. Each was urging the other
to go first.

That was all I knew about what happened inside the restaurant that
afternoon - until I interviewed Esther Shoshan.

"I was upstairs with one of my daughters," Shoshan recalled.
"We'd wanted to sit downstairs where it's roomy, near the
windows. But it was too crowded. Two of my daughters had gone to park
the car. Two others, Miriam and Yocheved, went down to the lower level
to get our food.

"Then there was an enormous blast. The place went dark. People
started screaming, 'Pigua! Pigua!' " - terror attack.

"We ran downstairs. There was a terrible stench. I saw body parts
everywhere. Here a limb, there a head. The bodies were bloated. There
was water everywhere; I have no idea where it came from. I searched for
my children.

"My two daughters who had gone to the car park arrived seconds later.
The older one came inside and found Miriam and Yocheved. They were on
fire. She managed to put out the flames but then was rushed away by
rescue workers."

Shoshan was taken to a local hospital. She left shortly afterward to
keep searching for the two children she had left at the scene.

She located Miriam, 15, at Hadassah-University Hospital. She had
suffered third-degree burns on 40 percent of her body. Sixty nails were
lodged inside her, many only millimeters from vital organs. Her spleen
was ruptured and there was a gaping hole in her right thigh.

Yocheved, 10, could not be found in any of the city's hospitals.
Later that day, a cousin and uncle identified her body at the Abu Kabir
morgue. She was buried at midnight.

"I was torn between grief and Miriam's rehabilitation," Shoshan
recalled. "She came home only a year later, after five operations."

All told, 15 people died in the Sbarro attack that day, including eight
children, and 130 were injured. Since then, their families have been
grappling with grief.

Shifra Hayman and her husband are among them. In 2001, they were living
in Los Angeles when their only child, Shoshana Greenbaum, went to
Israel to study for a few weeks. Greenbaum, three months pregnant, died
in the attack.

The Haymans are religiously observant and wanted Greenbaum buried
according to Jewish tradition as quickly as possible and in Israel.
Since they don't travel on Shabbat, they were unable to arrive in
time for their daughter's funeral.

Hayman, a medical social worker, seeks the positive.

"Shoshana's wristwatch, which was sent to us after the attack was,
miraculously, still running when we got it," she recounted, "which
must reflect some gentleness in the way" God "took her life."

Hayman recalled her last conversation with her daughter, a night before
her murder.

"I remember how grateful I was for the conversation I'd had the
previous night with Shoshana. She'd been so happy," she said.

Chana Nachenberg has been in a coma since the attack. Her parents visit
her in the hospital every day.

Her husband, David, works as a sports journalist and as a child-care
assistant close to his home so he can be available for the couple's
daughter, who is now 8.

David recently obtained a rare rabbinical dispensation to remarry, but
hasn't been able to bring himself to begin dating.

"Who would want to go out with me?" he asks. "I'm not like a
widower or a divorce. Women will be afraid that my wife might wake up
one day and that I'd divorce them to return to her."

Mordechai and Tzira Schijveschuurder had brought five of their eight
children to Jerusalem for a break from the tense security situation at
home in the West Bank settlement of Talmon. Only two daughters, Leah
and Chaya, survived the Sbarro bombing.

Elisheva Moshkovitz, Mordechai's sister, and her husband, Moshe,
Tzira's uncle, are raising the girls.

"We moved into my brother's home in Talmon immediately afterward
and stayed there for six weeks," Moshkovitz said. "It was a very
difficult time for us, even financially. I had been in an accident and
wasn't working. We had trouble paying the grocery bills. There was
almost no help from anyone."

Encountering other Sbarro victims strengthens my resolve to keep the
memory of this crime alive.

When, as happens a lot these days, the government mentions the
possibility of a prisoner release, a shiver goes down my spine. Hamas
is demanding the release of women prisoners, inclding Tamimi - who is
serving 16 life sentences in an Israeli prison - in exchange for a
captured Israeli soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit.

The Israeli government has steadfastly refused to release terrorists
with blood on their hands. In any case, remorse or repentance could not
be further from Tamimi's mind.

She made this clear five months ago when she told journalists: "I'm
not sorry for what I did. I will get out of prison and I refuse to
recognize Israel's existence."

"We will become free from Israeli occupation and then I will also be
free from prison," she said.

Along with the other Sbarro families, I remember my lost loved one. We
are determined to help keep their murderer, Ahlam Tamimi, behind bars
until the end of her days.

http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=Remembering%20the%20Sbarro%20bombing&intcategoryid=1&SearchOptimize=Jewish%20News

Funny how one never hears "liberals" crying for *THESE* innocent people.
No not really "funny at all, pitiful is what it is.

Who cares, halfbreed? They're jews. They've got no business being
there in the first place.

L'Chaim

L'Chezbollah