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A Very Hard Week
Arutz Sheva
5-13-04
Yaffa Ganz
This has been a – what shall we say? - well, an especially hard week.
Even for Israel, which is accustomed to hard times. It was also
especially brutal, even for a brutal, ongoing war.
First, there was the vicious murder of Tali Hatuel, in her eighth
month of pregnancy, and her four daughters – Hila age 11, Hadar, 9,
Roni, 7 and Meirav, 2. Not only were they shot while driving on the
highway, but when the car ground to a halt, their
Arab-Moslem-Palestinian murderers came up and emptied their guns
point-blank into Tali and each of her children - riddling their bodies
with dozens of bullets - to make sure they were indeed dead and to
better mutilate their bodies.
Then, one week later at a memorial ceremony for Tali and her
daughters, at the spot on the road where they were killed, Arabs
opened fire from houses in two directions on several hundred
participants, including many women and children. The ensuing chaos –
screaming children, parents running for shelter with babies in their
arms, people dropping down to the asphalt on the open highway and
sheltering their children – was terrifying.
The people at the ceremony, many of whom carried weapons, returned
fire until a few minutes later, when the army went into action and
began shelling one of the houses the Arabs were firing from. By a
mind-boggling miracle, not a single Israeli was shot or hurt in this
wild free for all, although all were out in plain view, directly in
front of the shooting Arabs. Two out of the three Arab attackers were
killed.
Several days later, the Israeli army entered a neighborhood in Gaza to
destroy weapons laboratories producing mortar shells and rockets to
fire into Israel. A large landmine exploded alongside one of the army
half-tracks and the vehicle, loaded with munitions and dynamite
intended for the demolition of the workshops, exploded, killing the
six soldiers inside.
Before the IDF could reach them, the surrounding Arabs snatched bodies
and body parts, dancing with and displaying them before the
ever-present international television cameras (which did not hurry to
televise the orgy). Within the hour, various Arab terrorist groups
proudly announced that the body parts had been distributed throughout
Gaza and would be returned only when Arab "demands" were met.
Meanwhile, the fighting continued as Israeli soldiers went from house
to house, searching.
Then, only two days later, the story was repeated as another landmine
blew up another two Israeli vehicles. Another five dead.
By the time you read this, perhaps, hopefully, b'ezrat Hashem, all the
bodies will have been found, collected and brought to Jewish burial.
Perhaps.
Meanwhile, the voices of "peace" are already screaming loudly, as if
pulling back, running away, refusing to stand up and defeat evil, will
somehow, miraculously, produce a more peaceful world.
In Hebrew, one always places the noun – the essence we are speaking of
- before the adjective it comes to describe. We say "yeled tov" – a
boy who is good (rather than "a good boy"). The "boy" is the essence;
he comes first. The description "good" follows.
But in the Torah, the description of Ishmael is out of order,
backwards, just the opposite of normative Hebrew. He is not called an
"adam pra'I" – a man who is wild. He is called a pereh adam. He is
first and foremost a pereh – a wild creature - who is described as
appearing in the form of adam - a man.
This is our enemy. This is who we are fighting. This is what we must
remember. And not only must we remember. This is the enemy the entire
world now confronts. The "Islamic fundamentalists", the terrorists,
and all those who passively or actively support them – they are all
"wild creatures", messengers of death, out to destroy the world. As an
editor of a Florida newspaper wrote:
"There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims around the world,
but that did not save 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the
million gassed and butchered in Iraq, Iran, and other countries in the
Middle East, the tens of thousands slain by Moslems in Eastern Europe
and Asia, the hundreds blown to bits in the West Bank and Spain, or
the four Americans shot, burned and hung like sausage over the
Euphrates as a fanatical minority of Muslims did the joyful dance of
death."
If the world does not recognize the imminent danger and take steps not
only to protect itself, but to combat the danger, it may very well not
only witness – but experience - another holocaust.
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"The al Qaeda that killed my son didn't know what they were doing.
They killed their best friend" - Michael Berg
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/14/iraq.berg/index.html
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