Yesterday evening at about 8:45 P.M. Jerusalem time, a Hamas terrorist armed with an automatic rifle, handguns, a knife, and extra ammunition shot his way into Yeshivat Merkaz Harav, one of the world’s most preeminent schools for Jewish education, and wantonly murdered, in the most barbaric way, 8 young Jewish students studying the Torah (Old Testament). 7 of the 8 students heinously murdered in yesterday’s massacre were under the age of 18. This cowardly and deliberate attack on Israeli children, in what should be the safest of places, serves to highlight the barbarity, cruelty, and inhumanity of Israel’s enemies.

The world should take swift and concrete action to unequivocally condemn this massacre, but alas, the UN Security Council once again could not bring itself to speak out against terror inflicted on the Jewish people and the Jewish State.

Although the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned yesterdays attack, this is a declaration expected from any decent human being, and should be followed by action to reign in the terrorists who act on a daily basis to kill Jewish citizens of Israel. Israel is committed to the peace process, but can only make peace with people who are also committed to peace in more than words.

In fact, as illustrated below, the very same Palestinians who celebrated on September 12th, 2001, the destruction of the twin towers in New York and the death of almost 3,000 American civilians, also celebrated the massacre of Jewish students at school in Jerusalem.

Palestinians celebrating the 9/11 attacks
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Palestinians celebrating Jewish school massacre
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Yeshivat Merkaz Harav was founded in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Chief Rabbi of Jewish Palestine, to be the “New Israeli” Yeshiva. Now headed by Rabbi Yaakov Shapira, Yeshivat Merkaz Harav, is the center of Israel’s National Religious movement.

The students are being buried today with the blood stained books they were studying when they were murdered.

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