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
Palestinians celebrating Jewish school massacre
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.
It makes me sick to watch these people celebrate the deaths of innocent human beings, murdered in cold blood by terrorists with a total disregard of human life, including (but sadly not limited to) their own.
In the city of Berlin, Germany, Palestinians have climbed to the top of the statistics when it comes to violent street crimes, followed by Lebanese Muslim gangs, followed by Arabs from other regions of the Middle East, followed by Turks. People are starting to realize that these people are, in fact, rather savages than the peace-loving-but-oppressed victims they claim to be. How can they expect our respect and compassion while, at the same time, shamelessly worshipping terrorist attacks?
I am absolutely convinced that those who must live with Palestinians next door will look at Israel’s policy towards this issue from a different point of view.
It is an unmatched shame for Germany that these days, 70 years after the horror of the Holocaust, antisemitic demonstrations are again performed in the center of our capital city, just because these demonstrations are carried out by Muslim immigrants, who, by definition, are an oppressed minority being discriminated against.
I hope that Israel will find a way to deal with the terrorists and their supporters appropriately, be it with or against the support of the international media. Israel is a shining beacon of freedom in an area full of the darkness of the Sharia, the only place in the Middle East where one can tell the truth about a guy from the middle ages Muslims like to call a “prophet” without subsequently being stoned to death. It is a symbol of Western resistance against Islam. Deepest sympathy to the relatives of all victims who died in this tragic terrorist attack.
Reply to kurtthat is not fair!!!!! i go to a public school but im jewish and it kills me to see people celabrating our cultures deaths!!! it sickens me!!! =(((
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