The bus after the bombing on March 5th, 2003 where Asaf Tzur was murdered.
Posted on 03/06/2006 4:11:20 PM PST by SJackson
Asaf loved surfing and loud music. He is now gone because a suicide murderer decided it's legitimate to blow himself up on a crowded bus.
The bus after the bombing on March 5th, 2003 where Asaf Tzur was murdered.
Last night the Palestinian movie "Paradise now" won the golden globe award. The movie shows the route that two young Palestinians take in becoming suicide murderers until the minute they board a children's bus in Tel Aviv.
The movie looks professional. The movie was done with great care for detail and is extremely dangerous not only to the Middle East but to the whole world.
My son Asaf, almost 17 years old, was a high school student in the eleventh grade learning computer sciences. One day after school he boarded a bus in Israel to get back to our home. On the way, a suicide murderer from Hebron, a 21-year-old computer sciences student in the Hebron Polytechnic Institute, exploded on the bus. 17 people were killed, 9 of then school children aged 18 or less.
My son Asaf was killed on spot.
I looked at the movie trying to understand what it is trying to say, what message it carries. That the murderer is human? He is not.
That he has doubts? He has none. After all he is willing to kill himself with his victims.
That the Israelis are to blame for this brutal killing? Are the Israelis to blame for the twin towers in New York, the nightclub in Indonesia, the Hotel in Egypt, the shop in Turkey, the restaurant in Morocco or in Tunis, the hotel in Jordan, the Underground in London, the train in Spain? And the list goes on and on.
What makes this movie award worthy? Would the foreign reporters that awarded this movie the golden globe do the same if the movie was about young people from Saudi Arabia who learn how to fly in the USA and then take Islamic ritual in preparations for their holy mission to crash airplanes into the twin towers in New York? Would this movie get an award then?
The movie is trying to say that suicide murders are a legitimate option when all other means have been exhausted.
Is it legitimate for a suicide murderer to board a bus and kill 15 or 20 people? How about a suicide murderer who walks into a city with a biological bomb and kills 10,000 or 100,000 people - is that still legitimate? Where does one draw the line?
The world should draw the line at one person. The killing of even one person is not legitimate. My son was almost 17 years old. He loved surfing. He loved loud music. He is now gone because a suicide murderer decided it's legitimate to blow himself up on a crowded bus.
Encouraging film makers to hide behind the award and say that the world declared suicide bombing a legitimate means without looking at the messages the movie carries and its implications for future terrorists, makes the award's decision makers part of the evil chain of terror and makes them participants in the next suicide murders, whether there are 17 victims or 17,000.
Just, wow.
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The nomination of this "movie" is an insult to the memory of all who died at the hands of the Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Al-Aqsa Marty's Brigade. I refuse to watch it either....not a single cent of mine will ever sponsor terrorist sympathizers or their causes.
Maybe we should sponsor some of these suicide bombers to be crash test dummies against a brick wall in the middle of the dessert where there is nobody else around but them selves :)
Semper Fi'
Jarhead
How about an open casting call for Paradise Now II.
Get em all in a room and then...
..a 'workplace accident'.
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