Posted on 07/01/2016 10:43:19 AM PDT by Velveeta
Full text of a video message by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of the killing of Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, by a Palestinian terrorist on June 30, 2016:
This morning a terrorist sneaked into the bedroom of a 13-year-old girl, Hallel-Yaffa Ariel. He murdered young Hallel in cold blood. A picture of her blood stained room is almost too hard to see. Theres a teddy bear still on her bed, a red beanbag chair, some pictures on the wall, shoes tightly packed in a bin next to her bunk bed.
Why would any person do this?
You dont murder a sleeping child for peace. You dont slit a little girls throat to protest a policy you dont like.
You do this because youve been brainwashed. Youve been brainwashed by a warped ideology that teaches you that this child isnt human.
We will not let barbarism defeat humanity.
Theres no middle ground between beautiful Hallel and her unspeakably evil murderer.
Today, each of us is going to fight back.
I ask you to walk into your childs bedroom before they go to sleep. I ask you to hug them. I ask you to kiss them.
Teach them that the values that Hallels murderer most detested freedom, diversity, pluralism will never die; well always hold them dear. Tell them that we will never let fear, evil and terror triumph; that we will always stand for justice. And this is how we will fight back.
We fight back first by fighting back, fighting the terrorists, fighting their backers, fighting those who incite for such murder, whether in Hebron or in Orlando, or in Berlin, or in Ankara, or in Belgium, anywhere.
We fight back by making sure that our collective moral compass doesnt waver even a millimeter.
Today we will cherish Hallels memory. We will defend and honor her dignity by redoubling our efforts around the world to defeat the scourge of radical Islamist terror.
May Hallels memory forever be a blessing.
I think there was one sister. Don't know anything about her.
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