Posted on 08/29/2019 11:43:03 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
A Teenage Girl’s Murder Shows What Loyal and Disloyal Jews Are
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
"Is there water in the spring?"
Those were the last words that Danny heard on a hot day in June. The spring of Ein Bubin bursts forth in a valley surrounded by dusty hills, flows into a glittering pool, and waters a garden of fruit trees. But every garden has its serpent. And the serpent in this spot of paradise was named Mohammed.
Mohammed Abu Shahin stopped Danny Gonen to ask him if there was water to swim in. Danny had just finished swimming in the spring and was happy to oblige. The Israeli electrical engineering student was the oldest of five brothers and sisters. He always stepped up, whether it was supporting his family after his father died, or helping out a stranger. And on that Friday afternoon, he paid for it with his life.
Mohammed shot Danny, along with his friend Netanel. Danny’s friend survived. And Danny did not.
The Muslim terrorist was a former member of Force 17, a Palestinian Authority terror group that acted as Arafat’s Presidential Guard, and was on the Palestinian Authority payroll. He had spent two years in prison for previous terror plots before being freed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a corrupt left-wing politician, along with 249 other Fatah terrorists as part of a “peace” gesture for the Islamic Eid holiday.
Palestinian Authority boss Mahmoud Abbas rejected the peace gesture, and the freed Islamic terrorists, who had promised not to carry out attacks, shockingly enough, didn’t keep their word.
"As a gesture of goodwill towards the Palestinians, I will bring before the Israeli cabinet a proposal to free 250 Fatah prisoners who do not have blood on their hands, after they sign a commitment not to return to violence," Olmert had declared at a summit, where he was photographed hugging Abbas.
It didn’t take long for blood to end up on their hands and on the hands of the “pro-peace” politicians.
At Mohammed's trial, Danny's mother condemned the process that allowed an “animal walking on two legs, who is mistakenly called a human, to keep on living and enjoying life on our bill.” The family's lawyer asked the court to ensure that this time around the terrorist would not be freed.
When Danny’s mother appeared before the Israeli Supreme Court, Supreme Court President Miriam Naor, the best friend illegal migrants invading Israel ever had, barked at her to be quiet.
“If I survived my son's murder, then no judge will ever break me,” Danny’s mother courageously replied.
Danny was murdered in 2015. A plaque went up reminding hikers that on a Sabbath Eve, the young man had been murdered not in a place that leftists call “Palestine,” but in the “Holy Land of Israel.”
Four years later, terrorists struck at the Ein Bubin spring on yet another Friday.
Rabbi Eitan Shnerb was hiking to the spring with his son Dvir and his daughter Rina when the bomb went off. For a moment, as he described it in the hospital, everything went black. Then, badly wounded, he saw that the two teenagers were bleeding. Rabbi Shnerb was a trained paramedic. He saw that Rina, his 17-year-old daughter, had absorbed most of the blast. He kissed her on the forehead.
And then he turned his Tzizit, the biblical garment that Orthodox Jewish men wear, into a tourniquet for his 19-year-old son to stop the bleeding.
Dvir told his father that he couldn’t breathe and passed out. His daughter was already dead.
Rabbi Shnerb had stopped a terrorist attack earlier this year by two armed attackers. This time there were no attackers, just a bomb, and he had not seen the explosion coming.
Medical personnel evacuated father and son by helicopter. They continued trying to treat Rina at the scene. Hoping against hope that something could still be done.
On that same Friday, while her father and bother remained in the hospital, Rina was laid to rest. Students from her high school class turned out to say goodbye to one of their classmates. Prayers from the cemetery were relayed by phone to her father. A Rabbi recited Psalm 91 and the mourners echoed.
"I will say of the LORD, who is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust," he chanted. "Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the recompense of the wicked."
The wicked are being sought once more. Israeli soldiers are hunting for the killers and their accomplices in dirty villages and sinister towns. And they are aware that the hunt may lead to more ambushes.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh praised the killers of the teenage girl as heroes.
In his sermon in Gaza, the Islamic terrorist leader called her murder a "heroic attack" and celebrated it as “proof of the vitality and bravery of the Palestinian people." He claimed that the bombing was evidence that the terrorists are "strong people" who are "faithful and steadfast."
The Shnerb family had run a charity in Lod which handed out food and clothing to the poor.
The Palestinian Authority’s Ma’an News Agency justified Rina’s murder by falsely claiming that she was an 18-year-old soldier, when she was actually a high school student who had just turned 17.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib responded to the attack by calling for an end to the “Israeli occupation.”
Trump’s Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt urged “donor countries” to “demand the PA answer for why their donor funds continue to be used to reward attacks.” Just like Danny Ganon’s killers, Rina’s murderers will receive a lifetime salary from the Palestinian Authority funded by foreign aid.
Since Trump cut off aid to the terror group, the money is mainly coming from the European Union.
“It’s time to stop burying our people,” Danny’s mother said after the latest attack.
But the only way that will happen is if money stops flowing to the terrorists. The Democrats have made it clear that if they win the presidential election, they will restore the flow of cash to the terrorists.
Joe Biden vowed to restore “security” funding to the Palestinian Authority. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand promised to restore the aid programs that “President Trump has cut.” Andrew Yang called for restoring aid to the terrorists. Senator Bernie Sanders and Peter Buttigieg went further, threatening aid to Israel.
None of them condemned Rina’s murder.
Rina’s murder and Danny’s murder, on the same day, four years apart, were funded by foreign aid.
A few days before Rina’s murder, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech in which the terrorist leader vowed, “Allah willing”, to destroy Jewish houses and capture Jerusalem.
"We shall enter Jerusalem – millions of fighters!" he ranted. "We will not accept their designation of our martyrs as terrorists. Our martyrs are the martyrs of the homeland. We will not allow them to deduct a single penny from their money. All the money will go back to them, because the martyrs, the wounded, and the prisoners are the most sacred things we have."
Terrorists would continue receiving cash because terrorism was sacred to the Palestinian Authority.
Last week, Democrat politicians and liberal Jewish organizations fumed when President Trump accused them of disloyalty. The last time they were this outraged was when Israel barred Rep. Tlaib and Rep. Omar, overt opponents of Israel and supporters of terrorism against the Jewish State, from entering.
The murders at Ein Bubin are a harsh reminder that what is at stake here is not Twitter feeds. It’s lives.
The issue is not who said what about whom. It’s a bomb going off on a warm summer day. It’s a teenage girl dying in the dust. It’s the disloyalty of those American Jews who place their allegiance to abortion, to gay rights, and illegal migrants over the loyalty that teenage girl deserved from them.
Jewish Democrats who failed to stand up to their party to stop murders like these are not disloyal to a country; they are disloyal to Rina. And to Danny. And to thousands more like them.
While the Jewish Democrats attacked Israel over Rep. Omar, Rep. Tlaib and other anti-Semites, the Jews of Dolev, named after its sycamore trees, buried Rina and waited for her father to return home.
And Danny’s mother stands at the plaque marking her son’s death and wonders if there will be more.
We are all defined by our loyalties. Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib are loyal to their people. Many Jewish Democrats are loyal to the party even if it means accepting bigots like Omar and Tlaib.
That loyalty to leftist politics is disloyalty to the Jews being murdered by Omar and Tlaib’s people.
In the face of terror, there is only one loyalty that matters, either to terrorists or to terror victims.
At Ein Bubin, the water flows. And the residents of Dolev continue to hike into the hills, to swim in the spring and the pool, and to prepare for the next terrorist attack.
The spring is located in the land that once belonged to the tribe of Joseph.
“Blessed be the land of Joseph, before the Lord,” Moses preached in Deuteronomy 33:13, “with the blessing of the dew and the rain that comes down from the heaven above, with the blessings of the fountains of the deep which well up from the earth beneath.”
Faithfulness is like the springs that rise from the earth. Its loyalty breaks through all barriers.
Rina, her father, and her brother, were loyal not to a party, but to the G-d who gave them that land.
“Dvir said to me we will be strong, we will protect the people of Israel and the Torah of Israel, and together we will move forward,” Rabbi Eitan Shnerb said of his son.
That is a loyalty that the disloyal Democrats -- who cringe before Omar and Tlaib, who pander to terrorists, who believe in every leftist cause, but have no faith in a Jewish cause -- cannot imagine.
It is a true faith and allegiance that has endured for thousands of years. It is of an age with the land, with the hills and the springs beneath, with the truth of martyrdom and endurance, and the truth of G-d.
When Rabbi Shnerb spoke to Prime Minister Netanyahu on the phone, he told him that his daughter was "a martyr of the people of Israel.” He asserted, “with God’s help we will grow stronger.”
That is what a loyal Jew sounds like. To hear what a disloyal one sounds like, listen to the media.
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The vicious stupidity of leftists is a mark of Satan that slithers down through history. There is nothing of value in any of their beliefs. They are, as one, filth and moral degradation.
This world will not see even a semblance of peace until Islam is eradicated.
Islam delenda est!!!
Christ will do this when He returns.
One of the most heart breaking things I’ve read in awhile. I truly hope their families receive some form of justice, however it may come.
It’s also why I don’t believe a two-state solution is the answer. The Palestinians are petulant children who will continue to claw for more by committing more violence against innocent civilians in order to conquer more land. It’s truly unfortunate that many don’t see the PA for what it is.
the leftist song has attracted many people throughout the history of communistic “thought”
...
it resonates with nice-sounding verbiage like “community” “friendship” “caring” “helping” “peace and love” and even “equality”
most tragically, however, it always involves the imposition of a dictatorship (even a supposedly “temporary dictatorship of the proletariat”)....
and once any individual or little clique of people seize such complete power, they almost never yield or give it up voluntarily
rather, the (strong) tendency is to use (mis-use) that power....to murder usually-innocent people (millions, in the USSR, Communist China, Nazi Germany)
history proves this, even the much smaller leftist dictatorships tend this way
and among the first to be slaughtered are usually those “useful idiots” that helped, abated, financed, enabled, assisted the dictators to seize power in the first place...
since the dictators know first-hand just how dangerous those people can be to a regime
Jews who choose to support such ‘nice sounding’ leftist political causes (and they can really be nice-sounding...to attract just such support in seizing power....)
Jews who join into the “useful idiot” ranks... are even more certain to be done away with ... once their ‘candidates’ seize power.....if only because of the longstanding anti-Semitic attitudes embedded in many societies and the fear or recognition that some Jewish people are otherwise quite intelligent and have capabilities that COULD threaten the new dictatorship just as they helped overthrow the previous regimes
Jews or anybody like this who substitute leftist politics for faith in our Creator......also lose contact with His moral teachings....and soon, anything is “good” in the name or cause of achieving their leftist substitute Heaven-on-earth.....their imaginary “ends” start justifying (in their minds) almost any means .... and the blood of innocents starts rolling in the steets
Mohammedanism is rotten at its core and at its core is Mohammed.
Mohammed must be destroyed.
Actually, another way is for the Israelis to stop worrying about what Europeans might think when they start retaliating at least ten for one. It's time to stop treating these murders as crimes and instead consider them acts of war.
ML/NJ
Those Crusades are starting to make a lot of sense.
imho,
a Jew is a real Jew if s/he believes in the Creator and His moral instructions (and in eventual justice, etc.).
Ritually observant or not
imho.
BUT
a person (even with a Jewish name) who does not believe in our Creator, or who does not sincerely endeavor to follow His basic moral code, OR WHO HAS SUBSTITUTED a false idol such as communism/socialism or any other ism........for the One True G-d....
that person has chosen to be something other than a Jew.
I do realize that when such a person retains a Jewish or Jewish-sounding name, it causes CONFUSION in the larger society. Even very intelligent people like PDJT can look at them parading around for such NON or ANTI-Jewish “causes” as open borders, mass-scale abortions, the BDS Nazis, etc...
and honestly, sincerely ask what are ‘Jews’ doing that for?
the answer is, my friends, that such people have left Judaism...or anything recognizably akin to Jewish faith or moral teachings. They’ve chosen to substitute an ideological idol instead. They may have Jewish names but they have no Jewish affinity.
Sort of like “Catholics” who are pro-abortion (Nancy Pelousy comes to mind immediately, but there are many more)
actively crusade against a religion’s core faith teachings or principles? that person can not claim to be a member of that faith community anymore.
confusion ends when we realize this simple fact
This is heartbreaking. That poor family, to lose this lovely girl and receive such hatred from the nation whose president is trying to be their nation’s greatest ally.
To think of these terrorist-supporting snakes and turncoats in the halls of Congress makes me sick.
Same disease, same leftism, same results.
Some people, including some Jews, try to know and worship the the GOD of the UNIVERSE.
The one true GOD, creator of everything and all time to eternity.
These people choose to believe in the Lord GOD as their savior, the only way to everlasting peace.
Other people choose to believe in an artificial, man made GOLDEN CALF.
Being a Christian, I just happen to believe that the only way to the FATHER is through the SON.
The Jews are still waiting for their the Messiah.
yup
its nuts, isn’t it
The only redeeming fact of the "two state" solution.
The first act of terror is considered a declaration of war. Then go old testament on them!
There has already been a “two state solution”. That was the creation of Jordan. Were the Arabs content with that?
No, because the goal is not a new Arab state, it is the destruction of Israel. That’s why they created the myth of Palestine and claim that Arabs are “Palestinians”.
There will never be peace because total destruction of the Arab states around Israel is the only way there could be. That is not going to happen.
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