Posted on 11/13/2023 7:22:49 PM PST by jerod
74-year-old born and raised in Winnipeg dedicated life to building peace
Vivian Silver, a Canadian Israeli peace activist whose family said they believed was taken hostage from her home in southern Israel when Hamas-led militants carried out a surprise assault on Oct. 7, was killed in the initial attacks, her family confirms.
Silver's son, Yonatan Zeigen, confirmed his mother's death, telling CBC News on Monday that the 74-year-old's remains had been found earlier at Kibbutz Be'eri, where she resided, but were only identified now, more than five weeks after the attacks.
At least 120 other men, women and children were killed in the community of about 1,100 people located just kilometres from the Israel-Gaza border.
The family of Silver, who was born and raised in Winnipeg, initially believed militants had been holding her hostage in Gaza for the past five weeks, along with more than 200 others kidnapped that day.
The Israeli government says militants killed about 1,200 people, including civilians and soldiers, in raids and rocket attacks on Israeli communities on Oct. 7. The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza reports that more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombardments and ground assaults in the weeks since...
...As of last week, when he spoke with Day 6 host Brent Bambury, Zeigen said he still believed his mother was alive.
While her house had been burned to the ground, a body hadn't been found at that time, he said, and there was "no evidence there of a struggle or bullets," leading the family to believe she had been taken hostage.
had to learn the hard way, the same as everyone on the left will eventually have to learn.
I’m sorry for what happened to her, but she could not be convinced until she experienced it for herself. God knows that she’s had more than a few people try.
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I’ll refrain from saying what I think.
She was wrong and she paid the price for her naiveté. Nothing more needs to be said.
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She got Racheled.
Yo! Are you Jewish and reading this? Go out and kick all the lefty do-gooders you know in the butt. Your local synagogue is full of them. Then ...
Tell them to buy a firearm and get some training. And not “training” from a two hour “coffee and donut” [sic] Uncle Fred course at the local gun shop. Training! If you are a FReeper you probably have a good idea where to go.
Blessings from a retired Senior Training Counselor at a national gun rights organization.
Nie wieder ist Jetzt!
It’s German - go look it up.
Amy Biel all over again.
Never again is now!
“I’m sorry for what happened to her”
I hear you, but not me. It’s people like her that PREVENT a settlement of the issues there, why they do by providing aid and comfort to the terrorists.
The less people like her, the better the chance for peace.
Saint Burnt Toast joins Saint Pancake in the Holy Breakfast pantheon.
Well, at least she won’t have to sit through anymore of Greta Thunderbutt’s pro-muslim environmental terrorist speeches.
Good point... If only the rest of the world could be so lucky.
Islam and the peace moloch have claimed another victim. Jews should not be hippies. It is a violent, evil world out there — chock full of evil people It is not some hippie utopia.
Does anyone have evident the hostages are still alive?
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