The Attack That Took So Many Children

(IsraelNN.com) One cannot be anything but pained when one realizes the tragedy that struck the Zargari family of Jerusalem. The mother Na’avah is recovering from emergency surgery. She remains in serious condition in Hadassah Hospital. The father, Yaakov, is admitted to an intensive care unit as is Ester, 6, a daughter, who was also seriously wounded in the attack. Another daughter, Abigail, 2, was transferred from Hadassah Mount Scopus to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital to be together with other family members. She is in light condition.

Lilach Kardi, 22, from Jerusalem, was killed in the attack. She was in the ninth month of pregnancy and left behind a 1-year-old son. She moved to Jerusalem three years ago from Netanya, where she meet and married Shmuel. Six years ago, she lost her parents. Her father was killed in a motor vehicle accident and not too long after, her mother died of illness. She then accepted responsibility for raising and caring for her younger brother. Friends explain she was a “regular” at the Western Wall, frequently visiting the holy site to pray there.

Shalom Kardi, Shmuel’s dad, explained Lilach was a wonderful person, always praying at the Western Wall and accepting the responsibility of raising her 14-year-old brother.

Menachem Label, 24, from Jerusalem, one of the 20 killed in the attack, visited the Western Wall daily. Menachem was born and raised in Jerusalem. He was known for reaching out, always assisting volunteer charity organizations whenever possible, always concerned with the well-being of others.

A brother explained, “Yesterday, we knew he (Menachem) was at the Kotel (Western Wall) and we called his cellular telephone. He always made a point of answering following an attack, but yesterday, there was no answer. I went to all the hospitals during a 2 ½ hour period, but he was nowhere to be found. I then understood he was not among the injured so I turned to the ZAKA officials for assistance. I was taken to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute and identified his body.”

In case anyone mossed Cavuto last night this is his commentary at the end of his show:

It's horrible enough what happened in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Yet sadly, innocents getting blown up there is an almost familiar, tragic sight on almost any day.

I want to focus on the other tragedy today.

I hope the rest of the world took a look at what happened in Baghdad on Tuesday, because some of their own died today. Good people, trying to do good things in a bad place.

The United Nations, which fought against this war, is now targeted in this war. An organization dedicated to peace is just the latest victim in this hellish testament to inhumanity.

I wonder now what the world makes of terror that knows no boundaries, preferences, governments, or politics. Terror that is indiscriminate, callous and evil. Terror that targets those who fight it and those who try to ignore it. Today we are all awakened by it.

We're talking about evil here. We are talking about people who don't discriminate between paratroopers and peacekeepers, between those who were finished talking and those who wanted to keep talking, between those who fought a war and those who did everything in their power to avoid a war.

Terrorists don't care, my friends, because terrorists aren't our friends. They're monsters, plain and simple. They'd sooner blow off your head before they allow you to get inside theirs.

They don't care if you're American, British, Israeli, French, Spanish, or Indonesian. They don't care what you are alive. They just want you dead.

You can't reason with monsters any more than you can have a dinner discussion with Hannibal Lector. Unless, you want to end up on the plate.

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