Posted on 05/14/2004 5:31:53 AM PDT by SJackson
This has been a – what shall we say? - well, an especially hard week. Even for Israel, which is accustomed to hard times. It was also especially brutal, even for a brutal, ongoing war.
First, there was the vicious murder of Tali Hatuel, in her eighth month of pregnancy, and her four daughters – Hila age 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7 and Meirav, 2. Not only were they shot while driving on the highway, but when the car ground to a halt, their Arab-Moslem-Palestinian murderers came up and emptied their guns point-blank into Tali and each of her children - riddling their bodies with dozens of bullets - to make sure they were indeed dead and to better mutilate their bodies.
Then, one week later at a memorial ceremony for Tali and her daughters, at the spot on the road where they were killed, Arabs opened fire from houses in two directions on several hundred participants, including many women and children. The ensuing chaos – screaming children, parents running for shelter with babies in their arms, people dropping down to the asphalt on the open highway and sheltering their children – was terrifying.
The people at the ceremony, many of whom carried weapons, returned fire until a few minutes later, when the army went into action and began shelling one of the houses the Arabs were firing from. By a mind-boggling miracle, not a single Israeli was shot or hurt in this wild free for all, although all were out in plain view, directly in front of the shooting Arabs. Two out of the three Arab attackers were killed.
Several days later, the Israeli army entered a neighborhood in Gaza to destroy weapons laboratories producing mortar shells and rockets to fire into Israel. A large landmine exploded alongside one of the army half-tracks and the vehicle, loaded with munitions and dynamite intended for the demolition of the workshops, exploded, killing the six soldiers inside.
Before the IDF could reach them, the surrounding Arabs snatched bodies and body parts, dancing with and displaying them before the ever-present international television cameras (which did not hurry to televise the orgy). Within the hour, various Arab terrorist groups proudly announced that the body parts had been distributed throughout Gaza and would be returned only when Arab "demands" were met. Meanwhile, the fighting continued as Israeli soldiers went from house to house, searching.
Then, only two days later, the story was repeated as another landmine blew up another two Israeli vehicles. Another five dead.
By the time you read this, perhaps, hopefully, b'ezrat Hashem, all the bodies will have been found, collected and brought to Jewish burial. Perhaps.
Meanwhile, the voices of "peace" are already screaming loudly, as if pulling back, running away, refusing to stand up and defeat evil, will somehow, miraculously, produce a more peaceful world.
In Hebrew, one always places the noun – the essence we are speaking of - before the adjective it comes to describe. We say "yeled tov" – a boy who is good (rather than "a good boy"). The "boy" is the essence; he comes first. The description "good" follows.
But in the Torah, the description of Ishmael is out of order, backwards, just the opposite of normative Hebrew. He is not called an "adam pra'I" – a man who is wild. He is called a pereh adam. He is first and foremost a pereh – a wild creature - who is described as appearing in the form of adam - a man.
This is our enemy. This is who we are fighting. This is what we must remember. And not only must we remember. This is the enemy the entire world now confronts. The "Islamic fundamentalists", the terrorists, and all those who passively or actively support them – they are all "wild creatures", messengers of death, out to destroy the world. As an editor of a Florida newspaper wrote:
"There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims around the world, but that did not save 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the million gassed and butchered in Iraq, Iran, and other countries in the Middle East, the tens of thousands slain by Moslems in Eastern Europe and Asia, the hundreds blown to bits in the West Bank and Spain, or the four Americans shot, burned and hung like sausage over the Euphrates as a fanatical minority of Muslims did the joyful dance of death."
If the world does not recognize the imminent danger and take steps not only to protect itself, but to combat the danger, it may very well not only witness – but experience - another holocaust.
Oh - Now WHO could THAT possibly be . .
After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured 1,000; President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
Maybe if Clinton had kept his promise, an estimated 3,000 people in New York and Washington, D.C. that are now dead would be alive today.
Good post 'Happy'. Wish Clinton lurked here!!
Ask Devolve who some of our new trolls just might happen to be . .
FIVE!
Hey, I will and will ask to be pinged to see what they're writing. I've been 'off' a lot but heard there are a lot of them now!!
SUPERB POST!
Thnaks for the ping.
You have said it all
and I love your Emporer Ambiguous.
BUMP.
Berg's mother was mentioned on the day he was brutally murdered. The papers said she was to distraught to be interviewed. My heart goes out to her for the loss of her son. I hope she's not as deluded as her husband.
How?
"Internationalism, UN co-operation, diplomacy, doing it smarter, wearing color-matched clothing while biking...." (etc.)
Ask Devolve who some of our new trolls just might happen to be . . . . .Ok. Who, DV ????? James CarVile ? Al Franken(stein) ? Michael MooreOn ? Jeaneanne (?) Garafalo ?? .....
. . .and so do the Democrats. . .this should be the challenge Republicans puts forth to this Party.
And surely nothing brings it home more easily, than a picture; or two.
Read only that posted line yesterday. . .read it twice; and I thought, really, that it was a joke!
Hard, I guess, to do a spoof on Kerry; he seems to be an entire joke all by himself; and without even trying.
Did Leno or Letterman take off on this?
Guessing a 'probably not'; as they like to write their own. . .besides, this 'Kerry' is way too revealing.
If she is not; then I cannot imagine their living under the same roof. . .and surviving.
Glad to revisit this post ntnychik; it is a good one.
. . .no, I was referring back re Mrs. Berg; and commenting on the fact that it appears she is alive; and lives with her husband.
No doubt about Mr. Berg; and for all I know; the Mr. and Mrs. may be two peas-in-a-pod; so to speak. . .but if she is not; and he continues to dishonor his son by determinedly setting his own Leftists agenda; then I would be worried for the health; if not life; of at least one spouse.
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