Rabbi Mitchell Kornspan
Dear friends,
This is an poignant message that Mike Adams received from Israel regarding the terrible tragedy in Itamar. Shoshana (who wrote this) is part of Yadezra, an organization in Israel to help give food and support to needy Israelis. Mike, so glad you asked about this; so glad someone out there cares....
This happened on a Shabbat evening, 1am in the morning, so I did not learn of it until after Shabbat was over. I walked to the Kotel on Shabbat afternoon, taking a short-cut through the Arab Quarter (Damascus Gate) in the heart of the crowded Muslim Arab marketplace. It was extremely crowed, with people on every side of me. I checked my back regularly, looking over my shoulder, but I was happy to be going to the Kotel, smiling at everyone, humming to myself; but looking back, I remember I got these eerie stares, and I felt something strange, weird. I can't really put it into words, but it just felt dangerous and now I know why; they all knew something I didn't...
This is major news here in Israel as it should be! Enough is enough! Just a few short months ago, 2 women were stabbed (one died of her wounds) when they were out for a hike in hills of Jerusalem (not in disputed territory) by Arab Muslim men who thought they were killing Jews (they were wrong, the women were non-Jewish and one was an American); and a few months before that, we suffered at the hands of Arab Muslim Palestinian violence again in the ambush and murder of four Israelis (one nine months pregnant) that left a whole family of children orphaned; but this story has been largely overlooked and downplayed in the major news media. They did not mention the word Palestinian in their story, to my knowledge, nor cover the celebrating that occurred in the Palestinian controlled areas after this brutal murder (including the stabbing in the heart of a young child of four years and slitting of the throat of a baby only 3 months old!)
Contrast this with a few months ago, an Arab was arrested in the US for a murder committed here in Israel, and the news reports all called him an Israeli! They never mentioned he was an Arab man, Palestinian, from the West Bank! The news reports all said over and over again, Israeli man arrested for murder (in order to paint all Israelis in a bad light) and now, this brutal murder is not called murder, but a killing; the murderer was not a terrorist, but an intruder...and of course, no details like that one of the children was a baby 3 months old, or that the 2 year old found splattered with blood as he clung to his parents dead bodies and crying and trying to "wake them" saying over and over, Abba, Abba...or that the 12 year daughter came home and had to find her parents and siblings bloodied bodies; and of course include the mantra about how the family was a settler (right wing, extremist..) and living in a disputed territory (as if that justified the murder!) Excuse me, (CNN, BBC) your hypocrisy and your anti-Semitism is showing!
Can you imagine the uproar if this had been committed by Israelis against an Arab family? There would be mass demonstrations of solidarity all over the world. But if Arab Muslims murder Jews, the world is silent...more lambs to the slaughter...
But the world needs to be held accountable. To assist the "Palestinians" is to be complicit in the present day Holocaust facing the Jewish people! This is not a light thing; history is starting to repeat itself and the world has a chance to make a correction, but instead shows no remorse. Everyone must ask themselves what they are doing personally to help the Jewish people, and let's not deceive ourselves, if this is the way you act now and are silent, you would have done the same during the Holocaust; don't flatter yourself and think otherwise.
B’shalom,
