Being Kind to The Arabs Just Fills Our Cemeteries and ERs

The Muqata

 

5:13pm Micky Mark - Victim of PA Arab Ramadan terror attack

Released for Publication -- Micky Mark, the Director of the Otniel Yeshiva was murdered this afternoon; his wife Chava and children wounded in a PA Ramadan terror shooting attack on Highway 60 in the South Hevron Hills.

• The State of Israel very kindly reduced Jewish access to the Temple Mount in order to help the Muslims celebrate Ramadan.
• The State of Israel very kindly reduced Jewish access to the Ma'arat Hamachpela in Hebron  in order to help the Muslims celebrate Ramadan.

And how do those same Arab Muslims thank us, show their appreciation?

• They stab a young Jewish girl while she sleeps in her bed!
• They shoot at the cars of Jews, murdering and injuring. 
• They bring knives to the Ma'arat Hamachpela in order to stab Jews nearby.
• They go to the Netanya market to stab Jews.

And these are just a few of the attacks today and yesterday!

• When will we stop coddling the terrorists? 
• Kindness just makes them think we are weak, and it seems that they are right.
• Only Jewish strength will defeat the terrorists!

Deja Vu, Arab Terrorists Blowing Up Buses and Innocent Jews

Yes, again.

Yesterday at work, one of the staff, who gets news alerts suddenly reported a bus explosion/bomb/terror attack. At first the police tried to explain it away as a simple "malfunction," but then they admitted that the terror attacks, the bombmakers for the suicide bombers of twenty years ago, were out of retirement.

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Reuters

Police: Jerusalem public bus explosion caused by bomb
After initial confusion about the cause of the inferno, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a forensics team, aided by bomb disposal experts at the site, confirmed the fires were ignited by an explosive device. (Jerusalem Post)

This type of terror attack is so frighteningly random and deadly. I just don't have the words and energy to say more about it right now. I pray for a refuah shleimah, complete and speedy recovery for all of the innocent injured victims, and may Gd properly punish the terrorist and his trainers and supporters with painful drawn out deaths.

Late last night, after the Arab terror attack/bus bombing, Reuters posted this headline:

U.S. feels 'overwhelming frustration' with Israeli government: Biden

Yes, it's a reminder that the United States Government is NOT A FRIEND OF ISRAEL!!!

"Five" is an Awful Number of Murdered Jews

I had always liked the number five 5. My birthday is the 25 (5x5) of May, the fifth 5th month. I also have five 5 children, bli eyin haraa.

Paramedics treating victims at the scene of a terror attack in Gush Etzion on November 19, 2015. (photo credit:MAGEN DAVID ADOM)

But yesterday five innocent Jews were murdered in two Arab terror attacks, and the number five is not looking so good. It's worse than tarnished; it's splattered with blood.

One terror attack was a stabbing by an Arab terrorist in Tel Aviv, and the other was a drive by shooting in Gush Etzion.

...A Palestinian who drove from the direction of the Kfar Etzion junction, machined gunned the cars, with an automatic rifle, before hitting a vehicle. Security forces surrounded the terrorist and arrested him......Earlier on Thursday, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed three people in south Tel Aviv, killing two of them and wounding another... (Jerusalem Post)

Are we supposed to be puzzled or warned by those two locations?

Tel Aviv and Gush Etzion-- until not all that long ago, both locations (the residents of them of course) felt supremely confident that they were not in danger. According to the wisdom of Tel Aviv, the Arabs only wanted land "conquered/occupied" sic since the 1967 Six Days War. That meant that places like Tel Aviv were immune, because in mind/mentality of the Israeli elite, Arabs could be convinced that they (the Israeli elite) are their allies in establishing a Palestinian sic state. And for the longest time, residents of Gush Etzion considered themselves much safer in the diplomatic sense at least, because they claimed a "consensus" of approval by successive Israeli governments that they would always be part of the State of Israel, unlike the Shomron, Binyamin or Hebron etc.

This recent so-called "Third Intifada" has proven these two myths to be lies. The percentage of deadly Arab terror attacks in pre-1967 Israel and Gush Etzion is very high, and I wonder if the residents and Israel's movers and shakers are willing to comprehend and absorb the bloody lesson the Arab terrorists are teaching.

The aim of the Fatah, Hamas meaning  PA-Palestinian Authority is the total destruction of the State of Israel replacing it with a Palestinian terror state. As far as they and their international supporters are concerned, there's no difference between Tel Aviv and Tel Tzion, Afula and Eli, Hebron and Hadera.

For the State of Israel to survive we must cease all support for a State of Palestine aka the "Two State Solution." And all of the Land still in Israel's hands must be fully annexed and put under full Israeli Sovereignty. The Death Penalty must be the only punishment for Arab terrorists whether they succeed in murdering or not. No more second chances!!!

Prayer Vigil at Site of Arab Terrorist Murder of Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld, HaYa"D

I joined close to a thousand others protesting the most recent Arab terror attack on innocent Jews, which resulted in the murder of Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld, HaYa"D, of Kochav Hashachar and the wounding of his three friends.

Here are some of my photos. If you use them, please credit me, thank you.

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Terrifying! Israel's South Under Attack, Alerts Near Jerusalem

Dozens of missiles, weapons of destruction have been launched into Southern Israel in the past couple of hours. Besides that, Arabs (and/or Bedouin) have been attacking cars and property in the south. For many Israelis it's life under siege. The Israeli television news was horrifying. Arabs are throwing bricks at cars; people are being injured.

Why do the pictures of the damage look so cold and antiseptic?  Where are the injured people I saw on tv? (photo Jerusalem Post)

When are we actually going to call this a war? And when are we going to fight to the finish and make our enemies admit to total surrender?

Innocent Israelis are suffering! Friends of mine wrote:

We had multiple sirens and heard many booms. The iron dome took out 3 missile in front of my house. A small fire started in the yishuv. We are okay, but our poor dog is still shaking.. I have 7 grandchildren living on the yishuv...Since the day they were born..all they know is terror. Why?

OM Gosh! We just had one In BEIT SHEMESH! My daughter heard they had it also in Efrat. ynet is reporting it was a false alarm but do false alarms go boom? 

Over 100 missiles today..no serious physical injures and no death B"H. But many residents are suffering from emotional stress..this is a real injury. May Hashem continue to protect us. 

Why can't we act like any other country and fight our enemies without always wondering what other people will say?

Is the State of Israel an independent country or an orphaned protectorate?

7th Day of Chanukah, Remember, Hatred of Jews and Israel Behind Arab Terror

Last night we lit seven candles or oil lights plus the shammash.  One more night to go...

The Jerusalem location pictured below used to be a bus stop cum trempiada.

It's across from the private home neighborhood Givat Hamivtar of Jerusalem's Ramat Eshkol and right near French Hill.  Taking the road to the left you go north through the Arab neighborhoods of Beit Chanina and Shuafat.  Going further you'll pass Atarot and then Ramalla/Al Bireh, Beit El and the Jelouzun refugee camp. That used to be the road to Shiloh.  On the map, you can still go that way, but in recent years there's a new road, where all those cars and trucks are coming from.  The new road takes you to a Ma'aleh Adumim junction, to Pisgat Ze'ev and then to Binyamin, the Jordan Valley and Shomron (Samaria.)

No doubt that you can't see that old bus stop, but I can.  That's where I was injured in an Arab terror attack. Baruch Hashem, thank G-d it was a minor injury.  One woman was killed and all of the other injured were much more seriously injured.  It happened about eighteen years ago, but when I notice that I'm passing the spot,  it feels like yesterday.

During the time of "my terror attack," there were many.  Most were suicide bus bombers.  The police, under instructions from the  politicians no doubt, tried to insist that it was just an accident that some Arab drove onto the sidewalk and mowed down a bunch of Jews innocently waiting for buses or tremps. I'm grateful for the quick-thinking Jews who shot him dead, immediately executing him instead of his being released from jail in some badly (for Israel) negotiated deal.

Arab terror attacks against Jews aren't random.  They're based on anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hatred.  I have no doubts at all.

Motive in Rock Throwing Attack That Injured 2-Year-Old Was ‘Hatred of Jews,’ Hamas Leader Son Arrested

 Jerusalem Police said on Tuesday that one of the assailants involved in the rock throwing attack that injured toddler Avigail Ben-Zion was the son of a senior Hamas official, while the group admitted their motive was “hatred of Jews,” elevating the attack from senseless violence to what may be considered a nationalistic crime, Israel’s Channel 2 reported.

It doesn't matter how old the terrorist, his education or background.  I wish that Israel would adopt and make law execution, the death penalty for all convicted Arab terrorists. That's the only way to make the Arabs understand that they must stop.

"Zero Tolerance" for Arab Terrorism!

Limits, Can Jews and Arabs be Friends?

I work with Arabs.  It's part of the reality of my job, a simple job.  Regular readers know that I'm an ordinary salesperson in Yafiz, Sha'ar Binyamin.  Sha'ar Binyamin, for those who don't know, is an Israel-Jewish shopping center/industrial zone just north of Jerusalem.  Arabs do not need "papers," special permits to work and shop there. Therefore, especially in the two largest stores the large discount supermarket Rami Levy and Yafiz-Clothing for the Entire Family, you'll find Jews and Arabs interacting all the time.

There's a comfortable camaraderie between Jews and Arabs, both staff and customers.  Arab tourists also shop there and act very polite and friendly. No matter what our politics, we try to put it all aside and just do our jobs, and I figure that if the Arabs really didn't want us here, they wouldn't shop in our stores.

There's a limit to the friendships relationships between Jews and Arabs.  At least there should be. On Friday a young Jewish man who worked with Arabs in a restaurant in Bat Yam was murdered by his Arab friend  and fellow worker.  They had traveled together towards the Arab's village by taxi.  I wonder if they had done that sort of thing before.

The soldier's family reported Friday that he went missing and failed to make contact since the morning hours. The Shin Bet, together with the IDF and the police, began a strenuous investigation, and came up with intelligence information indicating that the soldier had taken a cab together with an Arab man who worked with him in a restaurant in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv.
The Arab is named Nadal Amar, and he is a resident of the village of Bayt Amin, near Kalkilya. The two had taken the taxi toward Shaarei Tikva, which is close to that village.

I consider myself a realist, a pragmatist.  This isn't the first time a Jew was attacked or murdered by an Arab he had trusted.

As far as I'm concerned there's a big difference between working with Arabs in a Jewish owned store and hiring Arabs to work in my home, or having Arabs working in Shiloh, whether a group working at a building site, or just one or two doing a small job.  There's no way that a guard can really keep track of what's happening.

Being polite, friendly, helpful etc does not have to require letting down our guard. 

My condolences to the family of Sgt. Tomer Hazan. 

This tragedy should be a lesson for us all.

A "Good News Bad News" Picture

Let's start with the bad news.  Arabs have resumed their murdering ways, throwing, rocks, stones, boulders at Jews innocently traveling the roads in the Land of Israel.  There was a time when these sights were murderously common. 

In typical Israeli inventiveness, "rock-proof windows" were developed, extra-strong or specially coated or plastic car/bus windows became the government supported norm in Judea and Samaria. To this day, because the Arab terrorists upgraded their attacks with armed weapons, bulletproof buses and even cars became the norm.  School and public buses are still bulletproof in many areas. And our bus fares have been halved officially to encourage people to take buses rather than unprotected or less protected private vehicles. Then we had some blessed years of quiet on the roads, and again people felt safe in regular vehicles, those without special protective windows.

Now, the Arabs are aiming to murder Jews on the roads again.

Ronit Avrahamof Shapira, known to many as Ronit the newscaster from Youtube political satire Latma, survived a road ambush by rock-throwing terrorists Sunday night. She was in the family car that was being driven by her husband, Eliezer (“Leizi”), and their small children.
Shapira told the tale on her Facebook page.
“The rock terror has reached us, the Shapira family, too. An Arab terrorist tried to murder us too, tonight.
“We were traveling in our car in Samaria, at 10:00 p.m. Leizi identifies rocks on the road, understands what is happening. He shouts to me, to protect our babies in the back seat, and as fast as the speed of light, a stone (Not just any stone. Think of a large rock, and now think bigger. Something the size of a nice grapefruit) smashes the window next to me.
“Pieces of glass everywhere. On my body, in every possible place, on our babies. They are reclining innocently in their seats and a million bits of glass, large and small, cover them. And a kind of glass dust, that only G-d knows how to clean off of them. And off of me.
“I am injured. Blood. A little, but blood nonetheless. On the face, on the hands. On my baby’s leg. We flee for our lives. Scared to death that more rocks may be headed our way. I am not sure what is going on. Are we being fired upon? When the rocks hit the car, the noise is powerful, like gunshots. Plus the flying glass and the blood.

What's the good news?  On this particular car, which I saw parked in my neighborhood, the damage was minimal.  The window is still whole and nobody was hurt.

Preparing for Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day

I've been seeing Israel flags and other Independence Day "accessories" on display and sale for the past few weeks.  Now, of course, the country is really into blue and white. 

For me personally, the most important thing is for us Jews to be a free, independent confident People and function freely and with full sovereignty in Our Land.   So to spend Rosh Chodesh Iyyar, the beginning of the Jewish Month of Iyyar at Shiloh HaKeduma, Tel Shiloh with other women, wandering around the ruins, praying, studying and feasting is just the right thing to do.

Shiloh is an ancient city, the first religious and spiritual capital of the Jewish Nation thousands of years ago, well documented in the Bible.  One of the most interesting things is that Shiloh is not recorded as a city conquered by Joshua after the exodus form Egypt.  From the Biblical text, the city welcomed Joshua without a fight.  The Book of Joshua is a narrative of military victories and defeats as the generation born in the wilderness, led by Joshua and Calev take over the Land G-d promised the Jewish People from the time of Abraham.

It was a period of great learning, failures and successes.  An entire people had to not only relocate but also learn to govern, defend itself  and take full responsibility for all needs.

It was very much like the Israeli War for Independence and the early years of the state.  Sixty-five years later, it's hard to imagine how survivors of the Nazi death camps could have gone straight to battle against the warring Arabs.  How did they have the physical, mental and spiritual strength to take up arms to join with the Zionist pioneers and defend the fledgling, newly declared State of Israel?

Maybe we're actually still in that stage, or more like the time of Judges, which had followed, Judges Chapter 21. 

כה  בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם, אֵין מֶלֶךְ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל:  אִישׁ הַיָּשָׁר בְּעֵינָיו, יַעֲשֶׂה.  {ש}

25 In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes. {P}

Yes, I admit that the State of Israel isn't perfect.  But that is no reason for a Jew to refuse to live here.  It's our job to make Israel a better and more Jewish country.  It's ours; we have no other.