Editor's Note:
This article is not for everyone. The graphic material here is difficult to process. The information is important for those trying to understand Israel's strong stand against her enemies. I am warning, but hoping that the right people will read, process, and put their feelings into action on behalf of a beleaguered nation with few friends in the world. I have pushed this article to the back burner for 9 years. However, my January journey to study at the International Shool for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem changed my mind. Ignoring horror assures its return. Edmund Burke, a British Statesman said, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing." (cont'd).
After posting Sarit Hadad's haunting song, Sh'ma Israel Elohai, on my Facebook site, replies told me people were sensing the spirit behind the song. Some cried when listening, most were very moved. I posted a note telling that the song was written after two Israeli soldiers were brutally 'lynched' in the West Bank city of Ramallah in 2000. The dictionary explanation for lynch is lost in the Middle East. There, the term is used for what will be described below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ0KAtGsoLU
It was disturbing to me that news media from the West only briefly covered the incident. The inhumane brutality of the killings should have incited a worldwide outcry. Certainly the United Nations should have gotten involved. They did not, and the real story faded from the news . . . but not from the hearts and minds of Israelis and Jewish people who knew what really happened.
The horrors of the Holocaust came boiling back to the surface, only this time in the Jewish homeland, where security and safety should reign. The dark presence of evil had manifested itself again. It was the kind of evil seen by soldiers who liberated the death factories of Hitlers SS. It was unexplainable hatred from deep inside the realm of evil. In 1945, liberators stood in horror, paralyzed by the sights around them. Some of them, though war hardened, vomiting involuntarily—the body's attempt to expel that which cannot be processed—the rude reality that projecting niceness upon others because you cannot imagine such wickedness does not work.
Media that as a rule is pro-Palestinian responded, but much like the reality-denying German press as Hitler's death machine really got rolling. Italy responded as such:
A representative of Italian Television apologized to the Palestinian Authority for screening the video of the lynching of the two Israeli soldiers - his press card was suspended by Israel for issuing the following apology. Riccardo Christiano, Italian TV's representative in Israel wrote to the PA:
"To my dear friends in Palestine, we bless you, and feel that we must clarify that the photos of the events in Ramallah were taken by a private Italian station, and not by official Italian TV. We emphasize to you that we respect the proper journalistic work guidelines with the Palestinian Authority. Be sure that we would never do something like that."
The two Israeli soldiers entered Ramallah by mistake, and were detained by the Palestinian police. After they were brought to the police station in central Ramallah, a crowd of between 1,000 and 2,000 Arabs broke into the building, overcame the police, and murderously beat and killed the Israelis. Some of the Palestinian police took part in the lynch.
The body of one of the Israelis was dragged around the city chained to a car. Television pictures show Arabs in the window of the station, alternately beating and stabbing someone inside and gleefully making a V sign out the window.
The soldiers were viciously beaten all over their bodies. Military officials who handled the bodies told news media that they were "deliberately tortured and abused... The bodies were mutilated and torn to pieces. There was great difficulty in recognizing them..."
The two soldiers heads were split open and the mob tore their brains out. Literally hundreds of hate drunken members of the Islamic mob that day took turns beating the soldier's bodies beyond recognition.
Hayman Zaben and Aziz Salha (the man displaying his bloody hands out the window), are two of the ringleaders who were arrested for the lynching. However, the shocking story is that of terrorist Nasser Abu Hamiyad. He had been released from an Israeli prison as a good-will gesture in the context of the Oslo Accords and then took part in the Ramallah lynch. The West pressures Israel into handing over such prisoners on a regular basis, returning animals loose back into society to repeat their crimes.
Two years later Hamiyad also organized an attack on Jerusalem’s northern most neighborhood of Neve Yaakov, murdering a female police officer and wounding 10. On March 5, 2002, he orchestrated an attack on the Seafood Market in Tel Aviv, murdering Israelis Eliyahu Dahan and Yossi Havi, and wounding 31. This Western pressure is the "New anti-Semitism." The dictate to restrain yourself, when your neighbors are commiting atrocities against your population.
The growing numbers of Israel positive activists will make a difference in their respective nations. The majority of staunch supporters of Israel happen to be evangelical Christians who know the pain they have suffered and have said, "Enough!" We will not stand by quietly and let Israel stand alone.
(cont'd) I will post the photos (extremely graphic) for which the warning at the top of this post applies. You may view the photos on my web site with a password.
The web site is: shalom-shalom-jerusalem.org
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