Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Murdering Jews

A group of unarmed haredi students went to pray at Joseph's tomb near Nablus. They were shot at by Palestinian Police and one was killed and three injured. The dead student, Ben-Joseph Livnat, 24 and the father of four, was the nephew of Minister for Culture and Sport Limor Livnat. After the incident a Palestinian mob once again attacked the tomb and began burning Hebrew books.

During the second intifada a mob of Palestinians attacked the isolated tomb and killed two IDF soldiers who were guarding it. They then destroyed the tomb, breaking it apart and burning it, including all the Hebrew books inside. Some time after this sacrilege, the PA allowed Israel to re-built the tomb and return it to use, and agreed to allow Jews to pray there with prior permission. According to an agreement between Israel and the PA, permission is supposed to be obtained in advance for groups of Jews to visit the tomb to pray. However, groups of haredim, mainly from the Breslauer Hassidic community, have been visiting the tomb and praying there without first obtaining IDF and PA permission. Whether this murder was a deliberate PA maneuver to re-establish its control, or the action of a group of Police who wanted to kill Jews is currently unknown. PA spokesman Saeb Erakat declared unbelievably that the students were throwing stones at the Police. PM Netanyahu and Minister Livnat have called for a joint Israel-PA investigation to establish the facts and punish the perpetrators of this crime.

If one looks at the record one sees that every week or so there are violent incidents in which Israelis are killed. In recent weeks there was the murder of The Fogel family of five at the settlement of Itamar, for which two youths were arrested at the village of Awad. Then there was the killing of the Jewish teen, Daniel Viflic 16, who was driving in a school bus near the border with Gaza that was hit by an anti-tank missile. After all the stabbings in the Old City and the rockets fired from Gaza and the random shootings, one would think that the Palestinians might realize that this approach will not gain them any of their aims. But, it is a reflection of the blind hatred that they have for us, that allows them to stab babies in their cribs. These are the people that we are supposed to make deals with?

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