The new Israeli government faced its first test on Thursday in how to respond to a Palestinian terror attack after an axe-wielding Arab man infiltrated the unfenced settlement of Bat Ayin, in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem, killing a 16-year-old Jewish boy and wounding a 7-year-old child. The teenager, Shlomo Nativ, was declared dead on the scene, while the youngster, Yair Gamliel, is being treated for a fractured skull at a Jerusalem hospital. The terrorist was finally confronted by a local resident, but managed to get away and is still being sought by authorities.
Here's a response by a local israeli: I received this report from the ICEJ (International Christian Embassy Jerusalem) today; there is good cooperation between us and they are supportive of Israel. Today's review covers some points on which I want to comment.
No doubt, the words of Avigdor Lieberman have made it to the foreign press. Has the story of the axe wielding Arab terrorist been reported ? Often, the story will read something like this: 'Israeli settler killed in occupied territory". Few details added. This has happened before.
Abbas of the Pal.Authority has condemned Israel as 'racist and no partner for peace'. Anyone who has half a mind would understand that it is most of the Muslim/Arab countries that are racist - apartheid - not allowing members of other religions to be fully accepted citizens within their boundaries. Christians have left the Middle East because of the way they are treated in those countries - not the fault of Israel where one can see people of every ethnic group, color, religion, walking the streets freely where one can hear every language being spoken.
'No partner for peace'? While Abbas refused to disarm and disband terrorist groups per agreements, Israel has been pressured into making 'painful concessions in the interest of peace'. Four northern Israeli communities in the Shomron and 22 others in Gush Katif were abandoned with unending trauma; a thriving business -complete with greenhouses - was handed over to help the Palestinian Arabs have a start at their economy. It was met with gleeful destruction of those greenhouses as well as Jewish houses of worship.
And Israel is not a 'partner for peace'?
Despite all of this and the threats of destruction of Israel, when an Israeli minister objects to the creation of yet another terrorist apartheid state in the heart of the Jewish heartland, it is he who is condemned! Mindless former Israeli figures who were in office and forced the 'painful concessions' with no thought about the dangerous consequences, lose no opportunity to quickly condemn the minister in the utterances which match those of Israel's vicious enemies. When they were in office they refrained from well-deserved condemnation of the murderers of our children but rather made excuses for the killers; more concessions would, no doubt, be a solution! After all, are we not 'occupiers of Palestinian land'?
Did they ever ask who defines the 'territory' and why has 'Palestinian' become synonymous with 'Arab'? Does anyone remember that less than 100 years ago the land west of the Jordan River - today's 'Palestine' was to be the homeland for the Jewish people? Or that until 1948 Jews in the land were also called 'Palestinians' - for 2000 years long before the birth of Islam?
And so the conflict continues as Israel fights for her national survival - with real sacrifices along the way - like today's victim. We have not lost our humanity; how can we not mourn the senseless, vicious murder of an innocent teenager and the injuries to another child. Each person is precious to his/her family and to the people of Israel. Another family will cry forever................another name added to the annals of Israel's victims of terror.
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