The Tear-Stained Silver Lining of a Bereaved Parent
I just heard the fathers of Beni Avraham and Adi Avitan say Kaddish over the coffins of their sons - who gave their lives for the people and God of Israel. The tears flowed down my face as these two men who I have met on so many occasions blessed God's name as their sons' bodies lay before them.
Maybe all the externalities of this 'terrorists for Tenenbaum' deal ARE really based on dirty backroom deals - our government infiltrated by foreign interests and smallminded members of the 10 biblical spies who believe we are like grasshoppers in the eyes of the nations....
But to look at it through God's eyes, for a moment, now that its a done deal.
The prayers that the parents of Omar Sowad, Beni Avraham and Adi Avitan uttered to the Master of the World were answered and they were given the bittersweet privilege of saying Kaddish for their children.
In the merit of their tear-laced Kaddish may God wipe away our tears and make certain that the savage murderers roaming the night along both sides of our new illusion-fence do not succeed in their false-prophet's genocidal plan.
As an ex-PLO terrorist I
just wrote an article about said last week, "The God of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps."
To those who want practical activism advice: Aliya and Avoda Ivrit (Jewish Labor) are the key right now.
A challenge: You want to support Israel - as a visitor, but especially if you live here already. Try for ONE DAY, a week, a month, to seek out and support the establishments, hotels, restaurants, and supermarkets that rely solely on Jewish labor.
More bad news
As 400 terrorists were being bussed by Israel to their respective terrorist enclaves in Hebron, Beit Lechem, Jenin, Tulkarm, and Gaza, another terrorist (a.k.a. "Palestinian policeman") blew himself up in a bus in Jerusalem. Reactions? (from the
JPost)
Uri Lupolianski, mayor of Jerusalem: "I'm glad the fence is going up. I only wish it was happening faster because we all know it protects us all."
Arur hagever asher yivtach ba'adam. So much for a religious mayor.
Silvan Shalom, foreign minister: "PA must do all it has pledged to do – to fight terror; otherwise there will be no advance in the process." What process? It seems like the process to which the PA is committed, i.e., genocide, is advancing well.
The Council of Europe (?) condemned the deadly suicide bombing as a "mindless and indiscriminate act of violence." It's not mindless and indiscriminate; the bombings are quite well planned out, and targets are carefully chosen.
And as the 400 terrorists got off the busses, they shouted praises for Sheikh Nasrallah and God, and went on their separate ways.
