If the practitioners of terrorism are barbarians, what does that make their advocates?

Raya Yaron, an official from Machsom Watch, an Israeli group that
offers comfort, comforts the mother of Hakim Awad, Nawef, who was still in the
post-murder, denial stage when the photo was snapped. 
But then she got over it (see below) [Image Source]

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
01 March '13..

Many Israelis, but almost no one else in the world, remember the name Fogel and shudder at the memory of a sleeping family decimated by a March 2011 assault by terrorists who attacked and murdered in their own home a young mother and father and three of their children including a newborn baby girl only four months old.

There's an epilogue to the horrifying story in today's news.

To refresh our memory of the facts, here are two of our earlier posts:

19-Apr-11: What happened that awful Sabbath night in Itamar?

16-Jan-12: Smiling baby-slashers, men who hide bombs in their clothing and bags, and reporters confused between facts and their own prejudices

The barbaric career of two young Palestinian Arabs who executed the massacre of the young Fogel family in their home in the community of Itamar on a quiet Sabbath night is on hold, at least for the present.

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The Fogel family - "They’re always with us."

Grandparents Yehuda and Tali Ben-Yishai have taken it upon themselves to raise the three orphans in circumstances that are as normal as possible • They look for points of light amid the tragedy that shocked the nation.

Yehuda Shlezinger..
Israel Hayom..
15 February '13..

In the Jerusalem home of Rabbi Yehuda Ben-Yishai and his wife Tali, photographs of their daughter Ruti, their son-in-law Ehud, and their children — 11-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad, and three-month-old Hadas hang on the walls of every room.

These are the members of the Fogel family who were massacred in their home two years ago by two terrorists. "They’re always with us," Rabbi Ben-Yishai said of his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren. "We talk about the parents. We talk about them with the children and live their legacy at the same time. We are learning to live with the fact that they’re with us all the time though they’re not here." That is the essence of their daily routine since that terrible Friday, now known as "the Itamar massacre," which transformed Yehuda and Tali Ben-Yishai from the grandparents to the parents of the children who survived: 14-year-old Tamar, 10-year-old Roi and four-year-old Yishai.

The family’s friends commemorate them also. In two days, when Itamar marks the second anniversary of the terrible event, the cornerstone of a new building at the yeshiva, to be named for the family, will be laid. A beit midrash (study hall), named Mishkan Ehud, was built even before that. Dozens of memorial pamphlets were produced, and the home — which has since been sold — has become a place of pilgrimage.

Although Yehuda and Tali Ben-Yishai are made of rare fiber, the terrible pain of their loss is etched on their faces. Their voices tremble and their eyes are sad, but they look to the future. "What happened was so inhuman that we have gained superhuman strength," Tali says. "We know these children will be great people. They will be all right. They will not be damaged. They’re not in trauma anymore. Some children are afraid of what happens around them, but they’re not like that. They’re not the sort who don’t want to go to school or don’t want to get out of bed and spend the day crying."

The three children lead ordinary lives. "They get up in the morning, go to school, prepare sandwiches for themselves, come back with report cards. A normal routine," says Yehuda. Only Yishai, who was two years old when the murder took place, calls Yehuda and Tali mother and father. "If he looks at the photographs, he can identify his father, Udi, and his mother, Ruti, but he’s all right. He was little, and he’s grown up under different circumstances," Tali says.

She continues: "The move from Itamar to Jerusalem wasn’t easy, but they’re good kids. They understand what happened, but amazingly, they’ve chosen to feel their terrible pain, and at the same time gather strength and look to the future. Roi is already ten years old, and we feel that despite all the pain he’s in, he decided to keep going forward. He doesn’t let himself get bogged down in painful thoughts, collapse and cry. Sometimes he cries over other things, like any kid does. Maybe his crying over the other things is mixed with the pain of what happened, but he’s all right.

CAMERA - Why Did Ha'aretz Bury Fogels' Funeral?

Ha'aretz front page,
March 14, 2011.
Migrating birds took
precedence over
Fogel's burial 

TS..
CAMERA/Snapshots..
19 April '12..

Publisher Amos Schocken explains why his paper Ha'aretz prioritized coverage of the Japanese tsunamai over the shocking murders of the Fogel family on March 13, 2011:

"The role of a newspaper as I understand it, and as Ha'aretz has understood throughout the years, even before I became responsible for the paper, even when my father was there… is not to give expression to emotionalism and feelings, but to give readers information about the important things. To set some sort of hierarchy of importance.

"With all due respect for the family at Itamar, when you compare that event, which was very grave – it was not the first time that Palestinians murdered Jews... It was a shocking case... Among others, there was the case of the father and the son who were killed in a car. These things do occur. And when you compare it in importance to the tsunami in Japan, with all due respect to our identification with the family in Itamar, this is an event that carries much more weight.

"The role of Ha'aretz is also to provide a perspective of how important things are in the world we live in," he went on. "What is the role of a newspaper, after all? To give the reader some kind of picture of reality that is as faithful to reality as is possible. It is clear that our feelings can be with the victims of the tsunami in Japan and of course can be with the family in Itamar, and of course, it was a shocking murder.

Meotti - The silence of the West

Giulio Meotti..
Israel Opinion/Ynet..
22 February '12..

One year ago the Fogels were slaughtered in Itamar: Father, mother and three children butchered during a night of horror. That night, a 12-year-old Israeli girl was out with friends until midnight, close to her village, where 100 families live. She arrived home. Nobody answered. She went inside with a neighbor and she saw her mother, father, three siblings (aged 11, three and three-months-old) with their throats cut.

Yet a year after the event, those who profess to deplore violence on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian equation have been completely silent on the Itamar massacre. No words of condemnation about the killing of innocents were heard from human rights groups and NGOs.

In Itamar, the daily diet of settler demonization had its intended effect. Killing a "demon" or the children of “monsters” or “devils” is not like taking the life of a fellow human being. Judea and Samaria’s citizens have indeed been called “leeches”, “snakes” and “parasites.”

In the midst of the second Intifada, when his own students were being butchered on buses and restaurants, Hebrew University Professor Ze’ev Sternhell declared that “the Palestinians would be wise to concentrate their struggle against the settlements.” Like Itamar. In 2001, after Arabs sadistically bashed the skulls of two “settler kids” in Tekoa, Israeli psychiatrist Ruchama Marton declared that “the settlers raise little monsters.” Moshe Zimmerman of Hebrew University said he regards settlers as Hitlerjugend.

Itamar also meant that no rational argument can be used against an ideology maniacally dedicated to Jewish destruction. The dark and glittering eyes of Itamar’s terrorists are telling of their desire to make the Mediterranean red with Jewish blood. It is no wonder then that during a recent program aired on Palestinian television, the aunt of one of the Fogel killers referred to him as a “hero” and “legend.”

The aunt went on to read a poem she had written in the murderers’ honor, while Hakim Awad’s mother sent her regards to her son and proudly boasted that he was the perpetrator of the Itamar massacre. In this context one should keep in mind that the Palestinian Authority's Television is also funded by the European Union, which often displays its blue flag during the broadcasts.

Fresnozionism - ‘Palestine’ adores vicious murderers

The murdered Fogel family:
Ruth, Udi, Yoav (11), Elad (4),
Hadas (4 mo.).

Fresnozionism.org..
29 January '12..

The absolute vileness of the “Palestinian movement” is hard for those of us who grew up in civilized societies like the US and Israel to comprehend. As a result, many of us may be prepared to listen when they say that it is about human rights or justice.

But every once in awhile we get a window into what’s really behind it.

Even Israeli police and security personnel, who have seen some terrible things, were shocked last year by the sadistic murder of five members of the Fogel family including a 4-month-old baby whose throat was cut, committed by two Palestinian Arab teenagers, Amjad and Hakim Awad, cousins from the village of Awarta.

Captured after an intensive manhunt, the Awads were both convicted and given multiple life sentences. There was even consideration of applying the death penalty, something not done in Israel since Eichmann was hanged in 1962. Unfortunately, the court decided against it.

One might expect that the official Palestinian reaction — after all, they are preparing to petition the UN for statehood again — would have been something like “we condemn violent extremism, although we understand their frustration, etc.”

But they are past pretending even that much.The official reaction is that the butchers are heroes!

Watch the following video, from official Palestinian TV, courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch:

Roth - Smiling baby-slashers, men who hide bombs in their clothing and bags, and reporters confused between facts and their own prejudices

This one's smiling too. The caption
on this newsagency photo from March 2011
reads: "A Palestinian man distributes
sweets in the streets of Rafah (Gaza Strip)
 on 12th March 2011 to celebrate an
attack which killed five Israeli settlers..."
referring to the massacre we later
 learned was carried out by the Awads

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
16 January '12..


The final chapter in the short but barbaric career of two young Palestinian Arabs who executed a massacre in the Fogel family home in Itamar on a quiet Sabbath night last March (see "19-Apr-11: What happened that awful Sabbath night in Itamar?") was written in an Israeli military court today.

The Samaria Military Court on Monday sentenced Amjad Awad, who was convicted for the murder of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar, to five life sentences and seven additional years in prison. Awad and his cousin Hakim brutally murdered Udi and Ruth Fogel and three of their children: Yoav, 11, Elad, 4 and four-month-old baby Hadas, last March. Awad was convicted of murder last November. Awad's cousin, Hakim, was convicted of murder in August and sentenced in September to five consecutive life sentences for his part in the Itamar massacre dated March 2010. Amjad was convicted of all charges against him: five counts of murder, two weapons trafficking counts and conspiracy to commit murder. He entered the courtroom smiling. [Ynet]

For people with a conventional emotional make-up - that's most of us - this takes some getting used to: the idea that a man convicted of slashing to death five people of whom three were aged 11 years, 4 years and four months walks to his sentencing with a smile on his face. Some day, a psychiatrist or a post-graduate researcher of death cults is going to try to make sense of smiles like those about which we wondered some weeks ago ("22-Dec-11: Know them by their actions. Oh, and by their smiles.")

Rontzki - Child murderers deserve to die

Rabbi Avichai Rontzki
Israel Hayom
27 November '11

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=907

"Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed" says the Book of Genesis. This is not a trivial statement. Our ancient ancestors, at the very beginning of human history, demanded measure for measure where murderers were concerned.

The ancients' healthy instincts, not yet warped by the ideas of subsequent intellectuals, told them that the only way to stop evildoers was to remove them from this earth.

Not every transgression justifies an eye for an eye punishment. But this kind of punishment does apply to cruel evildoers, particularly child murderers like the killers of Udi and Ruti Fogel and their three children Yoav, Elad and Hadas.

One of the two perpetrators of these painful and horrific murders, the mastermind Amjad Awad, is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday in the Samaria Military Court. The other culprit was sentenced last week to five consecutive life sentences. This was a mistake, in my view. The only rightful punishment in such cases is the death penalty.

One must recall that the murderers wiped out almost an entire family. And we have not yet discussed the shocking method used to commit the murders: through close-range physical contact, by slitting throats, including the throat of a three-month-old baby.

Justice and humanity would be served if such murderers, perversions of human society, not continue to exist among us.

Levick - What Harriet Sherwood won’t report: Family of Palestinians who murdered Fogels taunt surviving children

Tamar Fogel, whose parents
and three siblings were
 murdered by Palestinian
terrorists, participates in protest

Adam Levick
CiF Watch
10 October '11












This report in Ynet is beyond description.

“Settlers in Itamar were outraged Sunday morning after Palestinians from Awarta arrived in Itamar for their annual olive harvest in the settlement. According to the settlers, among the Palestinians who arrived in Itamar were the family members of brutally stabbed and murdered five members of the Fogel family six months ago.

The settlers claimed that the Palestinians shouted “We’ll Fogel you” and drew their fingers across their necks indicating slaughter. [emphasis mine]

Dozens of women and children from Itamar protested against the move, including Tamar Fogel who lost her parents and three siblings in the heinous terror attack. “

 (Read full "What Harriet Sherwood won’t report ...")

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Stern - Free Hakim Awad

Paula S. Stern
A Soldier's Mother
14 September '11

http://israelisoldiersmother.blogspot.com/2011/09/free-hakim-awad.html

Hakim Awad is an 18-year-old Palestinian from the small village of Awarta. On the night of March 11, 2011, Hakim and his cousin Amjad entered the small Jewish village of Itamar. Their movements that night are known, their actions an atrocity beyond imagination. They entered the Fogel home and in a short time, murdered Udi and Ruthi Fogel, parents to 6 children - the oldest only 12 years old.

Hakim and his cousin murdered Udi and Ruthi. In the demented mind of the Palestinian terrorists, one might argue that Udi was once a soldier and so a legitimate target. He was, of course, unarmed on that quiet peaceful Sabbath night, but human beings at war care little for those details. It was not a justified kill, but one could argue, perhaps, it was a murder that didn't shock. There is anger over Udi's murder, but not shock.

Ruthi was a gentle mother of six. Never a soldier. Unarmed. Her murder was as barbaric and wrong as her husband's and yet, somehow, given what is to come, still not shocking. We have lost precious Jewish mothers before. As mothers, we stand in front of our children to defend them. This is what Ruthi did. Somehow, with her body, she blocked the door of her two young sons and so the terrorists did not enter that room. They and their oldest sister Tamar, who was not home, were the only ones to live.

Hakim and Amjad also murdered 10-year-old Yoav, and the shock begins.

Hakim and Amjad murdered precious little Elad, who was only 4 years old. They stabbed him in the heart. The shock becomes a chocking grief as it sinks in.

And Hakim and Amjad murdered tiny, little Hadas, who was only 3 months old. They slit her throat and left her body beside that of her murdered father. This is where the grief becomes a pain so deep the heart breaks. You wonder at the barbarity and you question how this thing that murdered these precious souls has a right to breathe the same air we do. The anger bubbles up and chokes you.

And then you read in Maan Agency News (Palestinian "news" source) that maybe it was a Thai worker who did it; that there was no evidence it was Palestinians. But that, of course, was always a lie. There was direct evidence. The stupid Hakim and Amjad all but left a trail of bloody footprints back to Awarta.

Fogel murderers and Palestinian Arab society

Hakim Awad, one of those
arrested for the Itamar murders

Fresnozionism.org
17 April '11

The IDF has arrested the two perpetrators of the vicious slaughter at Itamar, and several accomplices. The murderers are members of the Progressive Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the second largest (after Fatah) faction of the PLO, which the Oslo accords recognize as the ‘sole legitimate representative of the ‘Palestinian people’, and from which was constituted the Palestinian National Authority (PA). The PA plans to declare a state in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem with UN sanction this September.

The murderers came from the nearby Arab village of Awarta:

The suspects have been named as Hakim Maazan Niad Awad, an 18-year-old high school student, and Amjad Mahmud Fauzi Awad, 19 [cousins], both from the West Bank village of Awarta, located 2 kilometers south of the settlement of Itamar…


The suspects have confessed to the stabbings and re-enacted the murders, security forces said on Sunday. According to Army Radio, they did not express remorse for their crimes.


Both men are affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) terror group and received significant assistance from family members and friends after the attack, security forces added.


The suspects planned the stabbings days ahead of time. On the night of March 11, after unsuccessful attempts to obtain firearms from a local PFLP representative in their village, the two set out toward Itamar on foot, armed with knives, a wirecutter and masks to cover their faces.


After walking one kilometer, they cut the wire fence that surrounds Itamar, climbed through a forest and over a hilltop, and reached a row of homes. The suspects at first entered a home adjacent to the Fogel residence, but found that nobody was home. They stole an M-16 rifle from the home, ammunition and body armor, before walking on.


“They saw children sleeping in the home, and entered the Fogel family residence,” the IDF said. Immediately after entering the home, the youths set their knives on two young brothers sleeping in their beds, 4-year-old Elad and 11-year-old Yoav.


They then entered the parents’ bedroom, where they launched a knife attack on Ehud and Ruth Fogel. The parents fought back, attempting to fend off the attackers, but died of their stab wounds during the struggle.


The two then left the house. One of the suspects returned and stabbed the three-month-old baby Hadas to death in her crib after she began crying.


According to Israel Radio, Amjad said that he was unaware that there were two other children in the house, and that if he had known, he would have stabbed them as well.


After completing the slaughter, the suspects walked back to the village and told Hakim’s uncle, PFLP member Salah Adin Awad, what they had done. Salah hid their firearms and instructed them to burn their clothes, which were covered in blood. — Jerusalem Post

The murderers were identified by DNA evidence left in the struggle with Ruth and Ehud Fogel. During the investigation, there were numerous complaints from village residents and also from the PA as well as left-wing Israeli groups that their rights were being violated.

How did the murders become familiar with Itamar? At least one of them had been there:

Hakim Awad, 18, was permitted to enter Itamar along with other PA Arabs in order to harvest olives.


The IDF Civil Administration allowed PA Arabs from the nearby village of Awarta to harvest olives within Itamar that they claimed belonged to their village, despite concerns voiced by Itamar residents, who expressed fear that some PA Arabs could use the opportunity to learn the layout of the town in order to plan an attack.


Residents of Itamar even said they would be willing to pick the olives themselves, and deliver them to residents of Awarta, rather than open their town to potentially hostile PA residents. However, Civil Administration officials insisted that Awarta residents not only be given possession of the olives in question, but be allowed to harvest the produce themselves…


The IDF and the Civil Administration face pressure each year from the PA and the foreign and Israeli left to allow Arabs to harvest olives freely, regardless of security concerns. Many far-left groups, among them the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and Rabbis for Human Rights, hold annual “olive harvest” events aimed at forcing Israel to allow PA Arabs to enter Israeli land during the harvest. — Israel National News

More information is at The Muqata and Israel Matzav. Israel Matzav also has a recording in which a PA minister reiterates the PA demand to ‘release all Palestinian prisoners’ — specifically including these suspects — regardless of the charges against them, because of their ‘right to resist occupation’.

The ‘alleged’ (yeah, right) murderers grew up under the Palestinian Authority regime of Yasser Arafat, and breathed the atmosphere of racist hatred promulgated in PA media, schools, textbooks, mosques, camps, etc. ever since 1993. Note that even though Mahmoud Abbas and other PA officials have promised to stop the hateful incitement to murder in the official media and educational system, they have not done so.

Think about what it would take to make your average 18-year old capable of slitting a baby’s throat — and think about the premeditation, the adults that helped them, and the whole town, many of whose inhabitants are related, that knew about it. Think also about the megalomania that informs Palestinian Arab culture, which permits them to complain about violation of their rights in these circumstances. Think about their assertion of a ‘right to resist occupation’ which includes butchering Jewish children.

Understand that these are the people that want to be given control of a highly strategic area next to Israel’s major population centers, while refusing to agree that a Jewish state has a right to exist and to end all claims against it in a ‘peace’ agreement.

Many have suggested that a death penalty be instituted for particularly vicious terrorism, and I agree.

Some have also suggested that village of Awarta should be razed to the ground. I have another idea: just convert it into an institution for the incarceration of the criminally insane. Unfortunately, it isn’t big enough to hold the one-third of Palestinian Arabs who approve of the murders.

Update [1117 PDT]: Daniel Viflic,the 16-year-old boy who was wounded in the Hamas antitank missile attack on a school bus near Gaza last week, has died. May Hashem revenge his blood, and the Fogels’ and all the rest of the victims of the ‘Palestinian cause’.

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Abhorent - One Third Support the Fogel Massacre! Israel Straight Talk

Avi Abelow
Israel Straight Talk
IST #45
11 April '11

A study conducted by Hebrew University last week among Palestinain Arabs shows that one third of his respondants support the massacre of the Fogel family in Itamar. This is despicable!



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The Marvellous Professor MacEoin

Daphne Anson
07 April '11

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/04/tha-marvellous-professor-maceoin.html



He's the British academic about whom I blogged the other day: What a marvellous man he is, a beacon in dark times.

Here's part of an open letter he addressed to the orphaned 12-year-old Tamar Fogel, whose parents and siblings were slaughtered by Arab terrorists at Itamar.

"We have never met, nor are we likely to. I am not a Jew nor an Israeli, though for many years I have defended both Jews and Israelis from the physical and political attacks that are made on them....


The most important for you is to be sure that the only guilty parties were the terrorists who carried out the slaughter. And I need not tell you that these were not the first Palestinian terrorists to take out their hate, their resentment, and their jealousy on helpless Jews living on Jewish land.


.... After the Shoah, many rabbis tackled the question of hester panim, asking why HaShem had seemed to turn his face away from his people. I am not a Jew, and I cannot provide easy answers to those questions. You must seek your own answers from your rabbis and in your scriptures. One answer may be found in a short sound recording that was made in Belsen shortly after its liberation by British forces. It was made by the BBC and contains at the end description of a Shabbat service held by a British rabbi, at the end of which the survivors stand and sing HaTikva. They are weak, they are out of tune, some of them will still die: but they are singing in open defiance of the very great Nazi evil that had overwhelmed them and their families. Three years after that, the state of Israel was established.

I'm writing, first because I'm a writer and that's how I express my feelings best. But also because I want to convey just how many people's thoughts are with you. You have your grandparents and aunts or uncles, and after that you have your small and concerned community of I'tamar, but beyond that you have a world of people, Jews and non-Jews, who stand with you in your grief. We feel helpless, not knowing what we can or should do to help, yet longing to do so. How many people can say they truly love the murderers who came to your house that night? Some may hand out candies and dance in the streets, but how meaningful is that? They love themselves and their own dreams of glory, but who can truly love men of blood, people who kill infants in their cradles?....


You are in my thoughts and in the thoughts of millions of other people because the murder of your family has gone so deeply into so many people's hearts. The list of atrocities carried out on Jews, not just in Israel but beyond, is very long. As a result, it's easy to let them all blur together into one mass. But every so often one death or a group of deaths stands out and demands special attention. One day there will be a memorial to the sacrifice your family made. People from far away may come to visit it. Photographs of it will appear in the press. But the true memorial will be you, an ordinary girl, with a torn heart and a wounded soul, going to school, going to shul, making friends, baking bread, sewing, cooking, reading, blushing when a certain young man comes to speak to you, going to Kever Yosef to marry him, giving birth to your first child. 

I just mean to say that no-one expects from you heroic deeds, no-one wants you to have to shoulder resistance to all the evils you know better than most. It is your ordinary deeds, the day-to-day living of an ordinary life that are for the creators of horror the most painful thing of all, that Jews will continue to live on land sanctified by Jewish blood. At the end of that recording made in Belsen, someone calls out 'Am Yisrael Chai'. By living, the killers only bring eternal disgrace on themselves, their families, and everyone who shelters them. By living, you make clear to everyone that the People of Israel live, that their light will not be snuffed out, and that when your enemies have gone to dust and seen a darkness beyond measure engulf them, the light of the Jews will illuminate the nations. Grow and be happy and tell us what you see on your journey."

Read the rest: http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/04/open-letter-to-tamar-fogel.html

Hat tip: reader Shirlee

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The Last Time," a song about the Terrorist Massacre in Itamar

SLYtrioPRODUCTIONS
Mar 15, 2011

Composed and Sung by Shmuel Schwartz
Arranged and Performed by John Sawoski
Video by Daniel Sultan

Five members of an Israeli family were slaughtered last Friday night when Palestinian terrorists broke into their home in the West Bank settlement of Itamar and stabbed them all to death. The innocent victims were Rabbi Udi Fogel, his wife Ruth, and three of their children Elad, Yoav and Hadas.

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Lyrics:

He was walking home from shul (synagogue) one Friday night
Escorted by two angels, on his left and on his right
It was his last time... It was his last time

His wife prepared the most amazing meal
A mother to his kids, an Eishes Chayil (woman of valor)
It was her last time... It was her last time

Father in heaven, see the crying, wipe our tears, feel the pain
Your children, young and old come together, one another, not in vain
Hear our prayer please- "enough's enough" we scream
Bring salvation to your nation, Yisrael (Israel).

Three children, so innocent so young
Enjoying Shabbos Kodesh (Sabbath) full of happiness and song
It was their first time, and it was their last time.

Hashem above (G-d), when there's nothing left to do
Our voices deep in prayer we offer to you
Make this the last time.. Make this the last time

Father in heaven, see the crying, wipe the tears, feel the pain
Your children, young and old come together one another not in vain
Hear our prayer please- "enough's enough" we scream
Bring salvation to your nation, Yisrael (Israel).

Hear our prayers please- enough's enough we scream
Bring salvation to your nation, Yisrael (Israel)

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After Child Murders, Time Magazine Slides Further into Activist Journalism

Time's "correspondent"
 Karl Vick

CAMERA Media Analysis
16 March '11

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=37&x_article=2010



The murder of five Israelis, including an infant, a toddler and an 11-year-old, was unspeakably horrific. In its own way, so was Time magazine's reporting in the wake of the attack.

In his March 13 piece, "Slaughter of the Fogels: After the West Bank Killings," Time's correspondent in Israel yet again reveals he is incapable of, or simply disinterested in, impartial reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The correspondent, Karl Vick, does not let the shocking attack get in the way of his predictable anti-Israel animus. His discussion of the incident, published online two days after a terrorist slit the throats of five members of the Fogel family, strains to recast Palestinians as the victims of the murders and the Israelis as the offending party.

Most of the piece is dedicated to portraying Israelis as cynically using the incident as an excuse to violate international law, "steal" land, and even raise money. While Israeli officials are, as usual, the targets of Vick's implicit condemnation, Mahmoud Abbas is described gently as one who "preaches nonviolence," and his Palestinian Authority as cooperative friends of Israel (even though Israel, the story makes it appear, does not deserve their benevolence).

Worse than ignoring Palestinian incitement, Vick seems to mock the very idea, depicting Israel's purported concerns about Palestinian hate education and calls to violence as a desperate and unjustified excuse to condemn the Palestinians.

A journalist who manipulates every bit of breaking news to fit a favored narrative is not engaged in the serious news reporting or analysis expected from a magazine of Time's stature, but rather a style suited for the most partisan of blogs.

Paragraph after paragraph and piece by piece, the reporter rewrites the bloody attack against Israelis to resemble a morality play — with Israel cast as the villain, and the Gandhi-esque Palestinians as the victims of Israeli machinations.

Biased, Brazen, and Contemptible

Daphne Anson
16 March '11

Here's the BBC's online report of the massacre of the Fogel Family:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12721170

Here's a related snide report, by Jon Donnison, a Jeremy-Bowen-in-the-making, from what I've seen of him:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12725487

Here's the BBC's arrogant, dismissive response to complaints regarding the coverage – or rather lack of it – of the massacre of a family – correction – a "settler" family:

http://honestreporting.com/baby-killers-update-bbc-responds-to-hr-criticism/

Been there before, of course, and now that Lord Patten, who has a proven track record of pro-Palestinian bias, has been shoe-horned into the position of Chairman of the BBC Trust (see http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/03/lord-patten-as-chairman-of-bbc-trust.html), we will doubtless be there again. To no avail.



http://honestreporting.com/bbc-bias-an-in-depth-analysis-2/

Biased, Brazen, and Contemptible.

Those are among the more polite and printable words for the national broadcaster, whose disregard for its Charter and Producers' Guidelines, disdain for licence-payers, pimping of its own pet leftist agendas, and demonisation of Israel, is now completely out of control.

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An Extra-Credit Mitzvah, In Memory of The Fogel Family, HaYa"D

Batya Medad
Shilo Musings
14 March '11

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2011/03/extra-credit-mitzvah-in-memory-of-fogel.html

May this be li'lu'i nishmatam of the murdered members of the Fogel Family.

As I trust you know, we don't have a car and we travel by bus and "tremps," rides from generous people. Some of the people giving us rides we know, and others just open their homes on wheels to help us and many others out.

Recently, I've been working part-time (and a different schedule each week) at the Yafiz Clothing Store (of Rami Levi) in Sha'ar Binyamin. I can take a bus there, since all of our buses are required to stop there if a passenger requests it, but I frequently get rides.

Last week, I got a ride from a neighbor who was taking his daughter to the girls high school in Kochav Ya'akov. He left me off at the gas station bus stop, less than a kilometer from Sha'ar Binyamin. If there had been a sidewalk, I would have gladly walked the distance, but it's a busy highway of sorts. I waited for a ride or bus, but nothing came. Then my neighbor waved as he passed by again on his way back to Shiloh. I waved and continued waiting. Suddenly he returned. He had decided that he ought to finish the chessed mitzvah (good deed) and take me the rest of the way to work.

Yesterday, I got a ride to Ofra, and before I even made it to the bus stop to wait for a bus or ride someone came by and offered me a lift. He, too, was going to Kochav Ya'akov. I said that I'd get off at the gas station. He then asked where I needed to get to. I told him Sha'ar Binyamin. Imagine my surprise when we passed the junction to Kochav Ya'akov and he took me those extra few hundred meters to my destination!

There are wonderful people in this world. We must remember that. There's a very big difference between the values of Jews here and the Holy Land and the neighboring Arabs. We celebrate life and helping others, while the Arabs celebrate barbaric murder.

HaMakom y'nachem... May G-d comfort the mourners...

And may G-d bless our leaders with true wisdom!

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