#Sbarro Suicide Bombing

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[eretzyisrael]

Jordan has reportedly informed the Hamas terror group that it plans to deport a woman convicted of planning a 2001 suicide bombing that killed 16 people at a Jerusalem pizza parlor, in a move that could bring a long-delayed measure of justice to families of victims.

Ahlam Tamimi was convicted in an Israeli court of orchestrating the grisly August 9, 2001, attack that killed 16 people in a crowded Sbarro’s eatery in central Jerusalem, but was released in the 2011 deal for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit and quickly found safe harbor in Jordan.

In 2017, the US Justice Department announced it was seeking her extradition, a step that had been urged by the family of Israeli-American victim Malki Roth but which was rebuffed by Amman.

According to Qatari news outlet Al-Araby al-Jadeed, Jordanian intelligence authorities informed Hamas on Sunday that Tamimi would be extradited to the United States unless a third country willing to take her in could be found.

There was no confirmation of the report from any official source.

The report emerged just as the White House announced it would host Jordan’s King Abdullah II for talks with US President Donald Trump on February 11. Amman is thought to be seeking ways to remain in good standing with Trump despite, like Egypt, declining to fall in with his proposal to relocate Gazans there.

Tamimi, a Hamas activist who chose the target for the bombing and guided the bomber there, was sentenced in Israel in 2003 to 16 life sentences for the attack, which also injured 130 people.

Among the dead were Roth, an Australia-born 15-year-old who also held US citizenship, and Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, an American tourist who was expecting her first child.

[matan4il]

I just saw with my 2 fucking eyes ST calling Bassem Tamimi a peace activist, the guy who made his child go confront IDF soldiers for clout aand thinks stone throwing - which kills people, including friendly fire between Palestinians - is so cool

Nonnie, I am... You know that thing where you just smile wide, because reality is too much to deal with, and you just have to detach from it for a minute? That's me right now.

I mean, one of the things I've noted over the years is that often, the worst takes from Standing Together's leaders are posted on their personal social media accounts rather than the official ones, which makes it a bit harder to explain why the notion of the movement is great, while what they do in practice is awful and anti-Israeli. So when I got your ask I was wondering on which private account they posted that, but no. They posted it on an official ST account. There is not enough 'face palm' in the world for this.

Bassem Tamimi was arrested in October due to suspicion that he was aiding terrorist activity against Israel. If you ask me, he should have been arrested for child abuse as well, the way he's used his kids, pushing them repeatedly at soldiers to gain clout among the anti-Israel crowd, and praising them when they got arrested for violent terrorist activity. He has also generally encouraged rock throwing terrorist attacks.

The ST post claims that Bassem advocates for non-violent resistance, which is an absolute lie. He supports rock throwing at Israelis, which IS a violent act (funny how for the anti-Israel crowd, Israeli words are violence, but Palestinians throwing rocks at Israelis, which has killed more than once, isn't. For some reason, I have never seen any of the people claiming that rock throwing is a form of non-violent resistance volunteering to be its physical targets, I wonder why. Anyway, reminder that when it comes to non-Israelis, people have no issue calling deaths caused by rock throwing "murder," even when executed by teenagers, or calling out the terrorizing quality of such crimes).

Not to mention that Bassem's own daughter, Ahed Tamimi (who is mentioned in the same ST post as having been arrested by Israel "multiple times", and who the family has actually sent countless times to confront soldiers in order to film her "bravery" when really, that's child abuse) was arrested twice, the first time for physically assaulting a soldier. The second time was after the Hamas massacre, when Ahed posted on social media, promising that Palestinians will slaughter Jews, and that "you will say what Hitler did to you is a joke" in comparison, that Palestinians will drink the blood of Jews and eat their skulls. Yeah, SO non-violent!

Let's also not forget that Bassem's niece, Ahlam Tamimi, was a terrorist who helped carry out the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in 2001, a massacre of 16 people (since the Palestinians insist on counting unborn children when pregnant women get killed in the conflict, I think it's only fair Israelis do the same), leaving another person in a vegetative state for over 20 years. Ahlam's interviews from Israeli prison and after she was freed in a hostage deal are some of the most chilling I've ever seen, and this woman is a "journalist" and an icon for the anti-Israel mob, living in and broadcasting from Jordan, allowing her to help poison the minds of the next generation.

Nothing about the arrests of either Bassem (or Ahed or Ahlam) was arbitrary, unlike the claim in that ST post.

I'm just... beyond sickened. Anyway, this will also go under my Standing Together tag for easy reference, if you ever need it.

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[greco-roman-jewess]

Ok so I’m still working on that massive Breadtube antisemitism project but while I was doing that I found this exchange among all those screenshots.

The interesting thing that caught my eye about this particular screenshot is that if you look at the first and third comments you get something they never give- a clear explanation of what they think Palestinian terror groups should be able to do and still be moral. This is (working from this screenshot) the definition of “justified resistance”

1. Does not target children

2. Occurs outside of the “internationally recognized borders of Israel” which is sort of vague so for my purposes im defining that as excluding a areas of the “West Bank” and Gaza but including all of Jerusalem (that part is mostly because it means lest headache for me (finding out which part of Jerusalem they mean in the probably dozens of times my list just says Jerusalem sounds exhausting and impossible) and think it’s fair game because multiple countries recognize unified Jerusalem as belonging to Israel)

So now I am going to prove that by their own definition what Palestinians have done over the past 25 years is not “justified resistance”

This is a (probably) incomplete list of children (defined as one minute old to age 17)

[see bottom for collection details methodology and conclusions (still forthcoming)]

Pink denotes attacks outside of “international Israel” Purple denotes a victim from outside “international Israel” when the attack occurred within “international Israel” orange indicates a victim not from Israel and blue denotes attacks outside of Israel(there’s only one on this list)

********January 17th 2001*********

Ofir Rahum, 16, (2001) (of Ashkelon) traveled to Jerusalem to meet a young woman with whom he had conducted a relationship over the Internet. She then drove him toward Ramallah. At a prearranged location, another vehicle drove up and three Palestinian gunmen inside shot Rahum more than 15 times

Shalhevet Pass, (age 10 months) (2001) (Hebron) was killed by sniper fire at the entrance to the Avraham Avinu neighborhood

Eliran Rosenberg-Zayat, (15) (of Givat) Shmuel and Naftali Lanzkorn, (13) (of Petah Tikva) (2001) (Kfar Saba) were killed in a suicide bombing at a gas station

Yossi Ish-Ran, (14), and Kobi Mandell, (14), (both of Tekoa) (Jerusalem) (2001) were found stoned to death in a cave

Marina Berkovizki, (17), (of Tel Aviv),

Anya Kazachkov, (16), (of Holon),

Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir, (15), (of Ramat Gan),

Aleksei Lupalu, (16) (of the Ukraine),

Mariana Medvedenko, (16) (of Tel Aviv),

Irina Nepomneschi, (16,) (of Bat Yam),

Yulia Nelimov, (16,) (of Tel Aviv),

Raisa Nimrovsky, (15 ) (of Netanya),

Liana Sakiyan, 16, of Tel Aviv),

Maria Tagilchev, (14,) (of Netanya),

Yael-Yulia Sklianik, (15) (of Holon),

Yevgenia Dorfman, (15) (of Bat Yam)

(2001) (Tel Aviv) killed when a suicide bomber blew himself outside a disco

Yehuda Shoham, (aged 5 months), (of Shilo) (2001) died of injuries incurred in a fatal stoning on June 5.

Michal Raziel, (16), (of Jerusalem),

Malka Roth, (15), (of Jerusalem),

Ra'aya Schijveschuurder, (14), (of Neria),

Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, (4), (of Neria),

Hemda Schijveschuurder, (2) (of Neria),

Tamara Shimashvili, (8), (of Jerusalem), Yocheved Shoshan, (10), (of Jerusalem)

(2001) (Jerusalem) killed in the suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria

Aliza Malka, (17) (Kibbutz Merav) (2001) killed in a drive by near the kibbutz

Shoshana Ben Ishai, (16), (of Betar Illit),

Menashe (Meni) Regev, (14), (of Jerusalem) (2001) (Jerusalem) were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a sub-machine gun

Assaf Avitan, (15), (of Jerusalem),

Israel Ya'akov Danino, (17), (of Jerusalem),

Golan Turgeman, (15), (of Jerusalem),

Adam Weinstein, (14), (of Givon Hahadasha)

Ido Cohen, (17), (of Jerusalem) (2001) (Jerusalem) when explosive devices were detonated by two suicide bombers on Ben Yehuda Street the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem.

Yair Amar, 13, (of Emmanuel),

Avraham Nahman Nitzani, 17, (of Betar Illit)

(2001) (Emmanuel in Samaria) killed when three terrorists attacked a No. 189 Dan bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire

Yael Ohana, (11), and her mother were murdered in their home when an armed terrorist infiltrated Moshav Hamra, halfway between Jericho and Beit She'an (2002)

Nehemia Amar, (15),

Keren Shatsky, (15),

Rachel Thaler, (16), (all of Ginot Shomron)

(2002) (Karnei Shomron in Samaria) Killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a pizzeria

Avraham Eliahu Nehmad, (7), Shiraz (7) and Liran (3), (of Rishon Lezion)

Shaul Nehmad (15), (of Rishon Lezion)

Lidor Ilan (12) and his sister Oriah (18 months), (of Rishon Lezion),

Ya'akov Avraham Eliyahu(7 months) (of Jerusalem)

(2002) (Jerusalem)

Killed when a terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue

Avia Malka, (9 months), (of South Africa)

(2002) (Netanya) killed when two Palestinians opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians

Atara Livne, (15), (of Kibbutz Hanita)

(2002) killed when two terrorists opened fire from an ambush on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba

Rachel Levy, (17), (of Jerusalem)

(2002) (Jerusalem) was killed when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in

Gal Koren, (15), (of Haifa)

Orly Ofir, (16), (of Haifa)

Adi Shiran, (17), (of Haifa)

(2002) (Haifa) killed by suicide bombing

Elmar Dezhabrielov, (16)

(2002) (Rishon Lezion) killed by suicide bombing

Sinai Keinan, (aged 14 months),

(2002) (Petah Tikva) suicide bombing

Netanel Riachi, (17), (of Kochav Ya'akov)

Gilad Stiglitz, (14), (of Yakir)

Avraham Siton, (17), (of Shilo)

(2002) (Itamar) were killed when a Palestinian gunman infiltrated the community and opened fire on the teenagers playing basketball,

Hadar Hershkowitz, (14)

(2002) (Herzliya) was killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber set off a pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant.

Shani Avi-Zedek, (15), (of Jerusalem)

Galila Bugala, (11), (of Jerusalem)

(2002) were killed in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many students on their way to school.

Neria Shabo, (16), Zvika, (12), and Avishai, (5) along with their mother

(2002) (Itamar) were murdered when a terrorist entered their home

Yonatan Gamliel, (16)

Sarah Tiferet Shilon, (8 months)

(2002) killed in a terrorist attack on Dan bus No. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria

Shuv'el Zion Dikstein, (9), (of Psagot),

(2002) killed in a shooting attack south of Hebron

Matan Ohayon, (5), and Noam, (4)

(2002) (Kibbutz Metzer) were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz

Hodaya Asraf, (13), (of Jerusalem)

Ilan Perlman, (8), (of Jerusalem)

Michael Sharshevsky, (16), (of Jerusalem)

(2002) (Jerusalem) by a suicide bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem

Gavriel Hoter, 17, (of Alonei Habashan)

(2002) (Otniel) killed while working in the yeshiva kitchen, serving the Shabbat meal to some 100 students in the adjacent dining room

Smadar Firstater, (16), (of Haifa),

Kamar Abu Hamed, (12), (of Daliat al-Carmel),

Daniel Haroush, (16), (of Safed),

Tom Hershko, (15), (of Haifa)

Elizabeth Katzman, (17), (of Haifa),

Tal Kehrmann, (17), (of Haifa),

Abigail Litle, (14), (of Haifa),

Yuval Mendellevich, (13), (of Haifa),

Asaf Zur (Zollinger), (17), (of Haifa)

(2003) killed in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd. in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University.

Moran Menachem, (17), (of Jerusalem)

(2003) was found near Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, brutally beaten and stabbed to death.

Haviv Dadon, (16), (of Shlomi),

(2003) was struck in the chest and killed by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft shell fired by Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon

Avraham Bar-Or, (12), (of Jerusalem), Binyamin Bergman, (15), (of Jerusalem)

Elisheva Meshulami, (16), (of Bnei Brak),

Tehilla Nathanson, (3), (of Zichron Ya'acov), Issachar Reinitz, (9), (of Netanya),

Shmuel Taubenfeld, (3 months), (of New Square, New York)

Shmuel Zargari, (11 months), (of Jerusalem)

(2003) were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem's Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood.

Tomer Almog, (9), (of Haifa)

Assaf Staier, (11), (of Haifa),

Liran Zer-Aviv, (4),and Noya, (1), (of Kibbutz Yagur)

(2003) (Haifa) killed in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist from Jenin

Hila Hatuel, (11), Hadar, (9), Roni, (7), and Merav, (2) (of Katif in the Gaza Strip)

(2004) were killed two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif

Yuval Abebeh, (4),

Dorit (Masarat) Benisian, (2),

(2004) (Sderot), were killed by a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza while playing in the street

Gilad Niv, (11), and Lior, (3), (of Rakefet)

Khalil Zeitounya, (10), (of Jaffa)

(2004) (Taba Hilton) were killed in terror bombings at a Sinai holiday frequented by Israelis

Ayala-Haya (Ella) Abukasis, (17), (of Sderot)

(2004)  was mortally wounded when a Qassam rocket landed near her and shrapnel penetrated her cerebellum, leaving her brain dead. She was struck while protecting her younger brother, who was lightly wounded.

*****second intifada ends*******

Avihai Levy, (17), (of Beit Hagai),

Aviad Mansour, (16), (of Otniel)

(2005) were killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. 

Rachel Ben Abu, (16), (of Tel Aviv)

Nofar Horowitz, (16), (of Tel Aviv)

(2005) (Netanya) were killed when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall

Oz Ben-Meir, (15), (of Maon)

(2005) was killed when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem

Shaked Lasker, (16), (of Kedumim)

(2006) was killed when a suicide bomber hitchhiker disguised as a yeshiva student detonated his explosive device in a private vehicle near the entrance to Kedumim

Daniel Wultz, (16), (of Weston, Florida)

(2006) (Tel Aviv) was killed by suicide bombing during the Passover holiday at the Rosh Ha'ir shawarma restaurant

Segev Peniel Avihail, (15), (of Neve Daniel),

Neria Cohen, (15), (of Jerusalem),

Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, (16), (of Shilo)

Yohai Lifshitz, (17), (of Jerusalem);

Avraham David Moses, (16), (of Efrat)

(2008) (Jerusalem) were killed when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle infiltrated the yeshiva and opened fire in the library

Yoav Fogel, (11), Elad, (4), and (3-month-old) Hadas

(2011) (Itamar) were stabbed to death by terrorists in their home

Daniel Viflic, (16), of Bet Shemesh,

(2011) died of mortal wounds suffered when an anti-tank missile was fired at a school bus in the Negev near Kibbutz Sa'ad

Yonatan Palmer, (1), (of Kiryat Arba), and his father

(2011) were killed when their car overturned on Route 60 near Hebron

Gilad Sha'er, (16), (of Talmon)

Naftali Frenkel, (16), (of Nof Ayalon)

(2014) were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in the area of Gush Etzion, while trying to hitch a ride home. Their bodies were discovered after an extensive search on June 30.

Daniel Tregerman, (4), (of Kibbutz Nahal Oz),

(2014) was killed when a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip exploded outside the family’s home.

Shalom Aharon Badani, )17), (of Jerusalem)

(2014) (Jerusalem) succumbed to injuries sustained when a Palestinian terrorist used his car to deliberately drive into a crowd of Israelis near a light-rail train station

Hallel Yaffa Ariel (13) (of Kiriat Arba),

(2016)was murdered in her bed

*****last five years******

Rina Shnerb (17)

(2019) (Lod) was murdered when terrorists detonated an IED device near a popular tourist and recreation site

Ido Abigail (5)

(2021) (Sderot) killed by Palestinian rocket and mortar fire 

Nadin Awad (16)

(2021) (Lod) killed in the rocket barrage from Gaza 

Aryeh Shtsupak, (16),

(2022) (Jerusalem) killed in one of two almost simultaneous explosions at bus stops at separate entrances to Jerusalem

Asher Natan, (14)

(2023) (Jerusalem)

outside a synagogue near his home.

Yaakov Yisrael Paley, (6)

Asher Menahem Paley, (8)

(2023) (Jerusalem) car-ramming attack in the northern Jerusalem

Nachman Shmuel Mordoff, (17)

Elisha Antman, (17),

(2023) gas station attack near Ramallah

Oriya Hartom, 16,

(2024) (Ramallah) gas station shooting

Benjamin Achimeir, 14, (of the West Bank outpost Malachei HaShalom)

(2024) killed while herding sheep near the outpost

Majdal Shams rocket attack child victims (not listed in pink because they are Arabs and therefore not “settlers”) (2024)

Fajr Laith Abu Saleh, 16,

Ameer Rabeea Abu Salehl, 16,

Hazem Akram Abu Saleh, 15

John Wadeea Ibrahim, 13,

Iseel Nasha'at Ayoub, 12

Finis Adham Safadi, 11

Yazan Nayeif Abu Saleh, 12,

Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din, 11

Naji Taher al-Halabi, 11

Milad Muadad al-Sha'ar, 10

Nathem Fakher Saeb, 16

Jafara Ibrahim, 11,

All data from

https://www.gov.il/en/pages/victims-of-palestinian-violence-and-

Only edits to data made for brevity and standardization (ie. standard order for name age year and location, excluding names of adult victims from list for multiple causality attacks, removal of information not necessary to convey information things like name of terrorist or name of pizza restaurant. Date information beyond year was also excluded)

October 7 2023 is intentionally excluded I will discuss it but it was not part of the list I drew my data from and therefore is not part of the final project.

I am focusing on child victims because that was one of the two parameters set out in the original screenshot. Note that this means this list is not at accurate representation of the full scope of terror and its consequences in Israel over the past 25 years. The list focuses exclusively on mortalities under the age of 18 this does not mean that I think children’s lives are worth more than adults, this does not mean I dismiss the trauma of non- fatal casualties of terror and my exclusion of late term pregnancies (there were several times it was mentioned that a woman was between 8-9 months pregnant) I understand that for the families of those pregnant victims they lost two family members not just one but for consistentency I counted all pregnancies mentioned (there were also mentions of women being 4-5 months pregnant) as part of the mother’s body and therefore a single adult victim.

Conclusions:

Under the assumption that violence against Jews can be justified as resistance if it is only directed at adults who reside outside of the 1967 ceasefire lines one cannot possibly claim that armed Palestinian groups have carried out “justifiable violence”.

In the past 24 years from the beginning of the Second Intifada at least 140 children have been killed by Palestinian “resistance fighters.”

This children were all killed in one of the at least 61 separate incidents of terrorism involving child fatalities, of these events 38 were listed being within *internationally recognized borders* 22 in *West Bank, Gaza or Sameria* and 1 at a vacation hotel in Egypt.

Many of the incidents would have involved direct enough contact with the victim to assess that they were a minor and not a threat such as stabbings, stoning and kidnappings. In several of the other incidents spaces likely to have minors present were intentionally targeted such as yeshivas, buses and pizzerias. It must also be noted that the other incidents involved imprecise methods likely to cause maximal damage deployed in areas occupied by civilians.

As I already presented of the 61 attacks I documented nearly two thirds took place within Israel’s internationally recognized boarders. 5 of those incidents involved child victims who were listed as “of” a town, city or settlement outside of the 1967 ceasefire lines and all were killed in situations where it would not have been possible to ascertain this fact before they were killed.

4 attacks also included a child fatally listed as “of” a foreign country (Ukraine, South Africa and the USA)

I want to make it clear that to my knowledge none of these attacks (except the Majdal Shams rocket attack but we all know that if they had hit Jewish children playing soccer they wouldn’t have apologized) have ever been called to be accidents, mistakes or misfires or apologized for by the groups or individuals who perpetrated them.

According to the scope of violence morality we can gather from the screenshot at the top of this post the Palestinian has historically been and continues to immoral. By antizionists own definition of moral violence.

Now I am going to address 7/10. The phrase “justifiable resistance” is often used as justification for the horrible violence of that day. Now from the previously described characteristics of “justifiable violence” by their own definition 7/10 was not “justifiable violence.” There is no official tally of minor victims but estimates place the number somewhere around 40 children were killed during the 7/10/23 attacks nearly all of them in their homes and several more (this number was also hard to find because all search engines suck now) somewhere around 30 Israelis age 17 and under were taken hostage. Two very young children Ariel (5) and Kifr (2) are still in captivity and at time of writing their fate is unknown. Most of these children were murdered in their homes many were killed in such a way that the perpetrators could have easily assessed that they were children. Every single one of the 7/10 attacks happened inside Israel’s internationally recognized boarders. By their own standards 7/10 could not have been justified resistance.

Thank you for reading tell me what you think!

[tamlindain]

When you call for intifada, and your audience includes people with any kind of ties to Israel, the immediate connection that we make is to The First Intifada and The Second Intifada. It did not help the Palestinian people in any meaningful way to blow up buses and supermarkets. It did not overthrow the Israeli government, it did not get rid of settlements, it just killed civilians. Like. Look at the Sbarro bombing. A suicide bombing in a pizzeria killed 16 people, including 7 children and a pregnant woman. Who did that help? What did that accomplish? Intifada refers to a specific thing to us. These are specific events that happened and that we remember. If you don't want us to think about suicide bombers outside of a bar mitzvah celebration, you should consider calling it something else.

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[angrybell]

Posted @withregram • @therealzvi Watch till the end.

Posted @withregram • @blackandjewishunity I’ll never forget the first time I watched this clip a few years back. If you ever have trouble grasping what type of sick twisted minds are at work here:

meet Palestinian terrorist Ahlam Tamimi who could not hide her smile upon hearing that she murdered 8 Jewish children (15 people total). She ordered the Sbarro pizza suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem on August 2001.

These are our neighbors. These are our prospective “peace partners”. This is a mindset people in the West are too privileged or sheltered to comprehend. How tf are you supposed to make peace with this?

[groovysanta]

Suicide bombing at Sbarro? I mean I know their pizza is bad but come on.

[girlactionfigure]

What does “intifada” mean? This building can tell you.  On August 9th, 2001, during the second intifada, a Palestinian terrorist by the name of Shuheil al-Masri entered Jerusalem’s Sbarro Pizzeria and blew himself up with a bomb packed with nails.  In the attack, which thousands of ignorant American college students openly support, 16 people were killed. This includes a pregnant woman and seven children.  Along with the deaths, 130 were injured.  This attack was not one of a kind. Throughout the intifadas hundreds of people lost their lives to suicide bombings, stabbings, shootings, etc.  Some far left college students & Islamists will make the excuse that intifada simply means an “uprising” and is not an inherent call to violence. Tell that to the people who just wanted to enjoy their pizza. May their memory be a blessing.

jacobfalach

[eretzyisrael]

Remembering the victims of the Sbarro suicide bombing

On August 9, 2001, 15 innocent people in Israel were brutally killed in a terrorist attack when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1,359 people have been killed by Palestinian violence and terrorism since September 2000. 19 years after the Sbarro suicide bombing, we commemorate the memory of the victims.

World Jewish Congress

[friend-clarity]

Omar and Tlaib came clean about who they are and what they want. But is anybody paying attention?

U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib held a news conference Monday to condemn the Israeli government for last week's decision banning the congresswomen from entering the country. By Steven Emerson Published August 21, 2019

Omar and Tlaib’s trip was organized by Miftah which has a long track record of promoting anti-Israel incitement and previously glorified suicide bombers for "sacrificing their lives for the cause." The group has also disseminated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on several occasions.

@Frimet Roth: Republican Tlaib cried  about her mother being “dehumanized" at Israeli checkpoints.My child Malki, a US citizen murdered at 15, would be here today had a checkpoint stopped murderer and a 10 kg bomb from entering Jerusalem. Remind Tlaib:  checkpoints prevent terrorism terrorism - save lives

Many observers cite President Trump's pressure as the main reason behind Israel's last-minute decision to ban the congresswomen. However, other key factors are at play — including the fact that the congresswomen's itinerary was organized by a group with a history of glorifying terrorists.

The trip, titled "U.S. Congressional Delegation to Palestine," did not include any scheduled visits with Israeli officials.

From the outset, their trip — almost exclusively planned to take place in Palestinian population centers — was intended to be a one-sided propaganda tour to paint Israel as an occupying aggressor. It is not surprising that their follow-up press conference was just another episode in the congresswomen's vendetta against Israel.

While both congresswomen are right to point out troubles facing Palestinian society — they both miss the mark by entirely absolving Palestinian leaders for their constituencies' woes and criticizing major Israeli security measures without providing even the slightest context.

Tlaib recounted memories visiting Israel in her youth before detailing defensive Israeli counterterror measures.

"The delegation would have seen firsthand. Yeah, why walls are destructive, not productive. They could've asked the people in Bethlehem how walls cut people off away from economic opportunities, from a way to live and do psychological damage that lasts forever," Tlaib said.

Israel's security barrier — which largely separates the West Bank from Israel — may disrupt Palestinian social and economic life to varying degrees. But Tlaib's framing omits the fact that Israel put these measures in place following countless Palestinian terrorist and suicide attacks during the Second Intifada throughout the early 2000s. Counterterrorism experts cite Israel's security barrier as one of the most effective counterterrorism measures that drastically helped reduce Palestinian terrorist attacks and Israeli casualties. The wall did not alter Palestinian terrorist motivations. But it denied terrorists free entry to kill hundreds of Israelis. It is unfortunate that average Palestinian citizens are affected in adverse ways by these hurdles. But to frame these protective measures solely as a means to destroy Palestinian life is inaccurate and inherently dishonest. The security barrier was erected to stifle Palestinian terrorists, who continue to devote most of their resources and attention to killing Israelis.

The same is true for security checkpoints. Omar and Tlaib presented them as instruments used to punish Palestinians, but Frimet Roth offered a sad reality check. Her daughter, Malki, was 15 years old in 2001 when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up inside Jerusalem's Sbarro pizza shop.

Since that brutal attack, the Palestinian Authority has paid more than $900,000 to the suicide bomber's family and accomplices, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Supporters of Palestinian terrorism, on the other hand, view attacks against Israeli civilians as heroic and legitimate resistance. These supporters include groups like Miftah — the organization which planned and funded Tlaib and Omar's proposed trip. In 2006, Miftah wrote a report referring to a 2002 Jerusalem suicide attack as an instance of "Fighting Back." As the National Review noted, Miftah published an article in which describes Dalal Al Mughrabi as "a Palestinian fighter who was killed during a military operation against Israel in 1978" and as one of the Palestinian people's "national heroes."

Mughrabi led a 1978 bus hijacking attack in which 37 Israeli civilians were killed. She is among the terrorist killers celebrated by the Palestinian Authority with monuments, summer camps and schools named in her honor.

Miftah has a long track record of promoting anti-Israel incitement and previously glorified suicide bombers for "sacrificing their lives for the cause." The group has also disseminated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on several occasions.

The congresswomen pointed out that Miftah co-sponsored a similar trip for other members of Congress in the past. However, that 2016 trip occurred a year before Israel passed its 2017 anti-BDS law — which allows Israel to reject entry to anyone tied to or actively promoting the global BDS movement.

Both Tlaib and Omar have generated controversy for some of their anti-Israel positions, including Tlaib's full support for the BDS campaign to boycott Israel and encourage business and academic institutions to divest investments in companies which do business in Israel. Tlaib compared the campaign to a boycott against Nazi Germany, while Omar has repeatedly made anti-Semitic statements including Jewish money controls American foreign policy.

Critics of BDS emphasize the program's real goal is eliminating the state of Israel. That's difficult to deny when you consider the words of BDS leader Omar Barghouti: "We oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No Palestinian, rational Palestinian, not a sell-out Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine."

Neither politician mentions Palestinian terrorism or Palestinian incitement or Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel a Jewish state as obstacles to peace in the region. "The occupation is real; barring members of Congress from seeing it does not make it go away. We must end it together," Omar said on Monday. This one-sided sentiment does not sound like someone who earlier boasted of meeting "with constituents holding a wide range of views on the conflict." Either Omar self-selected which constituents she'd meet with or she fully ignores the views of Israel supporters.

During the press conference, Omar argued that U.S. assistance to Israel should be contingent on how Palestinians are treated and questioned continued aid in response to Israel's ban on the congresswomen: "We give Israel more than $3 (billion) in aid every year. This is predicated on them being an important ally in the region and the only democracy in the Middle East. But denying a visit to duly elected members of Congress is not consistent with being an ally and denying millions of people freedom of movement or expression or self-determination is not consistent with being a democracy."

Omar sarcastically references Israel as "the only democracy in the Middle East" using hand quotes. Depending on how one defines democracy, it is true that there are other democratically elected leaders in the region including Tunisia, Turkey, and Iraq. However, according to prominent indices measuring freedom worldwide, Israel remains the region's sole liberal democracy.

The opposite is true for the Palestinian territories, whose governments systematically repress dissent and stifle many freedoms of expression and association, according to Human Rights Watch. On the same day as the anti-Israel press conference, PA police prohibited a Palestinian LGBT group from organizing any activities in the West Bank. The police even threatened to arrest the activists, arguing that their agenda is against the "values of Palestinian society." Israel, on the other hand, is one of the friendliest countries in the world when it comes to LGBT issues. But you won't hear these two congresswomen cite this huge distinction between Israeli and Palestinian society.

Instead, the act continued. Tlaib appeared surprised when asked about the controversy surrounding Miftah.

"So we're also taken aback and learn from everybody else that there was some issues regarding it. Again, I think especially Ilhan Omar and I are extremely careful in vetting because there is a close eye and policing of our actions that is so much more weighted on us than any other members," Tlaib answered.

"Extremely careful in vetting?" If Tlaib is so careful about who she associates with, then why does she continuously surround herself with Islamists who espouse anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist views? Either Tlaib failed to properly vet her go-to entourage or she endorses what prominent U.S.-based Islamists consistently spew.

In April, she met with an American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) delegation. Several AMP leaders, including its chairman and its executive director, previously worked with a group called the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which served as the propaganda arm of a Muslim Brotherhood-run Hamas-support network in the United States. According to an IPT exclusive, Tlaib was caught smiling in photographs with anti-Israel terrorist supporters twice this year.

Tlaib has also expressed a need to "protect" anti-Israel figures like CAIR leader Zahra Billoo.

Billoo, like other U.S. Islamist figures, consistently opposes any type of engagement or interfaith dialogue with organizations that maintain ties to Israel. She's at least honest enough not to hide her hate, admitting that she does not believe Israel has a right to exist. She has repeatedly condemned Muslim leaders as illegitimate if they oppose BDS. Like core BDS supporters, Tlaib similarly has advocated for a "one-state solution" — which is essentially the destruction of the Jewish state.

BDS is considered anti-Semitic because it singles out the world's only Jewish state.

We have yet to see Tlaib and Omar stand on a podium and hold a news conference against any other Middle East government with far worse human rights records than the Jewish state..

Steven Emerson is an internationally recognized expert on terrorism and national security and considered one of the leading world authorities on Islamic extremist networks, financing and operations. He now serves as the Executive Director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, one of the world's largest archival data and intelligence institutes on Islamic and Middle Eastern terrorist groups.

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The Islamic State group has weaponized children

Photo: Voice of America (CC0)

Mia Bloom, Georgia State University

In claiming responsibility for the attack in Manchester at an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, the Islamic State group has sunk to a new low.

We have seen terrorists target venues where young people congregate before – shopping malls, discos and schools. If IS was indeed involved, they have now deliberately targeted young children, tweens and teens and their parents in a horrific attack that has killed 22 as of this writing and wounded 59. The attacker used a nail bomb to maximize the carnage.

Through my research I have gained access to the Islamic State’s encrypted online propaganda platform, a channel on the Telegram app, where last night in the aftermath of the attack, IS supporters disseminated images of dead children from Mosul, saying, “The West’s children would not be safe if their (children) were not.”

This echoed a sentiment I heard many years ago when writing my book “Dying to Kill” about suicide attackers. In August 2001, a Jordanian woman named Ahlam al Tamimi researched a Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem to select a time in which the maximum number of families were present. In her attack on the restaurant, 15 people were killed, including seven children and a pregnant woman. Palestinians justified the attack, saying: “If our children are not sacrosanct, neither are theirs.”

As shocking as this attack was, it follows a tradition in which terrorists target children or venues specifically to maximize killing the greatest number of young people.

Children in IS propaganda

The IS propaganda machine uses graphic images of dead children to whip up their base and motivate people from around the world to join their so-called caliphate. These images of children are intended to persuade people that moving to the IS strongholds of Raqqa, Syria or Mosul, Iraq is the only way to halt Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s slaughter of children.

During the course of research for my forthcoming book, “Small Arms: Children and Terror,” I have found that the group has also increasingly been using children as terrorist operatives, on the battlefield in mixed commando units they call Inghimasi, as propaganda disseminators, building munitions and, since December 2014, as suicide bombers.

According to a report on children and armed conflict, “In rural Aleppo, Dayr al-Zawr and rural Raqqa, the U.N. found military training of at least 124 boys between 10 and 15 years of age. The use of children as child executioners was reported and appeared in video footage in Palmyra and specific executions.”

IS has used children as young as four to execute prisoners using a remote control, and recently disseminated a video of a four-year-old shooting a prisoner in the head.

One cannot emphasize enough that there is no childhood in IS. The terrorists do not recognize the innocence of the victims at the Ariana Grande concert. The terrorists likewise do not subscribe to the notion that children have, need or deserve an idyllic period of their life in which they are to be protected and cherished.

In fact, Ali Akhbar Mahdi, a professor of religion at California State University at Northridge, argues that the word “teen” has no equivalent in Middle Eastern languages. Instead, they refer to pre-puberty, pre-youth or pre-adult. In most contexts, childhood is simply understood to be a period of time characterized by the absence of reason (‘aql).

Killing children: New norm

Terrorist targeting of children has been more common than most people realize.

For example, from Sept. 1-3, 2004, Chechen terrorists held School Number One in Beslan, Russia hostage for three days. There were 1,100 hostages in the school, including 777 children. By the end of the crisis, 384 people were dead, among them the terrorists and more than 350 civilians.

This is not exclusively a Jihadi tactic. The Oklahoma City bombing of the FBI Murrah building included a day care center. “Of the 21 children who were inside the day-care center on the morning of April 19, the morning of the bombing, 15 died, including all four of the infants by the window.”

While IS has opportunistically taken credit for the attack, we do not yet have evidence to determine whether it was a directed or inspired attack. We do know, however, that the terrorist group has manipulated, brainwashed and exploited children for their own purposes and will continue to do so.

The average age for IS suicide bombers and executioners is skewing younger and younger, and they appear to be normalizing the use of children across its affiliates. For example, the terrorist group Boko Haram has used children against soft targets, civilians and marketplaces.

IS has gone from using children to inspire adults, to manipulating children and their parents to fight alongside adults, to targeting children instead of adults. They do not consider what they have done to be truly evil, although we know it to be.

Mia Bloom, Professor of Communication, Georgia State University

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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The @UN created an exhibit dedicated to all terror victims worldwide, without including a single Israeli victim of terrorist violence.

To highlight the blatant absurdity of the UN, here’s an incomplete list of terror attacks against Israelis, by decade:🧵 

2020s

1. April 7, 2022 Tel Aviv Shooting - Casualties: 3 people killed, 6 injured - Group Responsible: Palestinian Islamic Jihad

2. November 23, 2022 Jerusalem Bus Bombing - Casualties:2 people killed, 18 injured - Group Responsible: Hamas 

3. October 7, 2023 Massacre - Casualties: Over 1,200 people killed, thousands injured, and many taken hostage - Group Responsible: Hamas, along with several other Palestinian terror groups. 

2010s

5. March 11, 2011 Itamar Attack - Casualties: 5 members of the Fogel family killed (parents and 3 children) - Group Responsible: Two Palestinian attackers, later linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

6. March 23, 2011 Jerusalem Bus 74 Bombing: - Casualties: 1 person was killed, 30 injured. - Group Responsible: Hamas.

7. November 18, 2014 Har Nof Synagogue Massacre - Casualties: 6 Israeli and 1 Druze killed - Group Responsible: Two Palestinian attackers, praised by Hamas

8. June 8, 2016 Tel Aviv Sarona Market Shooting: - Casualties: 4 people were killed. - Group Responsible: ISIS. 

2000s (Second Intifada)

9. June 1, 2001 Dolphinarium Discotheque Bombing - Casualties: 21 people killed, over 100 injured - Group Responsible: Hamas

10. August 9, 2001 Sbarro Restaurant Bombing - Casualties: 15 people killed, over 130 injured - Group Responsible: Hamas

11. January 17, 2002 Bat Mitzvah Massacre: - Casualties: 6 people killed, 33 injured.  - Group Responsible: al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.

12. March 2, 2002 Yeshivat Beit Yisrael Massacre: - Casualties: 11 people, including 7 children, killed. - Group Responsible: Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.

13. March 9, 2002 Café Moment Bombing: - Casualties: 11 people killed. - Group Responsible: Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas).

14. March 27, 2002 Park Hotel Massacre - Casualties: 30 people killed, 140 injured - Group Responsible: Hamas

15. November 15, 2002 Hebron Shooting Attack - Casualties: 12 Israeli soldiers and security personnel killed - Group Responsible: Islamic Jihad

16. November 21, 2002 Kiryat Menachem Massacre: - Casualties: 11 people killed. - Group Responsible: Hamas.

17. January 5, 2003 Tel-Aviv Central Bus Station Massacre: - Casualties: 23 people killed, over 100 injured.  - Group Responsible: Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.

18. March 5, 2003 Haifa Bus 37 Suicide Bombing: - Casualties: 17 people killed, with most victims being students from Haifa University. - Group Responsible: Hamas.

19. May 18, 2003 French Hill Suicide Bombings: - Casualties: 5 people killed - Group Responsible: Hamas - Event: A suicide bomber disguised as a religious Jew detonated on a bus. A second bomber prematurely detonated, only killing himself.

20. August 19, 2003 Shmuel HaNavi Bus Bombing: - Casualties: 24 people killed including 7 children, 130 people injured.  - Group Responsible: Hamas.

21. September 9, 2003 Tzrifin Bus Stop Attack and Café Hillel Bombing: - Casualties: 14 people killed - Responsible Group: Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs - Event: Two Palestinian suicide bombings occurred within hours of each other; one at a crowded bus stop near Tel Aviv, the other at a popular Jerusalem nightspot.

22. October 4, 2003 Maxim Restaurant Bombing: - Casualties: 21 people killed, over 60 injured.  - Group Responsible: Islamic Jihad.

23. December 25, 2003 Geha Interchange Bus Stop Bombing: - Casualties: 3 people killed - Responsible Group: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

24. March 14, 2004 Ashdod Port Attack: - Casualties: 10 people killed, over 23 injured. - Responsible Group: Hamas and Farah.

25. August 31, 2004 Beersheba Bus Bombing: - Casualties: 16 people killed, over 100 injured - Responsible Group: Hamas.

26. February 24, 2005 Stage Club Bombing: - Casualties: 5 people killed, over 50 injured. - Responsible Group: Hamas. 

1980s - 1990s

27. 1987-1993 First Intifada - Casualties: Hundreds of Israelis, both civilians and soldiers, killed over 1,400 injured - Group Responsible: Various Palestinian groups including Hamas and Islamic Jihad

28. October 19, 1994 Dizengoff Street Bus Bombing - Casualties: 22 people killed, 50 injured - Group Responsible: Hamas

29. January 22, 1995 Beit Lid Suicide Bombings - Casualties: 21 Israeli soldiers and 1 civilian killed, over 60 injured - Group Responsible: Islamic Jihad

30. July 30, 1997 Mahane Yehuda Market Bombings - Casualties: 16 people killed, 178 injured - Group Responsible: Hamas 

1970s

31. May 22, 1970 Avivim School Bus Massacre: - Casualties: 12 people, with 9 victims being children. - Responsible Group: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command.

32. May 30, 1972 Lod Airport Massacre - Casualties: 26 people killed, 80 injured - Group Responsible: Japanese Red Army, in collaboration with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

33. September 5-6 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre - Casualties: 11 Israeli athletes and coaches killed - Group Responsible: Black September (Palestinian terrorist group)

34. April 11, 1974 Kiryat Shmona Massacre: - Casualties: 18 people killed with 8 victims being children, over 16 wounded. - Responsible Group: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command.

35. May 15, 1974 Ma'alot Massacre - Casualties: 31 people, including 22 schoolchildren, killed. - Group Responsible: Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)

36. July 4, 1975 Zion Square Massacre: - Casualties: 15 people killed, 77 wounded. - Responsible Group: Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).

37. March 11, 1978 Coastal Road Massacre - Casualties: 38 Israeli civilians killed, 71 injured - Group Responsible: Fatah (a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization) 

1950s and 1960s

38. Fedayeen Raids (1950s): - Description: A series of cross-border attacks by Arab militants (Fedayeen) from neighboring countries, targeting Israeli civilians and military personnel. These raids included shootings, bombings, and infiltrations, leading to significant Israeli casualties.

38. March 17, 1954 Ma'ale Akrabim Massacre: - Casualties: 11 Israeli civilians killed - Description: A bus traveling from Eilat to Tel Aviv was ambushed by Palestinian militants who shot and killed most of the passengers.

39. November 23, 1964 Latrun Convoy Attack: - Casualties: 11 Israeli civilians killed - Description: A civilian convoy was ambushed by Palestinian militants near Latrun, resulting in multiple deaths.

End 🧵 

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Where Do You Think We Live?

I’ve been writing regularly for fifteen years, and to my very great sorrow, there is one story that I find myself writing over and over. Here is the 19 December 2021 version:

On Thursday night, three yeshiva students were riding in a car near Homesh, which is in Samaria northwest of Shechem (the site of the biblical story of the rape of Dina and the “disproportionate” reaction of her brothers Shimon and Levi). Arab terrorists fired on the car from ambush with automatic weapons, killing Yehuda Dimentman, 25 years old, married and the father of an 9-month old child, and wounding two others.

Last night, the terrorists that carried out the attack and those that helped them were arrested in a joint operation of the IDF, the Border Police, and the Shabak (general security agency). What this usually means is that they were taken into custody by a special unit of the Border Police known as the Yamam, on intelligence provided by the Shabak, with security support from the IDF.

The process of identifying, locating, and capturing terrorists has been developed to an extent probably unmatched anywhere else in the world. The technological and operational abilities of Israel’s security forces are extraordinary. But after this point, Israel’s ability to deal with terrorism falls apart.

When Yamam operators call out a terror suspect, there are several possible outcomes. Sometimes they surrender (one officer told me that “sometimes the tough terrorists cry for their mothers”), and sometimes they open fire. Almost invariably, the latter scenario ends with the terrorists dead and the officers unhurt. The officers are extremely professional and don’t shoot when it isn’t necessary. Lately it seems that the terrorists have come to understand that, and give up peacefully.

And then? Yehuda Dimentman is dead, his wife is a young widow and his child does not have a father. His murderers will be tried, convicted and sent to prison, probably with life sentences. This usually will be reduced to 20-25 years, with eligibility for parole after two-thirds of the sentence has been served (multiple murderers usually get multiple consecutive life sentences). This, of course, assumes that there is no “prisoner exchange” – which would better be called a ransoming of hostages – beforehand.

There have been several such exchanges, with the best known being the 2011 trade of 1027 Arab prisoners for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. One of the released prisoners was Ahlam al-Tamimi, who masterminded the 2001 Sbarro Pizza bombing in which 17 Israelis died and numerous others were injured. Tamimi was sentenced to 16 life sentences (one of her victims died only recently). Although she is wanted for murder by the US (several of her victims were American citizens), Jordan refuses to honor its extradition treaty, and she remains free as a Jordanian media celebrity. Most security prisoners believe that they, too, will not need to finish their sentences.

While they are in prison, Arab security prisoners enjoy conditions far better than most Jewish criminals. They are housed together with other members of their factions, to avoid friction. Prison authorities allow the prisoners to be more or less autonomous, negotiating with the leaders of the factions – who are essentially the commanders of the terror groups – for the conditions in the prison. In the most disgraceful and embarrassing incident in the history of the Prison Service, female guards were deliberately ordered to work in areas near “important” prisoners who then sexually assaulted them.

As is well known, the Palestinian Authority (PA) pays generous salaries to the families of prisoners, with a sliding scale based on the length of their sentences. In the case of the bombing of the Sbarro Pizza parlor, as of 2019, mastermind Ahlam Tamimi, the family of suicide bomber Izz Al-Din Al-Masri, and bomb maker Abdullah Barghouti, had received a total of $910,823 for their bloody work. The payments haven’t stopped. Although the US passed a law – the Taylor Force Act, named after an American murdered by terrorists in Israel – the Biden Administration has resumed aid to the PA. And although the Israeli Knesset passed a similar law, requiring that the amount of such payments be deducted from tax revenues that Israel collects on behalf of the PA, the government decided to make up the amount deducted with a “loan” to the PA!

When terrorists are released, they return home to a hero’s welcome. The Palestinian media and school systems present them, especially the ones who were “martyred” in the commission of their acts, as examples for young people to follow. Indeed, dying while trying to murder Jews has become the most popular form of suicide for mentally unstable Arab teens or women who have “dishonored” their families and have no place to go.

Although the houses of terrorists are sometimes destroyed, the Supreme Court often refuses to allow house demolitions. And when it is allowed, the Palestinian Authority provides a new house. Attempts to expel the families of terrorists, take away work permits from relatives, or close roads to towns where terrorists live have been stymied by legal objections as “collective punishment.”

I ask our leaders and legal scholars: where do you think we live, in Scandinavia, Switzerland, or Canada? What message are we sending to the terrorists when we make their jail time as pleasant as possible, even including providing girls for them to abuse? What do they learn when we tell them that we refuse to finance terror, and then “loan” them $500 million to make up for payments withheld? The PA is in essence Fatah, the movement of Yasser Arafat, dedicated to our destruction. Hamas is radical Islamist movement, with the same objective. Why do we negotiate with them, transfer money for them, provide electricity and water for them, do anything at all except fight them and kill them?

Arab terrorists are attacking us on the roads on a daily basis, throwing large rocks and firebombs that can and have killed drivers and passengers, laying ambushes and trying to lynch us, and from time to time spraying us with bullets as happened to Yehuda Dimentman. They stab us in the streets of our capital city, claim our holy sites as their own, teach their children to murder, and always, above all, look for soft targets. This behavior is familiar to anyone who has read the Bible: it is the behavior of Amalek.

They are our enemies, but we have forgotten what an enemy is. We have forgotten that when you are faced with an enemy, you kill him or he kills you. It is not as complicated as people think. We are physically strong enough to win, to crush Hamas and the PLO, and expel them from our homeland. What we lack is the will, not only the will to crush our enemies for once and for all, but even the will to execute murderers and punish the families and clans that support them.

This isn’t Scandinavia, nor Switzerland, nor Canada. If we want to survive here, we need to regain the respect that we have lost as a result of our spiritual weakness. How do we do that? A step at a time. Start with executing terrorist murderers, then punish their families, their clans, their hometowns. Make terrorism more painful for them than for us. Respond disproportionately to provocations like rocket attacks. Don’t make threats that aren’t carried out. Above all, remember why we are here – and the consequences of giving up.

Abu Yehuda

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Hamas Celebrates ‘Joyous’ 2001 Suicide Bombing that Killed 15 Israelis

TEL AVIV — The Gaza Strip-based Hamas terror group last week celebrated the 16th anniversary of a suicide attack in Jerusalem that left 15 Israelis dead and 130 wounded. The group marked the August 9, 2001, attack on the Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem with a post on the website of Hamas’s television channel celebrating the guitar case in which the bomb used in the attack was hidden. The post was headlined “The Sbarro operation – The guitar that shook the [Zionist] entity and reaped 20 Zionists,” according to a translation by Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli nonprofit tracking Palestinian media. According to the TV station’s post, “Aug. 9, 2001, was not an ordinary day in the memory of the Zionist entity’s leaders… “When the Sbarro restaurant on Jaffa Street in occupied Jerusalem was full of Zionist settlers at lunchtime, Martyrdom-Seeker from [Hamas’ military wing Izz A-Din] Al-Qassam Brigades, Izz Al-Din Al-Masri [the suicide bomber who murdered 15 people, 7 of them children] had an opportunity to mingle with them together with his booby-trapped guitar, and playing the melodies of revenge on those who defiled the land, and violated [Palestinian] blood and honor…” Israel, the post continued, “was [READ MORE HERE]