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My thoughts, assertions and observations on issues important to me as a Jew, a Zionist, a Revenant in Yesha and as an inquisitive human being.
About Me
- YMedad
- Shiloh, Benjamin District, Samaria, Israel
- American born, my wife and I moved to Israel in 1970. We have lived at Shiloh together with our family since 1981. I was in the Betar youth movement in the US and UK. I have worked as a political aide to Members of Knesset and a Minister during 1981-1994, lectured at the Academy for National Studies 1977-1994, was director of Israel's Media Watch 1995-2000 and currently, I work at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. I was a guest media columnist on media affairs for The Jerusalem Post, op-ed contributor to various journals and for six years had a weekly media show on Arutz 7 radio. I serve as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish Communities in Judea & Samaria.
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01.25.2009 | The Toronto Star
By Oakland Ross
MIDDLE EAST BUREAU
ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip–Two young Palestinian sisters are dead and another is critically injured as a result of what family members are calling a deliberate attack carried out by an Israeli soldier.
The girls' grandmother was also severely wounded in the same incident, they say.
"It was an execution," said Hosam Abed Rabbo, an uncle of the three girls, who was with them when they were shot at around 1 p.m. on Jan. 7, days after Israeli forces launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip aimed at stopping Palestinian militants from firing rockets across the border.
"We didn't know what to do," he added.
As he described the incident, Abed Rabbo was standing amid the wreckage of a neighbourhood that once was home to 7,000 people, most of them members of the Abed Rabbo clan, who lend the area its name.
The community, which was destroyed earlier this month by Israeli bombardment, adjoins the large Jebaliya refugee camp located south of Gaza City and is within sight of Gaza's border with Israel.
Abed Rabbo said he and other family members were in their home in a five-storey apartment building when Israeli tanks entered the area. A voice in Arabic boomed over a loudspeaker, advising residents to flee for their safety because the neighbourhood was to be attacked by Israeli forces.
Carrying a white flag, Abed Rabbo and nine family members left their home, meaning to flee, but quickly confronted three Israeli tanks parked near their house.
"There were two soldiers sitting on one of the tanks," said Abed Rabbo. "They were eating chips. They looked at us. We expected them to tell us where to go."
But that is not what took place.
"Suddenly, by surprise, a soldier came out of the turret, out to his waist," said Abed Rabbo. "He got an M-16, and he started shooting at us. He shot the kids."
Hit were Souad, 7, Samar, 4, and Amal, 2, all nieces of Abed Rabbo. His mother – the girls' grandmother – was also hit, suffering three bullet wounds. Her name is also Souad.
He said he and the other adults pulled their wounded family members back into their apartment building. By this time, the younger Souad was dead. Amal died about 10 minutes later, he said.
They called for an ambulance, but none came. They waited, terrified, for two and a half hours, until a voice in Hebrew ordered everyone out, because their houses were to be destroyed. The family carried their dead and wounded for two kilometres, Abed Rabbo said, until they found an ambulance.
The Abed Rabbo neighbourhood was subsequently destroyed by Israeli bombardment and is now a wasteland of smashed concrete and uprooted trees.
A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces said yesterday it does not target civilians and struck only at Hamas installations during the Gaza war. He said claims of civilian casualties are being investigated.
And how about this?
Or this> (this one is saying in Hebrew: "We came to exterminate you" and "Ismail Haniye is a son of a whore" (a tame one, this)).
Tell me, Yisrael, aren't you a tiny bit afraid about what this all is doing to our humanity? Aren't you worried about what soldiers who do these things turn into? Forget for a second about the God, think in immediate human terms.
So i see the thing you are concerned about is your life? It's naive to think that you can kill your way to safety.
Btw, the Israeli government is of the same evil nature. No difference
If you were concerned you could at least put something about it on your blog, a wake up call. I don't buy your concern.
But what goes around comes around. Things we do to others will come back to us, sometimes in unexpected ways. When all the soldiers who committed war crimes in Gaza come back home, it is the Israeli society that will have to figure out what to do about its psyche.
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