Released: April 2, 2009
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Winston Mid East Analysis & Commentary April 2, 2009 Email: winston@winstonglobal.org
2 Boys Attacked By Axe-Wielding Terrorist in Bat Ayin, Gush Etzion by Gail & Emanuel A. Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentators
Bad News Just In! 2 Boys Were Attacked By Axe-Wielding Arab Muslim Terrorists in the Gush Etzion Community of Bat Ayin at 12:03 PM Israel time.
Shlomo Nativ, Ben Chaim and Ravital, A 13 year old boy is dead, May G-d avenge his blood. And the 7 Year Old Boy, Ya’ir Ben Ofer Gamliel, is at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital
First Reports: Boys Hit With An Axe in the Head - and Shots were heard.
On Israel Television the Roads Are Closed and heavy Traffic Being Diverted as the Army and Police with Helicopter Search for Terrorist(s).
We’ll try to update as available. The world should be crying and praying!
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Update at 2 pm Israel Time:
Teenage boy, Shlomo Nativ, was 13 years old, murdered by an axe-wielding Arab Terrorist. The 7 year old, Ofer Ben Gamliel, was stabbed with a knife and is in light to moderate condition after being reported as seriously wounded. Both boys were rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem.
A resident who identified himself as Avinoam, told Israel TV Channel 10 "I approached him, and he turned toward me and tried to attack me with the axe. I grabbed his hand, we struggled. At a certain point I managed to get the axe out of his hand. I was on the ground and the man managed to escape. I saw in his eyes the urge to kill."
So much for a minimal objective report...
My personal opinion is that this murder is the result of the lax accommodation Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak have given to regional Muslim Arabs in their plans to push Jews out of Judea and Samaria - including the Gush Etzion region, considered a "consensus" area by most Israelis.
Olmert, Barak and Livni have removed checkpoints to satisfy President Barack Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton, thereby encouraging the Muslims to increase their murderous marauding.
For whatever reason, I recall how the Soviet/Russians responded when their diplomats were taken hostage in Beirut by Arab Terrorists. The Soviets simply sent out their own operatives to capture some of the Arab Terrorists. The Soviets simply hacked them into pieces, put them into gunny sacks and had them delivered to some of the Muslim Arab PLO leaders. The message was received and the Soviet diplomats were released. (Sounds like a plan to me.)
Should the Terrorist who used an axe and knife on young boys be captured, he should be summarily executed before the Leftist Courts shield him for future release and the pieces of his body sent to the Arab village Muktars as the message of righteous retribution.
I would not count on Bibi Netanyahu in his first day as Israel's newest Prime Minister, or Barak, Peres, the Leftist Courts to bring justice to the perpetrators and their handlers. The Arab Muslim Palestinians, whether they be Fatah, Hamas or Other have been taught that they can kill Jewish children with impunity. That must be stopped!
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Please say t'hillim (prayers) for Ya'ir ben Ofer Gamliel for a fast refuah sh'lema (healing) He is the 7 yr old who was attacked 3 hrs ago by an axe-wielding Arab in Bat-Ayin (SW of Jerusalem).
And with our prayers Hashem will revenge the blood of Shlomo Nativ, the murdered 13-yr-old.
http://www.inn.co.il/News/Flash.aspx/248510
English: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130730
Further comment by the Winstons:
In the days of the British Mandate, when one of the British soldiers or officers was killed by Arabs, the British would level their village as a clear message of punishment. Please note the following article: “How the British Fought Arab Terror in Jenin” by Dr. Rafael Medoff April 21, 2002
(IsraelNN.com) Demolishing the homes of Arab civilians? Shooting handcuffed prisoners? Forcing local Arabs to test areas where mines may have been planted? These sound like the sort of accusations made by British and other European officials concerning Israel's recent actions in Jenin. In fact, they are descriptions from official British documents concerning the methods used by the British authorities to combat Palestinian Arab terrorism in Jenin and elsewhere in 1938.
The documents were declassified by London in 1989. They provide details of the British Mandatory government's response to the assassination of a British district commissioner by a Palestinian Arab terrorist in Jenin in the summer of 1938. Even after the suspected assassin was captured (and then shot dead while allegedly trying to escape), the British authorities decided that a large portion of the town should be blown up as punishment.
On August 25 of that year, a British convoy brought 4,200 kilos of explosives to Jenin for that purpose. In the Jenin operation and on other occasions, local Arabs were forced to drive mine-sweeping taxis ahead of British vehicles in areas where Palestinian Arab terrorists were believed to have planted mines, in order to reduce [British] land mine casualties. The British authorities frequently used these and similar methods to combat Palestinian Arab terrorism in the late 1930s. British forces responded to the presence of terrorists in the Arab village of Miar, north of Haifa, by blowing up house after house in October 1938. When the troops left, there was little else remaining of the once busy village except a pile of mangled masonry, the New York Times reported. The declassified documents refer to an incident in Jaffa in which a handcuffed prisoner was shot by the British police.
Under Emergency Regulation 19b, the British Mandate government could demolish any house located in a village where terrorists resided, even if that particular house had no direct connection to terrorist activity. Mandate official Hugh Foot later recalled: When we thought that a village was harbouring rebels, we'd go there and mark one of the large houses. Then, if an incident was traced to that village, we'd blow up the house we'd marked. The High Commissioner for Palestine, Harold MacMichael, defended the practice: The provision is drastic, but the situation has demanded drastic powers. MacMichael was furious over what he called the grossly exaggerated accusations that England's critics were circulating concerning British anti-terror tactics in Palestine. Arab allegations that British soldiers gouged out the eyes of Arab prisoners were quoted prominently in the Nazi German press and elsewhere.
The declassified documents also record discussions among officials of the Colonial Office concerning the anti-terror methods used in Palestine. Lord Dufferin remarked: “British lives are being lost and I don't think that we, from the security of Whitehall, can protest squeamishly about measures taken by the men in the frontline.” Sir John Shuckburgh defended the tactics on the grounds that “the British were confronted not with a chivalrous opponent playing the game according to the rules, but with gangsters and murderers.”
There were many differences between British policy in the 1930s and Israeli policy today, but two stand out. The first is that the British, faced with a level of Palestinian Arab terrorism considerably less lethal than that which Israel faces today, nevertheless utilized anti-terror methods considerably harsher than those used by Israeli forces. The second is that when the situation became unbearable, the British could go home; the Israelis, by contrast, have no other place to go.
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Dr. Medoff is Visiting Scholar in the Jewish Studies Program at SUNY-Purchase. His most recent book is Baksheesh Diplomacy: Secret Negotiations Between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of World War II (Lexington Books, 2001).
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