Disturbing murders

JPost has this headline: Jewish terrorist Eden Tzuberi kills 4 on Shfaram bus ... but I'm not so sure these murders were of the "terrorist" variety.

ter·ror·ism n. - The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

It bothers me that the Post is so anxious to call this man a "Jewish terrorist," without first knowing why he did what he did. It doesn't matter what will be found out as the investigation proceeds; the damage done by the headline makes it a "fact," in today's terms.

JPost continues:

The shooter, Eden Tzuberi, 19, was also killed when he was assaulted by a mob of furious bystanders and witnesses. A crowd of thousands gathered around the site of the attack and surrounded the bus, where the attacker's body still lay until police removed it nearly five hours after the incident....

Former OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. (Res.) Yom-Tov Samiyah said the shooting attack should not be isolated from the pending disengagement. He linked the attack to attempts by radicals to target different sectors of the public to divert security forces from the evacuation of settlements.

Perfect chance to demonize the opponents of disengagement, whether what the Major General says is true or not. On the other hand, we hear from the "far-right":

Ikutiel Ben Yaacov, the founder of the far-right Jewish Legion group based in the West Bank settlement of Tapuah, shared police suspicions that such an attack might be aimed at disrupting Israel's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

"We hope that Tzuberi's death will not have been in vain," said Ben Yaacov, and added that "his murder will derail this sadistic disengagement plan."

If anything, it seems to me it will give the Left a huge boost of hatred toward the settlers, the religious, and the political right wing.

And this is very weird: the article stated (above) that police did not remove Tzuberi's body for five hours, yet later on in the article,

An enraged witness to the incident said, "If this attack had occurred in a Jewish neighborhood and the attacker was Arab, he would have been killed immediately. The police came and they didn't do anything!" he said. "The police didn't even shoot the attacker – they were holding him alive in the bus."

If they were holding him alive in the bus, how did the Arab mob get hold of him and kill him? And why did it take the police five hours to retrieve his body?

All very confusing, and of course, disgusting and reprehensible all the way around. And on top of the story the other day about an Israeli Jew helping the Netanya bombers, I would have to say, Es vert mir finster in di oygen - It's getting dark in my eyes.

UPDATE: Just got this via the Voice of Judea mailing list. It's by Yekutiel ben Yaakov, perhaps the Tapuach man quoted by JPost above?

Eden Natan Zada, a 19 year old Israeli soldier was murdered and lynched by a violent Arab mob in Shfaram after he allegedly opened fire on a bus, killing several Arab passengers. Police cuffed and arrested Eden, and later allowed the mob to lynch him. This was still not sufficient to calm the Arab marauders down. An Arab doctor was then permitted to come on the bus to make certain that Eden was in fact dead.

This too was not enough as the crowd danced and stormed the bus. The police allowed this wild mob to control the area and the bus for several hours, until they stepped in to remove the Jewish body from
the bus. The police moved in only after Jewish civilians threatened to extricate the body and to storm into Shefaram. Five minutes after the Jewish threat was given, the cops sent in specially trained riot
police to restore some peace and order to the area around the bus.

Eden's friends and family described him as being a shy, kind hearted and modest Jew, who was returning to his Jewish roots and as a person who would not harm a fly.

Eden had been carrying out a stubborn struggle over recent months against his draft into the IDF during the disengagement period. He repeatedly pleaded with IDF recruitment officers not to draft him. Nobody listened. He was drafted. He continued to beg and cry to be relieved of duty so as not to carry out the "historic crime." Nobody listened to his plea. He ran away from the army on three seperate occasions and sat in jail in two of those instances in his battle to be free from participating in the disengagement expulsion plan.

Voice of Judea commentary:

Who is the real killer here? Who forced Eden to join the IDF and to violate his conscience? Who armed him, in spite of his repeated warnings? How many other Edens are out there who are torn and tormented over the role they are being forced to play in the disengagement?

This tragic incident should serve as a wake up call to Sharon to return to his senses and to permit the people of Israel to decide their own destiny. This incident should prove to all of us that Sharon can't force a majority of Israelis who are opposed to the disengagement to carry out what they feel to be his treasonous dirty work. This incident should serve as a wake up call for Sharon to listen to the pleading of the majority of his nation and of his soldiers? Somebody needs to listen to the soldiers and to hear their
pain. It is very easy to threaten jail terms to soldiers who refuse to serve now and it is easy to condemn Eden. Even Eden's neighbors in Tapuach are distancing themselves from him.

Eden was no more than a small pawn in a satanic chess game. Eden and those he killed were the first casualties in Sharon's sadistic disengagement plan. What will it take for Sharon to listen? If people are not allowed to democratically vote against his horrific plan, there will no doubt be other tormented souls who will speak through their rifles. Sharon - wake up and postpone the disengagemnet until a referendum is held. In the meantime, listen to your soldiers and free those who wish to be released. To vote in an independent referendum visit www.mishal.org

One other point needs to be made: In the past there have been many cases where Arab terrorists murdererd Jews and were protected from angry Jewish bystanders. How many times have we heard the brave policeman speak of a fair trial, law and order and all of the other fine words to justify their protection of the Arab terrorists, often at great personal risk to themselves. It is shameful that in a land
that calls itself a [;and] of law, order and democracy that a mob of criminals were permitted to carry out a pre-trial mob lynch of a suspect. It is mind boggling to consider the police allowing this mob to control the scene for hours. It is no less outrageous to consider the fact that a doctor was permitted to participate in the lynching ceremony to formally pronounce Eden dead.

Oy, what can we do but mourn the loss of life and pray for moral and ethical clarity? And peace in Jerusalem. Amen.

Comments

[Dan Marsden]

Oh so when a Jewish TERRORIST kills innocent Arabs (if they exist, in your books) he must've had a good reason and we should sympathize with whatever reasons he had, but when an Arab terrorist kills innocent Jews (apparently in your book Jews are always innocent, even the "terrorist" kind..) there is no questioning that he was an anti-Semite, hateful, bloodthirsty terrorist... I see. I know you won't like this comment and will probably delete it. But it goes to show the moral low you and your kind have attained.

[RR]

Dan -- did you read the part about "disgusting and reprehensible all the way around"?

[Maurice]

Dan can't read, RR. That's why he frames the word Israel with apostrophes/quotes on his own pro-Palestine blog. He doesn't know that Israel is a legitimate nation but I bet he knows what functional apartheid means, which is what the neo-klepto soon-to-be-state of Palestine is doing to Israel considering his pet Arabs want their state to be "judenrein". Uh-oh, that's another word Dan will have to look up. Him and his kind that can't read, that is.