Palestinian teenager shot in clash, dies of wounds (AP)
Palestinian teen killed after throwing firebombs (JTA)
A Palestinian youth throws a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli army vehicle during a protest against the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 3 [2008]. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has pushed Israel and the Palestinians to renew peace talks that were dealt a major blow by Israel's deadly assault on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. (AFP/Musa Al-Shaer)
The word firebomb means a "molotov cocktail." You know, like the ones thrown into a synagogue in southern Sweden (Jan09), at the home of an Israeli employee of Hillel in Rhode Island (Mar08), at a gas station in Jerusalem (Jan08), at vehicles in Ariel and Bet Horon (Dec07), into a Jewish school in Montreal (Sep06) . . . . and so on.
And who could forget Sigal and Shalev Egozi? Oh whoops; their names and faces - and their story - have been removed from YouTube. But, please Gd, not from our minds and hearts.
I wrote about it at the time I first learned the Egozis' story -- from the 2003 film, Relentless.
.... Take the scene in Relentless, where a lovely, soft-spoken American immigrant to Israel, Sherri Mandell, quietly tells how her 13-year-old son, Koby, went on a hike one day with his friend Yossi. The two were found by Palestinian terrorists along the way, and consequently bludgeoned to death. The boys� bodies were found in a cave, their skulls crushed and their blood smeared on the walls. Chuck Davis says this film is "fear-mongering propaganda." I disagree. I think it is simply, truly frightening.
The film also shows a young Israeli child who was terribly burned by a Molotov cocktail thrown into her moving car by Palestinian terrorists. She was strapped into her car seat at the time, so her parents couldn't easily extricate her when she caught on fire. We saw the child's bandage-masked face and heard her mother explain how the child's fingers on one hand were so badly burned that they fell off.
Not one person who spoke in the Boulder Theatre, after seeing this child, objected to that. Not one of your compassionate liberals ... not one, spoke of their outrage. Not one stood up and said this must stop! They talked about love and peace and non-violence and embracing terrorists and so on, but not one stood up against what was done to these children. And not only do they not object, but they can find the most amazing ways to justify it. It is a Talmudic teaching brought to life: "If you are compassionate to the cruel, you will become cruel to the compassionate."
In his letter, Chuck Davis accuses the filmmakers of "half truths and exaggerations," and says he still cannot get rid of his "almost sick feeling about the tenor and the content of the film." I would say that the sick feeling comes, not from a half truth, but from a whole truth, one that people seemingly can't come to grips with: Way too many Arabs are mad to kill Jews, and want to eradicate the state of Israel.
Someone called "Rio" recently posted this comment at that last link:
I’m not a conservative, I’m not a Republican, I’m not a Jew, I’m not a practicing Christian in any way, I’m one of those guys who just happens to be Catholic because he was born into a Catholic family, I don’t like Bush at all, and I never voted for him. But this movie is the real deal. I don’t care that Fox pushes it, this is what happens in Israel. The border between Israel and Palestine, is the border between civilization and barbarism....
Good point. Makes you wonder where the Ass Press - and the majority of American Jews - sit [ישב] with regard to that border.
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