Attack's place

Commemorized:

1. International Relations Director Builders of Zion
   20/01/2008  Sandra Warmoth  sandra@buildersofzion.org
   I am a Christian Zionist who is also a journalist. I wrote this story after the incident happened. May HaShem continue to Bless my Jewish Brethren who are standing on His Promises in Eretz Yisra'el.
   
   Shalom uvracha,
   Sandra Warmoth
   
   March 1997
   
   A Hook in Their Jaws: The Battle for Jerusalem Begins
   
   While watchmen on the walls of
   Jerusalem are giving G-d no rest day or
   night until He makes the City a praise in
   all the earth, the Islamic world and its
   many allies are chomping down on the
   Hook that will draw the nations into the
   Valley of Decision.
   
   Like a volcano imminently waiting to
   spew forth its fiery lava upon the
   innocent villagers below, the Muslim
   community fixed its gaze on the
   bulldozers chugging into the heavily
   guarded Har Homa site in Israel's
   Capital, Jerusalem, to make way for a
   planned Jewish neighborhood. When the
   scoops hit the dirt Islam's hot wrath
   erupted upon the returned Remnant.
   
   It all began with politically orchestrated
   “palestinian” Arab protests, which soon intensified. The entire world had to
   “witness” that Israel was once again
   “agitating Muslim sensitivities.” No
   matter that the Jewish State has been
   hosting Her Muslim “guests” since 1948,
   when they squatted in the Land of Milk
   and Honey looking for jobs as Israel
   built Her Country. No matter that Israel
   has continually provided State-sponsored
   programs to help Her “guests” attain a
   good standard of living, in spite of their
   Muslim leaders insisting they remain in
   squalid refugee camps to draw
   international sympathy and further the
   Islamic cause. No matter that Israel
   most recently offered to build Arab
   housing on State-owned Land, which
   amounts to 700 more dwellings than what is being built for the Jews on Har
   Homa. No matter the numerous one-sided concessions Israel has already made and keeps on making in pursuit of
   an ever evasive “peace” with Her Arab
   and Muslim neighbors and “guests,”
   who have unquenchable appetites.
   
   No! This was a crisis... another Arab
   crisis. And as an “an act of self-
   defense,” as “palestinian” Authority
   Official Farouk Kaddoumi would say,
   the suicide bombers had to be unleashed.
   
   The scene was a familiar one: Jewish
   children picking out festive Purim
   costumes. Parents getting ready for the
   next day’s holiday in which the Book of
   Esther is recounted and the power of
   good triumphing over the forces of evil
   is celebrated. The sunny day was
   winding up and friends just couldn’t resist but to gather for coffee and
   conversation at the Apropos Cafe in central Tel-Aviv.
   
   Mohammed Abdel
   Khader Animat thought it perfect, too, to
   sport his best outfit and venture out on a
   journey to “paradise.”
   
   Paradise is everywhere to be found in
   Israel. G-d's hand is on everything there.
   It can be found in the Judaean desert
   when it’s abloom with brilliant flowers.
   Or along the Mediterranean where the
   waves wash weakly upon the seashore.
   It is seen atop the Golan Heights, the
   Levitical City of Refuge, peering over
   the Middle Eastern landscape. Or in the
   heart of the Jewish People singing and
   dancing throughout the Yeshuves and
   the Old City streets.
   
   So, saying goodbye to his wife and four
   children, Mr. Animat left his village of
   Sourif nearby Hebron in search of
   “paradise.”
   
   “Paradise,” as it were, would be reached
   from inside Israel “proper,” in Tel-Aviv.
   Mr. Animat knew it wouldn't be too
   difficult getting into Israel's largest city
   because he did it every day, for somehow
   he obtained employment there without
   having the necessary permits. And with
   the pre-holiday hustle and bustle --
   people showing off their costume purchases and planning their Purim parties and all -- who would even notice
   him and his two large bags anyway. Besides, reflecting on last year, it would
   be such an appropriate time, too.
   
   Mr. Animat and his two bags did, indeed, show up in Tel-Aviv. He even
   stopped for a spell at that cozy cafe, the
   Apropos Cafe, just two blocks down
   from Yizchak Rabin Square -- a site
   commemorating the Jewish leader who
   made exceptional strides toward the
   “peace that has arrived” in Israel.
   
   The view atop the balcony was quite
   nice; but only a moment to savor it,
   though, because Mr. Animat really did
   have to be on his way.
   
   Excuse me, sir. Uh, sir! You forgot
   your ba....
   
   Restaurant furniture flying. Storefront windows shattering. Building materials tumbling. Pieces of precious persons…
   
   Sirens.
   
   Three Israeli women – one with child – gone. Sixty people who were on their way to candy shops and florists, or gabbing over tea with friends; the businessmen bustling by, the man on the scooter … the six-month old baby in the Purim clown costume – burnt, bleeding; pleading for help.
   
   Help to mend their broken bodies. Help to treat the shock; the confusion. Help to control the gripping fear and the overwhelming sense of powerlessness. Help to bear the grief that with each episode permeates every Jewish home. How to repair so many shattered lives?
   
   This in not peace, friend.
   
   There is no peace for the Jewish families
   who will never again see their children
   return from that March field trip to “The
   Island of Peace.” Seven young lives
   viciously silenced by a Jordanian soldier
   rock'n'rolling with an automatic weapon
   for his god Allah. Oh, how Corporal
   Achmed Mousa al-Daqamsa was praised
   at home in Jordan by parliament and
   people alike -- the jubilant atmosphere
   even spilling over to the other Arab and
   Muslim states and to the thriving
   Islamic terrorist organizations they
   sponsor.
   
   There is no peace for the two busloads of
   Jewish children who survived the two
   bomb blasts in Gush Katif the morning
   of April 1 while on their way to
   school. Two suicide bombers strapped
   themselves each with 11 pounds of
   explosives, approached the children's
   buses and detonated themselves. The
   armored plating on the buses prevented carnage. After the blasts, the Israeli
   public got wind of the news that the two
   terrorist “martyrs” came from a group of
   eight Muslims who had recently been
   trained and outfitted by the Islamic Jihad
   and Hamas in “palestinian” Authority-controlled Gaza. The remaining six are
   currently awaiting their orders to also go
   out in glory while taking with them as
   many Jews as possible.
   
   There is no peace for the bus driver and
   his Israeli passengers who were
   inundated with firebombs while riding
   past the Jalazoun “palestinian” refugee
   camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem the
   day after the Gaza bombings. The
   passenger bus careened out of control as
   the driver tried to dodge the seven angry
   Arabs ambushing them. He and thirteen
   Israeli soldiers inside were injured, some
   seriously, when the bus finally flipped
   and erupted into flames.
   
   The fact is that deep within the heart of
   every weary Jew, no matter how much
   he longs for peace, he knows this is not
   it -- this is not peace.
   
   He hears the hate
   that he cannot shut out as inflammatory
   messages by Muslim spiritual leaders
   blare from the mosque minarets dotting
   his beloved Country. He tastes the
   bitterness of a relationship gone sour as
   his Arab friend of 20 years joins the
   frenzied Muslim mob overrunning his
   community to shouts of "Itbach al
   Yahood (a popular Arabic phrase for:
   ‘Kill the Jews!’)!” He feels the anguish
   pierce his heart as he places a pebble
   upon his son's tombstone (symbolizing
   that his loved one has not been
   forgotten), which lay among the many
   graves of young Israeli soldiers who
   were cut down in the prime of their lives
   defending their People from the
   seemingly endless barrage of bombs,
   Molotov cocktails, stones, cement blocks
   and bottles. He smells the stench of the
   rotten fruit this manufactured peace has
   left behind in Jerusalem, Hebron, Beit
   Lechem, Tel-Aviv, Gaza, Shechem,
   Ariel Shiloh, Rafiach, Tekoa, Beit El,
   Hizme, Beit Omar, Ateret, el-Bireh,
   Omarim, and so many other areas within
   his shrinking State, where tanks, armored
   personnel carriers, water cannons, snipers, riot police, border patrols,
   General Security Service agents, Yasan
   Tactical Units and Israeli Defense Force
   troops have become a necessity for
   Jewish survival. He sees the he must
   stand against the very gates of Hell to
   build a Jewish neighborhood in his
   3000-year-old Capital, which the world
   wishes to strip from him in the hope of
   replacing it with a bogus “capital of
   palestine.”
   
   Yet, in spite of the odds, there are those
   of the Chosen Lot who are standing firm
   in this Chosen Land and are crying out to
   the G-d of the Hebrews for Deliverance
   from this Oslo Piece-by-Piece Process. They are praying toward G-d's Holy
   Mount Moriah, where the pagan shrine of
   Allah defiantly stands, and where the G-d
   of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Whose Eyes are constantly on that Place, does Hear. The banner of Truth has been raised by these faithful ones in Jacob for all eyes to see. The nations do see and tremble because Redemption is at hand, and riding on the heels of Redemption is
   Judgment.
   
   So the violence in the Land will continue.
   It will proliferate.
   
   International reaction will be swift and fierce, as it has always been when concerning this tiny plot of Land amid the Islamic sea of states. An outraged 185-member pro-Arab United Nations General Assembly will pass even more sweeping resolutions against the Jewish Remnant for building ... breathing in the Land. The Arab League foreign ministers will call more summits to ensure pan-Arab compliance to the freezing of “relations” with Israel and to
   the reinstating of the decades-long
   boycott against the Jewish State. More
   malicious anti-Israel propaganda will
   pour out of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia,
   Kuwait, Syria, Iran, Libya, Oman, Qatar,
   Malaysia, Britain, France, Norway, and
   Morocco. The Vatican and the Greek
   Orthodox Church will continue to
   deceive many as they throw their weight
   behind the fraudulent “palestinian” cause
   in their sinister attempts to usurp Israel’s
   sovereignty over Jerusalem, lest their
   anti-Jewish doctrines be exposed. The
   talking heads and glib gatekeepers of the
   international media will continue to
   peddle the Powerful Delusion that is
   sweeping over our global village.
   
   And Islam’s vessels of wrath – Fatah, Hamas, Hizb'Allah, Islamic Jihad, Amal, Abu Nidal, The Popular Front for the
   Liberation of “palestine,” The
   Democratic Front for the Liberation of
   “palestine,” the “palestine” Liberation
   Front, the “palestine” Liberation
   Organization, and the “palestinian”
   Authority, and their various factions and
   general commands - will work hand-in-hand to step up attacks against “the
   Zionist presence.”
   
   Israel’s "peace" partner, Yasser Arafat, will continue to encourage and exonerate his Muslim brothers who bomb, stone, stab, ax, rape, and plunder “... those whom Allah has cast aside and on whom his wrath has
   fallen and of whom he has made some as
   apes and swine who worship the evil one
   (This representative reference to the
   Jewish People is quoted verbatim from
   the English version of the Muslim "holy"
   book, the Qur’an, Surah 5:61. The
   language throughout the Arabic Qur’an
   is significantly stronger in tone.).”
   
   But the Jewish People serve the G-d of
   Reality. And His promises stand. So the
   tribes of Israel -- a great throng -- will
   continue to come Home from the
   Diaspora and go up to their beloved
   Jerusalem. The L-rd of Hosts will
   continue sending craftsmen to build up
   Zion. Jerusalem, that ancient City that is
   now the Apple of everyone's eyes, will
   become an immovable rock, and all
   those who try to move Her will be
   injured.
   
   The nations will reel from this,
   as if drunk with wine, and they will
   gather against Israel.
   
   But the Holy One will be a Shield about His People; even a Refuge, and Judgment will come swiftly in that Day. No longer will Jerusalem be overrun by foreigners. The unclean will never again enter the City, which will be called “The Throne of the
   L-rd.” All the righteous ones who mourned over Her will be comforted.
   
   And there will be joy, for in that Day the Law will go forth from Zion and G-d's Shalom -- the True Peace -- will flow forevermore like a great river from Jerusalem: Jerusalem of Gold.