The terrorist attack last week that killed two off-duty Israeli soldiers was even more cowardly than I had thought. It wasn’t just an ambush. The terrorists shot the Israelis in the back.
He said the four terrorists drove up to the Israelis in a jeep, had a conversation with them and that Amihai even thanked them in Arabic before he and the others turned to walk away.
“The girl said that before they started shooting they had finished the discussion and when they turned their backs and started to go, they [the terrorists] started shooting,†Rabbi Neriah said.
Disgusting.
Rabbi Yitzchak Neriah, a cousin of one of the slain soldiers, Cpl. Ahikam Amihai, 20, said the woman who had accompanied the soldiers on the hike hid when the shooting broke out and was physically uninjured. He said that after the shooting she ran about 45 minutes before she reached a spot where she could get a connection on her cell phone and call for help.
“She’s not hurt but she’s broken mentally,†he said.
I can only imagine.
These are the people that the world keeps telling us only wants peace with Israel. The “peace of the brave” is what Yasser Arafat used to say, referring to his commitment with his “good friend” Yitzhak Rabin. I call it “the peace of the grave.” That’s what they want.
They are Amalek. I hope they all meet the same fate.
One of the things I’ve been hearing over the years is the important place honor has in Arab world views. It was vital, supposedly, for Egypt to do well against Israel in 1973 because without recovering their sense of honor they couldn’t make peace. I have also seen claims that Israeli concessions and withdrawals are important so the Arabs will feel that their honor has been acquitted. Most readers of this weblog are familiar with any number of similar assertions.
OK. let’s suppose it’s true. If so, wouldn’t they feel more honorable at facing Israeli soldiers or at least armed civilian–man to man? You’d think so, wouldn’t you? Instead they murder infants in their beds and shoot helpless hikers in the back. Some sense of honor.
To Americans, honor is a spiritual value that comes from within. To Muslims, it is an objective commodity that exists in a limited supply, to be bartered, hoarded, and on occasion stolen. It’s kind of like how most people view cash, only without even the physical tokens that at least have mass and take up space.