Five Attacks

In 2009 I went to Israel for two weeks to attend a friend’s wedding. On my touring day in Jerusalem, my cab driver and guide, Moussa, greeted me and off we went on my day’s activities. A friendship began that day, and whenever I needed a cab Moses told me to call him. On my last day he took me to various tourist places around Jerusalem, and then took me to his home, made supper for me, then took me to the airport. During the day he asked an intriguing question: “Sometimes I ask God, Tim, did You really know what you were doing when you put three religions in one city?”

I thought of that conversation as holiday celebrations for all three religions occurred in the past week. For Muslims, they celebrated Ramadan. For the Jewish people, they celebrated Passover, and for Christians, they celebrated Easter.

However, Easter and Passover were marred by rocket attacks from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. A car ramming by a Muslim in Tel Aviv left an Italian tourist dead, with another terrorist shooting attack in Judea and Samaria which left two daughters, Rina Dee, 20, and Maia Dee, 15, dead and their mother succumbing to her injuries later.

In his article “When You Can’t Write What You Feel,” Jack Engelhard addresses the silence of the international media over these attacks: “The story has received near zero mention in the United States and elsewhere around the world, and even in Israel the mainstream media has been scant and treated as routine. That is the point then, isn’t it…the murder of Israelis by Arab terrorists is nothing special. No reason to get carried away. Another day, another murder, rioting on the Temple Mount, rockets coming in north and south, and it is Ramadan after all.”

He summarizes: “So it goes. Weeks ago two brothers. A week after that, two other brothers. Today, two sisters…But we must watch what we say. Bite our tongues. Lesson learned. But, I do hope that justice comes to the savages who murdered Rina and Maia.”

I agree! May the memories of Rina, Maia, and their mother Lucy, be a blessing.

(Source: Arutz Sheva/ZOA)