Murder in Jerusalem Synagogue-Terrorists Slaughter At Least Four During Morning Prayers

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Yid With A Lid:

Nov 18 2014

 

Two Palestinian terrorists broke into a Synagogue in Jerusalem Tuesday morning yielding guns, knives and a meat cleaver, killing at least four worshipers, there of whom were Americans wounding at least eight, four of which are in critical or serious condition.

 

 

According to Israeli Police the two Palestinian terrorists entered the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue on Shimon Agassi St. in the Har Nof neighborhood at about 07:00 a.m., during the morning minyan prayers. They opened fire with weapons and struck worshipers with a meat cleaver and knives.

 

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The assailants cut off the arm of a worshiper wearing T'fillin (phylacteries, a religious article Jewish men put on during prayer) the organization said in a statement.

 

 

The Times of Israel is reporting that Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claims responsibility for the attack in a statement this morning, calling the attack a “normal reaction to the crimes of the occupation.” The claim was posted on the movement’s Facebook page and disseminated via social media

 

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Gazans hand out candy after Jerusalem synagogue attack

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3 Americans killed in Jerusalem synagogue attack
Tia Goldenberg, Associated Press

November 18, 2014

 

Jerusalem — Two Palestinian cousins armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday, killing four people, including three Americans, in the city’s bloodiest attack in years. Police killed the attackers in a shootout.

 

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Police said the dead worshippers were three Americans and a Briton, and that all held dual Israeli citizenship. The attack occurred in Har Nof, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood that has a large population of English-speaking immigrants.

 

The U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem identified the Americans as Aryeh Kupinsky, Cary William Levine and Mosheh Twersky.

Twersky, the grandson of a renowned rabbi from Boston, Joseph Soloveichik, was the head of Yeshivas Toras Moshe, a religious seminary for English-speaking students.

 

Israeli authorities identified the British man as Avraham Goldberg.

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BBC To Israeli Minister: "Please Don't Show Picture Of Synagogue Terror Victim"
“Sir, uh, we don’t want to actually see that picture. If you can take that down.”
11.18.2014
Jeff Dunetz

On Tuesday, Israel's Jewish Home Minister Naftali Bennett was being interviewed by the BBC about the terrorist attack in a Jerusalem synagogue. When Bennett tried to humanize the massacre by showing a picture of one of the victims, the interviewer said, "We don't want to see the picture," and asked the minister to take the picture down.

 

About an hour and a half after two terrorists slaughtered four worshipers in a Jerusalem synagogue, Naftali Bennett appeared on the BBC to discuss the attack. At one point he raised a picture of one of the victims (below), saying, "This individual came this morning to pray..." Then he was cut off by the BBC interviewer: “Sir, uh, we don’t want to actually see that picture. If you can take that down.”

 

 

Avoiding pictures of the dead is not a BBC policy, which you can see from this video example below, where they broadcasted pictures of the Palestinian dead during the recent Operation Protective Edge.

 

Perhaps the BBC has a problem with someone trying to humanize Jewish victims of terrorism.

 

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If we don't like our pResident....can we get rid of our pResident? Or trade him for Netanyahu?

 

Netanyahu Orders Houses Demolished Of Two Palestinians Behind Terror Attack On Jerusalem Synagogue… http://weaselzippers.us/205650-netanyahu-orders-houses-demolished-of-two-palestinians-behind-terror-attack-on-jerusalem-synagogue/

 

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@SrWoodchuck

Alas that option is not available. Have no fear, if something does happen to Fearless Leader Joe Biden is ever ready to leap into the gap.


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Warning: Disturbing Images at link

 

Palestinians Celebrate Jerusalem Murders
John Hinderaker
November 18, 2014

This morning, two Palestinians attacked a synagogue in Jerusalem and murdered four rabbis during their morning prayers, wounding a number of others. The rabbis reportedly included three Americans and a Briton. The murderers were armed with a gun, knives and axes or meat cleavers. Most of us wouldn’t regard this as something to celebrate:

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There is much more along the same lines here, if you can stand it.

 

We have seen the same pattern many times before. It is not hard to understand why Israelis lack confidence that they can live in peace with a Palestinian state.

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You knew it was coming - Obama statement on Palestinian terror attack calls on Israel to "lower tensions"

 

10:32 AM - 18 Nov 2014

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......Fearless Leader Joe Biden is ever ready to leap gleak into the gap your hat.....

 

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......Fearless Leader Joe Biden is ever ready to leap gleak into the gap your hat.....

 

 

 

 

Good!

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Har Nof Jews join funeral for Druze policeman who ‘sacrificed himself for Jerusalem’
Rabbi from synagogue where four worshipers were killed hails Zidan Saif for his courage in battle with terrorists; Druze leader tells Rivlin: ‘We and you pay a heavy price in the blood of our sons’
Spencer Ho and Marissa Newman
November 19, 2014


Israeli police officers carry the coffin of their comrade Zidan Saif, 30, a member of Israel's Druze minority, during his funeral in his northern home village of Yanuh-Jat, on November 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Thousands of people gathered in the northern Israeli town of Yanuh-Jat Tuesday afternoon to pay their last respects to Zidan Saif, the Druze policeman who was killed in a gunfight with terrorists at a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday.

Mourners, including friends, relatives and ultra-Orthodox Jews who traveled from Jerusalem, and Israeli and religious figures, recalled a “hero” who had taken a bullet to save his partner’s life, and said officials needed to do more to end the wave of violence in Jerusalem.

Saif, 30, was the first officer on the scene of the attack in Har Nof, where two Palestinians from East Jerusalem, armed with a gun and cleavers, had already killed four worshipers. Saif was shot in the head in the shootout in which the two terrorists were killed. Evacuated in critical condition to a local hospital, he died of his wounds late Tuesday night.

The slain officer left behind a 21-year-old wife and a four-month-old daughter, along with his parents and five brothers. Saif’s uncle died fighting in the Israel Defense Forces during the 1982 Lebanon War.


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הלוויה של זידאן סייף בכפר יאנוח. נשיא המדינה ראובן רבלין הגיע. המונים גם על הגגות

 

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The Jewish state’s newest hero wasn’t Jewish

Jeff Jacoby

November 20, 2014

 

On Wednesday, Israeli police officers carried the coffin of their colleague Zidan Saif, who died after being shot during Tuesday’s attack in Jerusalem at a synagogue.

 

By the thousands they streamed to Yanuh-Jat, Israelis of every description making their way on Wednesday to the remote northern Galilee district, where a fallen hero was to be buried with full honors. Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, was there to pay his respects; so were the minister of internal security and the nation’s top police commissioner. From around the country, hundreds of black-hatted haredi (“ultra-Orthodox”) Jews came on chartered buses, disembarking to join throngs of Arabic-speaking Druze in traditional white turbans, police officers in dress blues, and so many other mourners that even the roofs of nearby homes were crowded with onlookers.

 

They had come to bid farewell to Zidan Saif, the Druze police officer who was the first responder on the scene of Tuesday’s massacre at a synagogue in Jerusalem. Saif had put himself between the terrorists and the worshipers, taking a bullet in the head and dying of his wounds that night. Befitting a defender who had died in the line of duty, his coffin was draped with Israel’s flag, its blue Star of David prominently centered.

 

Like many of the Jewish state’s loyal sons and heroes, Saif wasn’t Jewish. That didn’t make him any less an Israeli, just as Israel’s sizeable Arab and non-Jewish minorities don’t make it any less the sovereign Jewish homeland. Nor did it diminish even slightly the honor and gratitude Israelis across the spectrum expressed for the slain officer. In his eulogy, Israel’s president extolled Saif as “one of the first guardians of Jerusalem.” A rabbi from the Jerusalem synagogue where the bloodbath had occurred told residents of the village he had come “simply to be with you and to cry with you,” and called the “devotion and the determination” of the 30-year-old patrolman “an example to us all.”

 

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This is how a righteous nation & culture act....in memorializing a hero!