Naming the Dead
The world’s attention has been riveted by the horrendous natural disaster in Japan. Naoto Kan, the Japanese prime minister, somberly described the damage wrought by the shattering earthquake and tsunami the nation’s “worst crisis since World War II.”
That tragedy — and no one can watch the video footage of what happened in northern Japan without a feeling of horror — is everywhere in the news. Another story, smaller in scale, but no less horrific, has received scant notice. Late Friday night, some yet-to-be-identified people — the sort of people President Obama would doubtless describe as “lone extremists” — cut their way through a security fence and entered the Israeli town of Itamar in the West Bank. They then broke into the house of Udi and Ruth Fogel (36 and 35 years old, respectively), and stabbed them to death along with their 3-month-old daughter, Hadas, and two sons, Elad (3 years old) and Yoav (11).
I first heard about this disgusting act of barbarism from a headline on the Drudge Report. The New York Times, which really never disappoints, today carries a piece under the title “Israel Approves Settlement Construction.” Five members of “an Israeli family” — antiseptically left unnamed by the Times — were knifed to death in their sleep but the gravamen of the story was that the Israelis responded by deciding to build more settlements on the West Bank, a decision, our former paper of record sniffed, that “the attack and the government response threatened to drive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking even further out of reach.”
What’s wrong with this picture? The dwindling prospects of “Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking” is not equally the fault of that butchery and Israel’s decision to build more settlements, as the Times implies. That sort of moral equivalence is in fact a moral outrage. But it is standard operating procedure for the New York Times and indeed for much Western media who occasionally leave off playing “blame America first” only to indulge in an inning or two of “blame Israel first.”
Savages commit these acts and other savages sitting behind computers in newsrooms spray perfume on them. Disgraceful.
“Savages commit these acts and other savages sitting behind computers in newsrooms spray perfume on them. Disgraceful”.
I concur with your sentiments but I suggest that the folks behind the newsroom computers are more accurately described as effete decadents.
Of course we all know which group will be the last one standing if it ever comes down to a fight between the savages and the effete decadents.
yes ..and those savages are supported by obama !
“Effete Decadents” — this could replace “He needs gravitas” in that Rush Limbaugh parody of “Feliz Navidad” as a theme song of the media coverage of the upcoming 2012 election cycle!
“Savages commit these acts and other savages sitting behind computers in newsrooms spray perfume on them. Disgraceful”.
The term savages in each case is an evasion. The correct terms are devout Muslims and liberals.
God, yes, our Judeo-Christian God, will not forget our heretofore apathetic response as a civilization to the utter depravity of islam. We must confront and defeat the unholy marxist and islamic alliance which is our clear and present existential threat to western civilization, and the entire world. Whitewashing this evil in the press is not an acceptable behavior.
A disgusting act of barbarism nicely paired with a disgusting act of journalism.
The Israeli government acts to allow new settlements.
And how will the Palestinians react to the slaughter of three little children? Stay tuned (NOT to the NYT).
Your prediction was on-target.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4041106,00.html
How will the PA react? Why they’ll name a public square in honor of the monster.
Download the video and repost to YouTube. If you can, before you upload, strip the audio track out which will eliminate any possible issues due to copyright. Palestinian supporters are flagging the videos as “inappropriate”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzWV720HlOc
Apparently it’s already been removed. But PJM, as usual, is on the case:
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/03/13/video-of-fridays-slaying-of-jews-by-palestinians-banned-by-youtube-and-facebook/
Any takers on whether the NYT would have immediately obtained the names of Palestinian victims had the tables been reversed? That is, if there had ever been an occasion on which Jews had broken into a Palestinian house and knifed to death a husband, wife and three children.
I wonder how many Palestinian heroes, who doubtless are being kissed this moment by a throng of gleeful Muslim mothers, were ordered on this “mission” to ensure there were enough killers to be a match for the sleeping children.
In the Arab world there exists the seeds of the next civilizational war. Moral equivocation about the difference between the West and the Arab world is the fertilizer that makes this seed grow.
I know your point’s rhetorical but by God, what an experiment that’d be! Anybody have a spare kiddy soccer league?
Where is this headed? I am deeply concerned. The fiendish killings are bad enough, but the tolerance of them (bordering approval) by the western left and its press is even more frightening.
It’s hard to even remember now that only a couple of decades ago many of us conservatives were a bit concerned about the growing Jewish presence on campus and in the media. They were overwhelmingly leftist, and no friends of intellectual freedom. We’ve moved so fast from there to a world in which a Jew, even a small child who happens to be Jewish, can’t get fair treatment in either place. Where are they going with this? How do we stop them?
#1. Martinsen wrote, “Savages commit these acts and other savages sitting behind computers in newsrooms spray perfume on them. Disgraceful”.
I concur with your sentiments but I suggest that the folks behind the newsroom computers are more accurately described as effete decadents.
Of course we all know which group will be the last one standing if it ever comes down to a fight between the savages and the effete decadents.
Early signs for ynetnews.com (Israel).
“Gaza residents from the southern city of Rafah hit the streets Saturday to celebrate….Residents handed out candy and sweets,”
“Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said he “clearly and firmly denounces the terror attack, just as I have denounced crimes against Palestinians.”
So who speaks for the Palestinian people?
Problem with Abbas is that he denounces these things as “against the interests of the Palestinian people” rather than against any conceivable moral authority or sense of human decency.
Abbas’ Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigade is probably responsible for the massacre so who cares about what he has to say.
The perpetrators came from the area which is under Abbas’ control. This is Taqiya and nothing else. Abbas is a criminal with blood on his hands.
How can there still be liberal Jews in America, let alone the world? Do they prefer to pretend the New Man has come, and the world is somehow different than it always was?
I’m not Jewish, but I support Israel.
You see, Israel blames the attack on Palestinian militants. Israel Blames? Who else? But the door must be left open a little by the NYT, can’t be too harsh on your allies. I guess the Times could have named hard line conservatives, always a favorite, Extremists, that’s a good one, a reference to the NRA wouldn’t have hurt, now days Tea Party racists works.
No, Israel doesn’t have to blame, the Times could be more forthright, could be more direct & honest, it was bloodthirsty arab murderers, very possibly islamic. The Times is usually good at pointing fingers, dishing out the slime from the bottom of the deck. But only at certain targets.
very possibly islamic . . .
You have doubts about this?
I don’t. They were very likely screaming alla akbar as they did their heinous deeds. That makes it ok in the twisted minds of islamo-fascists.
K.T. Thanks for the correction. Therefore all the more reason why the Times and the rest of the trash would try to minimize or deflect responsibility from the murderers.
According to PA law (Law on prisoners and released prisoners), PA officially supports the security prisoners in Israeli jails (i.e. those perpetrating such terrorist attacks): 1000USD/month (more to married with families, this is bigger than average salary), 10,000 when they are released. This is where the EU and US money flow, so who is supporting terrorists here?
If the Israeli Government fails to protect its people by using all its resources to “convince” Palestinians to refrain from further barbarity, then next time I hear “Never again!,” I’ll know it to be a lie.
I have learned, to my great pain, that the phrase “never again” has changed in meaning in different countries over the decades. In Europe, it means “never again we will elect someone who is right-wing, because the communists have successfully convinced us Hitler was right-wing.”
Absolutely disgusting. If you want an example of what passes for children’s entertainment in the Arab territories, look up “Pioneers of Tomorrow” on YouTube.
Never forget.
Never forget.
Never forget.
And shame on the media – owned and controlled by the arab oil money – that don’t even report these crimes committed by the islamic barbarians.
WARNING !
GRAPHIC CONTENT
The murdered, in their home. From Atlas’ blog.
NEVER FORGET !
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/03/islamic-jew-hatred-graphic-muslims-stab-jewish-family-of-five-to-death.html
Sorry, I forget the link (only text in Hebrew, unfortunately).
http://www.jcpa.org.il/JCPAHeb/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=2&TMID=99&FID=762&IID=25289
“It must also be laid at the door of those left-wing Israeli and western journalists and intellectuals who are obsessively egging on these Jew-hating exterminators. . . . “
So true. They are as complicit as if they wielded the knives that killed these innocent people. There must be a lot of hatred stored up in these fanatics to be able to kill small children. I hope they have terrible nightmares for the rest of their (hopefully short) lives.
islam a religion of peace? Good God Bush – you are such a dunce for uttering those words.
Ha!
How do we stop them?
Open a blog. Start writing.
That’s the safer option and a good one for those with literary inclinations.
Others move to Israel and have children. That really hits them where it counts.
You can also donate to the IDF and to the Israeli emergency medical teams http://www.afmda.org/
The Israeli ambulance crews and hospitals save Jew, Christian, and Moslem alike.
Bush is a RINO, not a dunce and as President was trying to defuse a perceived animus toward Mohammedans (Piss Be Upon Them)in the immediate wake of 9/11/01. I, too thought Pisslam was an ROP at the time. As I’ve learned since I was as mistaken as Bush was. I had no idea of Pisslam’s perverse, bloody minded, vicious, pedophilic dogma, taught as the unalterable word of God to this day. Obama Bin Golfin, (Piss Be Upon Him) on the other hand, and the vast majority of his acolytes have known from the get-go what the putrid Pisslamic agenda was, is and always has been.
I see some individual muslims as decent people, who if shown the way, could save themselves, but as a religious body, there’s no love in them, nor in their religion.
I’m not a fervently religious man, but I’ve had daily chats with God since my early teens and lately have taken to asking Him to show Pisslam as it truly is, and deal with its adherents for their Earthly and Spiritual crimes as He sees fit.
The survivors of this unbelievably brutal atrocity have every ounce of my sympathy.
The religion of peace, feh! More like the religion of pieces, as into how many pieces can we cut you up today, or blow you up today? And they’re dancing in Gaza; what a rotten excuse for a religion, which it is not. It is more a like an ideology of death than anything else.
There will never be peace in Israel until the Arabs’ fear of the Jews far exceeds their hatred.
To say that the Palestinians are barbarians doesn’t even come close. A barbarian may be primitive, a barbarian may be violent, but a barbarian also comes from a culture and society that is functional and dedicated to its own survival and improvement. The Palestinians are nothing more than an overgrown death cult. The notion that a free and virtuous society such as that of Israel can ever live in peace alongside such a diseased culture is pure folly.
Let’s not restrict all of the (richly deserved) odium to the Palestinians. For so long, other Moslems and Arabs have been pretending to be all concerned about the plight, so-called, of the Palestinians (whom they’ve been content to leave in festering refugee camps all these decades). So many other Arabs and Moslems engage in despicable acts of bloodshed upon innocents. It’s a downright disgusting religion / culture all round, and may they kill a lot of each other off, in these rebellions!
The massacre video of Jewish innocents was removed from youtube because youtube does NOT want the world to know of the barbaric suffering and cruel murders perpetrated by PLO/Fatah barbarians on non-Muslim children and babies.
Photos and videos of PA Muslims accidentally injured or killed because of Israeli self-defense measures against thousands of rockets fired into Israel, are eagerly displayed by world media.
Every Jew and every home must have weapons of self-defense and every home a guard dog. Dead bolt locks, locks on windows, alarms and security cameras. Everyone physically able to, take lessons in self-defense. If there is no fund for these specific security measures, then start one in Judea/Samaria.
I think Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American psychiatrist (and ex-Muslim), has it right. She says we’re not dealing with a clash of civilizations but a clash between civilization and barbarism. This savage attack is a case in point.
Why do we surrender our vocabulary to disgusting people?
Wanton purposeful killing of civilians is murder. The victims of murder like the present one are martyrs. The murderers are not martyrs. They are vicious monsters.
Yet when some similar monster blows him or herself up while killing others they are referred to as “suicide bombers” as if their suicide was the important fact about their action, not their mass murders. Arabs regularly refer to such murderers as martyrs. They are not martyrs. Their victims are the martyrs.
Perhaps if our press referred to such monsters as murder bombers, a far more correct descriptive phrase, the popularity of such activity will decrease, and the idiotic notion that it will be rewarded in heaven rather than punished in hell, will begin to disappear.
You are right. At a time when worldviews are colliding, it is critically important to examine every word and phrase.
Gaza celebrated the sick massacre of innocent Jews and little Jewish children. It is a crime against humanity that Americans are forced to finance Hamas-controlled Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority Muslim terrorist organization via their taxes.
Americans will never forget that thousands of Palestinian Authority Muslims celebrated with great joy the terrible suffering and cruel mass slaughter of our 3,000 innocents; dancing in the streets, passing out sweets and firing into the air. Muslims that Americans are forced to support with their taxes. And reward with a Muslim terror state in Israel bent on Jewish genocide.
We will never forget that Muslims also celebrated in the streets in America and other countries.
In Berlin, Germany, Turkish Muslims celebrated the 9/11 murder of innocents by sending up hundreds of bottle rockets into the air.
We will also never forget that thousands of PA Muslims celebrate in the streets whenever a Muslim terrorist blows up amongst our Israeli brothers and sisters.
Why, oh why, do we keep funding the UN at all?
The entities at the UN that serve the ‘refugee’ centers in which the Palestinians are living allow / encourage / fund the despicable anti-Jew propaganda that these Palestinian haters act upon.
Why are we funding it? Madness.
In 1920, at the San Remo conference, the League of Nations decided that it was time Israel (what today is Israel, West Bank, Gaza) was returned to its rightful owners, the Jews, after 2000 years of illegal conquest by others. The archeological and historical evidence that Israel was the home of the Jewish people, and Jerusalem the capitol of the Jewish people, was SO powerful that the resolution agreed to at at San Remo was adoped by the League of Nations in 1922, and by final League member, Turkey, in 1923. It was unanimous!
Yet today there is no peace. Why? Palestinian (all factions) ideology of Islamic supremacy (radical Islam). Same ideology as Al Qaeda, Ground Zero mosque imam and most Muslim Americans.
See Palestinian Media Watch web site to read, see, hear what Palestinian leadership, including and especially the so-called “moderate” PA/Fatah/Abbas teach and preach to their own – IN THEIR OWN WORDS! PA/Fatah/Abbas curriculum and media/political is non stop incitement to hate and violence. It is no different than Hamas, Hezbolleh. It is a curriculum and rhetoric only Al Qaeda would love.
Obama has made only one demand of Abbas: End the incitement. Abbas has refused to do so and Obama turns a blind eye. Palestinian ideology of Islamic supremacy, yes the same ideology as Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood and Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the US like CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, MAS, MSA/MSU, etc., (THE REASON THE KING HEARINGS WERE WAY PAST DUE) is the one and ONLY reason for the intractable situation. Arabs began murdering Jews in Israel in the modern era beginning in the 1920′s on order of the grand mufti of Jerusalem. – decades before there was even an official State of Israel. Nothing has changed.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH on line – in their own words – what Palestinian leadership – all factions – tells their own people vs what they tell the US/West. http://www.palwatch.org
THE short (100 page) must read book about the real history of the region and the conflict: “History Upside Down, The roots of Palestinian Fascism and tgheMyth of israeli Aggression”, by David Meir-Levi
You know, if WE played by THEIR rules, that sonofabitch Pinch Sulzberger would have been beheaded years ago, and the left-wing turds at the New York Times would be cowering in fear at the thought of offending us.
We DON’T play by those rules, of course. But the longer this goes on, the less reason to turn the other cheek…
“that sonofabitch Pinch Sulzberger would have been beheaded years ago”
Could you tell the difference? Believe it or not, I went to high school with Pinch. It was only for a year though because he flunked out. I couldn’t believe that a high-powered family like that produced such a nonentity. If he hadn’t inherited his job he wouldn’t have gotten as far in journalism as Jimmy Olsen.
Stop insulting Jimmy Olsen. He works hard, has to always put up with old “what’s his name’s” crisis-du-jour…
Sincerely,
L. Luthor
The video at Powerline is heart-wrenching. Udi Fogel was rabbi — that might be why he and is family were targeted.
Ultimately, this atrocity was perpetrated by the “religion of peace,” but, I agree, the so-called intellectuals (i. e., narcissists) in the West have blood on their hands too.
Look- in between rounds of golf and command performances by Motown artists, our President has decided that the issue of Palistinian attacks on Israelis is best solved by declaring the Palestinians to be ‘peace partners’. What the Palestinians clearly need is high speed trains equipped with healthy salad bars.
And Israel must stop building fences and start building golf courses.
I’m not telling you Jewish folks what to do, but there is a reason I have a large German Shephard, and a 12 guage.
An EXCELLENT suggestion also echoed by Linda Rivera many comments above… (and I am a Jew!)
Any religion that would urge such actions is SATANIC. The Allah-thing is Satan. Nothing less.
Sunday March13, 2011 edition of NYTimes received in Brooklyn, page 16, bold headline type – “Suspecting Palestinians, Israeli Military Hunts for Killers of 5 West Bank Settlers.” All the victims are named.
So glad it was on page 16.
So glad I no longer look at the rag. (And I’m old enough to remember when even the style of the English they wrote was rather impressive and certainly worth reading. But of course I didn’t know about the Duranty deception practiced already decades before that.)
The act itself is evil enough. Deranged people will do such things from time to time. But what really bothers me was that people were openly celebrating this barbarism. That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is what pure evil looks like.
May God have mercy on the souls of those who committed and celebrated this crime. I ask for God’s mercy, because I know no-one else will have much left for them after this sort of thing.
I wonder why our pals in the leftist media aren’t out in force, stroking their chins and wondering whose violent rhetoric forced the evil hands of the perpetrators?
Remember how it felt, right after the Tucson shootings (talk about the deaths of innocents)? I mean, aside from the ridiculous aspersions cast upon any conservative they could think of, from the leftists. There was no way to even think of the fate of the little girl murdered, or the elderly people, without pain.
And here a society goes out and celebrates over these depraved and unspeakable acts!
It’s worth remembering that Jordan, so often called a “moderate” Moslem nation, gave a hero’s welcome to a criminal upon his release from an Israeli jail–a man who had murdered a man and his four-year-old daughter. That’s heroism, for them–a failed and worthless society.
The NYT? No surprise. Nor is the fact that CNN called it a “terror attack”, in quotes. See Israel’s reaction at:
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=211996
Feh!
Another act of faith bought to you by “the religion of peace” aptly named that way by Prez Dubya.
What ‘religion’ celebrates pedophilia, mutilation, human sacrifice, and murder?
Right! Islam.
What ‘religion’ praises the most savage practitioners of their faith for atrocities committed against the young, female, aged, and infirm that practice any other faith?
Right! Islam.
It’s not a ‘religion’, but, a cult that emulates psychopathic beliefs and behavior.
What geezer said. Spot on.
And the Angel of the Lord said to her:
“Behold, you are with child,
And you shall bear a son.
You shall call his name ‘Ishmael,’
Because the Lord has heard your affliction.
He shall be a wild man;
His hand shall be against every man,
And every man’s hand against him.
And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
– Genesis 16:11-12 (New King James Version)
And it has always been thus.
America – pray for the peace of Israel…
…and WAKE UP!
err, not to belabor the point…
but what else is there to expect from followers of a murdering, thieving, child-raping madman? Sort of like expecting much from voters of an inexperienced ideologically-bound corrupt community-organizing commie hack as President, eh?
Have tried to avoid prejudice and being judgmental. Between the Palestinian partying after 9/11, this, and many similar events, I’m not succeeding.
To me, the Palestinian society looks very, very sick. In a way that nobody can help them, only they can change the disgusting attitudes and actions they encourage.
For all our outrage–I’m speaking to myself here really–why are we at all surprised?
These are the same people who dress up their toddlers in miniature murder-bomber suits; oh, the aspirations they have for their children! These are the same people who made a museum of the Sbarro restaurant that was blown apart in one of their uprisings when packed with children and old women.
What else does their ‘civilization’ have to show for itself?
And they actually (by law) kill people who try to convert to something civilized!
Interestingly enough, the haggard Grey strumpet has apparently changed their article’s title.
Perhaps they realized it was too obviously biased, even for them?
@ #4: Copyright also pertains to video, as if anyone cares.
please check out http://www.islamicsolutions.com/liberty-and-stolen-identity-in-the-middle-east/
What is in a name liza?
Christ= Love your enemys, Love your neighbors, forgive others, feed the sick and poor.
Muhammad=Death to those who oppose Islam! Allah Akbar!
Allah is a false moon god. History knows it as the god Sin.