While the World is Focused on Balloons, Israelis are being Murdered

I met a nice Israeli man on the beach in Florida last week. We talked about the war in Ukraine and other world events. The next day we talked a bit more about the Left vs Right and then he asked me about the balloon incident (the first one). I guess he thought that I was abreast of the latest news and he respected my contrary opinion about the war in Ukraine. But I had no idea what he was talking about. The good news about vacations is that I'm not watching any news on TV at all. Of course after a day or two I couldn't help but hear all about the infamous Chinese spy balloon. It appears that the Biden administration was all over it. He rounded up half his airforce and missiles in the effort to shoot it down. Wow, what a military feat, indeed! Now it's raining balloons all over the place....

My take away was this: How pathetic that this sweet, older, Israeli man who made alliya to Chicago decades ago is more concerned about balloons than about his former, fellow Israelis who are being murdered on an almost daily basis. 

To be fair, the MSM (mainstream media) are quite silent about the ongoing spate of the despicable murder of innocent Israeli citizens by Arab terrorists. If you search for these murders you will read headlines like 'US and EU warn Israel not to build more outposts in the West Bank as a response to the recent deaths of Israelis'. That's if they even bother to mention the murder of so many Israelis lately. 

The fact that 2 little boys and others were killed when an Arab terrorist ran into the bus stop where the boys were standing and of course minding their own business is quite irrelevant to the world.

I read about this tragic event from One Family 

They sent me the following email: 

Jews/Israelis are expendable, always it seems. Within only a 2 week period, 10 Israelis were murdered! The murders continue yet we are concerned about balloons.

Equally pathetic are the Left wing Israelis who are also very busy rioting in Tel Aviv about judicial reform. Most Israelis finally voted an outright Right wing government with the stated intent to finally reform their out of control Left wing supreme court. But so many on the Left, pushed by many nefarious NGO's funded by the likes of none other than the evil self hater himself, George Soros, the Biden administration and others and of course Israel's Leftwing MSM had the chutzpah to call for a civil war! A war not against the Arab terrorists that are murdering innocent Israelis but a war against Right wing Israelis who voted in a democratically elected Right wing administration who if left alone would definitely help stop the killing of innocent Israeli citizens (both Jew, Druze, Muslim and Christian). 

There is a silver lining to this latest spate of murders. The wife of the orthodox Jewish family who survived the tragic murder of her 2 sweet boys, set an incredible example of strength for all of us. She of course is a strong believer in G-d and her strong faith prevents her from succumbing to simply giving up on life despite her worse nightmare. This is an excellent opportunity for us to look at religious Jews (Haredim) in a new positive light. And perhaps shake us out of our complacency. 

Here she is in this short clip explaining her feelings:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zq8xNnup-i0

Here is the translation: 

A group of teenage boys came to comfort the mourners.

They told over the pledges they plan to take on for the souls of the two children.

"I'll put on tefillin every day."

"I'll honour friends."

"I'll keep the Sabbath."

"I'll work on keeping the Sabbath and honouring my parents."

Mother of the 2 murdered boys:

"Thank you so much!

We derive much strength from you sharing with us this difficult time.

We feel that this is really a tragedy for the whole Jewish People.

I would like to say to you that you are young boys whose life is before you.

It appears that our boys have already fulfilled their mission in life.

They cannot learn any more Torah.

You, however, can always continue to learn and to grow.

I would like to share with you a small story.  Yaakov, for every little favour, would say 'Thank you!'

One day I told him, 'You are a Jewish boy."  Jews say, 'Thank you.'

(In Hebrew the word for 'Jew' is 'Yehudi',

which has the letters of the word 'Hodaya' which means ''Thanks-giving').

In our home we are accustomed to say

'Don't say 'Oof!', say chapter 'kuf.'

(The  numerical value of the Hebrew letter kuf is 100, and the reference is to the 100th chapter of Psalms, which is a Song of Thanksgiving.)

This is something we can all take on.

It's not very difficult.  When something upsetting happens to us, or something 'doesn't work out', remember that all that happens is from God and He is with us. 

Be grateful and say 'Thank You.'

Thank you to each one who takes on a pledge to strengthen his faith and good deeds.  It wiil surely be a merit for my husband's recovery from his wounds, and a merit for all of our nation."

The crowd answered "Amen!"