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Israel: Islamic jihadists firebomb bus full of schoolgirls

May 17, 2014 5:51 am By Robert Spencer

FirebombThis and any number of incidents like it will do nothing to stop the increasingly irrational, thuggish and authoritarian Left in the U.S. from according the “Palestinians” the moral high ground and pressuring Israel to make disastrous concessions to the jihadists. “Firebombs on Bat Mitzva Girls’ Bus, Only Arutz Sheva Reports It,” by Gil Ronen, Israel National News, May 16, 2014:

A well-planned firebomb attack on a bus full of Jewish schoolgirls Tuesday could easily have ended in tragedy, but no news source even reported that it took place, except for the one you are currently reading – Arutz Sheva.

The girls were sixth-graders from a religious school in central Israel. They were on a bat mitzva tour of the Cave of Machpela in Hevron, a site recognized by the government as an official heritage site, when four terrorists ambushed it with firebombs.

The mother of one of the girls, who was accompanying the trip, told Arutz Sheva that the ambush had been well planned. She described moments of horror when the firebombs exploded, one after the other, on the bus’s windows, east of the Halhoul bridge, as the bus made its way back from Hevron.

“This was a bat mitzva trip that had been approved by the Ministry of Education, which included a visit to Rachel’s Tomb. The buses were bulletproofed and had an armed guard,” she said.

Chananel, the woman’s son, whose sister had been on the bus, wrote on Facebook on Tuesday: “Three firebombs exploded on the bus. It was a direct hit. The bus was engulfed in flames and the girls and the mothers in the bus screamed, cried, leaned down toward the floor. There was a smell of burnt plastic.

“This time, it ended without injury. The driver stepped on the gas and the bus was fortified. The traumatic effects are not known at this point… I don’t even want to write how it could have ended.”

Alluding to the latest incendiary comments by leftist writer Amos Oz, he added: “Neo-nazis are not Nazis and Price Tag must be denounced and we are more moral and therefore a higher moral standard is required of us. Fine. But come on, we had better look reality in the eye and understand how twisted it all is. If I had doubts about the justness of the right wing struggle on this issue, then they are all gone. Leftists, media, government, army, Shin Bet and the other people living in a fantasy world – wake up.”

No Israeli or foreign news source is known to have reported the incident. However, incidents involving graffiti by Jewish youths have been receiving front page coverage and government ministers have called for their classification as terror acts. Apparently influenced by Israeli media and politicians, the United States has also equated the Jewish nationalistic vandalism with terror.

Arutz Sheva was founded in 1988, after Rabbanit Shulamit Melamed experienced an attack on a bus she was in, and was shocked to hear the radio report about the event, which made it sound as if the Jews on the bus had been the attackers and not the victims. She turned to her husband, Beit El co-founder Rabbi Zalman Melamed, who established Arutz Sheva together with Beit El co-founder Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz.

The incident Tuesday in Hevron proves, sadly, that more than 25 years down the line, the problem that made Arutz Sheva necesary has only gotten worse.

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  1. boakai ngombu says

    May 17, 2014 at 10:20 am

    ” … Apparently influenced by Israeli media and politicians, the United States has also equated the Jewish nationalistic vandalism with terror…. ”

    no. MSM and PC politicians in the US have turned away, blind and deaf to Israel’s pleas for mere notice; they will let the burning continue…

    following the immoral Palestinian cause, instead

  2. Salah says

    May 17, 2014 at 11:14 am

    “..The buses were bulletproofed and had an armed guard,”

    The guard should have shot and killed the attackers ON THE SPOT.
    That’s how we must deal with terrorists: Shoot first, ask questions later.

    Muhammad was a coward. True followers of Muhammad are cowards.
    Muhammad used to wear Aisha’s little pink dress, his followers should do the same!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/drawing-muhammad-dessiner-mahomet.html

    • Jay Boo says

      May 17, 2014 at 9:24 pm

      @Salah
      Ref to:
      [Muhammad used to wear Aisha’s little pink dress, his followers should do the same!]
      ————

      Many do wear the traditional Islamic man-dress.
      But who are we to judge?
      If that is what it take to allow followers of Muhammad to feel ‘Oh so very Special’ let them walk around in their favorite Islamic man-dress as long as they are not sneaking around with a butcher knife and murder instruction manual (Qur’an).

      • Salah says

        May 18, 2014 at 1:09 am

        As you said, they may wear whatever they want as long as they stop killing the innocent.
        As for “Many do wear the traditional Islamic man-dress.”
        Muhammad used to wear WOMEN’s clothing, not a traditional Islamic man-dress.

        Here’s the original hadith:

        فقال لها لا تؤذيني في عائشة فإن الوحي لم يأتني وأنا في ثوب امرأة إلا عائشة

        And here’s the MISLEADING english translation:

        He then said to her, “Do not hurt me regarding Aisha, as the Divine Inspirations do not come to me on any of the beds except that of Aisha.” Bukhari 3.47.755

        As you can see, (فى ثوب امرأة) was translated as (on any of the beds) instead of (in women’s clothing)

        http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/transvestite-muhammad-mahomet-le.html

  3. dlbrand says

    May 18, 2014 at 12:24 am

    “U.S. … according the “Palestinians” the moral high ground and pressuring Israel to make disastrous concessions to the jihadists.”

    Indeed it does, from the Left and the Right–remember Gaza, to say the least.

  4. Cy Halothrin says

    May 18, 2014 at 2:05 am

    I’m a bit perplexed why only Arutz Sheva reported the story. According to the article, the Israeli news media failed to mention the incident, except for a radio report which made the Israeli passengers on the bus look like the attackers.

    Now I can see why the foreign news media would bury the story, considering their slant towards Islam. But why would Israel’s new media do the same? I don’t have an answer, I’m just asking.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 18, 2014 at 11:50 pm

      Why? Because a lot of Israelis, like a lot of Westerners, are still unaware…or else at some deep level *know* but are currently refusing to face that knowledge because then they would have to recognise that they will be fighting to defend themselves *forever* against the neverending jihad.

      The waking-up process is proceeding there, as here (and may well take not so long, simply because there are fewer people for the already-Islamoinformed to wake up – if you’re trying to “reach” six million people it takes less long than reaching a few hundred million [as in the USA] or 22 million [as in Australia] or 60+ million, as in the UK). But it’s got a ways to go.

      There are Israeli Jews and non-dhimmi Christians who have posted here from time to time, and others who I think lurk and read but do not post. They are aware, and spreading their awareness; I see the evidence of that when they post in the Comments to articles in Jerusalem Post online, and Times of Israel, and Arutz Sheva, and other English-language Israeli news outlets as well as blogs. I don’t know what it’s like in the Hebrew-language media, but I have definitely seen a major shift toward greater Islamorealism in English-language Israeli news reader Comments between 2006 (when I first started reading Jerusalem Post online) and today. But it obviously hasn’t yet reached the “tipping point” where it will spillover bigtime into their mainstream journalism, into articles and news reports rather than op eds and Comments.

  5. onisac says

    May 18, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    Before Islam goes all out, they must first put the fear of Jihad and Islam in the minds of all infidels and kaffirs. Full all out jihad is still in the distance, but it is no doubt moving closer.

    We can e-mail each other until hell freezes over. But it is as worthless as name calling.

  6. kikorikid says

    May 18, 2014 at 2:11 pm

    onisac, If what you say is true then Islam
    is delusional and doomed to fail. Those
    who would be Free will fight for that
    Freedom with a vigor that will puzzle
    the Pea brains of brainwashed Islamist.
    Free Men of the West will get them to
    the “Paradise” they seek.

  7. Bill says

    May 18, 2014 at 3:23 pm

    To believe that the west and Israel can coexist with Islam outside of the complete domination of Islam by the Free World, (or whatever is left of it) and by Israel is irrational. To argue the contrary and to assert that Islam is “peaceful,” “tolerant,” “humane,” or can be democratic in a classic western manner is subversive.

    • JO says

      May 19, 2014 at 12:09 am

      Amen! But until someone answers the violence with violence, they are gonna keep it up. We keep talking they keep killing. I say we all buy a Koran and burn it and say do something about it!!! I’m tired of hearing about these cowards pushing innocent people around and Am ready to do something. Anyone else?

      • dlbrand says

        May 19, 2014 at 2:09 am

        We burn a Koran, Jo, they will just kill more. Destroy more via arson, mysterious “ accidents,” etc. creative jihad, and sit back, say nothing, as they watch us absorb the losses, gather up and stack up our dead like cord wood; clean up, get ready, brace ourselves for the next hit.

        This war will against Islam and those that cherish that creed will be costly. Bloody.

        It will only be won when, here in the US of A, no longer is it legal for a mosque or a madrassa to open, operate, or stand.

        If you think for one moment that battle will be bloodless, you’re dreaming.

    • dlbrand says

      May 19, 2014 at 1:56 am

      Indeed, Yes, Sir, Roger that on all accounts mentioned.

  8. Elisheva14 says

    May 18, 2014 at 5:13 pm

    A truly amazing story. I cannot comprehend how so many Jews have their priorities messed up. I hope there is an update on this bus ride that ended ok. Keep giving us the real news.

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