About the Shalit deal, I wrote this in October 2011: “I am sorry for the families of those whom the freed jihadists have murdered in the past, and those whom they will murder in the future once they gain their freedom.” And now here we are.
“Israeli killed on Passover eve was murdered by Palestinian freed in Shalit deal,” by Yoav Zitun, Ynet News, June 23, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
The killer of Baruch Mizrahi, the senior Israeli police officer killed in a Passover eve terror attack near Hebron, was a Palestinian released in the prisoner exchange deal which saw Gilad Shalit freed in 2011 in return for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, it was cleared for publication Monday.
An indictment was filed Monday against Ziad Awad, a resident of the village of Idna near Hebron, for murder and attempted murder.
Awad was freed in the first tranche of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal, after he was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Palestinians who had collaborated with Israel.
Chief Superintendent Mizrahi, a senior officer in the Israel Police, was killed when a gunman armed with what is believed to have been a Kalashnikov opened fire on Israeli cars near Hebron, as they travelled to a Passover Seder in the Kiryat Arba settlement. His wife and nine-year-old son were wounded in the attack. Mizrahi left behind five children.
Awad, 42, was arrested last month by the Shin Bet and the police in a special joint operation with the IDF. He was arrested together with his son Izz a-Din, 18, who helped him plan the attack as well as flee the murder scene and hide afterwards. Both father and son are members of Hamas.
During their interrogation, it emerged that Ziad Awad rode a motorcycle to the scene of the attack, having obtained the Kalashnikov rifle beforehand. According to the Shin Bet, he visited at the place somew [sic] 10 days earlier to better plan his attack.
Before launching the attack, Awad confided in his son that he had religious motivation, saying that, “according to Islam, whoever kills a Jew goes to heaven.”
According to a senior IDF source, “the murder was conducted in professional manner, and (Awad) then fled the scene on a motorcycle, returning to his home in the village.”Freed before completing half of sentence
During the investigation into Mizrahi’s murder, security forces located the Kalashnikov rifle allegedly used by Awad.
Despite initial assessments, the investigation pointed to the attack being carried out by a lone terrorist. The assumption was based on the large number of shells found at the scene. What led investigators to Awad was DNA evidence collected from the shell casings. The IDF and Shin Bet are still searching for other suspects involved in the shooting.
Ultimately, physical evidence allowed investigators to create a profile for the murder, which helped them close in on Awad.
Awad was initially arrested in 1999 and began serving what was supposed to be a 27-year prison term for murdering Palestinian collaborators, but he was released in 2011 as part of the deal to free Shalit, who had been held captive in Gaza for five years.
A few days after his murder, Mizrahi’s wife, Hadas, recalled coming under fire and ordering her children to stay down.
“We passed the Tarqumia checkpoint and a traffic circle, and then Baruch saw a terrorist,” she said. “He told me, ‘they’re shooting, they’re shooting, they’re shooting. There’s a terrorist.’ Baruch put his foot down on the gas pedal.”
“I felt a pain in my back. I told the kids, ‘take off your seatbelts and lie down on the floor’. I took the steering wheel, shifted into low gear and used the handbrake to reduce the speed,” she said. I used a rag to wipe up the blood; I saw that Baruch was dead. When the soldiers arrived, I told them to dress my wounds and put the children in a protected vehicle, so that they didn’t see their father lying dead.”
Mizrahi was the head of the tech division of the Israel Police. He had served for 25 years in the IDF, holding senior posts in elite intelligence units. A police statement said that his contributions to Israel’s security had been “substantial”.
Large numbers of IDF troops have been deployed to the West Bank over the past 10 days, following the abduction of three Israeli teens in the Hebron area on June 12. Awad’s arrest is not connected to the search for the three boys, the Shin Bet said.
zulu says
Did this preacher groom the jihadi Britons? Notorious cleric visited mosque where terror brothers worshipped
Mohammed al-Arifi has called for holy war to overthrow Assad’s regime
He spoke to excited crowds at Cardiff’s Al Manar centre in June 2012
Friends Nasser Muthana, and Reyaad Khan, attended the mosque
Aseel Muthana also visited the mosque before leaving home to join the war
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British teenager, 17, fighting jihad in Syria with his brother ‘was leader of gun-toting gang which terrorised white children on streets of Cardiff’
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Linda Rivera says
British teenager, 17, fighting jihad in Syria with his brother ‘was leader of gun-toting gang which terrorised white children on streets of Cardiff’
UK ruling elites are utterly despicable and evil. Ruling elites colonised Britain with millions of muslims forcing infidel British taxpayers to finance colonisation and massive muslim breeding and ALLOW muslims to terrorise white British children.
There are no words to adequately describe the wickedness of British ruling elite monsters who have perpetrated this great sin against God and terrible crime against my people.
Rudy from Canada says
As an Atheist I think every Muslim in the world should convert to Christianity, Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism or Humanism so they can feel love for their fellow human beings for once in their lives and shed the hate that consumes them.
mariam rove says
I too as an atheist often think that too. But it is wishful thinking…m
gravenimage says
I agree with you and miriam, Rudy—I’d also be perfectly happy if they all became agnostics or atheists, as well—so long as they left the vile creed of Islam.
Champ ✞ says
“According to Islam, whoever kills a Jew goes to heaven”
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Not true, islam offers nothing but evil lies …
And murder is *not* a one-way ticket to heaven, but rather to hell. The Bible states in Revelation 21:8: “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars–they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
Question: “How can I know for sure that I will go to Heaven when I die?”
Answer here: http://www.gotquestions.org/know-sure-Heaven.html
Guy Macher says
Terrorists do not need prisons, they need body bags.
mariam rove says
Agreed. M
gravenimage says
Israeli killed by “Palestinian” freed in Shalit deal
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I was so glad when Gilad Shalit—whom I had long feared dead—was finally freed. And unlike the sketchy Bowe Bergdahl, there was never any doubt that Shalit was a loyal soldier.
But like Mr. Spencer, I feared from the beginning what that the *1,027 Muslim prisoners* released to gain Shalit’s freedom would go on to do. 280 of them had been sentenced to life in prison for killing Israelis—they had been responsible for the killing of *569 Israelis*.
More:
…killer says: “According to Islam, whoever kills a Jew goes to heaven”
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This is one of the few horrors of Islamic antisemitism that *isn’t* in the Qur’an or Hadith.
But it is widely believed by pious Mohammedans—when a Muslim in France savagely murdered his young Jewish neighbor Sebastien Selam, he bounded up the stairs of the apartment house dripping blood and calling to his mother, “I have killed my Jew. I will go to heaven!” *Ugh*.
dumbledoresarmy says
Gravenimage
I think this concept may be related to the following hadiths:
“Sahih Muslim, Chapter 8: THROWING OF NON-BELIEVERS IN HELL-FIRE FOR BELIEVERS AS DIVINE GRACE AND MERCY”
Sahih Muslim, Book 037, Number 6665: Abu Musa’ reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: When it will be the Day of Resurrection Allah would deliver to every Muslim a Jew or a Christian and say: That is your rescue from Hell-Fire.
Sahih Muslim, Book 037, Number 6666: Abu Burda reported on the authority of his father that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: No Muslim would die but Allah would admit in his stead a Jew or a Christian in Hell-Fire. ‘Umar b. Abd al-’Aziz took an oath: By One besides Whom there is no god but He, thrice that his father had narrated that to him from Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him).”‘
And then there’s this, from a very popular hadith collection one can find at any Islamic bookshop online:
“When judgment day arrives, Allah will give every Muslim a Jew or Christian to kill so that the Muslim will not enter into hell fire.” — Mohammed (Mishkat Al-Messabih, vol. 2, no. 5552.)
On the face of it, it’s supposed to happen on “judgement day” but there seem to be quite a lot of Muslims convinced that it works this way, *now*.
The example in the story Mr Spencer posted, and the example of Sebastian Selam, are not the only ones I’ve come across.
In John Roy Carlson’s “Cairo to Damascus” he recounts how he was very nearly murdered by an elderly Arab Muslim peasant, in the hills near Jerusalem. Because Carlson was of Armenian extraction, he was taken to be a Jew. His would-be murderer was dreadfully disappointed to be prevented from killing Carlson, by Carlson’s Arab Muslim companion, who had fallen behind, but caught up in time to prevent the murder by explaining that Carlson was not a Jew but a nice non-jewish Islamophile (Carlson’s “cover” identity; he was in fact pro-Israel, but going undercover behind enemy lines) American.
Bezelel says
islam should lose all consideration as a religion. Anyone who claims to adhere to it should lose all consideration as a fellow human. Quarantine them and let them practice their so called “religion” on each other. Wherever this place they are restricted to may be, we can call it Hell on earth.
mariam rove says
So called “religion”…. Not only that, but the so called religion of peace…..m
Carlos Danger says
So much for “Never Again”. I’ve always admired the fighting spirit of the IDF, Israeli Intelligence, and their Police.
time to dust off the Eichmann solution.
Jay Boo says
Buyer Beware
Islam’s salesman was a shady character.
Before seeking 72 virgins (assuming that is true)
A Muslim would do well to ask “why the 72 managed to STAY virgins so long and never become child brides like most other Muslimas.
Larry says
Please Sens this moron to his Heaven “With or without his 72 Virgins”.
Elisheva14 says
It is a wake up call to get an important lesson: NEVER EVER FREE ANY TERRORISTS…give them what they deserve: DEATH. Israel has been too soft on Terrorists.
All religions promote extremists and fanatics. We need some miracle to wake up all the Religious Fanatics from their delusions.