Yes, the Israeli people is superior to its enemies

Yes, Ori Ansbacher’s mother asked the audience to “add light in the world, an act of kindness” to preserve her daughter’s soul.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

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A condemnation of the assassination of Ori Ansbacher by a Palestinian Arab terrorist in Jerusalem is still not in from:

-The European Union, always quick to condemn the construction of new Israeli houses in Judea and Samaria;

-The UN, always meeting in an emergency session when Israel kills a terrorist;

-The Western newspapers, always ready to make room for the terrorists who died on the Gaza border and the pin-up of the Intifada, Ahed Tamimi;

-Pope Francis, always distracted when Israel suffers a tragedy, is in terrible mourning;

-Abu Mazen and the “moderate Palestinians”, always generous in making money transfers to terrorists with European aid;

-The Islamic world, always ready to hide terrorists in their mosques;

-And let us not forget: The feminists, always looking for a femicide except when an Israeli girl is involved.

Good vision of the most chilling success story in history: the anti-Semitism that kills.

The friends of Ori Ansbacher found these words, a poem, that the girl had written before being killed in Jerusalem: “Make your world become a world of peace”. Few words, but these say everything about a people at war for 70 years, but that does not hate. The Israeli will for peace – expressed by its newspapers, its writers, its politicians, its polls – has however always been reciprocated with terror and death.

And this passion for life and peace in that fortress hides something that makes Israel completely not comparable to any other western country. And that makes it, at least in my eyes, unique.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu visited the parents of Ori Ansbacher. It is an image almost unknown in Europe, that of the nation’s leader who is going to console a family after a terrorist attack. It is instead the strength and last greatness of Israel, something intimate, which comes from within, the unity of its people.

Yes, the Israeli people are superior, they are more just and stronger than their enemies. While all over Israel, people held vigils for that poor girl murdered by a Palestinian terrorist, Ori Ansbacher’s mother asked the audience to “add light in the world, an act of kindness” to preserve her daughter’s soul.

Those who boycott or criticize that small country and people have no idea of ??this superhuman moral abyss between Israel and those who want to destroy it and kill its inhabitants.

The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter and of “J’Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel” published by Mantua Books.. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary.

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  2. From Elder of Zion:

    Ori Ansbacher and a Mother’s Grief: The Photo I Just Couldn’t Take (Judean Rose)

    I could have taken a photo of Ori Ansbacher’s grieving mother. My finger hovered over the button on my phone as I contemplated the idea. A photo of that face full of pain would have shown the world what a thousand words could not. It would have said, “Look! This is what it means to have your daughter brutally raped and murdered just for being Jewish in Jerusalem, and alone.”

    And there would have been value in that. After all, Noa Ansbacher’s face was probably the most wrenching sight I’ve ever seen. Shouldn’t the world see that? See what it is for a mother to lose a child to hatred? Might it not change something in the world, seeing that photo? Could it not make a positive difference?

    I considered all this as I looked at Noa Ansbacher’s face, as she sat in her house of mourning. Looking at her, I saw Ori’s face some 30 years away, albeit lined with a heavy sorrow. I saw the same features. Mother. Daughter.

    But Ori would not be here in 30 years. Her light has been extinguished. She is buried underground.

    Which is the reason for the pain etched on Noa Ansbacher’s face. Unlike Noa, Ori would never have a daughter. She would never have a husband. She would never have any children or grandchildren at all.

    She would never have a future.

    This being the case, all I could do was look at Noa Ansbacher’s face, and see what Ori might have looked like, had she lived her life. Looking at the mother, I could see the promise, now stolen away. A young girl with her life ahead of her, ended with sudden and brutal finality, stamped out in a flash, like a cloud of evil darkening the world, obscuring all that is good.

    The irony of a name, “Ori.” It means: “my light.”

    Studying Noa Ansbacher, I knew that for her, the light had gone out. I could see it in her face, though smiles would break through the pain from time to time, as she acknowledged Ori’s friends, who surround her during this terrible time.

    Ori’s friends are all she has left of Ori. That and the stack of photos of her girl, left on the low plastic mourner’s chair by her side, for visitors to peruse.

    When she is not distracted by the need to be gracious, to love the sweet girls who come to comfort her, who cherished her daughter, Noa Ansbacher’s smile is washed away, overtaken by lines of pain once more. There’s a heaviness to her grief, a thick fog of unbearable pain.

    I could have shown you all this. It would have taken less than a second to capture Noa Ansbacher’s face and the scene around her for perpetuity. Perhaps a “real journalist” would have snapped that picture and published it here to show it to you. It would have gotten lots of page views, gone viral.

    I could have done it, taken that photo, published it here, and in some ways, it would have been a serious good. A mother’s face, a study in mourning for a daughter stolen away by evil. Blameless, unassailable as Ori was, just a young girl with her life ahead of her. She was meant to do so much.

    Anyone who would have seen such a photo of Noa Ansbacher in the depths of her unfathomable sorrow would have remembered her face forever, as I will, an indelible vision of pain. And indeed, seeing her face is the only way anyone could truly understand that pain. The kind of pain a mother exchanges for a life full of light.

    Imagine a daughter blotted out by cruel thunderclap after a gentle lifetime of promise. This was a crime dripping with the worst sort of hate and aggression. A crime directed at a sweet young girl, a holy people, and a way of life—a way of life that is wholly good, driven as it is by the life force—and the bringing of an ancient land alive.

    But there was something private in Noa Ansbacher’s face, something I dared not attempt to capture or share. In truth, I could hardly bear look at it myself. Who was I to imagine that I could depict the pain of a mother whose child is murdered in such an obscene and brutal way, for the crime of being Jewish and alone in Jerusalem?

    And so I took photos of everything else around me, with the help of my friend and neighbor, who was the impetus behind this visit. Between the two of us, we took photos of everything in and around the Ansbacher home. I took photos of the photos of Ori Ansbacher from the stack of photos resting on the low plastic mourning chair beside her grieving mother. With no need for words, Jocelyn stepped in to hold the photos up for me, one at a time.

    I took photos of the rolling sand dunes of the Judean Desert, a view that Ori would have seen from the balcony of her childhood home; a home that sits on ancient land: land that belonged to her people for thousands of years. She saw that view for the 19 years she lived her life, a handful of years. An age and a number she would never surmount.

    On our way out, Jocelyn stopped so I could take yet more photos. I took photos of Herodian, where Herod built a summer residence. The flattened mountaintop looms in the distance from everywhere within the town of Tekoa, where Ori grew to womanhood and where her mother yet grieves. It is impossible to forget one’s history when one lives with such a view.

    And the anemones. I could not leave without getting some photos of the bright red flowers that grow in such profusion close to the Ansbacher home at this time of year. These would have been old friends to Ori. In Hebrew they’re called “kalaniyot.”

    (photo credit: Jocelyn Odenheimer)
    No doubt the same flowers can be found in the Ein Yael forest in Jerusalem, where Ori sought solace and met instead, a brutal end. The kalaniyot are everywhere now, the bright scarlet notes breaking through the hillsides, so red against the green of the grass and the blue of the sky.

    The anemones were, perhaps, the last beautiful thing Ori Ansbacher would ever behold.

    They were a harbinger of spring.

    A spring she would never see.

  4. From Israel: “The Haunting Face of Evil”

    Please, read to the end:

    When last I wrote, I spoke about the tears, the terrible sadness, evoked by the terrorist murder of Ori Ansbacher.

    That sadness is still in my heart, and in the heart of everyone here with whom I speak.

    But it is fury that has now risen to the fore.

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    After Ori’s body was found in the forest at Ein Yael, rumors, some graphic, circulated about her having been mutilated. Unease about these rumors lingered, but the police put out a message urging people not to believe them.

    They certainly had reasons for issuing this call: It is possible that some of those rumors were exaggerations; certainly they were attempting to preserve the honor of the deceased and spare the immediate family further pain and grief.

    But at least some of those rumors were true. Ori was raped before being knifed to death. And it seems her body was then mutilated.
    ~~~~~~~~~~

    On Monday news broke of the arrest of the terrorist. The reports were accompanied by pictures: The terrorist has scratches and marks across his face, signs of the fight Ori put up.

    And he is smirking, visibly proud of what he did.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/court-remands-palestinian-suspect-in-brutal-murder-of-teen-ori-ansbacher/

    This is the face of evil. See it for yourselves.

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    My immediate, visceral response: An urgent desire to smack him across the face so hard his head would go flying from his body.

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    Many regret that he was brought in alive. But we only shoot terrorists when being apprehended if they try to flee or resist arrest. More’s the pity.

    Now there are cries for the death penalty. I do not know if this will happen, but it should.

    We have a law permitting the death penalty on the books but the accompanying legalities are complex (announcement that the death penalty is being sought must be made prior to proceedings, all three justices hearing the case must decide unanimously, etc.). The only one we have ever executed is Eichmann. A new bill that would have advanced the use of the death penalty in terror cases was put forward late last year, but never advanced to become law.

    Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is calling for capital punishment. After visiting with the bereaved family, Bezalel Smotrich declared:

    “This despicable terrorist must die, his home must be destroyed, and his family must be deported here and now…Simply because our lives come first.”

    Credit: i24news
    Avigdor Lieberman, chair of Yisrael Beitenu, called for the terrorist to be tried in a military court, where it would be far easier to levy a death sentence:

    “The murder of Ori Ansbacher was carried out in the seam zone in Ein Yael. In such cases the murderer can be brought to trial in either a military court in Judaea or Samaria or in a regular court in Israel…

    “To ensure this option, the Cabinet must instruct the Attorney General and the Military Advocate General to refer the matter to a military court….

    Lieberman called upon the Minister of Justice and other ministers to demand the convening of the Cabinet in order to establish a new policy:

    A. In any case where the terrorists can be tried in the framework of a military court, this should be done.

    B. In particularly cruel cases of murder, the Attorney General and the Military Prosecution should be instructed to demand a death sentence.

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258926

    ~~~~~~~~~~
    Please see “A Reminder of Amalek” by Vic Rosenthal (who writes as Abu Yehuda):

    Credit: Abu Yehuda
    “Here we are again. A whole country is suffused with feelings of excruciating sorrow, anger, and impotence. Here I am again, writing that another ‘Palestinian’ creature has brutally violated and murdered a beautiful young girl, a 19-year old who had a bright future, who now has none. Her mutilated body lies in the ground, and her family has only memories…

    “The Prime Minister said that ‘…we will bring the matter to justice.’ But we won’t. There would have been justice, perhaps, if the creature had been shot when he was caught, but that didn’t happen. We don’t have justice, we have what Tuvia Tenenbom called ‘a very complicated Talmudic thing, nobody knows, even the Jews cannot figure it out.’

    “The ‘Palestinians,’ a nationality invented…are the spiritual and practical descendants of the biblical tribe of Amalek, an enemy hated and feared by the people of Israel because of their penchant for attacking from the rear, killing the weakest and the slowest of the Israelites.

    “This has always been the strategy of the ‘Palestinians,’ who especially seek out Jewish women and children to act out their perpetual rage…

    “The Jewish people are commanded (Deut. 25:19) ‘blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.’ This is generally understood to mean to completely destroy the tribe (see also I Samuel 15:3), but the rabbis decided that because of the way the various nations were scattered in history, it is impossible to determine who, if anyone, is a blood descendant of Amalek today. Nevertheless that commandment still has meaning. I would not go as far as the prophet Samuel and insist that we are required to kill every living creature in Amalek’s camp, but I understand it to mean that when faced with an antisemitic enemy, we are required to achieve full victory over it, to obtain what was called unconditional surrender after WWII.

    “We have been trying to do the ‘complicated Talmudic thing’ since 1967, perhaps since 1948, and it hasn’t worked. Today we know that there can’t be coexistence, that Jews and ‘Palestinians’ can’t live together (the jury is still out about the Arab citizens of Israel). Yasser Arafat’s educational system, perpetuated by his successor Mahmoud Abbas, and the similar system in the Gaza Strip controlled by Hamas and paid for by the UN, have guaranteed that. They have bred possibly the first complete generations of youthful Jew-haters vicious enough to cut the heads off of three-month old babies and to stab 75-year old grandmothers in the street…”

    http://abuyehuda.com/2019/02/a-reminder-of-amalek/

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    The terrorist ? whose name (which I have studiously avoided mentioning) is Arafat Irfaiya ? was first identified via DNA at the scene. He was known to the authorities because of prior arrests. (And even once declared he would return as a “martyr,” which raises other questions.)

    The search led Israeli security forces to Al-Bireh, near Ramallah, last Friday. There they entered the Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque, where they confiscated footage from security cameras, and arrested an employee.

    Credit: visitpalestine
    This search was neither random nor futile. Shortly thereafter, our security forces arrested the terrorist in a building in Ramallah.

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    When searching the building where he was hiding, our forces had the most able assistance of Zili, a Belgian Malinois who has been part of a Border Guard S.W.A.T. team for five years.

    Explained Zili’s handler:

    “We scanned the building, and on one of the floors I released Zili to search the site. I then heard barking and realized that he had located the terrorist and overpowered him, so that he wouldn’t run away. When we got to him, we arrested him.”

    Credit: Border Guard Spokesman
    The S.W.A.T. commander then elaborated (emphasis added):

    “The S.W.A.T. dogs are fighters in every respect. This is our approach, which brings about a very significant connection between the fighting men and the fighting dogs. The dogs train with us, go out with us on operations and spend leisure time with us. This combination of a human warrior and a four-legged warrior is a winning combination, which has yielded many operational successes in recent times.”

    https://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/photos/meet-zili-the-belgian-shepherd-who-captured-ori-ansbachers-murderer/2019/02/11/

    Brings a smile to me and I hope to other dog lovers among my readers.

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    The response of the PA to the search for the terrorist, on the other hand, is absolutely nothing to smile about:

    The day after the arrest of the terrorist, the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported that:

    “The occupation raided the Jamal Abd Al-Nasser Mosque…in El-Bireh.

    “[PA] Minister of Religious Affairs Yusuf Ida’is condemned the attack against the sanctity of the Jamal Abd Al-Nasser Mosque under baseless and unacceptable pretexts. Ida’is said in a press statement that this cowardly attack against a religious and sacred place of worship, without any consideration for its sanctity and its religious and spiritual value, constitutes part of a series of daily attacks against our Islamic and Christian holy sites, and particularly the Al-Aqsa Mosque…by the occupation forces and…and under political cover of the right-wing occupation government.”

    https://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=27260

    There was no mention, you will note, of the reason for the forces’ entry into the mosque, and no condemnation of the terrorist act.

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    On Sunday, questions were raised about PA payments to be made to Irfaiya or his family – such payments being a routine aspect of PA policy (and I will be writing a good deal more about this).

    But the PA declared that it has not received any request for financial aid from the family.

    Stated a PA official,“claims in the Israeli media to the effect that the family of Irfaiya would receive a monthly salary are part of the campaign of incitement against the Palestinian leadership and President Abbas.”

    And anyway, explained an official with the Palestinian Prisoners’ Commission, even if the family does apply, it will takes weeks if not months because their eligibility is determined.

    “At this stage, we still don’t know anything about this specific case. It’s not even clear whether this was a nationalistically motivated attack.”

    https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/PA-denies-giving-payment-to-confessed-murderer-580261

    The family in Hevron ? which is worried about a likely house demolition ? was quick to declare the innocence of this murderer who has not only confessed but acted out his attack for Israeli authorities.

    Said Suleiman Irfaiya:

    “Our family is not affiliated with Fatah or Hamas or any other faction.

    “He was never involved in such things. I know my brother very well, and I don’t believe he is capable of doing such a thing.”

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    And so there you have it: No shame, no remorse, no readiness to accept responsibility. Just hypocrisy and lies that contradict each other: all in an attempt to cover the heinous and hateful behavior to which they are committed.

    These are our “peace partners.”

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    As to the political scene, I will simply say here that I believe we must push for a strong right wing government. For only such a government understands and would be ready to take appropriate actions.

    There is much more to tell about the shifting dynamics of the campaign, but that must wait until my next posting.

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    I consider it imperative that Americans, including those in governmental and leadership positions, be confronted with the truth regarding the Palestinian Arabs and the mood of Israelis, who are weary of platitudes and calls for patience. Weary of the would-be murderers within our midst.

    I implore you, my readers, to share this information as broadly as possible within all available venues. Forward this email, post it on your Facebook pages, write letters to the editor, etc.

    ~~~~~~~~~

    Arlene Kushner. Permission is granted for it to be reproduced only with proper attribution. arlene@arlenefromisrael.info

  5. Ori Ansbacher: light, freedom and Jewish sovereignty
    Posted on February 13, 2019 by Forest Rain
    My Facebook feed is full of Ori’s photo. She looks different in the different images but in each, her radiant smile is the same.

    Ori, “my light” in Hebrew, was obviously a fitting name for this sunny girl. The more we hear about Ori from friends, family and the people she volunteered with helping underprivileged youth, we learn about the light that was stolen from us – Ori was a role model, an inspiration, a light that pointed the way for many to a better and happier world.

    Israel and the Jewish community around the world have paused in horror at the discovery of Ori’s brutal murder on February 7th.

    Ori Ansbacher

    The rest of the world, not so much.

    Who cares about a dead Jewish girl? Women are raped and murdered all over the world. It’s nothing unusual. Sad, but not newsworthy. Certainly not on an international level.

    From a distance, it is probably difficult to understand why this case is different.

    It is not just that our nation is so small and every life is precious.

    It is not just that Ori was lovely and innocent. It is not just the stark contrast between her sunniness and the viciousness with which her life was ripped from her, the darkness rising up to stomp out the light because it knows that even a small light can banish great darkness.

    It is not just that cases of rape that ends in murder are rare in Israel. In Israel, women, in general, don’t have to fear the random stranger but we too have our share of crime, even violent crime. Rape tends to be date rape or cases of pedophilia (neither of which could be considered common but even a single case is too many). Murder of women has become an issue of concern in the country. At the same time, those are not random murders. They tend to be “honor killings” (which occur among the Arab population) or cases of deranged spurned husbands or boyfriends who in helpless rage somehow decide that murder (usually followed by their own suicide) is the only way out. No rape is acceptable. No murder is acceptable. At the same time, it is important to understand that this murder is different.

    Arafat is a name with a legacy. Ori’s murderer is named after the terrorist-extraordinaire, visionary and possibly the greatest marketer of all time, who solidified the imaginary Palestinian “brand” into the mind of people worldwide as a nation with rights to the land of Israel. To the Western world, he said that the “Palestinian people” would exist side by side with Israel. To the Arab world, he explained that they would exist instead of Israel but needed to proceed in a step by step method. Arafat Irfayia, 29, a resident of Hebron didn’t wake up in the morning that day deciding he wanted to rape a girl. He didn’t believe he could destroy Israel or “Free Palestine” either. He chose a knife before he left his home and went for a walk in the Jerusalem woods, to see which unfortunate Jewish soul would come his way. He knew he could stomp out one Jewish life.

    Arafat Irfayia
    Ori’s murderer smirking during his arraignment
    Animals kill for food or self-defense. This man saw light walking freely in the land where she belonged and he wanted to erase her existence. In his culture rape steals a woman’s value. The brutality of the murder is testament to a desire to exterminate, not simply end a life.

    Ori’s murder is different because it wasn’t just a horrific attack on her, it was an attack against our nation. It wasn’t an attack on a woman who happened to be a Jew, it was an attack on a Jew who happened to be a woman. It was an attempt to erase the Jew from Israel.

    THIS is the hate directed at the Nation of Israel.

    The darkness hates the light because even the smallest light can banish the darkness. The darkness attempts to smother the light but does not truly understand just how powerful the light is.

    Ori is dead but her light is not. In fact, her light is growing at an exponential rate.

    Ori’s friends are putting her poetry of hope to music so that it will spread and inspire more people.

    Ori loved Israel and nature. Her murder was designed to make us afraid to walk free in our land as she did. That’s why her friends and many others are responding by walking the land MORE, not less. Particularly on the hills of Jerusalem.

    Instinctively Ori’s friends requested everyone go outside, experience Israel and post photos with the hashtag #?????_??_?????_?????? #AFreeNationInOurLand.

    To be a free nation in our land | Inspiration from Zion

    For 2000 years we dreamt of return to our land, to be a free nation in our land. No Arafat will succeed in taking that away from us.

    Jewish sovereignty and freedom are more than the legal and self-sufficient Nation State. They are dependent on the determination of the Jewish spirit. We are small in number but ours is a light that will not go out – and when the darkness threatens to overwhelm us, we respond by growing even brighter.

    We are Ori.

    Ori Ansbacher her light lives on | Inspiration from Zion

  6. We all should support MK Smotrich’s recommendations. From Arutz Sheva:

    ‘This despicable terrorist must die’
    MK Smotrich visits family of Ori Ansbacher, says she must be the last terror victim.

    Bezalel Smotrich
    National Union chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich on Monday paid a condolence visit to the family of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, who was brutally murdered by a terrorist from Hevron last week.

    Following the visit, Smotrich published a post on Facebook in which he called on the government to ensure that Ori is the last murder victim.

    “We came out of a difficult and emotional visit at the home of the family of Ori Ansbacher, a strong and unique family. We heard all about Ori.”

    “The message that has to come out of here is that Ori must be the last one and in order for Ori to be the last one, we must deter,” wrote Smotrich.

    “This despicable terrorist must die, his home must be destroyed, and his family must be deported here and now, without the High Court and without B’Tselem. Simply because our lives come first.”

    “I support the prime minister’s decision to at last bring before the Cabinet this Sunday the implementation of the law to offset the salaries of terrorists from the PA.”

    “I call on him not to listen to the threats and intimidation of the security establishment, which unfortunately since the Oslo Accords has been dependent on the Palestinian Authority. This dependence of ours on the PA is dangerous for the State of Israel and its citizens. We do not need the PA and they will not threaten us,” declared Smotrich.

    “If the PA collapses, let it collapse, we will take responsibility. A Palestinian Authority that incites to terrorism, which pays the salaries of terrorists, and then brings about more and more and more bereaved families and condolence visits, is not viable,” he concluded.

  7. Ori’s blood cries out to deaf ears
    The media’s silent treatment for slain Israeli teen.

    If I didn’t know any better, I’d say the lack of coverage was purposeful…a blanket wall-to-wall blackout.

    But I do know better and I still call it a confederacy of silence, beginning at The New York Times.

    They are all in it together. I cannot prove it; rather it’s for them to prove that they are not carriers of journalistic malpractice. I know that scoffers’ smell of theirs from my own years in the newsroom and travelling with them to Israel where they went, and came back, like the Spies, to curse the land.

    I saw it firsthand, their scandals of playing hide and seek with the truth. It’s in this and this book. They won’t tell it; I did.

    Yes, the topic is Ori Ansbacher, a beautiful 19-year-old daughter of Israel who was found in the Ein Yael forest in south Jerusalem, dead from a particularly horrific act of rape and murder.

    Did you read about it in the Times, in the Post, or in any other major (even minor) newspaper? Neither did I? Zero.

    Did you watch any of it from CNN, the BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS or any other network? Same here. Nada. Zilch.

    Ori’s blood cries out to deaf ears. A nation is in distress, the world shrugs, the media yawns.

    This we know, that when Israel defends itself even by moderate degrees, the world shouts no…no…no. Must not disrupt the “peace process.”

    For that, they come alive. For this, they snooze.

    From the Europeans, this is understandable. The trembling media over there are taking orders to suppress the word “Muslim” for any harm Muslims do. The “migrants” get a free pass.

    Islamophobia, they say…while Muslims keep arriving in Europe safely in droves and Jews are packing up and running for their lives…from that very influx.

    That is their “peace process” with an asterisk and a wink to the media.
    That’s Europe. What’s our excuse here in the land of a free and supposedly fearless press? Or is it that word might slip out that the Israelis face a brutal enemy as typified in this slaying?

    First problem. Ori was Jewish. That won’t get you much sympathy in a hotel run by Democrats, which is the media. Second problem. Ori was Israeli. Jews, especially Israelis, never get a free pass. Guilt (as Kafka has it) is always to be assumed. To put it starkly, in their eyes, Israelis deserve what they get…and any Palestinian Muslim, for whatever he does, is the innocent party.

    Hence…suppress…suppress…suppress.

    If they were to name the victim, Ori Ansbacher, they would need likewise to name the killer…and his name is Arafat. Yes, Arafat.

    With a name like that, what else did you expect? He is 29 years-old. This means that he has already gone through the entire indoctrination process focused on killing Israelis. The brainwashing began from the day he was born – and when he started school, that’s when they really taught him the trade.

    That is their “peace process” with an asterisk and a wink to the media.

    In confessing to the murder, Arafat admits that he was only doing what is expected and what comes naturally to him and his people, the Palestinian Arab Muslims.

    If you dare take a glance at his picture, you will cringe. Catch the smirk, the telltale sign that the American news media are also his beloved people.

    New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva.

    He is the author of the international book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal.” His sequel to that sensation is, “Slot Attendant: A novel about a Novelist.” His classic Inside Journalism thriller, “The Bathsheba Deadline,” is being prepared for the movies. Contemporaries have hailed him “The last Hemingway, a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Website: http://www.jackengelhard.com

  8. Great column from Meotti. One of his best. This from today’s Ynetnews, confirming what he says about the PLO-PA-“State of Palestine: “

    VIDEO: Israeli police caught on camera arresting teenagers suspected killer
    A branch of the Palestinian Authority on Monday released surveillance footage from a Ramallah-area mosque, apparently showing Israeli security forces arresting the suspected Palestinian killer of a young Israeli woman brutally murdered last week.

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    The video, posted on Facebook by the PA’s Waqf (Islamic trust) office, shows footage from a camera inside the Jamal Abdel Nasser mosque, in which the suspected killer is caught in an abandoned building nearby, and an additional suspect is arrested inside the house of worship itself.

    Arafat Irfaiya is suspected of murdering 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher in Jerusalem last week. Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Sunday extended Irfaiya’s remand for an additional 10 days.

    Ansbacher’s naked body was found last Thursday, with multiple stab wounds, in the woods at Ein Yael on the outskirts of Jerusalem, police said. The Shin Bet domestic security service said Irfaiya left his home in Hebron carrying a knife, saw the victim in the forest, attacked and killed her. The 29-year-old Palestinian later admitted to the murder anbbd said it was nationalistically motivated.

    Irfaiya was identified through a DNA sample found at the scene of the horrific attack, and was arrested as part of a surgical operation carried out by Israeli security forces. After it became clear to the investigators that the terrorist was hiding in the mosque some 15 kilometers north of Jerusalem, a SWAT unit was sent to the location late Friday night. The force that arrived at the scene encountered violent disturbances, which included Palestinians hurling pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails, burning tires and throwing stones.
    Security footage from Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque (Photo: Security footage)
    Security footage from Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque (Photo: Security footage)

    The soldiers initially searched the mosque but couldn’t locate the suspect and left the area in order to reorganize. The investigators from the Shin Bet domestic security service then examined CCTV footage from various buildings in the neighborhood, including the mosque, and decided to send a force from the Border Police’s counter-terrorism unit Yamam to inspect the abandoned building that aroused their suspicions. A military dog named Zili was the first to reach the terrorist and trap him, and he was eventually arrested unarmed and without resistance.

    Maor Zemach, chairman of the pro-Zionist Lach Jerusalem organization, lashed out at the Palestinian Authority for releasing the video, calling it an attempt to ”criticize Israel for desecrating holy places” and deflect from the act of murder itself.

    “This clearly explains the distorted priorities of the Palestinian Authority: the cruel murder of Jews is acceptable, while fighting terror is not,” Zemach said.

    Ori Ansbacher (Photo: Courtesy of family)
    Ori Ansbacher (Photo: Courtesy of family)

    In the meantime, the residents of various Palestinian villages adjacent to the settlement of Tekoa, where Ansbacher lived, are expected to pay a condolence visit to her family. The Palestinian delegation, which will consist of around 10 people, was an initiative of the Israeli Tag Meir umbrella organization that combats hate speech and incitement by Jewish extremists.

    “We are against murder and violence on both sides of the conflict, people have to respect the other. There is nothing more precious than human life, it’s the most sacred thing,” said Ziad Sabatin, a member of the Palestinian delegation from the village of Husan near Bethlehem.

    No Palestinian officials have condemned the murder, and not one of the Palestinian terror groups has claimed responsibility — including Hamas, to which Irfaiya was reportedly affiliated.