70% of Public: Execute Fogels' Murderer
by Gil Ronen
29 november 2011, Kislev 3, 5772
As a military court prepares Monday to hand down its sentence in the trial of Amjad Awad, aged 19, a poll shows 70% of the public want the cold-blooded killer executed. The poll was conducted by Pirsumei Israel.
Together with his cousin Hakem Awad, 17, Amjad murdered five members of the family in the Samaria (Shomron) community of Itamar eight months ago. It was Amjad who stabbed and killed Udi Fogel and his wife Ruthy, as well as their children – Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, who was 3 months old.
The cousins admitted the crimes and reenacted them for investigators.
Hakem was found guilty on all the counts. He was charged with in August and sent to 130 years' jail. However, Amjad was the initiator of the massacre.
While 70% supported the death penalty for Amjad, 20% said they oppose the death sentence and 9.8 said they have no opinion. The poll encompassed 521 people from all socio-economic layers.
Israeli courts, including military ones, can impose the death penalty by law but never do.
A Torah-True and Zionist Way to Memorialize the Fogel Family
11 mei 2011, Iyar 7, 5771
The Itamar Yeshiva is building and expanding in memory of the Fogel family murdered by terrorists. Arutz Sheva presents the emotionally stirring video.
The Yeshiva Center at Itamar has begun construction of the new campus which will include study halls, classrooms, dormitories, and the renovation of the kitchen and dining room for the students. Itamar, together with Arutz Sheva, urge you to contribute towards this momentous undertaking which will represent a true Zionist response to the horrible crime against the Fogels.
The Itamar Yeshiva is building and expanding in memory of the Fogel family murdered by terrorists. Arutz Sheva presents the emotionally stirring video.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144016
The Yeshiva Center at Itamar has begun construction of the new campus which will include study halls, classrooms, dormitories, and the renovation of the kitchen and dining room for the students. Itamar, together with Arutz Sheva, urge you to contribute towards this momentous undertaking which will represent a true Zionist response to the horrible crime against the Fogels.
De moordenaars zijn in onze handen
23 april 2011, Nissan 19, 5771
http://brabosh.com/2011/04/19/pqpct-apo/#more-41652
Leftists Visit, Hug Mother of Fogel Murderer
by Gil Ronen
22 april 2011, Nissan 18, 5771
Several ultra-leftist groups organized a visit to the Arab village of Awarta on Saturday, April 16, in support of the villagers and against the IDF's activities there in the search for the murderers of Ruth and Rabbi Ehud Fogel and their children Yoav (11), Elad (4) and Hadas (three months).
The leftists visited several homes in the Samaria village, including that of the Awad family, which spawned the murderers. The identities of the confessed murderers were released for publication on Sunday, the day after the visit. The murderers were already in IDF custody at the time of the leftists' visit and their arrest - including the fact that they are relatively young - was already widely rumored and hinted at by the press.
A photograph from the visit http://2nd-ops.com/hagit/files/2011/04/P1000606.jpg posted by one of the activists on her Internet blog, shows Raya Yaron, spokeswoman of Machsom Watch, comforting a woman described as being 37 years old and "in a deep depression." The blogger explained in her post that the woman fainted during the leftist women's visit and was distraught over the arrest of her husband, her two sons and a daughter.
The woman is easily recognizable as Nuf Awad, mother of Hakem Awad, whose photograph was featured on the front page of Arab newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida Monday.
"It is impossible that my son did this," she is quoted by the paper as saying. "My son doesn't know how to slaughter a chicken" (the translation is from the Seventh Eye media-watch website). The two murderers confessed, however, to slaughtering five human beings and investigators reported that they expressed no remorse, and even said that had they realized there were two more children sleeping in the house, they would have killed them as well. They saw no problem in slitting baby Hadas's throat, they explained, since she was a Jew.
Another leftist visitor, Yaakov Manor of the Center for Alternative Information, described the visit thus on the AIC's Hebrew website:
"The horror that we witnessed at the home of the family of Muhammad Awad cannot be described as anything but a pogrom - a primitive and brutal act of revenge intended to strike fear and awe into the hearts of the residents..."
"The father, Muhammad, 45, the son Majdi, 20, a third year university student, the son Amjad, 19, a freshman university student, and the son Hakem, 17, were arrested."
At about the same time that Manor wrote the post, a court lifted a gag order and allowed the press to publish the names and photos of the murder suspects. One of them was 17 year old Hakem Awad. The other was his cousin, Amjad Awad, who is apparently not the same Amjad mentioned above as brother of Hakem.
Machsom Watch is a women's group that interferes with soldiers looking for weapons and explosives at checkposts and is a member of the Women's Coalition for Peace. Both are radical groups that espouse a pacifist, anti-religious and anti-Western brand of gender feminism, and both received considerable funding from the New Israel Fund as recently as 2007, according to NGO Monitor.
Despite allegations of siding with Israel's enemies, the New Israel Fund is still perceived as a legitimate body by many liberals in Israel and outside it. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143325
As reported on Arutz Sheva, Israel Online Ambassadors said Sunday that these leftist groups had crossed a red line. “The time has come to make leftist groups that support murderers illegal. Whoever supports baby killers has no place in a democratic society,” the group said in a statement.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143625
http://www.israelonlineambassadors.com/
Fogel Terrorist: Like Father, Like Son
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
17 april 2011, Nissan 13, 5771
The father of one of the murderers of the Fogel family at Itamar had served in jail for terror, and an uncle involved in the 2002 terror attack on same community.
Two teenagers were arrested for the massacre of five members of the Fogel family. The father of high school student murderer Hakim Mazen Awad was active in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization and previously had been jailed in Israel. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143608
Awad and Amjad Awad carried out the brutal murders at Itamar, the same community where Hakim Awad’s uncle was involved with the 2002 terrorist attack that killed five people. He was killed the following year in a clash with IDF forces.
After the murders of the Fogel family, another uncle of Awad, who also was a PLFP terrorist and had served a prison sentence for terror, enlisted other relatives to burn the attackers’ bloodstained clothes.
While the teenage terrorist butchers returned to school, as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, the uncle took the knives used in the massacre and moved them to Ramallah. Israeli security agents have identified and arrested the man who hid the knives and have recovered the murder weapons.
One of the suspected terrorist's mother insisted that her son was sleeping at the time of the murders, despite his confession.
Another resident of Awarta, where the terrorists live, told Voice of Israel government radio Sunday that he does not even believe that the terrorist attack took place...
Waar was de verbijstering in de wereld toen deze prachtige mensen vermoord werden? Tijdens andersoortige omstandigheden, staan de kranten vol, maar dit was niet goed genoeg om genoemd te worden? Het spijt mij echt, maar de logica ontbreekt mij hier helemaal aan.
The last time
24 maart 2011. Adar Bet 18, 5771
http://www.aish.com/jw/id/The_Last_Time.html?utm_source=mimi_aish_com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Aish_com+New+Articles+-+March+21,+2011&utm_campaign=Aish_com+New+Articles+-+March+21,+2011&utm_term=The+Last+Time
3,000 Show Their Support at Solidarity Event in Itamar
by Gil Ronen
20 maart 2011, Adar Bet 14, 5771
The words in the video above are: "And this [belief in G-d, ed.] has sustained our forefathers and us, because not just one enemy has tried to destroy us, but the Holy One, Blessed be He, rescues us from their hands", words from the Passover Haggadah that are especially apt this holiday of Purim.
The video was filmed at the special show of support held Saturday night at Itamar, where five members of one family, including a 3-month-old baby, were savagely murdered eight days ago on Friday night by terrorists.
Organizers said that over 3,000 people attended, travelling to the community after the Purim holiday Megillah reading instead of going home for festivities. In addition, the students at Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, where Purim is celebrated on Sunday night, cut their planned program short to travel to the town. Among the public figures who addressed the crowd were MKs Uri Ariel and Michael Ben-Ari of the National Union, and Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) who called on the government to protect Israeli communities and to realize that these stalwart people are the pioneering Zionists of today.
Busses brought people from around the country to show support for the community that has been the target of barbaric Arab terrorism on numerous occasions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdUO57oH3o4
11-Year-Old Yoav's Legacy: 'Love Everyone”
by Chana Ya'ar
Mar 17 '11, Adar Bet 11, 5771
First responders who rushed into the blood-drenched bedroom of 11-year-old Yoav Fogel last Friday night were confronted with a sight that nearly stopped them in their tracks.
A colorful little wooden plaque hung above the slain young boy's bed, proclaiming his love for his people and a prayer for peace between all.
The prayer above Yoav's bed, written originally in Hebrew, reads as follows (in English):
May it be Your will, L-rd G-d and G-d of our forefathers,
That I love every one of Israel as myself, and
To graciously perform the positive commandment of loving your neighbor as yourself.
And may it also be Your will, Lord G-d and G-d of my forefathers,
That you cause the hearts of my friends and neighbors to love me fervently, and
That I be accepted and desirable to everyone, and
That I be loving and pleasant, and
That I be gracious and merciful in the eyes of all who see me.
As water reflects face to face, so the heart of man to man.
And all for the sake of Heaven, to do Your will,
Amen
Along with his 4-year-old brother Elad and his new little baby sister, 3-month-old Hadas, Yoav and both of his parents were stabbed to death by terrorists who murdered them as they slept.
Miraculously, two of his brothers survived, unnoticed by the terrorists in their rush to slaughter the family. Eight-year-old Ro'i and 2-year-old Shai were both sleeping at the time.
http://brabosh.com/2011/03/19/pqpct-at1/
May the Lord keep and protect you, may His face shine upon you....
"I Will Be Their Mother" Says 12 Year Old Tamar Fogel
by Uzi Baruch
14 maart 2011, Adar Bet 8, 5771
The eldest daughter of the Fogel family, 12 year old Tamar, promised her relatives: "I will be strong and succeed in overcoming this. I understand the task that stands before me, and I will be a mother to my siblings". The orphaned youngster's words were quoted in the Hebrew daily Yisrael Hayom.
In their home in the town of Neve Tsuf in Samaria, Tsila and Chaim Fogel, parents of Udi, are sitting on low benches for the traditional “shiva” week of mourning alongside his three brothers and sister. There is a constant stream of comforters going in and out of the house, VIP's and ordinary citizens from all over Israel, whose hearts go out to the bereft family that lost son, daughter-in-law, and three young grandchildren in a barbaric terrorist slaughter on Friday night.
Chaim Fogel continues to retell the story of terrible hours from 3 a.m. on, when he received the horrific news, drove to Itamar, met his 12 year old granddaughter and then entered the family’s home. The authorities were forced to ask her to tell what she saw when she returned from her youth group activity to find her family’s bloodsoaked bodies at 12:30 a.m. Chaim himself had the heartbreaking task of identifying the bodies.
"We came to take the surviving grandchildren out of the Valley of Death, he said. I don’t wish on anyone in the world the sight I saw. It is horrendous, beyond description, beyond comprehension".
The grandparents recalled the last time they saw Udi, Ruti and the children, a week and a half ago on Saturday night. They celebrated the start of the month of Adar Bet in Itamar, danced, sang and laughed.
"At least they had a taste of Purim", said Udi’s mother Tzila. "I didn’t feel any premonitions. Why should I have thought that I will never see them again? I am not trying to remember if there was anything of that nature in my mind. We were happy together. We have photos of the children playing and happy".
The family is against any personal revenge or taking the law into civilian hands. Their slain children felt the same, they said, unequivocally.
The Ben Yishai home of Ruti’s parents in Jerusalem, where the surviving grandchildren are now, is also crowded with comforters. After the mourning week is over, the family will decide where the children will live. Meanwhile, they are having difficulty in explaining to the youngest child what happened to his parents. "What shall we tell them?" they said. "What does a two-year-old understand when he cries over the loss of his parents? They tell us that children heal quickly, mentally and physically. We hope so".
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Arab Terrorists Murder Family in Samaria, Including Infant
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
13 maart 2011, Adar Bet 7, 5771
Arab terrorists murdered five people in a family in the Jewish community of Itamar, in northeast Samaria, around 9 p.m. Friday night.
The only survivors were a 12-year-old girl, who returned from a Bnei Akiva youth group event to discover her parents and three of her brothers and sisters,including a three-month old baby girl, dead in pools of blood, and two younger brothers, who were sleeping a separate room.
The IDF is searching for the murderers, who broke through a window and murdered the victims in their beds.
Officials immediately began a “blame game,” with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu faulting Palestinian Authority incitement in schools and mosques. Voice of Israel government radio actually implied that Itamar residents themselves were responsible for improper security, an accusation which has since been refuted.
The barbaric murders followed dozens of warnings from nationalists and leaders in Judea and Samaria that the constant easing of security procedures implemented by Defense Minister Ehud Barak would be the prelude to terrorist attacks.
The army is investigating the attack, but it already is known that the security fence did not include cameras and other equipment requested by Itamar, according to Shomron (Samaria) Regional Council Chairman Gershon Mesika.
An electronic warning system at the fence did not function. Voice of Israel government radio openly questioned whether Itamar was not to blame because it was aware that the fence was sub-standard. However, it was the IDF that did not upgrade it. Voice of Israel also reported that there was a general warning of a terrorist attack and that Itamar security officials allegedly did not relay the information to the Israel Defense Forces. This was found to be untrue, as it was later was confirmed that there was only a general warning of an attack without any specific indication that Itamar was to be targeted.
The United States, which has pressured Israel to ease security procedures, condemned the attacks and offered its condolences to the survivors and “to the Israeli people.” It urged the Palestinian Authority to "unequivocally" condemn the murders.
A statement by PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad simply stated, "We are against violence and condemn it regardless of the circumstances, identity of the victims or the goals,” but he did not state that the PA would help search for the perpetrators.
He also did not condemn the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which took responsibility for the attack. In a statement to the media, the terrorist cell of the Fatah faction headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas claimed that the attack was a “heroic operation, part of the natural response to the massacres of the fascist occupation against our people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.”
Earlier, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki condemned the attack but implied that Palestinian Authority Arabs were not involved. "No Palestinian in the past killed an infant and butchered people in such a way based on a nationalistic or vengeful motive," he said. "This raises doubt as to Israel's rush to accuse the Palestinians of committing this act."
MK Dr. MIchael Ben-Ari, speaking on Radio Kol Chai shortly after the end of the Sabbath, said that the terrorists gain impetus when they see hundreds of Israeli police deployed to destroy houses in outposts such as the recent Gilad Farm (Havat Gilad) incident where plastic bullets were used against Jews, roadblocks leading to and from Arab villages removed and Jewish construction effectively frozen, all actions implemented under the control of Defense MInister Ehud Barak that have the tacit approval of Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel would file a complaint with the United Nations. "Israel is expecting to hear a strong condemnation from all democratic states which in the name of human rights hurry to denounce every caravan movement in Judea and Samaria but as of last night have yet to condemn the heinous murder of an entire family, including a three-month-old baby," he stated.
Victims Indentified as Family of Rabbi Fogel of Yeshiva Itamar
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
13 maart 2011, Adar Bet 7, 5771
The victims of the brutal murders at Itamar, in Samaria, Friday night are Rabbi and IDF tank unit officer Udi Fogel, his wife Ruth, 11-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad and three-month-old Hadas. Rabbi Fogel taught at the Itamar post-high school yeshiva, whose senior rabbi is former IDF Chief Rabbi Avi Ronsky.
Their funerals will take place at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Har Menuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem. The survivors, 12-year-old Tamar, eight-year-old Ro’ie and two-year-old Shai, are being cared for by their grandfather, Chaim Fogel, a resident of Nevei Tzuf, also in Samaria.
After bringing his grandchildren from the home of the terrorist crime, he said, '"We saw the scene of the vicious murder.”
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that an initial investigation indicates that the parents, Udi and Ruth Fogel, fought with the attackers, an act that may have been instrumental in saving the lives of three of their children who were in another room. The attackers fled immediately after murdering the parents and three of their children who were in the same room with them.
The IDF has arrested approximately 20 Palestinian Authority Arabs for questioning, but it not known how many terrorists were involved in the murders. It is known that the terrorists jumped over the electronic security fence.
Around 22:30 Friday night, they entered one house , where no one was home, and hen broke into the Fogel home to carry out the murders.
Tracks from the home led to the nearby village of Awarta. Saturday night, Jewish residents in the area demonstrated at the nearby Tapuach junction and marched north towards Hawara, near Shechem and where Defense Minister Barak has removed several key security checkpoints and relaxed security inspections.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, "I noticed that several states which rushed to condemn Israel for building a house in some place are taking their time in condemning the murder of children.”
He also said he was shocked by the ambiguous condemnation of Palestinian Authority leaders. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated, "Violence will only bring more violence – we must hurry to find a comprehensive, just solution to the conflict.”
Following the remarks, Prime Minister Netanyahi stated, "I am disappointed by the weak and mumbled statements. This is not how one condemns terrorism. This is not how one fights terrorism. See how Israeli prime ministers, myself among them, have reacted in similar situations, but there has never been anything like this, in which terrorists entered a home and cut children's throats.
"This requires sharp and unequivocal condemnation. This requires something else. This requires a halt to the incitement.... The time has come to stop this double-talk in which the Palestinian Authority outwardly talks peace, and allows – and sometimes leads – incitement at home. The time has come to stop the incitement and begin educating their people for peace."
Tens of Thousands at Funeral for Martyred Fogel Family
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
13 maart 2011, Adar Bet 7, 5771
Tens of thousands attended the funeral for five members of the Fogel family massacred at Itamar. The entrance to Jerusalem was blocked off by police and vehicles diverted to an alternative entrance after the huge attendance brought traffic to a standstill. Israel's major television channels provided live coverage of the eulogies for the victims.
More building for Jews is the “revenge” for Arab terror, Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger said at the funeral Sunday afternoon for the five members of the Fogel family who were stabbed to death by Arab terrorists Friday night. “The Creator, and not us, will avenge the spilled blood,” he said.
Former Chief Rabbi of Israel Yisrael Meir Lau said, “There are times when there are no words and when one feels helpless with pain and anger.”
A survivor of the Holocaust, Rabbi Lau said that one would think the vicious circle of violence ended 66 years ago but “the river of blood continues to flow, and we stand here today helpless.
“What can you say when you see a two or three-month-old baby stabbed to death? We read this past Shabbat the Book of the Torah that begins with sacrifices, but who thought of sacrifices such as these?”
He turned to the surviving Fogel children and said, ”Your mother and father need you. You are the ones who will say the Kaddish {mourner’s prayer] and you will recite, “May His great Name be glorified and sanctified. He Who makes peace in the Heaven will make peace for us and for all of the People of Israel. Amen.”
Hillel Ben Yishai, brother of Ruth Fogel, sobbed that the victims were “holy and pure and the People of Israel will learn to know who they were – holy and pure. No one was sweet as Hadas,” the baby daughter of the Fogels who was among those murdered.
“The people of Israel are strong, like Ruth, an iron lady,” He added.
'Mama Rochel' is nog steeds van toepassing....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYtKqst5Tqg&NR=1