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Yeshiva head: This is continuation of 1929 massacre
Aviram Zino
Published: 07.03.08, 14:29
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1. Olmert, have you and Condi made a visit to the Yeshiva?
chaim ,   Tzur Hadassa   (03.07.08)
2. Hopefully, this will enrage the yeshiva students enough to
Rivkah   (03.07.08)
want to join the IDF en masse. they need to read the Bible passages on King Solomon's dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem. He said the PRIMARY occupation of Israel must be warfare.
3. PERISABLE CITIZENS
DAVID ,   JUDEA   (03.07.08)
That was the word used in the knesset recently and so it is. Olmert and all his herzelist friends rather would see us all perish, then see us become a jewish state. If this would have happend at a secular institution like Tel Aviv university, maybey we would have heard some form of condemnation from our selfloathing Israeli elite and leftwing extremists. That these same kind people are rsponsible for this kind of slaughter is of no importance. Like it stated before hedonist Israelis would rather choose to selfdestruct and destroy anything jewish about this land.
4. Re: #2
Aaron ,   Ithaca, NY   (03.07.08)
Mercaz is a hesder yeshiva. All of it's students do army service, although most of those who were murdered seem to have been in the high school component of the yeshiva, so they weren't even eligible for army service yet.
5. May God give the parents strength
Shalom Chaver   (03.07.08)
I cried bitter tears when reading this. May God give the parents of the dead and the wounded strength withstand this terrible ordeal. My heart goes out to them. May God comfort them, and may He avenge their sensless murder. Amen.
6. payback time for arab killers soon
Yehud   (03.07.08)
am yisroel chai
7. the strong response to come.....
MICHEL ,   FRANCE   (03.07.08)
Olmert and his cabinet will certainly respond to this whith an even stronger proposition .........of unilateral retreat
8. 4 Aaron: If Yeshiva students serve in the IDF when old
Rivkah   (03.07.08)
enough, then why all the criticism of Yeshiva students not serving in the IDF and the Defense Minister refusing to exempt a thousand of them, a small fraction of the entire group who refuse to serve in the IDF? American youths are WORSE. Some volunteer for military service, but MOST prefer mercenaries, a practice Sir Winston Churchill said ends in totalitarian government or civil war. Those Yeshiva students who were shot at should have gone to military indoctrination classes as high school students and carried guns to class. It is unlikely more than one student would have been killed if teenage Jews carried guns as their forefathers did when they were students. In States like Texas and Florida, anyone can carry a concealed weapon. That deters shootings and crimes far more than laws banning guns.
9. "brave" to kill highschool students ? coward against soldier
daniel ,   our state israel   (03.07.08)
10. 8 people ?? NO, 8 highschool students !!
daniel ,   expel his family   (03.07.08)
11. 10 Daniel: When my husband who is 66 was in high school
Rivkah   (03.07.08)
in California long ago, he lettered in shooting rifles at targets as a sport. He was on the HIGH SCHOOL Junior Reserve Army Officer Training program...IN HIGH SCHOOL! He was an EXPERT shooter when he went to US Navy bootcamp in the 1950's. That is how Jewish teenagers in the Middle East were in generations past, not sissies waiting to be slaughtered like the yeshiva students or American students on campuses that BAN the students from carrying handguns. In America, students who even DRAW a picture of a gun while in school are expelled. When I was a girl, the fathers of friends taught eight year old sons how to shoot. They knew how to protect their mothers when Dad was away. A lot of changes need to be made in this dangerous world. The more people who carry guns, even teenagers assigned as guards, the better. If everyone on airplanes carried concealed weapons, there would be no highjackings.
12. Where is Peres?
Reuven ,   Beit Shemesh, Israel   (03.07.08)
Where is our president, who promised us at Oslo a "New Middle East?" Why didn't he attend the funerals or console the families? The eight murdered students are the latest victims of his delusional "peace procss." But he would rather spend his time with Madonna and Sharon Stone.
13. Do you know now ??
(03.07.08)
Do you understand now how bitter is the test of having a killed child .... will you understand the others too when you do the same to them ?? do you understand now that violence bring only violence ... will you stop killing inocent people and shake the hands of your handmade enemies ... will we have peace in this world or not ??
14. To the families, and all Israel, stay strong
Nick ,   London   (03.07.08)
15. Road Map Curse
Marcel ,   Florida   (03.07.08)
The best of Israel are sacrificed for the evil plan of Bush, Olmert which has been a failure from day 1. Israel ,How long will you place the empty lying,devious words of Bush, Rice over the words of Hashem ? THere is no peace to be had with Palestinain's and their Islam as there was no peace to be had with the Amalakites. The Road Map only brings a curse upon Israel and no peace. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. Exodus 23 When will you stop placing the failed cowboy and his failed Road Map above G-d ? Stop this Idolatry.
16. All children deserve a chance...
Ilan ,   Ariel   (03.07.08)
My response to these murders is a great sense of loss. Children show a world of potential (yes, I feel the same about Arab children). It is a terrible tragedy when children who show such potential are deprived of their future. As a parent, I know that all words of condolence are inadequate. Life is sacred.
17. My condolences to the parents and families.
(03.07.08)
18. WHERE WAS OLMERT???
al mann ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (03.07.08)
The Prime Minister didn't have any empathy for this segment of the poulation to express any words of consolation and comfort to the bereaved families whose sons were mercilessy slaughtered as they sat learning in the yeshiva. He certainly doesn't consider this segment of the population as having any importance. He doesn't know their importance in maintaining the identity of B'nai Yisroel and probably wouldn't care. What a PRIME minister!!!
19. OLMERT IS CONSISTENT!!!
al mann ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (03.07.08)
It has been quite obvious over the past years, that his indifference has been demonstrated in Sderot, Ashkelon, and now in Jerusalem. He speaks cleverly but people's lives are not saved by words. His objective, to stay in power, is a failure for the people of Israel. We need someone with emotional and spiritual strength to lead this people. Today no person like this exists. Woe unto Israel!!!
20. ısrael must act agaınst hamas...we must kıLL 100 hamas men
(03.07.08)
21. "continuation of the 1929 massacre..."
Keren ,   Israel-SP   (03.07.08)
The difference is that by that time we were not in control of our country;now we are, and are letting this happen having all means to NOT LET IT HAPPEN. It is an absurd! We should pray in our rightfull place and not like dimmis in our own land,at the back of a wall having our enemies receiving an unrightfull honor-IN ERETZ ISRAEL!. We should expel those who hurt us and who live in Israel wishing for it demise . Israel has everything in its hands to do the right thing but it is wasting its potential,appeasing uncurable animals. For each one of these deaths Israel should strip the citizenship of 100 arabs,randomdly.Let the arabs in Israel start proving who is who.Only the faithfull should(maybe) remain.Israel MUST clean its house in order to live properly and with tranquility.
22. Jerusalem
khader herzallah ,   dhahran-saudi arabia   (03.07.08)
No one wants to see his children killed in cold blood ,but your daily killing of Palestinians creates sense of hatred and revenge among them. Rabbi Shapiro reminds the jews of the 1929 massacre in Hebron but never mentions another massacre committed by one of your leaders in early 1990s killing 29 muslim worshipers in Holy Ramadan in a holy mosque also in Hebron while performing their dawn praying. The instigations by your Rabbis is hurting the cause of peace and prolonging the feud.Stop that .
23. May HaShem Bless them all
ambrosine shitrit ,   london   (03.07.08)
Nothing to say just our thoughts are with the families of the loved ones that died in this needless attack.
24. WE ARE TIRED OF FIGHTING,
EHUD OLMERT   (03.07.08)
we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want to be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies."
25. Olmert's response? Bomb more empty buildings?
steve stein ,   Phila, PA   (03.07.08)
What will Olmert do now? Precision strike on another vacant plo building? OR Give more land to the terrorists?
26. Response to #2
Alan Simanowitz ,   Elazar   (03.07.08)
Your comment about Yeshiva Students is ridiculous and ignorant. Mercaz Harav is the flagship zionist yeshiva. It is a Hesder Yeshiva that sends all of its boys into the IDF, which most likely is the chief reason why the arabs have chosen it as a target. Your comments insult these boys memories. May G-D comfort the families among the mourners of tzion and yerushalayim.
27. eye for eye
silvio ,   italy   (03.07.08)
I think that apply the dictum "eye for eye tooth for tooth" it is the better answer to the impossible dialogue.
28. To the mourners:
Andrew ,   England   (03.07.08)
"May the Almighty comfort you among the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem."
29. Shame on Olmert Merders Leftists and for voting this gvmt
gabriela ben ari ,   jerusalem   (03.07.08)
Holy of Holies: That what these kids are People in Sderot are dispensable, Ashkelon, Kiriat Shmone, Relious zionists, all- except Tel Avivinas of course
30. # 16
salleh ,   malaysia   (03.07.08)
can't help but to agree with you. and i imagine that is exactly how the palestineans' parents would have felt when idf machine of the terrorist state of israel strangled their children to death by engaging in the blockade. israelis! where is your soul as the people of the book?
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