Thursday, March 22, 2012

The greatest heartbreak

There's a very touching report in today's Australian by John Lyons on the funerals in Israel of the Jewish victims of the Toulouse antiSemitic attack from earlier in the week - Greatest heartbreak the smallest body.

Before the ceremony, a convoy of police cars and ambulances made their way through Jerusalem with the bodies. People stood watching. At 10.07am (7.07pm AEST) , the first of the bodies, 30-year-old Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, was brought from the ambulance covered in traditional Jewish cloth. Next came his son, Arieh, 5. But the next body was unbearably small -- it was on the smallest of stretchers, but did not even fill the length of it.

It was the body of Gabriel, 4, who like his brother and father was shot in the head at point-blank range as they turned up to the Ozar Hatorah School in Toulouse.

Meanwhile Al Age counters with a one-liner from AFP ...

"Jonathan Sandler, his sons Arieh, five, and Gabriel, four, and seven-year-old Miriam Monsonego were buried on Wednesday in Givat Shaul cemetery on the western outskirts of Jerusalem."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

No doubt as is usual after each Muslim inspired massacre al' age will have the usual Arabist contributors telling us this crazy Muslim was a one off and 99% per cent of Muslims are law abiding , Jew loving citizens blah blah blah
Well to tell you the truth I worry about this 1% that Muslim spokespersons keep telling us about who are no doubt jihadists,extremists or at the best sympathizers .
Its interesting this latest Muslim murderer's reason was the Palestinians not the the Syrians who are currently massacring his flock, its all about the Jews.


Faygale


1% of 1.1 billion is about ten million f-ckers running around looking for Jews , Christians and non believers to murder.

Anonymous said...

Disappeared into thin air has Ms Pollard rather than write about this ...

Anonymous said...

Wiping blood of her hands

Anonymous said...

I too am shocked that Ms Pollard would disappear when on her watch the child victims of a violent hate crime are buried. There's probably a simple explanation why this story and thousands of others which provide better context to the conflict between Israel and the Arabs always find their way in the blank pages.

Thanks Wilbur Post for bringing many of these instances to our attention.

Gil Barnoy said...

It might just be that she's simply ill at the moment. It happens to a lot of people.