Four terrorists hurl firebombs at bus near Hevron, engulfing it in flames, but media ignores story, preferring to cover Jewish graffiti.
A well-planned firebomb attack on a bus full of Jewish schoolgirls Tuesday could easily have ended in tragedy, but no news source even reported that it took place, except for Arutz Sheva.
The girls were sixth-graders from a religious school in central Israel. They were on a bat mitzva tour of the Cave of Machpela in Hevron, a site recognized by the government as an official heritage site, when four terrorists ambushed it with firebombs.
The mother of one of the girls, who was accompanying the trip, told Arutz Sheva that the ambush had been well planned. She described moments of horror when the firebombs exploded, one after the other, on the bus’s windows, east of the Halhoul bridge, as the bus made its way back from Hevron.
“This was a bat mitzva trip that had been approved by the Ministry ofEducation, which included a visit to Rachel’s Tomb. The buses were bulletproofed and had an armed guard,” she said.
Chananel, the woman’s son, whose sister had been on the bus, wrote on Facebook on Tuesday: “Three firebombs exploded on the bus. It was a direct hit. The bus was engulfed in flames and the girls and the mothers in the bus screamed, cried, leaned down toward the floor. There was a smell of burnt plastic.
“This time, it ended without injury. The driver stepped on the gas and the bus was fortified. The traumatic effects are not known at this point… I don’t even want to write how it could have ended.”
Alluding to the latest incendiary comments by leftist writer Amos Oz, he added: “Neo-nazis are not Nazis and Price Tag must be denounced and we are more moral and therefore a higher moral standard is required of us. Fine. But come on, we had better look reality in the eye and understand how twisted it all is. If I had doubts about the justness of the right wing struggle on this issue, then they are all gone. Leftists, media, government, army, Shin Bet and the other people living in a fantasy world – wake up.”
No Israeli or foreign news source is known to have reported the incident. However, incidents involving graffiti by Jewish youths have beenreceiving front page coverage and government ministers have called for their classification as terror acts. Apparently influenced by Israeli media and politicians, the United States has also equated the Jewish nationalistic vandalism with terror.
Arutz Sheva was founded in 1988, after Rabbanit Shulamit Melamed experienced an attack on a bus she was in, and was shocked to hear the radio report about the event, which made it sound as if the Jews on the bus had been the attackers and not the victims. She turned to her husband, Beit El co-founder Rabbi Zalman Melamed, who establishedArutz Sheva together with Beit El co-founder Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz.
The incident Tuesday in Hevron proves, sadly, that more than 25 years down the line, the problem that made Arutz Sheva necesary has only gotten worse.
@ bernard ross:
8,000 Israeli Fans flooded Milan filled the stadium and it was like a home game for Maccabi Tel Aviv, tommorrow the finals against Madrid. In Israel this is Big Stuff. 🙂
A group of Israelis in Nepal ready to Climb Everest heard about Maccabi making the final four canceled their trip and flew to Milan to watch in person. That’s Israelis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGPaxJpXkcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDvn67pKijk
@ bernard ross:
This is what most Israelis are interested in at least until Sun eve.
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yamit82 Said:
I was trying to identify a western nation whereby a war with neighbors and rockets fired on their territory would not command attention. I could not think of one that would behave like that in the same circumstances.yamit82 Said:
On the contrary I have altered my previous held opinions and perceptions to fit the reality of what I have learned. I do not disagree with what you have said which is why I always consider it foolish when people here condemn the foreigners on the assumption that most Israelis want YS and are being cheated by the foreigners. My view is that it makes no sense to whine about the foreigners when Israel itself does not care enough to have a united opinion near any majority on retaining YS. My conclusions now are very different than before: those who wish to influence the outcomes in my opinion must concentrate on Israelis and that appears to be a futile endeavor according to your own words. The majority of the left and the religious appear to be disinterested and you appear to authenticate that view. Why rant about that which is very unlikely to be changed or happen. Prior to arriving here I had no idea how fractured Israeli and Jewish opinion was and especially was surprised by the left and the religious. I do not get satisfaction from hearing people agree with me or the echo of my own thoughts.
yamit82 Said:
In this case I agree, “you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink” Most posters dont even realize that they are leading the wrong horse to water. If censoring the fact of firebombed childrens busses is not enough to get attention then I think the whole thing is futile.
@ bernard ross:
Above comment was for you. #5
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Most people are not consummate consumers of real hard news. Most people work, worry about bills and debt or the purchase of new cars and homes. Their kids, Vacations in Europe and Turkey etc. Few Israelis read Arutz 7 or listen to the their radio station in Israel their largest audiences are not Jewish Israelis but gentiles, mostly christians outside of Israel.
The status of the Territories for most Israelis is not near the top of the Israeli concern list, for most I suspect, it’s down near the bottom.
During the last Lebanon war while 70% of the population of the North fled South most people in Gush Dan and around Tel Aviv carried on as normal went to the beach the movies, the theater, the Opera and the coffee houses.
Israelis like everyone else right-left and center live and behave just like everyone else in the West and if something doesn’t effect them personally it’s hard to get their attention, after all, they think that’s why we have a government to do the deciding and the worrying for us. Or they know best, or they have more information than we do etc.
Most Israelis not in uniform have never been to Y&S and most never been to Jerusalem.
I think you are projecting what is important to you on to those with less concern over those same issues.
There is a substantial difference in outlook, personality and worldview between those who live on the Coastal Plain from those who Live in Jerusalem and there is a marked difference between residents of Jerusalem and the Coastal Palin from those of smaller towns and villages especially in the South including Beersheba.
If most Israelis according to most Polls oppose ceding territory to the Arabs it’s not ideological but because they do not believe at this time that the Arabs are serious. Otherwise there would be a majority for ceding most or even all of Y&S to the Arabs. I don’t see much ideological or emotional attachment of most Israelis to the territories even to Jerusalem, slogans aside.
The Left understands this weakness and will continue to exploit it. There is no real right in Israel and that includes Ted. They are for the most part rational pragmatists, dirty words in my in my lexicon but that is the reality and I think I understand that reality.
yamit82 Said:
the nation of startups would know about it even if only covered by one outlet. I would conclude that most Israelis have internet and are familiar with internet news.
yamit82 Said:
I would expect that others similar” would refer to prior patterns of news censorship. If the pattern is repetitive then I expect more of the start up nation to be on the alert to glean censored news.
this is an enormous stroy that if censored intentionally, which I believe, is an even bigger story. Flocks of reporters should be harassing Israeli media editors asking them why they cover jewish graffiti artists and intentionally ignore attmpts to slaughter jewish girls? They should be asking if there are any connections with gov and their staff that cause their staff to facilitate the censorship? AS 7 should make this the story and scandal of the century, the Israeli watergate.
I imagine, like in the movies, flocks of reporters surrounding and questioning the Haaretz editor Levy and others.
Jews are usually curious and I do not buy “lack of knowledge”. Israel is not 3rd world nor is it populated by the uneducated and ignorant.
bernard ross Said:
If it wasn’t reported then one might conclude Israelis don’t know about the incident and others similar so why would they show curiosity about these stories not having been reported??
Aren’t Israelis curious as to why?
There definitely is a worldwide problem with media coverage…but don’t forget, we Jews control the media. I deliberately watched MSM during Holocaust Awareness Week to see what the coverage would be – there wasn’t any.