Friday, July 20, 2012

ISRAEL: A NATION MOURNS ...

Yesterday, IDF plane carrying the injured victims of the Bulgaria terror attack landed in Israel. The IDF will not stop at any border to assure the safety of Israeli citizens. IDF Soldiers Evacuate Wounded Bulgaria Victims into Israel. Photo by: Greece Israel Cyprus

Heartbreaking! Families mourn on the coffins of their loved ones.
Thursday night, Tel Aviv airport. In these times, in 2012, there are still people killed because they are Jewish!

Photos above and below by: Hatikvah

AND,

Jerusalem - In Photos: 5 Israelis Killed In Bulgaria Terror Attack Arrive Home

http://www.vosizneias.com/110248/2012/07/19/jerusalem-in-photos-5-israelis-killed-in-bulgaria-terror-attack-arrive-home/

Relatives mourn five Israelis who were killed during an explosion on a tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria, after their arrival at the Ben Gurion airport outside Tel Aviv, early 20 July 2012. The bomb attack which killed five Israelis on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, was according to the countries interior minister carried out by a suicide bomber. EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN

Relatives mourn five Israelis who were killed during an explosion on a tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria, after their arrival at the Ben Gurion airport outside Tel Aviv, early 20 July 2012. The bomb attack which killed five Israelis on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, was according to the countries interior minister carried out by a suicide bomber. (Credit: EPA)

Minister of Tourism Stas Misezshnikov speaks near the coffins holding Israeli citizens Itzik Colangi, 28, Amir Menashe, 28, Maor Harosh, 25, Elior Price, 26, and Kochava Shriki, 44, who were killed in a suicide bombing attack in Bulgaria 2 days ago, as their bodies arrived at the Ben Gurion airport in Israel early Friday morning. July 20, 2012. P (Credit: Flash90)

Israeli soldiers carry the five coffins holding Israeli citizens Itzik Colangi, 28, Amir Menashe, 28, Maor Harosh, 25, Elior Price, 26, and Kochava Shriki, 44, killed in a suicide bombing attack in Bulgaria 2 days ago, at a cermony after the bodies arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport learly Friday morning. July 20, 2012. (Credit: Flash90)

Minister of tourism Stas Mizeshnikov seen arriving to a ceremony for Israeli citizens Itzik Colangi, 28, Amir Menashe, 28, Maor Harosh, 25, Elior Price, 26, and Kochava Shriki, 44, were killed in a suicide bombing attack in Bulgaria 2 days ago, as their bodies arrive at the Ben Gurion airport early Friday morning. July 20, 2012. (Credit: Flash90)

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Dearest and most Blessed Israel,

Your grief and the tears you shed are mingled with my tears. I speak for everyone here at Americans Stand with Israel when I offer my sincerest condolences to the families of the victims.

I want you to know that the love and support for your nation and all Israelis during this time of grief is shared with hundreds of thousands of peoples throughout America and the world. The first two photos are designed by friends on Facebook. Many of us do not understand Hebrew, but we understand your loss and your grief. Please accept our condolences through the very prayers and songs of Israel, and through those who creatively designed pictures to honor your nation, Israel and the Jewish people throughout the world.

Shalom!

Americans Stand with Israel

Bee Sting

I have no other country, even if my land is burning!

Gad Elbaz - Mi sheberah

BULGARIAN PRESS NAMES BOMBER: DEVOUT MUSLIM MEHDI GHEZALI

ATLAS SHRUGS, by Pamela Geller

Dressed to look like carrot top (the Islamic idea of an American) with the Michigan passport (Dearborn?) The Dearborn imam on the All American Muslim had hizb'allah ties. Islamic supremacists dressed the jihadist mass murderer as a lefty clown. Perf!

When will the world denounce and decry Islamic Jew-hatred as commanded in the quran?

"Bulgarian press names bomber: Mehdi Ghezali" Times of Israel, July 19th, 2012 (thanks to David)

Bulgarian media on Thursday named the suicide bomber who blew up a bus full of Israeli tourists, killing five Israelis and a local bus driver, in the Black Sea resort of Burgas on Wednesday as 36-year-old Mehdi Ghezali.

Ghezali reportedly arrived in Bulgaria five weeks before the bombing and arrived at the airport via taxi, Channel 2 reported. He was also reportedly given the bomb by someone else, but no further details were provided.

There was no independent confirmation of the veracity of the information. The reports surfaced soon after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had publicly accused Hezbollah, directed by Iran, of responsibility for the bombing. The Prime Minister’s Office made no comment on the reports.

The Bulgarian reports, rapidly picked up by Hebrew media, posited various versions of how the bomber had detonated the bomb, including the suggestion that the bomber had not intended to die in the blast, but may have wanted to place the bomb on the bus and flee.

Ghezali has a Wikipedia page, which describes him as a Swedish citizen, with Algerian and Finnish origins. He had been held at the US’s Guantanamo Bay detainment camp on Cuba from 2002 to 2004, having previously studied at a Muslim religious school and mosque in Britain, and traveled to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, it says. He was taken into custody on suspicion of being an al-Qaeda agent, having been arrested along with a number of other al-Qaeda operatives.

Following a lobbying effort by Swedish prime minister Göran Persson, Guantanamo authorities recommended Ghezali be transferred to another country for continued detainment, and he was handed over to Swedish authorities in 2004. The Swedish government did not press charges.

He was also reportedly among 12 foreigners captured trying to cross into Afghanistan in 2009.

Earlier on Thursday the Bulgarian police released a brief video clip that claimed to show the suicide bomber, responsible for Wednesday’s terror attack on a tour bus full of Israeli citizens, walking around shortly before the blast at Burgas International Airport.

The Bulgarian news agency Sofia reported that the bomber was carrying an American passport and Michigan driver’s license, both believed to be forgeries.

Sofia also reported that the Bulgarian Interior Ministry managed to recover the fingerprints of the bomber, which they submitted to the FBI in the United States and the international police organization Interpol. The FBI and CIA joined Israeli and Bulgarian officials in investigating the attack.

Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov told Sofia that DNA tests were being run to determine the identity of the Caucasian man, who the minister described as casually dressed with nothing suspicious about his appearance to set him apart from the crowd of people at the airport.

The ministry did not indicate how the police came to the conclusion that the man was the suicide bomber.

VIDEO of Muslim doing American tourist impression before going jihad and slaughtering a bus full of young Jewish youth.

UPDATE: U. S. officials deny that Ghezali was the Bulgaria jihad murderer.

Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 01:24 PM |

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Netanyahu: "Israel will react powerfully against Iranian terror,"

Peres: Israel will hit terror nests around world

By JPOST.COM STAFF, HERB KEINON

LAST UPDATED: 07/19/2012 12:48

Defense Minister promises to find perpetrators of attack; Netanyahu vows powerful response; Liberman says Israel has solid information Hezbollah carried out Burgas terror attack.

Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

In unusually tough remarks, President Shimon Peres responded Thursday to the Burgas terror attack saying that Israel will hit terror nests around world.

The attack targeting Israelis killed at least seven people in the city of Burgas, soon after a charter plane, Air Bulgaria flight 392 arrived from Ben-Gurion Airport. The seven included five Israelis, the driver, and the suicide bomber, the ForeignMinistry said.

PM: All signs point to Iran in Bulgaria attack

"We were witnesses to a deadly terror attack coming out of Iran ... we know there were other attempts, and this time they succeeded," the president stated.

"It [Israel] has the means and the will to silence and paralyze terror organizations," Peres asserted.

Earlier Thursday Defense Minister Ehud Barak stated that Hezbollah was responsible for the terror attack in Burgas under the auspices of Iran.

Echoing his comments from Wednesday evening, Barak told Israel Radio that Israel would do everything in its power to to find the perpetrators, and bring them to justice.

In response to Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev'sstatement that Mossad did not warn Bulgaria of an expected attack, Barak said that Israeli intelligence services transfer all information of this nature that it receives. However, he said he did not think that intelligence services had accurate information such as the information it obtained in order to thwart the terror attacks in Cyprus and Thailand earlier in the year.

Reinforcing Barak's comments, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told Israel Radio on Thursday that Israel has solid information that Hezbollah, in close cooperation with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carried out the terror attack in Burgas.

According to Liberman, Israel's information identifies with certainty and beyond all doubt the Iranian fingerprint on the attack, but did not specify further. Iran and Hezbollah have not stopped operating against Israel for a moment, he added.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Iran was likely behind the attack on Israeli civilians in Bulgaria, and vowed a powerful Israeli response.

"All the signs lead to Iran. Only in the past few months we have seen Iranian attempts to attack Israelis in Thailand, India, Georgia, Kenya, Cyprus and other places," Netanyahu said in a statement.

"This is an Iranian terror campaign that is spreading throughout the world," Netanyahu said. "Israel will react powerfully against Iranian terror,"

"Eighteen years exactly after the blast at the Jewish community center in Argentina, murderous Iranian terrorcontinues to hit innocent people. This is an Iranian terror attack that is spreading throughout the entire world."

Opposition leader Shelly Yechimovich responded to the "murderous terror attack" in Bulgaria on Wednesday, saying "there is no doubt that the instability in the region is spawned by Iran aiming especially for Israelis and Jews throughout the world."

"Israeli security forces have succeeded to prevent several attempted attacks targeted at traveling Israelis in recent months," Yechimovich added. "Unfortunately, today in Bulgaria we were forced again to cope with terror operations."

Reuters contributed to this report.

Bulgaria: Funerals and Responses

"as a light unto nations" ...

to bend light

~ by tobendlight on July 18, 2012.

Funerals will soon begin here in Israel for the victims of yesterday’s terrorist attack on Israelis in Bourgas, Bulgaria. Meanwhile, our government has fixed blame on Iran and has pledged a response. Funerals and responses. Grief and courage. Mourning and self-defense.

Here are two prayers: one for funerals, one a response. The first is a Yizkor prayer for victims of anti-Semitism. It also memorializes victims in every generation and includes prayers for the defenders of Israel and for the righteous of all nations. I wrote it after a brutal anti-Semetic attack in Toulouse, France. The second is a prayer for the terrorist. This is tricky. What do we pray on behalf of those who hate, murder and destroy? “To the Terrorist” is from of “A Liturgy for 9-11.”

At the Hand of Anti-Semitism: A Yizkor Prayer
Creator of all,
Source and shelter,
Grant a perfect rest under your tabernacle of peace
To ______________________ (name in Hebrew or your native tongue),
My [father / mother / sister / brother / child / wife / dear one/ friend]
Whose life was [lives were] cut off by violence,
An act of witless aggression
And calculated anti-Semitism.
We remember his / her / their wisdom, talents and skills,
Joy, laughter and tears.
We remember the works of his / her / their hands
And the message of his / her / their heart[s].
Let these memories continue to bless us
Even as we pray for him / her / them to find peace
In the world to come.
Remember the virtues of those who’ve died
At the hand of malice
In every generation.
Bless the defenders of Israel
With safety and strength,
And the righteous of all nations who
Provide protection, shelter and comfort
To our people.
Put an end to anger, hatred and fear
And lead us to a time when no one will suffer at the hand of another,
Speedily, in our days.
May the memory [memories] of _____________________ be sanctified with joy and love.
May his / her / their soul[s] be bound up in the bond of life,
A living blessing in our midst.

To the Terrorist
You who would hold the sky captive,
The sea prisoner,
The land in chains…

You who hide in caves,
Retreat to the wilderness,
Disappear behind false names and forged papers…

You who smuggle guns and arms,
Hide rockets in cities and bombs in homes,
Build weapons against the innocent and the bystander…

You whose designs are destruction,
Whose plans are fear,
Whose joy is hate…

You who harden your hearts
And wrap yourselves in death…

What evil has robbed you of your love,
Your compassion,
Your goodness,
Your humanity?
What lies have invaded your minds
So that you choose to die in order to kill?

We who love our lives and liberty
Stand firm and strong against terror.
We will defend our nation and our people.
We will protect our land and our homes.
And we pray for you to find hope and comfort
In lives of peace.

Postscript: “To the Terrorist” is from a set of prayers called “A Liturgy for 9-11.” “At the Hand of Anti-Semitism” is an adaptation of two of my other Yizkor prayers: “At the Hand of Violence” and “At the Hand of Terror.” Please also read “For the Jews of France,” a prayer for safety and healing.

Bulgaria: "It's about being Jewish"

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Bulgarian Massacre: Islamists Do Better Than Nazis

Posted by Giulio Meotti Bio ↓ on Jul 19th, 2012 Comments ↓

After Toulouse, where three Jewish children and a rabbi were gunned down last March by a French Islamist, Europe witnesses another massacre of Jews.

At least 8 people were killed, 6 of them Israelis, and over 30 others were injured in a terror attack on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas, east of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.

We are waiting to know which Islamic hand is behind the new bloodbath of Israelis.

“Exactly 18 years after the terror attack at the Jewish community building in Argentina, the murderous Iranian terror continues to harm innocent people. This was an Iranian terror attack,” PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated. On July 18, 1994, Buenos Aires witnessed the most lethal anti-Semitic attack outside Israel since the Holocaust.

In Bulgaria, it’s already becoming certain that Islamism is proving to be more efficient than the Nazis.

On March 9, 1942, an order arrived from Berlin to deport the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews. Adolf Eichmann’s office was ready to “operate.”

In the morning, Czar Boris II flew to Berchtesgaden to ask Adolf Hitler why he needed the Jews. Reluctant to admit the fact of the gas chambers, Hitler answered that the Jews must build roads. “Roads are also needed in Bulgaria,” answered the king.

According to rumor, the Germans poisoned Boris II: the royal plane returned to Sofia with a dead king. His brother, Prince Cyril, a Germanophile, became regent, but Bulgaria arose, and the Parliament, the intellectuals, the ordinary people, everybody protested against the Jews’ deportation.

In some Bulgarian towns, the Jews were assembled to be put on trains. But the trains couldn’t be loaded until Czar Boris signed a proclamation authorizing the deportation.
In Plovdiv, the capital of South Bulgaria, the military governor was a sadistic anti-Semite.

He assembled all the Jews and locked them up in the Jewish school. But not a single Jew could be deported.

There are stories of human kindness, such as Christians who wore the yellowStar of David in solidarity with their Jewish friends. There are stories of courage, like that of the vice president of the Bulgarian parliament, who mobilized members of parliament to opposethe plan to deport Jews.

The salvation of the Bulgarian Jews was due to the refusal of Christian and Muslim Bulgarians to acquiesce in the killing of their Jewish brethren. It also raises the question of how many other Jews died because their fellow citizens stood silent.

At the end of World War II, the Jewish population of Bulgaria was larger than it had been in 1940. And 90 per cent of Bulgarian Jewry left for Israel in the early 1950s.

The Bulgarian people were the only people in Europe (apart from the Danes) who went out of their way to save the Jews.

Just as Toulouse’s recent slaughter is connected with Vichy’s France, which surrendered native Jews to the Nazis, using their own police force to organize and execute the task, the attack in Burgas has a historic meaning too.

Seventy years after the brave people of Bulgaria stopped the trains for Treblinka, 6 Israelis have been massacred there just because they are Jews. The Islamists have managed what the Nazis could not.

It’s the new Europe. A Jew-free continent.

Who are the new Eichmanns?

ISRAELIS MASSACRED IN BULGARIA - TO THEIR MEMORY...

"HATIKVAH" (Israelis Massacred - Memory)

She's injured but she's in good hands, the hands of the Star Of David !

Photo: The Jewish Tea Party of Israel

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The Jewish Tea Party of Israel .

14 hours ago

A bomb on an Israeli tour bus in Bulgaria today killed 7 people...don't you dare sit there thinking that these innocent people were killed because of Israel's policies, or because of "occupation", or because of the poor "palestinians".
Today is the 18th anniversary of another bomb, one that ripped through the Jewish Community Center in Argentina. Did that attack target Israelis, no it didn't it targeted local Jews living in Buenes Aires. The targets are Jews, Jews, Jews, don't you get it by now. Wake up Jews, it's not settlers they hate, it's not a two state solution they seek, and it's certainly not peace that they desire.

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Bee's Note:

During the past few weeks, an issue that has been discussed is the refusal of the Olympic Committee to give one minute of silence to honor the 40th Anniversary of the Munich Massacre (under the pressure of the Islamic nations). I wonder what it will take before the West and civilization, as we know it, will recognize that the more we appease the horrific ideology of Islam, the more we bow to all their demands, the more we offer them gifts of billions of dollars, as Secretary of State did during her visit in Egypt last week, and the longer we allow Iran to stall the world with so-called peace talks while it fulfills its intended goals that would endanger the entire world (not just the Middle East), the less likely it will be that Islam will ever decide to come out of its 6th century teachings and be able to walk among the living, for its goal is death and destruction to all non-Muslims.

Hey, Olympic Committee - you are a bunch of cowards! You have no decency, as long as you cater to the demands of terrorists. The following video is what you cater to, rather then acknowledge, for ONE MINUTE, 40 years after the Munich Massacre, the Jewish people are still being attacked by Muslims just for being Jews.

Burgas Bulgaria Terror Attack