"Third Generation Terrorists"

"This family is very linked to terror and it didn't surprise anyone. They live no more
 than 200 meters from the same lowly terrorist who committed the massacre at Merkaz Harav 
(yeshiva). This is a family connected to its very core and in its blood to terror, it isn't the first 
generation but rather the third generation of terrorists."
"We see terrorists employed in all sorts of places and no one knows, at the Begin Heritage Center 
the terrorist who shot Yehuda Glick was employed, also the terrorists today were employed in the 
area. They have a family member who sat in jail over the murder of Jews and went free in the embarrassing deal for Shalit; also the massacre at Merkaz (Haraz) was committed by a van driver of the Municipality."
"The situation here just gets more serious and no one is paying for it. Where is the responsibility of the Interior Security Minister and police captains? We haven't seen here a single captain paying the price for responsibility and getting dismissed."
Jerusalem Councilman Arieh King

Terrorists in Har Nof deadly Synagogue attack

Courtesy of Channel 10

"We responded with shouts of joy when we received the news about their deaths. A normal thing that can be expected from every man who has courage and a feeling of belonging to his people and to Islam."
Abu Jamal family member 

"I saw a Jew lying wounded and bloodied in his tefillin and tallit [leather straps and prayer shawls]." "He [one of the assailants] began to carry out a massacre. He was shouting ‘God is great,’ and shooting one after another, one, two, three. Most were praying with their back to him."

Yaakov Amos, 45 synagogue worshipper

And amid much celebration and joy candies were handed out to note the triumphant ascent to Paradise of the two Abu Jamal cousins, Uday and Ghassan Abu Jamal who had stormed into the ultra orthodox Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighbourhood with hatchets, knives and guns to slaughter four rabbis while they were praying. They managed as well to seriously injure  an additional eight worshippers before two Israeli police stopped the carnage by killing the attackers.

The two men from Jerusalem's Jabel Mukabar neighbourhood who had conducted the bloody terrorist attack on Tuesday morning were evidently well enough known to the security system. Theirs is a family well steeped in violent crime. Their explosive entry into the synagogue culminating in the murder of four men left the house of worship splattered with blood from the dead and injured, their religious accoutrements blood-soaked, and the gathering in shocked grief.

That grief extended to the added tragedy of the death of one of the Israeli policemen who had responded to the urgency of the atrocity, who had succumbed to the mortal wound he sustained when a bullet entered his brain. The funeral of all four rabbis, Aryeh Kupinsky 43, Kalman Zeev Levine 55, Avraham Shmuel Goldberg 68 and Moshe Twersky, 59 took place the day they were murdered. The funeral for police officer Zidan Saif took place the following day.

Israeli police officers carry the coffin of their comrade Zidan Saif, 30, a member of Israel's Druze minority, during his funeral in his northern home village of Yanuh-Jat, on November 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

 

"We came from Jerusalem, from the place of the massacre… simply to be with you and to cry with you. Zidan showed courage. He was the first at the battle. He stood like a wall, with his body, with his head, in order to save the souls of those in the synagogue. The loss of Zidan is our loss as well as that of the Druze community and we feel, especially at times like this, a kinship with the Druze community. The devotion and the determination of Zidan should be an example to us all — to the Druze and to the Jews."      Rabbi Mordechai Rubin, Har Nof Bnei Torah synagogue

Jerusalem councilman Mr. King is unclear why it is that the Shin Bet, Israel Security Agency (ISA) doesn't appear to have a terrorist database: "The question arises how the police and Shin Bet didn't get their hands on these scoundrels", he observed with heat. As an example, he said, the terrorist who shot Temple Mount activist Glick had been employed at a restaurant in the Center, even though he had previously been imprisoned for 11 years for terrorism activities.


One of the terrorists in the more recent synagogue attack worked at a local grocery store adjacent to the synagogue. And the other is said to have been employed as a caretaker at the synagogue itself. It stands to reason that if prospective employers could peruse a databank of known criminal and/or terrorist elements they could avoid having them in places vulnerable to attack during their psychotic terror episodes of hatred and revenge, inspired by religious zeal.

Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews carry the body of Rabbi Mosheh Twersky onto a vehicle during his funeral in Jerusalem.

Reuters / Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Mr. King himself held a municipality post related to security before being dismissed by Mayor Nir Barkat, after Mr. King had opposed a plan to build 2,500 Arab housing units in the Al Sawahira Al-Gharbiyya neighbourhood where 3,000 illegal Arab housing units already exist. These are questions to which answers must be forthcoming. It is difficult to comprehend that something as utterly necessary as the ability to recognize threats is not available in the larger public interest.