I found this report from Arutz-7 heart breaking.
According to ZAKA emergency service, the body of the Rabbi’s wife Rivka was found covered with a tallit (Jewish prayer shawl), which her husband had managed to cover her with.
Presumably Rabbi Holzberg knew he was threatened, and possibly that his time was short, but when he saw his murdered wife, he accorded her the dignity of covering her body. I can’t imagine what he was thinking or feeling.
Israel Matzav observes that the terrorists clearly sought out the Chabad house. They intended to kill Jews.
(via memeorandum)
Treppenwitz who was in Mumbai just last week makes a similar observation. Plus read his two other posts on the outrage.
Aside from the fact that it is pretty clear that the terrorists sought out the Jews, according to this, they it accorded them “special” treatment.
The other doctor, who had also conducted the post-mortem of the victims, said: “Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again,” he said.
Corroborating the doctors’ claims about torture was the information that the Intelligence Bureau had about the terror plan. “During his interrogation, Ajmal Kamal said they were specifically asked to target the foreigners, especially the Israelis,” an IB source said.
(via Instapundit, memeorandum)
I’m assuming that Israeli and Jew are used interchangeably in this context.
CAIR hasn’t had the opportunity to condemn this Islamic terror in Mumbai yet, but they did helpfully note that the Holy Land Foundation verdict was based on “fear mongering.” So it took CAIR one day to condemn a legal outcome they disagreed with, but after four days they are silent about barbaric terror committed by their co-religionists. How does that fit in with CAIR’s vaunted “anti-terrorism campaigns?”
I think that seeking out people not of your faith and gunning them down generates a lot more fear than carefully laying out a case showing the relationship between fundraisers and terror groups. Who really is fear mongering? The U.S. government or the terrorists that CAIR is, so far, (and tellingly) quiet about?
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
They wouldn’t have felt compelled to do this if the Israelis withdrew from the occupied territories. If only they’d do that, reason and good will would prevail in the Middle East–as it has so often in the past.
Meryl,
A commenter on patterico has helpfully pointed out the incompetent Indian doctors probably mistook the wounds the Indian rescuers accidentally inflicted on the for torture.Doesn’t it make you despair a bit when someone who can read and write can be so incapable of thought?
No.
Assholes are assholes. I don’t despair about them. I just keep trying to inform them that they are assholes.
It’s part of what keeps me going.
Despair only sinks in when I look at the pictures of Nariman House or the other places the terrorists attacked.
But the despair doesn’t last long. Then comes the anger. And you know the rest.