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Barry Chamish is most recently the author of "Save Israel!", and also "Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin", "Israel Betrayed" and "The Last Days Of Israel." His website is .
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By Barry Chamish
May 30, 2001
Gilad Zar was shot two months ago and finished off by the hit squad Tuesday. The target was chosen for ultimate demoralization; if the Shomron District security chief could be attacked twice with impunity, then nobody is safe. The professionally trained hit team pumped over 40 bullets into his car and then approached the vehicle and made sure their quarry was dead by blasting away his head. That is not random terrorism. That is cold-blooded murder.
One of the secret clauses of Oslo was a promise to the PLO to hand over all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza to them. That meant expelling the Jewish residents, the so-called settlers from their homes. The means agreed to was to spread total demoralization by murdering the political and spiritual leaders of the Jewish community there.
The demoralization by murder of admired leaders, the most recent Binyamin Kahane, has not had the desired effect and may even have strengthened the resolve of many in the settler community. So in the past two months a far more insidious campaign has been initiated, and it involves murdering people who had recently suffered tragic losses.
The murder of Assaf Herskovitz, in the exact ambush spot where Binyamin Kahane's vehicle was riddled with 62 bullets last December, is a case in point. Assaf's father was shot dead barely two months earlier while driving his car near Efrat. His son died the same way. One brother remained to say Kaddish over his father and sibling. The enormous disaster which befell the Herskovitz family has been a huge blow to the morale of their community, Ofra. As it was planned to be.
It is no different than the heartbreaking case of the 14 year-old son of Sheri Mandel, an American immigrant living in Tekoa. He took a short hike from his home with a friend, they were set upon by Arabs who tied them up and bludgeoned them to death, cracking open their skulls with rocks. After delighting in the screams of the boys as each rock opened more of their brains, the murderers took further pleasure in the sadistic coup de grace of ripping the bodies apart with knives.
Days later, Sheri Mandel's home was sniped at, with a bullet entering the bedroom of her nine year old daughter. Had she been in the room, she would have joined the list of double murders. Sheri took the hint and abandoned her home in Tekoa tonight. She will likely not be the last.
Consider the case of 14 year-old Amihai Yifrah. He and three buddies were playing in the youth recreation center of Netzer Hazani in the Gaza Strip, when a PLO mortar shell fell on them. Three weeks later Amihai was released from hospital and returned home. A mortar shell landed on that home the next day.
This was no accident. Call an actuarial statistician and ask him to calculate the likelihood that these dual tragedies are random flukes. Then reach a horrible realization that the Arab killers had to have had exact intelligence about the locations of their victims and they were in no position to gather it.
We are observing raw evil in Judea and Samaria, so raw that even sniping a 10 month-old Hebron baby in her mother's arms is considered a legitimate operation.
Arafat is backing Israel into a corner where it must go to war against him to survive. The world is now primed to accept PLO land claims as legitimate. A totally demoralized and satanized Jewish community in Judea, Samaria and Gaza will put up little resistance to the complete dissolution of their homes and their lives.
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