This morning a terrorist sneaked into the bedroom of a 13-year-old girl, Hallel-Yaffa Ariel. He murdered young Hallel in cold blood. A picture of her blood stained room is almost too hard to see. There’s a teddy bear still on her bed, a red beanbag chair, some pictures on the wall, shoes tightly packed in a bin next to her bunk bed.
Why would any person do this?
You don’t murder a sleeping child for peace. You don’t slit a little girl’s throat to protest a policy you don’t like.
You do this because you’ve been brainwashed. You’ve been brainwashed by a warped ideology that teaches you that this child isn’t human.
We will not let barbarism defeat humanity.
There’s no middle ground between beautiful Hallel and her unspeakably evil murderer.
Today, each of us is going to fight back.
I ask you to walk into your child’s bedroom before they go to sleep. I ask you to hug them. I ask you to kiss them. Teach them that the values that Hallel’s murderer most detested – freedom, diversity, pluralism – will never die; we’ll always hold them dear. Tell them that we will never let fear, evil and terror triumph; that we will always stand for justice. And this is how we will fight back. We fight back first by fighting back, fighting the terrorists, fighting their backers, fighting those who incite for such murder, whether in Hebron or in Orlando, or in Berlin, or in Ankara, or in Belgium, anywhere. We fight back by making sure that our collective moral compass doesn’t waver even a millimeter.
Today we will cherish Hallel’s memory. We will defend and honor her dignity by redoubling our efforts around the world to defeat the scourge of radical Islamist terror.
May Hallel’s memory forever be a blessing.
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enough useless worthless talk i want to hear about what concrete action that you will take in the next 24 hours that will negate this happening in the future
I don’t believe there can ever be peace between the arabs and Israel. Not with the political climate as it is today. Back in 1969 when I visited Israel and spent time there, the arab merchants were thrilled to get Jewish business. No one was afraid to walk through the arab shuk. Of course Israeli young soldiers did patrol. Bit it was two years after the six day war, and the arabs seemed to know their place. But so much has happened since then and the hate and incitement is at a boiling point. Of course the president and the UN do not help. Another thing I noticed on the newscasts. When the repoters mentionramadan they always preface it with the holy month of ramadan. There is nothing holy about it.
They never say the holy month for other religions.