The murderer who gunned down children and teachers on their way to school at Ozar Hatorah in the French city of Toulouse this morning was acting from “no clear motive,” according to the New York Times. Gil Taieb, a vice president of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France, was only one of many who knew a lie when he heard one. “For someone to locate this school in a place like Toulouse means he knew what he was doing,” Taieb told the Jerusalem Post. “He went there to kill Jews.”
So far four have died in the attack: Yonathan Sandler, a 30-year-old teacher at the school who had recently emigrated from Jerusalem, along with his two children, six-year-old Aryeh and three-year-old Gavriel, and Miriam Monstango, the eight-year-old daughter of Ozar Hatorah’s principal. “At some point, the shooter entered the school and began firing inside,” a witness told Haaretz. A 17-year-old boy was also seriously wounded, and is said to be hovering between life and death. After the attack, the gunman hopped on a motorbike and sped away. French police and anti-terrorism forces have launched an all-out search for the killer, but so far he has not been found.
Nor have his ethnicity and affiliations (if any) been established. That did not stop commentators on the Washington Post’s story from issuing the standard “Israelis kill innocent children too” equivalencies. This much can be said for certain, however: the shooting at a Jewish religious school had nothing to do with Israel, except in as far as all Jews are identified with Israel, for better or worse. The gunman could not have singled out Rabbi Sandler and his two children, since according to witnesses, he “shot at everything he could see.” As Jonathan said, he simply wanted to kill as many Jews as possible.
But the fact that commentators were quick to draw a connection to Israel — Arab commentators on the Jerusalem Post story did the same — reveals an undeniable truth: Anti-Zionism is indistinguishable from anti-Semitism, precisely because all Jews are identified with Israel, for better or worse.
And there is another connection between this morning’s shooting and the Jewish state as well. If the innocent dead and wounded at Ozar Hatorah were targeted only because they are Jews, there is one place on earth where they will be protected, only because they are Jews. Perhaps there is no better justification than that for the state of Israel.
"Anti-Zionism is indistinguishable from anti-Semitism". A very clear truth. This also proves that the continuing Arab lies, and N.Y. Times lies, about Israel create this venom that is unleashed against innocent children, women, and men. Not that any more evidence is needed than the 2000 year old evidence written in millions of books. This won't stop with the destruction of the regime in Iran, but it would be a good start – if those in charge in this cock eyed world would just start. Do you hear that Obama, EU, etc.?
I wonder how far enlightened man will let this nonsense continue? The barbarians are already inside the gates of vienna, and every other civilised society. We won't even fight for our own survival.
The "one place on earth where Jews are protected" isn't free from terror killings itself, though. Eight Israelis were killed in one in August. Truth is, there's no place on earth safe from terrorists.
I know exactly what you mean. Just last week thirty people were murdered in the United States who had the letter E in their name. There is a world wide conspiracy to kill people with the letter E some where in their name. Me and my paranoid friends are calling for all men and women of good will to form the E Defense League to protect and avenge the atrocities commited against the chosen people of E. Give me a break. Bad things happen randomly to good people everyday. These are criminals committting these crimes not masters of genocide. Catch them, arrest them, prosicute them and if convicted execute them. Make the process generic. it will be far less emotional and help ease your hysteria.
It is a logical, and elementarily logical fallacy to conclude that because there are random series of events that events with clear chains of casualty are random. If someone goes to a Jewish day school and kills a rabbi, the rabbi's children, and bystanders, the likelihood of this being a hate crime against Jews approaches 99.99%. Killing Jews one by one is serial genocide. If these had been, oh, I dunno, your own parents and children perhaps there would be more empathy, more enlightenment, and less willful obtuseness in your posts.
…Yet despite all the tiresome double talk, my point remains the same: Jews aren't safe from terror just because they're within borders of Israel. Now, back to your prattling.
Actually there are people who are anti-Zionist but not also anti-Semitic. I know this for a fact because I met both of them in 1979.
The antisemitism of the NYT is not new. Every day that goes by they are complicit to furthering antisemitism. Typical cowards.
The Islamist world is at war with the rest of humanity. The Muslims play systematically the victim-hood status to get privileges that no one is in title to. The left is their accomplice in the EU and in the US.
Entitledr nIs the correct spelling.r nr nAgreed.r nr nr nDISARM IRAN, HAMAS. ASAP
All this publication does is make every single thing that happens in the world about Israel or Jews. Sometimes horrible things happen to people without it being personal or against Jews. My friends daughter was stabbed forty one times by her jealous husband. She died and left three orphaned children. She was a Catholic and Hispanic. If you would have covered the story you would have figured some way to make it about the sadly noble Jewish martyr. You people are obsessed to the point of malignent narcissism. You are making your selve less credible and losing support of reasonable people who don't like being deceived or manipulated.
For sure, some wannabe jihadist (and is there any way to tell schizo-wacko, from self-inducedJew-obsessed whacko, apparantly not, case in point) kills Jewish children and we narcissistic manipulative Jews leap, positively leap to the assumption that these murders somehow have something to do with, gosh, somebody who wanted to kill Jews. Who wudda thunk it? Meanwhile, those beautfiul Jewish souls are dead and here you are, slowly drawing down the world's supply of free oxygen. So people shoot Jews, Jews, those narcissists, think that the event has something to do with Jews being killed when it is actually about your dog Petey or a jealous husband. Yes, this was the result of a jealous husband or some random caprice without bias or hatred or causality. Not. Don't worry, though, nobody wants to gain the support or deceive or manipulate null sets such as yourself. Insulting us is the only thing keeping trolls such as yourself from winking out entirely like an exhausted wick on a defective candle.
A conservative Christian mother with a mental illness drowns her children in Texas . Some how some way you turn it in into an all out attack on the Jewish people and proof the State of Israel is under attack needs more foreign aid from the United States. If you correlate every horrendous act done against anybody with your cause you lose credibility. People start to say it's just those Jewish crybabies again. No need to pay attention. They think the sun rises and sets on their pet issues and gripes.
Keep posting this anti-Semitic N-zi cr-p, you idiot. You're very sick – in the head. You understand nothing of what is happening in the world. Actually, it is you who is self centered. Sell your computer and use the money for a psychiatrist.
So much bellyaching you are like old ladies who scream hysterically just as loud about spilt milk as you do about a murder. You have lost credibility. All of your woes are like leaves blowing down the street. You over played your martyr card and now no one cares. You have become the caricature of your selves.
You hate us. Well, that beats looking in the mirror and hating yourself. But again, it is the French police who are stating this is a hate crime by French neo-Nazis. And, watch, you will descend deeper and deeper into the gutter to taunt Jews because for empty souls, people with nothing inside, anti-Semitism is the junk of choice. But resistance builds up and the patient has to up up up the dosage.
I still don't get it. Other people have enemies. We have stalkers and psychopaths, who OD on anti-Semitism as the last stop before turning the revolver on themselves in the funhouse bunker of their own pathologies.
We'[ll take a wild leap and put you down as unemployed. n nYou live in a counterfactual world lost in your anti-Semitic hatred. The French police, not the Jews, say this is a hate crime–the weapons have been linked to the murders of French soliders of Caribbean descent and the French police, not Commentary, not whining, narcissistic Jews, are seeking an organized neo-Nazi hate-crime terrorist cell run by French soldiers dedicated to neo-Nazi hate, cashiered from the French paratroopers. n nIt is not coincidence that the demented self-possessed delusional lost soul who targeted Ms. Gifford comes up in your post as you share tendencies of self-involved grandiosity. Under Reform traditions she is Jewish but that doesn't matter to you because you wander off into incoherent rambling rants about foreign aid for Israel. n nBut, sadly, noone claimed that her wounding was an act of anti-Semitism and the French police who say that the murder of Jewish children and a rabbi was, surprise surprise, an intentional hate crime. n nYour are the first person here to connect by stream of semi-consciousness this murder with foreign aid to Israel.
You're very sick – in the head. You understand nothing of what is happening in the world. Actually, it is you who is self centered. Sell your computer and use the money for a psychiatrist.
My deepest sympathy for the families of those who were so wantonly killed or injured. n nIt is long past time this killing of Jews stopped. May it be soon.
Any murder of innocent people whether singular or collective is a tragedy. The fact these innocents were Jewish and schoolchildren shows how utterly senseless and unprovoked their killings are. r nr nYou can never justify this by comparing to other crimes. This was not a crime of passion, but methodical hatred for a religion and a people. Please pray for the families of the victims, and that the killer and his accomplices are brought to justice. r nr nShalom, words cannot begin to express the loss of these individuals. Pray their souls find peace and the survivors renewed faith and resolve not to surrender to the hopelessness and despair of the madmen responsible for this evil.
8 year old Miriam Monstango was chased, grabbed by the hair and shot twice in the head with the gun pressed against her skull.