Monday Jul 06, 2009
Posted by Sherri Mandell
I am the problem. I am the one. The head of the free world referred to
me, personally, my family, as the reason for the unrest in the world .
With a broom in my hand, trying gamely to clean up the popcorn from my
son's movie party, I am the reason that there is no world peace. Obama
handed me the world's destiny. He told me - 'if you stop building,
stop growing, all will be right in the Middle East. Don't even think of
Iran or Darfur or the honor killing of the women in your region. Your
home renovation is the cause of war.'
I am a settler. If I
move 8 kilometers to Jerusalem, then I cease being a settler, I
suppose. But then I am an Israeli. And that too is a problem.
Thursday Jun 04, 2009
Posted by Sherri Mandell
Dear President Obama,
This week the entire country of Israel performed a security exercise. At 11:00am a siren sounded and all of us, every man, woman and child had to take shelter. At a home for seniors who are Alzheimer's patients, it took much longer than the allotted 3 minutes for the staff to help find these patients protection. (They were pushed in their wheelchairs to sit next to an interior wall.) This whole country is a target for attack. All of us are imperiled.
Tuesday Apr 07, 2009
Posted by Sherri Mandell
I belong to an "elite" group of mothers of children who were bludgeoned to death by Palestinian terrorists.
Murdered cruelly, intentionally, and in cold blood. Murdered because they were innocent. Murdered because they were Jews. Targeted by cowardly terrorists because they were defenseless kids. My 13-year old-son Koby was beaten to death with stones.
Now the Nativ family from Bat Ayin has joined our group. Their 13-year-old son Shlomo was murdered last Thursday by a Palestinian terrorist wielding an ax. The family has a passport into the never-ending pain of losing a child.
Monday Dec 15, 2008
Posted by Sherri Mandell
On December 13, Clark Hoyt, the NY Times public editor, wrote about the New York Times' reluctance to use the word terrorists to describe the perpetrators of the massacre in Mumbai.
He quotes a memo James Bennet wrote when he served as the NY Times Israeli bureau chief in the years 2001-2004 about the use of the word terrorist.
The memo said that he [James Bennet] settled on a rough rule: He would use the words, terrorists when they fit, to describe attacks within Israel's 1948 borders but not in the occupied West Bank or Gaza, which Israel and the Palestinians have been contending over since Israel took them in 1967. When a gunman infiltrated a settlement and killed a 5-year-old girl in her bed, Bennet did not call it terrorism. "All I could do was default to my first approach and describe the attack and the victims as vividly as I could."
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Jen USA: Elise, I would trust the Justice Department before the CIA, any day. The first is held accountable for their actions. The second rarely is. The lack of response to Sherri's email is sad. Whether Koby's case has been shelved because it is cold or if there is simply a communication breakdown, someone should be available to talk to family members about any case that remains unsolved. I do not think that Sherri should expect the JD to contact her. I would suggest that she write her congressman or congresswoman. If she is still a tax-paying, voting American, her representative will listen.
Shahab Mohd Altaf INDIA: Justice is equal treatment.It means desire for your brother/sister, what you desire for yourself, this is the Islamic concept of Justice.Further the victim is given the right to decide the nature of punishment.This is called Qasas or blood money.The loss of life cannot be compensated but atleast the pain can be reduced.HumanLife is more important than human rights. Terrorists have no religion.
Elise: I am sorry for the loss of your child. I do not understand why you are confused that the Obama administration has refused to list your son as a victim of terror. This would go against their belief that Jews have no right to live where you do. This is a Justice Department that seeks no justice and is so politicized that they ended a probe into voter intimidation by Black Panthers and attacks those that keep us safe(CIA). This is a State Dept. that is inherently anti-semitic even before the advent of the Obama Admn. Justice will not becoming from this Adminsitration. Why are you surprised?
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