One sixteen-year-old was killed and 26 others injured after Palestinian terrorists remotely detonated twin explosives at separate Jerusalem bus stops on Wednesday.
“The first bomb was detonated at 7:05 at a bus stop near the western entrance to Jerusalem, with the second timed just a half-hour later at another bus stop at a junction in the northern Ramot neighborhood,” Erin Viner, writing for TV7 Israel News, reported. “Aryeh Schupak, the 16-year-old dual Israeli Canadian citizen, was killed in the first attack while waiting for his shuttle to a Jewish seminary (Yeshiva).”
According to Israeli police, at least one of the bombs was packed with nails to maximize the deadliness of the incendiary device. Additionally, the bombs were detonated remotely, likely by cell phone, while as many people as possible were nearby.
According to Amir Tsarfati, Founder and President of Behold Israel, the bus stop where the first bomb detonated “is predominantly ultra-orthodox kids that are on their way to Yeshiva.”
“The other one was less than a couple of miles away from there in another residential community with a majority of orthodox Jews,” Tsarfati described, adding that Palestinian terrorists are “attacking Jewish people for being Jews.”
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), in the wake of the bombings, demanded that the Biden Administration cut U.S. aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Authority.
U.S. Funding to the UNRWA, whose teachers were found to have incited violence and antisemitic propaganda to children, was severed under the Trump administration, only to be restored by Biden in April of 2021.
“There has been an average of seven Arab terrorist attacks against Jews in Israel daily for the last nine months, including today’s terror bombings,” Morton Klein, the ZOA National President, underscored. “The Zionist Organization of America demands that President Biden immediately halt the $700 million in aid to UNRWA who run schools and training camps where Hamas members teach Arab students to hate and violently attack Jews.”
“ZOA deplores the fact that Biden reinstated this U.S. aid after President Trump wisely stopped these terror training funds,” he asserted. “The ZOA also urges the Biden administration to demand that the Palestinian Authority immediately end their policy of paying Arabs lifetime pensions to murder Jews and Americans.”
“The Palestinian Authority, led by so-called moderate Mahmoud Abbas, pays bounties to these terrorists in a ‘Pay to Slay’ program that was run for years by Intisar Al-Wazir, the wife of arch-terrorist Abu Jihad,” David Schoen, ZOA Chairman of the Board, insisted. “If the Biden administration keeps providing funding to the PA, terrorists and their families will be paid for life by U.S. taxpayers.”
A spokesperson for the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, Abdel-Latif Al-Qanoua, without claiming responsibility, praised the bombing attacks on Wednesday.
“The Zionist occupation is paying the price today for its crimes and aggression against our people and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and we have warned about this repeatedly,” Al-Qanoua stated.
Hamas and other terrorist organizations have brazenly made their goals to “obliterate” Israel and eradicate the Jewish people abundantly clear.
Hal Lindsey, in his article, “What Is Hamas?” noted that “a surprising number” of companies and politicians side with the “Palestinians” over Israel and, in so doing, have stood on the side of terrorists.
“They almost always say they are standing with Palestinians, not Hamas,” Linsey stated. “But that’s like coming out against the United States in World War II, claiming you only support Germans, not Nazis.”
“The eradication of Israel is their goal,” he urged. “They don’t just want to win a military victory over Israel or carve out a Palestinian state. Hamas wants nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish people. Genocide is their aim and reason.”
In his article, Lindsey detailed how the Hamas charter promotes Jewish stereotypes, anti-semitic false accusations, and the murder of Jews. Furthermore, its charter is vehemently against peace with Israel, stating, “There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.”
In a recent article, Olivier Melnick argued that any definition of antisemitism would be incomplete without factoring in a critical component: Antisemitism is demonic.
“My standard definition for antisemitism is as follows: Antisemitism is the irrational, satanic hatred of the Jewish people and Israel, characterized by thoughts, words and/or deeds against them. I have yet to see a definition of antisemitism that includes the words satanic or demonic. That aspect of the problem is seldom, if ever, mentioned,” he explained, “but it is a key, if not THE key component.”
“The reason is simple, and it is found in the Bible,” Melnick maintained. “God has Israel and the Jewish people at the core of His plan for mankind. When at the end of the seven-year Tribulation (also known as the Time of Jacob’s Trouble), Israel will realize that Yeshua is indeed the Jewish Messiah and Savior of the world, and the Jewish people will call upon Him corporately (Zechariah 12:10). It was Yeshua who declared to Israel that His return was dependent upon their crying out to Him ‘Baruch Haba Bashem Adonai’, in Matthew 23:37-39.”
“Satan knows that time is coming,” Melnick continued. “He continues to do everything he can to denigrate, demonize and decimate the Jews so that he can keep his position of ‘Prince of the power of the air’ (Ephesians 2:1-2). This is the ONLY reason antisemitism exists, and this is why I am convinced from a biblical perspective that it will not cease but only increase until Yeshua Sar Shalom (Jesus the Prince of Peace) returns.”
