Just mean, spiteful and cruel

From IsrealNationalNews...

The children, members of the Bnei Akiva youth movement, began to hike up a hill this past week at the industrial area of the southern Hevron Hills, between Be'er Sheva and Hevron, hoping to plant more than 5,000 pine and cedar trees.

Reform rabbi Arik Ascherman, a few other left-wing activists and several Arabs stood in their path.

The police, fearing a confrontation, told the children not to continue until authorities from the Civil Lands Administration arrived and showed Ascherman documents and permits proving that the land belongs to the regional council. Regional council official Akiva London said permits were obtained for the event.

The planting then proceeded as planned - but as Ascherman left the area, children overheard him say, "There is day and there is night." Two nights later, vandals uprooted approximately half of the 5,000 cedar and pine trees that the children had planted. Footprints leading to nearby Arab shacks indicated the source of the damage.

Israel lay in waste for thousands of years, occupied by only the few handfuls of Jews that managed to hide from the frequent Arab invaders. Wandering Bedouins criss-crossed it on occasion, but most considered the land too dry and arid to be of any good. Then after Hitler showed the world the extent of hatred that was possible to direct against Jews, a homeland seemed the only solution. In a few short years the returning Jews had transformed the wasteland into a thriving agricultural paradise. But self-loathing Jews and Jew hating Moslems simply can't stand the idea that Israel should belong to the people God gave it to.

Posted by Danny Carlton at February 16, 2007 9:51 AM