The Bibas family is laid to rest
The Bibas family – mother Shiri, baby Kfir, toddler Ariel, and father Yarden – have become symbols of all the Israelis who have suffered at the hands of Gazans since October 7th or in all the violence that preceded it. Today the murdered mother and children are being laid to rest in a single casket, and Israel and much of the world mourns:
“They will remain together and close, just as Shiri enveloped the children, always, including on that accursed day,” said Carmit Palty Katzir, who acted as MC at the funeral.
She was referring to a haunting video clip of traumatized Shiri, clutching her boys to her chest, as a mob of terrorists dragged them from their home. The images became symbolic of the horror of the attack and seared their fate into the national conscience.
Yarden Bibas, Shiri’s husband and the boys’ father, was released from captivity only a few weeks ago. He eulogized his family eloquently. I was going to quote his speech, but I decided I didn’t want to excerpt it; please just go there and read the whole thing.
RIP. RIP. RIP.
I don’t want to overuse the word “heartbreaking,” but here’s an article about how a 5-year-old friend of Ariel’s has been struggling to deal with the disappearance, and then the murder of, his good friend friend. The child’s mother tells the story:
“My husband was holding the photo of Ariel Bibas,” Avital remembered. “Yoav, my 5-year-old son, saw the photo and said to him, ‘He isn’t my friend anymore. He’s dead,’ and then fell asleep on the couch. He couldn’t contain all the pain, as we all broke down in tears.”
She went on, “After it was all over, he looked at me in the dining room and screamed through tears, ‘Ariel isn’t dead!! He’s not dead, Mom, he’s alive, he’s in his room, and you just don’t know what the room number is!’”
Many horrid sights on October 7th. Not to toot my own horn, but a post that shows what stuck in my mind the most from that day:
‘Families Melted Together’ – Hamas *WIRED* Jewish families together & burned them Alive
Linked articles were:
1) “They were burned while tied together”: The gut-wrenching work of identifying victims of the Hamas attack
2) Evidence on Display at Israel’s Forensic Pathology Center Confirms Hamas’ Atrocities
Its another holocaust. I.e. Bibi sacrificed these people to get ahold of Gaza, same as the Jews sacrificed other Jews in Germany to get ahold of what they have now. The Jews offered these people as a holocaust, a burn offering, to their dark deity.
Larry SteinbergsteinSteinStein:
Israel gave Gaza to the Palis. Free of charge. Infrastructure intact. No Jews sacrificed other Gernan Jews to get ahold of Israel.
Begone, foul Jew Hater!
Amen, Huxley.
May the Bibas family’s memories be a blessing.
To fake Larry SteinbergSteinStein:
I’m leaving your comment up as an example of the low caliber of Jew-hating trolls these days.
Thank you, Neo, the perfect way to handle fake Larry. And huxley, too.
Not that it helps with the underlying pain, or the mystification that so many, too many, people all over the world react to it the way fake Larry did, rather than like any human being with a heart.
There’s collateral damage. You put a rocket into a room with an enemy machine gun team and there’s an innocent in the hall.
Then there’s wiring a family together so they can both suffer unimaginable agony of burning to death and knowing and feeling their most loved ones doing the same. What “encouragement” did they try, at first, to call to each other?
Liberals notwithstanding, one of these is more forgivable than the other. At what point do those who excuse or cheer the second lose their protection from humans because they are not-human?
@Larry Steinbergstein
It is, but not for the reason you claim.
Tell me you have no fucking clue what a burnt offering is or what Jewish religion or God teach. I have my issues with Rabbinatical authority (considering a number of their authorities and the Roman military conspired to crucify my own Rabbi, and how even beyond that I find they make a number of theological errors), but even Ciaphas would not have done what you accuse.
It’s also amusing how many people demonize Jews like you do while simultaneously ignoring the people that persecute them. It wasn’t Bibi that murdered this family. It was Hamas, the PIJ, PFLP, and others. In much the same way the Holocaust was carried out by the Nazis and their Allies and puppets.
It and you are among the best arguments for the need for Israel to exist, as a defiance against your own dark, satanic animating force.
In reading the troll’s comments, you get the sense that the people who believe this are beyond reason. No argument can get past their layers of denial and resentment and suspicion of Israel. The most amazing part, though, is that they look upon us the exact same way.
To them, we’re the ones who can’t see what’s right in front of our faces, the myriad conspiracies of the Jews, or Zionists, or whoever. We refuse to see what is so obvious to them. We deny facts, reason, and logic. We’re the ones who plot to murder children, and exult at the demise of innocents.
I think it’s hopeless to try to persuade them. But there is hope, because they’re human beings. Sooner or later, their Joseph N. Welch moment will come. In their mind, a voice will come someday, whether from God, or a memory of kindness, or of seeing the world as a place of beauty and justice, and they will hear, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency?”
At least I have to believe that. So I can go on.
that was Welch’s rhetorical trick, wasn’t it, a non sequitor, the subject in question had been part of the Lawyers Guild, the Communist affiliated union, which is still kicking some 70 years later, can one fault McCarthy’s floppy methods, but then again they never take up the Reece Committee’s finding about the philanthropic state sysgy, what John Stomer wrote about, in subsequent years, the orientation of much of the Deep State as we know it today,
much the same way as the nurses down under that threaten to kill Jewish patients because reasons, it’s on you if you take offense, at their exercising of free speech, this particular head of the slouching beast, that make the victims the perpetrators, and vice versa, which is fed by Qatar’s duplicitous emirs by the Foreign Office, and by our own AID, untie that Gordian knot