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[Pre-order a copy of Daniel Greenfield’s first book, Domestic Enemies, by clicking here. Orders will begin shipping on April 30th.]
On a Sabbath morning, three Islamic terrorists invaded the Israeli village of Adora located in the Judean Mountains in the rebuilt vicinity of a city dating back to the reign of King Solomon.
The Jihadists had carefully picked the Sabbath morning when many of the men and some of the women would be praying in the synagogue. To fool what few families were at home, they wore the uniforms of Israeli soldiers as they entered their houses.
At the Shefi family home, Jacob Shefi, a policeman, was in the synagogue and his wife Shiri was in the bedroom playing with their three children, 5-year-old Danielle, 4-year-old Uriel and 2-year-old Eliad, when.one the terrorists burst into the bedroom.
Danielle had wanted to go to the synagogue, but her mother insisted on doing her hair first.
Shiri told the children to hide under the bed and covered them with her body as the terrorist opened fire. Wounded, she still managed to force the door closed as the terrorists continued their rampage across the village. Uriel and Eliad were wounded, but Danielle, hiding under the bed, was dead.
Jacob Shefi, running home at the sound of gunshots, thought the terrorists were soldiers and asked them what was happening. They shot at him and he ran to a house nearby to find a gun. When he saw his wife again, she told him, “they murdered our daughter.”
Danielle Shefi was one of 4 people murdered in the Adora attack, including Katia Greenberg, a Russian immigrant and mother of 3 who worked with the disabled, Yaakov Katz, a Soviet dissident physicist, who left the USSR with Reagan’s help and was working on laser technology, and First Sergeant Arik Becker, a 22-year-old reservist who was killed trying to stop the attack.
It was the spring of 2002 and such Islamic terror atrocities still had the power to shock the world. Or those parts of it that were not the media which headlined the story as, “Palestinian Gunmen Kill 4 Israeli Settlers in West Bank.” And Danielle Shefi became just another “Israeli settler”.
“Anyone capable of looking a 4-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl in the face and then shooting them is not human,” Jacob Shefi told the press. “Danielle, who never hurt anyone and who was taught to love and respect all human beings, Jew or Arab, was murdered in her parents’ bedroom – which for her should have been the safest place.”
When her kindergarten classmates were told that the little girl had gone to heaven, they asked, “What is Danielle doing up there near the birds and planes?”
“Please remember Danielle Shefi, a little girl in Israel. Danielle was five. When the murderers came, she hid under her bed. Palestinian gunmen found and killed her anyway,” Elie Wiesel, the great writer of the Holocaust, urged President Bush. “Please remember that while Israelis mourned alongside us for our nation’s tragedy on September 11th, Yasir Arafat was busy suppressing footage of his constituents dancing in the streets.”
But few remembered and the world moved on. One of the terrorists from the Adora attack was released as part of the disastrous Shalit hostage exchange deal in 2011.
Fadi Mohammed Salaam Dewik, that terrorist, rose through the ranks and became a senior figure in Hamas. After Israel had finished its previous raid on the Al-Shifa hospital, the Qatari base used by Hamas, Dewik along with many other terrorists returned to the hospital.
They assumed that Israel would not come back without offering plenty of warning the way that it had during the previous raid on Al-Shifa under pressure from the Biden administration.
But this time the terrorists had made a fatal mistake.
After a campaign by Islamic terrorist supporters in Dearborn, Michigan, and their leftist allies, the Biden administration had turned on Israel to salvage his chances in the swing state.
Senator Schumer was chosen by the administration to denounce Israel and warn it not to endanger civilians by attacking Hamas. The weekend after Schumer’s shameful speech, Israel came back to Al-Shifa and this time there were no more warnings to tip off the terrorists.
Over the holiday of Purim, Israeli soldiers took out over 200 terrorists and captured over 650 terrorists. There were more terrorists at the hospital than its official number of 700 patient beds.
The terrorists included the top leadership of Islamic Jihad and senior Hamas officials. While most of the terrorists surrendered, expecting to be traded in a deal for the hostages, some of the most hardened holed up in the hospital’s maternity ward and wouldn’t come out.
Among them was Dewik.
Cartoons had often depicted Hamas hiding behind babies, and the terrorists made those cartoons come to life as they opened fire from the ER, threw grenades from the burn ward and when the maternity ward was finally liberated, IDF soldiers found sniper rifles, handguns and mortars hidden everywhere from beds to drop ceilings.
Dewik died alongside Zakariya Najeeb, a top terrorist who had coordinated operations for Hamas, in the maternity ward where mothers are supposed to bring life into the world.
The terrorist who had taken part in the murder of a 5-year-old girl died in a place of children.
Justice had been delayed for 22 years before finally catching up with Fadi Mohammed Dewik.
“When I heard my daughter was murdered, my first reaction was: there is no God,” Jacob Shefi said at the time. “Then I came to my senses. I thought to myself, here, my two sons and my wife were left alive, even though terrorists shot at them from point blank range. They also shot at me and didn’t hit me, there is a higher power watching over us.”
“She loved to pray, go to synagogue. If only she had gone out with me in the morning, maybe she would be alive,” he said.
Today, Jacob is one of the “Blue Riders” motorcyclists in Israeli law enforcement and posts inspirational religious messages in the wake of the Islamic terrorist attacks of Oct 7.
When Danielle was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said that she wanted to be a righteous woman. Today she would have been a young woman, perhaps married with children of her own. Islamic terrorists denied her the opportunity as they had so many innocent victims, from the dead in Adora to those murdered on 9/11, 7/7 in London and Oct 7 in Israel.
Justice under these conditions seems elusive and at times even impossible. And those who are left behind may even wonder if there is a God who sees and makes right a broken world.
Danielle’s full name was Danielle Bat-El Shefi. Bat-El means “Daughter of G-d”.
Murdered on a Sabbath, Danielle was avenged on Purim which commemorates the day when Haman had plotted to kill the Jews, “from the young to the old, little children and women”.
The Biden administration and the world had abandoned Israel, but that higher power had not.
Islam Religion of Peace?! who was the Dim-Bulb who said that?
The Shrub proclaimed that piece of stupidity
What do you expect from a guy named after a pussy.
Bush then Obama and every other leftist
He was concerned about what might happen to oil prices. Dubya, spineless wonder.
Sounds like Holy justice to me.
Reportedly, every third house in Gaza has a Hamas weapons cache in it. That modern day Haman, Dewik, won’t be using any more of them.
Yeah, that’s their strategy. Acquire a huge amount of weapons and hide them all over the place.
Acquire, that is, with money from Iran–which was given to them by Obama and Biden. Without the help of these two, Islamic terrorism would be much less of a thing.
“Daughter of God”
Justice from a higher power.
There will be some who will claim to prove otherwise with their academic theories but this story is evidence of the higher power that is just.
Such is the exact meaning of ‘Justice.’
Good riddance to another person who sought to render the Land of Israel Judenrein!
how about hamas stop killing babies, building tunnels under schools, hospitals, mosques etc… and using human shields first – problem solved…
Then Hamas would not have a reason to exist.
In Judaism, children are the greatest blessing. After all, we are commanded to be fruitful and multiply.
So…….there is no greater grief than the grief of a living parent who has lost a child.
There is a single word in the hebrew language that means to be bereaved by the loss of a child, pronounced ‘shaHKOOL‘.
A single word that says all.
May God avenge the blood of every victim of terror and bring comfort to those who will forever mourn their loss.
To mj, I say Amen.
“Anyone capable of looking a 4-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl in the face and then shooting them is not human”
Monsters are capable of that and can not be shown any mercy, none.
This is as literal truth.
All over the MSM EVERY DAY they publish carefully chosen photos to rouse hatred of Israel (usually with falacious captions). EVERY DAY since the war began the papers etc. publish HAMAS released casualty figures which do no differentiate between killed terrorists and others. Goebbels would have been proud.
I wish Israel had the death penalty. Prisoners live waiting to be exchanged for hostages. Dewik finally got the death penalty, in battle, but not before he caused even more harm.
Israel suffers from asymmetrical rules of war & justice. Westerners enable such folly, or worse, are the cause of it.
Make no mistake, YHVH, is in charge. Yeshua Messiah, Jesus Christ Lord Savior Son of YHVH will return to Jerusalem to rule, But not after the antichrist has sat on that throne made in Jerusalem claiming he is Christ when he is the vile antichrist. When that happens, the debts and wars will end temporarily as the world and nations proclaim as the Christ Messiah. The deception is great. The focus is simple. During these exchanges and shifts of power, these wars and jihads will continue and Israel’s motto: “Never Again” will continue until every last demonic hamazz and hellzbolah possessed soldier will be annihilated. There is no other alternative. President Donald J. Trump will be re-elected for a 3rd time and there will be peace and prosperity for 4 years and hopefully, prayerfully.. systems will be put in place to preserve the Constitution of the USA. These vile demonic terrorists who murdered innocent civilians 10-7-2023 and are killed will not have eternal life. They will be separated from those of us who lived right as best we can and die to go to Paradise awaiting JUDGEMENT while these vile satanic worshippers will be separated to hell awaiting JUDGEMENT that they will not make it to eternal life in the 3rd and final heaven-earth age. So it written! So let it be done!
I agree! We must pray for God’s judgment on the evil Israeli people face everyday. How do you raise a family knowing bombs are coming at you at any moment?
Given his own name, Mr Greenfield could scarcely not be aware that Danielle, as the feminine of Daniel, means “God is my judge”. And now He has judged her killer – who, contrary to Islamic theology, is not presently surrounded by his cohort of virgins.
Danielle seems to have had a remarkable spiritual maturity, to be saying at that age that her ambition for when she grew up was to be a righteous woman. This says much, as well, for the parenting she received – and maybe we will hear more of her siblings in due course.
“Daniel” also means “God is my judge.” I chose it for my son very carefully and reverently.
Finally, a little bit of Justice. God works in mysterious ways.
It frustrates everyone to no end that we have officially now made it clear that we have to push brave Israelis under the bus to appease the baying hounds of Dearborn, Detroit, Hamtrack in Michigan, and various towns especially in New Jersey. What is the arabic word for “chutzpah” as they started a vile and atrocious sneak attack on mostly civilians and killed young Israelis at a concert who were anti-conscription and peaceniks, then play victim when attacked. They could surrender at ANY TIME and hand over the hostages (I doubt many are alive now) just like the Axis powers. If not for the hamas-supporting wimpy lefty men and stridently stupid college women in America, Hamas would not have dragged the self-inflicted misery this long.
Because Israel does not have capital punishment as the sentence for terrorists who murder in terrorist acts, I support Israel exchanging imprisoned terrorists for hostages.
The reason is simple: imprisoned terrorists will long lives in secure, relatively comfortable Israeli prisons where they will never lack for food or health care. And like mobsters in Western jails, will have no problem coordinating criminal acts by their gang outside the prison – their imprisoned leaders will still find a way to be active in terrorism.
Once freed and returned to Gaza, however, they’re just another hajji Arab terrorist with no security. Just one more hajji Arab terrorist, one trigger press away from the justice they deserve but were be spared by Israel’s laws and courts.
If Israel frees 1,500 terrorists, and then has 1,300 of them assume room temperature in the next few weeks or months, I consider that a win for both Israel and the world at large.
The ones who escape justice in Gaza in the next few months after being released to be targets on the battlefield… I’m willing to wait a bit longer for Israel to catch up with them as well.
Only if they’re released with internal tracking devices so they can be hunted down with the Hamas scum In Rafah or whatever and wasted.
“One of the terrorists from the Adora attack was released as part of the disastrous Shalit hostage exchange deal in 2011.”
Many of us, who lived through earlier, and equally foolish exchanges, warned the Shakira deal would result in more wars, and hundreds if not thousands of deaths in the future. But the Shalit family had lots of influential people and most of the media in their side, demanding then (as now) that Netanyahu “pay the price”. He eventually capitulated, and Israel is currently reaping the consequences.
A similar campaign is underway, and another bad deal is being considered. Is it that the public refuses to learn, or is it that then, as now, those pushing to “pay the price” are just as interested in seeing Netanyahu removed from office.
A lot of foreign powers, including our now-mortally wounded, beloved Republic, are interested in seeing Netanyahu removed from office. I fear a foreign-inspired “color revolution” to destroy Israel by removing the one indispensable man, Bibi Netanyahu, who has been called “The Churchill of the Middle East.”
Gaza is a terrorist factory funded by hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from donor countries with the connivance of the UN. Destroy both
The French saying goes: “Dieu qui est parfaitement juste, quoiqu’Il tarde..” (God whose justice is perfect, though delayed..) It might be Yaya Sinwar’s turn, one of these days.
That was moving
Islam the cult of cults
Daniel,
A bit late to the show. Been still skiing in the Rockies & writing a new song mocking the woke-tards. A satire in the spirit of Juvenal, F. Villon, T. Eulenspiegel & Mark Twain. Thanks for the inspiration re: the murdered angel Danielle Bat-El Shefi, have included her in the 1st chorus: “Danielle Bat-El Shefi, is a Child of Light forever – Alleluia! Justice was stayed for years, Karma bit her killer lately in Al-Shifa.
We are deplorables, bitter clingers & deniers enjoying Life.
We are deplorables, we ignore & mock the wokesters – one man – one wife!”
How is Bat-El pronounced in Hebrew? As one word ‘batel’ or ‘BatEl’ or ‘Bat-El’? Help me out. Heading to the studio FR to record vocals into a 7000 $$ Neumann mike. Band recorded at home. Will post a link when published.
Have noticed while looking for this older piece that you’ve been prolific. Keep up the good work. Shalom.