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Here are some excerpts from a brief letter to the world from Yosef Viner, a 97-year-old Israeli: “The Nazis murdered Yosef’s family. Now Hamas killed his grandchildren,” Jerusalem Post, November 16, 2023:
Eighty years ago, the Nazis killed Yosef Viner’s family. Now Hamas killed some of his grandchildren….
“I am Yosef Viner, 97 years old,” he wrote. “I survived the fire of the Nazi beasts; my entire family perished. Disconnected from my roots, I devoted myself to their memory. Exhausted and despairing, I held onto the land and moved to Israel. I married Aviva, and together we raised two wonderful children, Ofer and Nurit.”…
“From Ofer and Michal, we had four grandchildren; from Nurit and Miki we had six grandchildren,” Yosef said. “On October 7, 2023, we experienced pure evil – fire, dust, killing, and the horrific murder of innocents. Once again, tragedy struck. My beloved grandson Yahav was murdered while protecting his wife Shaili and one-month-old Shiya. My dear granddaughter Hadar and her husband Itai were also murdered while protecting their ten-month-old twins, Roy and Guy.”…
Remembering Yahav [a grandson of Yosef Viner]
“My sweetheart, I feel your presence inside myself,” said Shaili at Yahav’s funeral. “I remember us lying on a mattress together, knowing I’d never break up with you.”
The young woman recalled Yahav’s last moments, highlighting how he sacrificed himself to save her and their daughter.
“You held the door for us; you could have escaped through the window, but you loved me so much that you managed to block them,” she said.
That’s one story about what Hamas did on October 7. The anguish and despair of Yosef Viner, for his murdered grandchildren, Yahav and Hadar, the pride and sorrow of Yahav’s widow Shaili, the great-grandchildren who are too young to know, but will grow into the knowledge of their loss. The great-grandsons Roy and Guy will learn that on that day, protecting them, both of their parents, Hadar and Itay, were murdered. The great-granddaughter Shiya will learn how her father Yahav died, holding off the murderers so that she, and her mother, could escape.
This is Yosef Viner’s story of what happened to his family. There are so many. Try not to forget.
I will never ever forget, the images haunt me every night and I am not Jewish, I am American, my ancestors were Polish. My husband discovered Israel during the 6-day war in 1967 while in 7th grade, on his own, not at school and read everything he could find about it and the history of Israel. He served in U.S. special forces. We’ve been huge supporters of Israel w/o any Jewish background of our own. I am also 70 y.o. so all I can do is hope to pass down to the next generation what this is, to understand the evil from which it comes so they too will never forget. Destroy Hamas.
May the G0d of Abraham bless you and your husband, Anne.
Patriotic conservatives won’t forget. (Sleepy Joe forgot 10 minutes after the news broke.)
Nor will I forget that enabling imbeciles like Kamala are crying themselves to sleep over casualties that result from Hamas using their own as human shields.
Deep down, they know better, but lie to us instinctively so as to slavishly serve their agenda Uber Alles. (In the end, they only convince themselves, because their world is a hive mentality devoid of rational thought.)
Imagine that every adult in the 22 border communities attacked had been in possession of a loaded 9-mm handgun, 50 extra rounds and an hour’s training.
Then imagine that all the attendees at the SuperNova party had been so armed and prepared.
The reality was that the IDF had been industrious collecting long guns from the border communities and distributing these to the settlers in West Bank communities, believing that the border communities faced no imminent threat.
Islamic cowardice in the form of Hamas has, hopefully, been the straw that broke the camel’s back.
If you mean that it will trigger a huge backlash from the West, I’m afraid that so far we have seen the exact opposite; it has released the hidden Jew-hatred all over the non-Moslem world on both the “right” and “left”. This itself could be positive in a sense, though, as it reveals who people really are.
There is no “backlash” from the American right, only support. My US Representative is all about giving Israel whatever it needs to protect itself and accomplish its goals.
I don’t believe that there is a lot of antisemitism on the right. It lives primarily on the left and in the vacant heads of high school and college students.
I’ve only seen a few on the right support Hamas and they believe the leftist stories about the conflict. I don’t understand why, but they do. If you read the comments under such postings, you will see the virtually everyone disagrees with them. This idea that the right is antisemitic needs to die. That is simply untrue.
I remember reading of these twins, & my prayers for them. Because you shared this, I now have the comfort of knowing that they have family who has survived these attacks, will be loved & cherished, & will know of the bravery & love of their parents.
I pray the Lord grant the dear grandfather more years—years enough to know his great grandchildren & see them grow—years enough that he will be more than a name & a story told of, & may the Lord comfort him in his grief.
I will not forget, Mr Fritzgerald. And thank you for the sharing.