May you get what you allow or promote happening.
You WILL be judged!
You WILL be judged!
One State for one People. Thou shalt not be a victim, or perpetrator, but above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. Yasher Koach!
by Gila and Doron Tragerman
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Ban Ki-moon, Why Are You Silent?
A letter by Daniel Tragerman’s parents to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
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Text of a letter sent by
Gila and Doron Tregerman, parents of 4.5 year-old Daniel, who was killed
during a mortar attack on his kibbutz, to UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon.
For UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon
Dear Sir,
My name is Gila, I am an Israeli citizen, and I am a resident of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the border with Gaza.
A week ago, we lost our eldest son, Daniel 4.5 years old, when he was killed by a mortar shell fired from Gaza into Israel.
I address you after your
announcement to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to establish an
international investigation Committee to investigate "Israel's crime" in
the recent fighting in Gaza.
About us: Doron and I were
married five years ago and we have three amazing kids: Daniel 4.5 yrs,
Yoval 3.5 yrs and Uri 4 months old. We were a happy family. We lived in
Kibbutz Nahal Oz near Gaza, and found ourselves constantly debating
whether not to abandon Nahal Oz and move to another location, quieter,
safer, far from rocket fire from Gaza, and far away from the alarms.
Then came the threat of
terrorist tunnels, which Hamas members dug from Gaza to Israel under our
home to hurt us. At night we heard noises and voices digging beneath
us. Thus, in the last six months our children slept with the window
closed and locked. We were afraid that they will be kidnapped from us.
Can you imagine our life,
Mr. Secretary-General? How do you live in constant fear of mortar shell
and terrorists emerging from tunnels?
Then, last Friday [August
22], Daniel was killed. All the precautions we had taken failed. Daniel,
4.5 yrs old, was killed in our House, while playing with Yoval in a
tent built indoors and not outside, because it's dangerous. He was
killed from a mortar shell that was shot by terrorists from Gaza, he
died in our hands. Daniel died in front of his little sister and his
best friend Yoval, 3.5 years old; he died in front of Uri, only four
months old and right before our eyes, his mother and father.
We failed. We couldn't
protect our beautiful and talented baby. Daniel was killed from a mortar
shell that was fired by Hamas members from an elementary school for
boys in Gaza City. It wasn't a stray shell. It wasn't accidental death.
From that school terrorists fired deliberately at the kibbutz to murder
civilians — children, women, old people. This time, they also achieved
their goal. Daniel was killed almost immediately. Daniel's father,
Doron, covered him with a blanket while crying bitterly and we escaped
from home with two small children, leaving our precious son behind, in
order to protect them from bombings that continued to explode around the
house. Yoval, Daniel's sister, saw the terrifying sight and understood
that something terrible happened.
It is unbearable to watch that little child staring at the wall, in overwhelming silence with teardrops from her eyes.
This week, during the
"shiv'ah"(Jewish ritual of mourning) at Doron's parents home, we heard
of your decision to appoint an international investigation committee to
investigate "Israel's crime" during the recent fighting in Gaza. You
informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu half an hour after our Daniel
was killed, perhaps while he was lying dead in our living room, covered
in a blanket.
The investigation committee will examine the "crimes of Israel" during the fighting.
The investigation committee is not asked to investigate how terrorists shoot out of U.N buildings and schools.
The committee is not asked
to investigate how inside buildings of the United Nations and in
hospitals in Gaza terrorist infrastructure flourishes and is maintained
over time, or how from these places terrorists depart for activity aimed
against innocent people.
It won’t investigate how
Hamas abuses the Palestinian people, and how its members force residents
of Gaza, even children, to dig tunnels aimed only for terrorism against
Israel.
It won’t investigate how
after these excavations, carried out under duress and in slave-like
conditions, the Hamas murdered the diggers, even the children, just to
be sure they won't be able to pass information to Israel.
Why are you silent? Does your silence indicate consent with the abuse of the Palestinian people and the Israeli people?
The answers to these questions will remain unknown.
And I want to ask you, Sir:
Do you and the U.N not see the links that make up the global terrorism picture?
The terrorists units,
fully equipped and full of hatred that attacked us in our homes, are the
same units that kidnapped 43 UN observers in Syria; They are the same
units that decapitated innocent people in Syria and Iraq; these units
crashed aircrafts into crowded buildings in 2001 in New York; these
units threaten the essence of democratic life, and life itself, in
Europe, in the United States and anywhere on the planet.
Let me tell you some more
about the history of our lives here, on the border with Gaza. My
husband's parents, Doron, also live near the border fence and three and a
half years ago a Qassam rocket exploded and destroyed their home.
Up until a few years ago
they had good relations with the residents of Gaza. They hired workers
from Gaza to work in their fields and Paulina, Daniel's grandmother,
drove them home – to Rafah, every evening after work. They used to
invite each other for weddings and other celebrations and often traveled
to Rafah or Gaza to enjoy life at cafes there.
All that ended when Hamas
rose to power and ordered the civilians who worked in Israel to kill
their Israeli employers; otherwise, Hamas would hurt their families.
Daniel's grandparents used to tell us this, longing and hoping that the
good proximity will resume. They even found ways to maintain contact
with their friends from Gaza during the mortar shelling. Like the
parents of Doron and their friends from Gaza, we want to live in good
proximity, in peace and security. It is our hope that our neighbors, the
people of Gaza, will be able to live peacefully in their homes and
build and develop their beautiful country. We believe that the vast
majority of the people on this planet do not want to see the sights of
blood, tears and fire of the radical Islam movement, but to live
peacefully, enjoy kid's laughter, wait for a better tomorrow.
We do not seek the people responsible for our Daniel's death.
We only wish your response and your voice against this crime and the crime Hamas has committed against their own people.
Gila and Doron Tragerman
Parents of Daniel (RIP), Yoval and Ori
Nahal Oz, Israel
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Taqiyya is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it … We can go so far as to say that the practice of taqiyya is mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream … Taqiyya is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era.[5]Taqiyya is, therefore, not, as is often supposed, an exclusively Shi'i phenomenon. Of course, as a minority group interspersed among their Sunni enemies, the Shi'a have historically had more reason to dissemble. Conversely, Sunni Islam rapidly dominated vast empires from Spain to China. As a result, its followers were beholden to no one, had nothing to apologize for, and had no need to hide from the infidel nonbeliever (rare exceptions include Spain and Portugal during the Reconquista when Sunnis did dissimulate over their religious identity[6]). Ironically, however, Sunnis living in the West today find themselves in the place of the Shi'a: Now they are the minority surrounded by their traditional enemies—Christian infidels—even if the latter, as opposed to their Reconquista predecessors, rarely act on, let alone acknowledge, this historic enmity. In short, Sunnis are currently experiencing the general circumstances that made taqiyya integral to Shi'ism although without the physical threat that had so necessitated it.
If you [Muslims] are under their [non-Muslims'] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them with your tongue while harboring inner animosity for them … [know that] God has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels rather than other believers—except when infidels are above them [in authority]. Should that be the case, let them act friendly towards them while preserving their religion.[8]Regarding Qur'an 3:28, Ibn Kathir (d. 1373), another prime authority on the Qur'an, writes, "Whoever at any time or place fears … evil [from non-Muslims] may protect himself through outward show." As proof of this, he quotes Muhammad's close companion Abu Darda, who said, "Let us grin in the face of some people while our hearts curse them." Another companion, simply known as Al-Hasan, said, "Doing taqiyya is acceptable till the Day of Judgment [i.e., in perpetuity]."[9]