{"id":2851,"date":"2018-10-10T10:39:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2019-05-19T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T03:05:03","slug":"barkan-terror-attack-exemplifies-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2018\/10\/barkan-terror-attack-exemplifies-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Barkan terror attack exemplifies conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, two Israelis were murdered in a terror attack by a 23-year-old Palestinian man who\u00a0left a note praising Yasser Arafat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, a 28-year-old mother of one, was\u00a0tied up and shot at close range<\/a>. Ziv Hajbi, a 35-year old father of three, was also shot dead and a third victim was injured before the terrorist fled.<\/p>\n

Like the\u00a0murder of Ari Fuld last month<\/a>, the incident took place where\u00a0Arabs and Jews live and work side by side<\/a>. Barkan was considered an\u00a0oasis of coexistence and peace<\/a>\u00a0between Israelis and Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Representatives from democratic nations, including\u00a0Canada<\/a>,\u00a0USA<\/a>,\u00a0France<\/a>,\u00a0Austria<\/a>,\u00a0Italy<\/a>,\u00a0Germany<\/a>,\u00a0UK<\/a>, and\u00a0Cyprus<\/a>\u00a0have condemned the terror. New Zealand is\u00a0once again silent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hamas\u00a0called the attack \u2018heroic\u2019<\/a>\u00a0and \u2018a natural response to the Israeli occupation\u2019s crimes\u2019; Islamic Jihad called on \u2018proud people\u2019\u00a0to \u2018rise up\u2019<\/a>\u00a0as Gazans were\u00a0celebrating the attack with sweets<\/a>; and\u00a0Fatah said<\/a>\u00a0“Nobody will enjoy security, as long as the Palestinian people are deprived of their rights on their land,” while they will\u00a0pay the terrorist a salary<\/a>\u00a0as part of the PA’s\u00a0“pay for slay” policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These responses to murderous terror underscores a real barrier to peace. As Hananya Naftali wrote, “This is not about the absence of peace but the presence of hate<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

May the memories of Kim and Ziv be a blessing and may their families be comforted.<\/p>\n

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On Sunday, two Israelis were murdered in a terror attack by a 23-year-old Palestinian man who\u00a0left a note praising Yasser Arafat. Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, a 28-year-old mother of one, was\u00a0tied up and shot at close range. Ziv Hajbi, a 35-year old father of three, was also shot dead and a third victim was injured before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4305,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/4305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}