Pray for the peace of Jerusalem

May they prosper who love you

- Psalm 122:6

11 мая: От смерти к жизни

11 мая: От смерти к жизни

Йом Ха-Зикарон (День памяти солдат и жертв)

 

С момента своего образования в 1948 году, Израиль сражался во многих войнах и со многими волнами террора. Звук сирены почти непрерывен в некоторых районах страны. Люди имеют всего 6 секунд, чтобы достичь безопасности бомбоубежища.

Террор преследует на многих улицах. Оружие для террора приобретает все новые формы. Бомбы, скрытые в автобусах или рюкзаках, взяли много жизней и искалечили многих других. Автомобили стали оружием, ножи, топоры и даже ножницы!

Иногда кажется, что нет конца насилию и ненависти.

Хуже всего дается пониманию то, что в то время как семьи жертв оплакивают смерть своих близких, часто в общинах террористов – празднования по поводу смерти противника.

Но царь Давид оплакивал смерть Саула, который стал его врагом.

  Вторая книга Царств 1:17-27

 

  1. И оплакал Давид Саула и сына его Ионафана сею плачевною песнью,
  2. и повелел научить сынов Иудиных луку, как написано в книге       Праведного, и сказал:
  3. краса твоя, о Израиль, поражена на высотах твоих! как пали сильные!
  4. Не рассказывайте в Гефе, не возвещайте на улицах Аскалона, чтобы не       радовались дочери Филистимлян, чтобы не торжествовали дочери                        необрезанных.
  5. Горы Гелвуйские! да не сойдет ни роса, ни дождь на вас, и да не       будет на вас полей с плодами, ибо там повержен щит сильных, щит Саула,        как бы не был он помазан елеем.
  6. Без крови раненых, без тука сильных лук Ионафана не возвращался       назад, и меч Саула не возвращался даром.
  7. Саул и Ионафан, любезные и согласные в жизни своей, не разлучились и в смерти своей; быстрее орлов, сильнее львов они были.
  8. Дочери Израильские! плачьте о Сауле, который одевал вас в багряницу       с украшениями и доставлял на одежды ваши золотые уборы.
  9. Как пали сильные на брани! Сражен Ионафан на высотах твоих.
  10. Скорблю о тебе, брат мой Ионафан; ты был очень дорог для меня;       любовь твоя была для меня превыше любви женской.
  11. Как пали сильные, погибло оружие бранное!

Молитесь, чтобы Божья любовь утешила скорбящих и преобразовала ненавидящих.

 

 

Ori, an Egged bus driver who drove behind the 78 line bus that was attacked by two Arab terrorists in Jerusalem's southeastern Armon Hanatziv neighborhood. In the attack two people, including a 60-year-old man, were murdered and 15 others wounded, eight seriously. Two terrorists conducted the attack, one armed with a gun and another with a knife; one was shot dead and the other was shot and taken into custody. "We drove out at 10 a.m., we were driving one after the other. When I reached this point, Yisrael - the other driver, my friend - got out of the bus and ran towards my bus (shouting): 'stop, stop, there's a terrorist in the bus,'" recalled Ori. "Then the terrorist started to run after him with the knife, a large knife. He ran up to my door, I closed the door and he ran back to the (other) bus." "When Yisrael tried to approach, because he had passengers in the bus, he shouted to me 'he's slaughtering them, he's slaughtering them,' and we had nothing we could do, we were trying to contact the police, there's nothing we could do. I don't have a gun, he doesn't have a gun." "The terrorist approached again, and after a moment when he understood that in the best case scenario either Yisrael gets on with me and we flee or else run him over, there's no other situation, he went back to the (other) bus and locked the passengers in the bus until the police arrived, but in the meantime what he did there..." said Ori, trailing off. Speaking about how the terrorist was neutralized, the driver continued, saying, "the police arrived, what I saw from here outside - because you can't see inside - is that they of course shot in the windows of the bus and the doors to enter. They went in, and what happened inside I have no idea."
Ori, an Egged bus driver who drove behind the 78 line bus that was attacked by two Arab terrorists in Jerusalem’s southeastern Armon Hanatziv neighborhood.
In the attack two people, including a 60-year-old man, were murdered and 15 others wounded, eight seriously. Two terrorists conducted the attack, one armed with a gun and another with a knife; one was shot dead and the other was shot and taken into custody.
“We drove out at 10 a.m., we were driving one after the other. When I reached this point, Yisrael – the other driver, my friend – got out of the bus and ran towards my bus (shouting): ‘stop, stop, there’s a terrorist in the bus,'” recalled Ori.
“Then the terrorist started to run after him with the knife, a large knife. He ran up to my door, I closed the door and he ran back to the (other) bus.”
“When Yisrael tried to approach, because he had passengers in the bus, he shouted to me ‘he’s slaughtering them, he’s slaughtering them,’ and we had nothing we could do, we were trying to contact the police, there’s nothing we could do. I don’t have a gun, he doesn’t have a gun.”
“The terrorist approached again, and after a moment when he understood that in the best case scenario either Yisrael gets on with me and we flee or else run him over, there’s no other situation, he went back to the (other) bus and locked the passengers in the bus until the police arrived, but in the meantime what he did there…” said Ori, trailing off.
Speaking about how the terrorist was neutralized, the driver continued, saying, “the police arrived, what I saw from here outside – because you can’t see inside – is that they of course shot in the windows of the bus and the doors to enter. They went in, and what happened inside I have no idea.”