Pray for the peace of Jerusalem

May they prosper who love you

- Psalm 122:6

11 de maio: da morte à vida

11 de maio: da morte à vida

Yom Hazikaron

(Dia Memorial aos soldados e vítimas)

Desde seu renascimento em 1948, Israel travou muitas guerras e ondas de terror. O som dos alarmes é quase contínuo em algumas áreas do país e as pessoas têm apenas 6 segundos para atingir a segurança de um abrigo contra bombas.

Estalos de terror em muitas ruas com muitas armas. Bombas escondidas em ônibus ou mochilas tomaram muitas vidas e mutilaram muitos outros. Carros tornaram-se armas assim como facas, machados e até mesmo tesouras!

Parece não haver fim da violência e do ódio.

O pior e menos compreendido é que enquanto as famílias das vítimas lamentam a morte de seus entes queridos, muitas vezes nas comunidades do terrorista, lá há celebração com a morte do inimigo.

Mas o Rei Davi lamentou a morte de Saul, que se tornou seu inimigo.

2 Samuel 1: 17-27

17 Davi cantou este lamento sobre Saul e seu filho Jônatas, 18 e ordenou que se ensinasse aos homens de Judá; é o Lamento do Arco, que foi registrado no Livro de Jasar:

19 “O seu esplendor, ó Israel, está morto sobre os seus montes. Como caíram os guerreiros! 20 “Não conte isso em Gate, não o proclame nas ruas de Ascalom, para que não se alegrem as filhas dos filisteus nem exultem as filhas dos incircuncisos.

21 “Ó colinas de Gilboa, nunca mais haja orvalho nem chuva sobre vocês, nem campos que produzam trigo para as ofertas. Porque ali foi profanado o escudo dos guerreiros, o escudo de Saul, que nunca mais será polido com óleo. 22 Do sangue dos mortos, da carne dos guerreiros, o arco de Jônatas nunca recuou, a espada de Saul sempre cumpriu a sua tarefa. 23 “Saul e Jônatas, mui amados, nem na vida nem na morte foram separados. Eram mais ágeis que as águias, mais fortes que os leões.

24 “Chorem por Saul, ó filhas de Israel! Chorem aquele que as vestia de rubros ornamentos, e suas roupas enfeitava com adornos de ouro.

25 “Como caíram os guerreiros no meio da batalha! Jônatas está morto sobre os montes de Israel. 26 Como estou triste por você, Jônatas, meu irmão! Como eu lhe queria bem! Sua amizade era, para mim, mais preciosa que o amor das mulheres! 27 “Caíram os guerreiros! As armas de guerra foram destruídas!”

ORE PARA QUE O AMOR DE DEUS CONSOLE OS QUE CHORAM E TRANSFORME AQUELES QUE ODEIAM.

 

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.”