Her Name Was Simona Rudina …
16th May 2011
The Other McCain paints in stark colors.
. . . and she was just 17 years old. Simona was born in Lithuania, when that nation was still under the heel of Soviet despotism. When she was 3 years old, her family emigrated to Israel.
On the evening of June 10, 2001, Simona and some friends wanted to attend a dance party for young emigres from the former Soviet Union.
The beachfront disco that Simona visited that night in June 2001 was at the Dolphinarium, scene of one of the most heinous atrocities of the Second Antifada — a suicide bombing that killed 21 people, 16 of whom were just teenagers.
Simona’s killer was Sa’id Hasan Houtari. Both Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad initially claimed credit for the bombing, but it was eventually determined that Hamas was responsible. News of this murderous atrocity “was greeted with jubilation in Ramallah and parts of Gaza, where people danced in the streets and fired guns in the air. ” Documents captured during Israel’s 2002 military invasion of the West Bank showed that the Palestinian Authority had paid $2,000 to the family of the suicide bomber Houtari, who was celebrated as a “martyr” by the Palestinians.
They don’t want peace. They want dead Jews.
And that says all that needs to be said on the subject.
That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohamed.
May 17th, 2011 at 12:12
I remember seeing the cheering crowds in that same area when the 911 tragedy occurred and thinking what a great place that would be to dispose of the remaining stocks of napalm.