Ramadan Goes Out With A Bang

The Palestinians and their Arab-Israeli brethren who’ve been rioting for the past month on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem have the same goal in mind. Their lie about Israel trying to “storm” the Al-Aqsa mosque and take it over is simply an excuse to justify their rage at the existence of the Jewish state.

Waving Hamas flags and burning Israeli ones—when they should have been praying solemnly at their cherished house of worship—these angry activists hurled rocks at Jews peacefully gathered at the Western Wall below. If there was any doubt about their true intentions, it was dispelled on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, when they chanted “Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud, jaish Muhammad, sa yahud.” (“Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning.”)

This is a reference to the Muslim slaughter in 628 C.E. of all the Jews of the town of Khaybar in northwestern Arabia. After the massacre, Muhammad and others took surviving Jewish women as slave-wives. So much for the belief that a political gripe about a lack of independent statehood is behind Palestinian “disgruntlement.”

As if on cue, two Palestinians, Sameeh Assi and Yahya Marei, murdered 23-year-old security guard Vyacheslav Golev at the entrance to the city of Ariel in Judea and Samaria. The two terrorists in their 20s drove up to the booth where Golev and his fiancée were sharing a shift and shot him at point-blank range.

To make sure he was dead, they came back a second time and fired again. The only reason that the woman survived is that Golev shielded her with his body.