Itamar, Israel

This was the house of Ui and Ruth Fogel and their children. Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, just three months were stabbed repeatedly, with the baby nearly decapitated.   Their crime....being a Jew.  The Al-Aksa Martyr's Brigades of Imad Mughniyeh claimed responsibility for the attack.  This was my deciding factor for going with American's For A Safe Israel...I asked, "are you going to Itamar".  The answer..."well certainly we are going to Itamar".  We were there just a few weeks after this horrible event.

Ronald Reagan once said about evil...civilized people abide by "moral precepts which guide human relations.  Acts of barbarianism are born out of a culture that disregards individual rights and values of human life and seeks to expand and dominate others".  He could have easily have said this at Itamar.  The young men who butchered this family did not know there was a baby there.  They were already outside the house and realized there was "one more Jew they could kill"...a quote from one of the butchers.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4040974,00.html