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Paul Goldman / NBC News
Mourners at the Jerusalem funeral for the four Jews killed by a gunman in Toulouse, France on Wednesday.
JERUSALEM – The Har Menuchot Cemetery looked like it was painted in black Wednesday. Hundreds of mourners, many of them men dressed in the black suits and broad-brimmed hats worn by orthodox Jews, came to pay their respects for the four Jews killed by a gunman in Toulouse, France, on Monday.
The bodies of 30-year-old Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his sons, Arieh, 5, and Gabriel, 4, and 8-year-old Myriam Monsenego were laid on stretchers after being flown to Israel from France.
Small white cards were placed on each body indicating their names.
The announcer asked dignitaries to limit their speeches to five minutes due to the heat and out of respect for the bereaved families.
In tears, Shlomo Amar, the Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Israel, was defiant. "We will keep on fighting and teaching our youth with our heads high up,” he said. “Our enemy will not defeat us.”
Paul Goldman / NBC News
Mourners at the Jerusalem funeral for the four Jews killed by a gunman in Toulouse, France on Wednesday.
A woman started shouting and other weeping women soon followed. Someone brought a large cotton cloth to cover the victims’ families from the sun.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe sat still with a somber face throughout the speeches; eventually, he spoke in French, which was translated into Hebrew. "The French nation is in shock,” he said. “I came here today to show the French nation's respect. We will do our out most to protect the Jewish community in France. We will not tolerate terror."
Monsenego's grandfather was asked to say a few words, but he couldn’t find the strength to stand up and talk.
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But Myriam's eldest brother, Avishai, offered some words. He wailed and had one last plea for his dead sister” "Please give strength to father and mother to overcome this tragedy.”
Then the slain rabbi’s father, Shmuel Sandler, spoke about his son, "You were a magnificent person killed by a barbaric person," he said. Unfortunately, the middle of his speech was interrupted by police using a megaphone asking the owner of a Daihatsu car to move the vehicle because it was blocking the road.
Paul Goldman / NBC News
The caskets for the four Jews killed by a gunman in Toulouse, France at their funeral in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
While the bodies were taken to be buried, I spoke to David Naor, a relative of the Sandler familyr. I asked him about the news coming out of Toulouse that the suspected gunman had been found.
“Finding the killer won’t help the dead children,” he replied. “But it helps to know that he won’t kill again.”
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I said it two days ago, the "sword of Gideon will found the killer, very soon" and happen very soon, B.H.
Whoever hurt or kill Jews anywhere in the world, will pay a very high price, we promise.
Whether or not earthly courts satisfactorily deal with him, H' is the True Judge. This man will definitely face justice.
Celtman...well stated...Time to get busy!
“But it helps to know that he won’t kill again.”
We can hope that he kills one last time - himself.
What about anyone killing any Gentile anywhere in the world? This happens daily all over the world.
Your comment is frightening me.
What about shutting the hell up? Newayz, I believe the heart of every civilized person goes out to these innocent victims of wahabi terrorism. This barbaric attack was senseless and inexcusable. It is time for barbarity to end.
Some Jews don't cry....they get very angry instead
And the french foreign minister said that the whole french nation is shocked. Big f##king deal! His president, sarcozy, couldn't give a $hit about jews. He even can't stand Biby! The french ba$tards can kiss all our a$$e$! They would rather surrender than fight!
AM YISROEL CHAI!!!!! NEVER AGAIN!!!!!
Remember that one Israeli is worth more than 1,000 muslims...probably 10,000.
True...true ...true.
Let He who makes peace in the heavens, grant peace to all of us and to all Israel. Let us say, Amen
Amen, Lar.
The words do not exist to truly express the horror of these cowardly acts committed by this savage monster.
There is nothing terrible enough that can be done to him to pay for what he has done.
The same goes for the killers of the Palestinian and Lebanese children to name a few ???
Hello Evil Eye. This is the correct translation of your name isn't it, lest I'm accused of name calling.
Please tell us who has chased down small children - while filming this, no less - to gun them down in Gaza and Lebanon.
That's obvious! It's much harder to film cowardly religious fanatics, that kill women and children while in F-16s.
You just had to come to this article, didn't you??? Couldn't stay away. The draw was just too much for you, wasn't it??? I can come back with all of the answers obvious to everyone but you and a handful of others but I'm not going to do it. This article is not the place. Take a hint and save your hatred for another day.
You're preaching hatred. You want to wipe out billions because of their religion, because they are ( goyim or gentiles )not Jewish. You are the killer and creator of hatred.
Evil Eye, the only thing I'd like to wipe out is hatred - PERIOD!!! And in case you haven't noticed, I'm Christian. KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY and please...get some help...now might be a good time.
You are one of the confused sheeple, without a clue as to what is happening to your way of life. There is no helping you.
When four Jewish children were brutally murdered in France on Monday, the media
immediately began to tell us who the murderer was. ‘It was a random attack. It
was a serial killer. It was a racist, neo-Nazi murder. Every possible alternative was used in order to avoid coming to the conclusion that this was a Muslim terrorist attack.
larry
Of course, we don't want to "offend" those that practice a religion whose book of peace is completely full of murder, thievery, lying all in the name of Allah.
The Bible is based on forgiveness, the Koran revenge, the Bible says if you are good you go to heaven, the Koran says if you kill in the name of Allah you go to heaven.
Why are we so afraid to "offend" them.
Of course any/all of us who understand the basic tenets of islam would have easily known then that it was muslim cowardly murder again...and of course it was!
Please, please don't tell us all what Islam "is" until you have read the Koran. The whole thing, not just the copy-pasted bits that people cite to support their hate.
Caseyjane
Read it, almost every sura is filled with hate, direction to kill infidels, promises for believers to go to paradise if they kill infidels, etc. The Hadith is filled with Mohamed's adventures including taking a 9 year old wife, taking his stepson's wife, wiping out villages because they were Jewish, plundering, etc., all in the name of Allah. Read it and see.
BTW Good win for Cuse
Did you read it? Or was this told to you? The overall message is not terribly different from the bible. Every religious book is going to have outdated parts which are abhorrent to modern readers. Lot's daughters in the bible get him drunk and have sex with him.
Oh, please caseyjane...to compare the two...not even close. And for the record, it is not even the same god. I really do not wish to get into another off topic discussion on this subject. This is about the callous and calculated murders and funerals of Rabbi Sandler and three innocent children. Do you have anything to say about this???
Sure. It sucks that that happened. It is unimaginably terrible. Hitler was an atheist who killed Jews, but we don't blame all athiests... even though most Nazis were also atheists. How about the KKK killing in the name kof the Christian god in the sixties? How about al the Westborobaptist hate speech? Are they a good representation of Christianity? Islamic extremists shouldn't even be labled Muslim. They are usually Wahabists. The average Muslim person, just like any of us, would be appalled. Please do some research; it is actually pretty interesting (albeit terrifying) to read about.
This is all that you can muster to the memory of these beautiful children and a Rabbi before rambling off topic again???
You may wish to follow your own advice. Soon.
Please show some reverence for this particular article and what it portrays. So far, I've seen none in your posts here.
There aren't words to express the tragedy of what happened, so I'm not going to try. I'd rather deal wih it myself then use all my negative energy to spew hate on the internet. I'm not the one who went off topic. Someone else started that by turning this into a thread about hating muslims because some muslims do terrible things. Have you looked up Wahabism yet?
Caseyjane
This is NOT off topic. These people were killed by Followers of Islam who are directed in their Koran to kill Christians and Jews. Mohammad did it and people of Islamic faith believe that by killing they guarantee their entry to paradise. The Bible, Old and new Testament is so opposite to the Koran. The Bible preaches forgiveness and peace, the Koran INSTRUCTS followers to kill Christians and Jews to GUARANTEE entrance to Paradise. Why can't people just state the facts. Islam IS the problem.
Of course there are Middle Eastern people who do not prescribe to this insanity, but they are not followers of the Koran, because the Koran tells them to be terrorists.
This is not the best example, but I am at work, so I don't have time to look for something better. http://www.religioustolerance.org/isl_qura.htm
Have you read the Qur'an? because most people are only exposed to copy/pasted excerpts which are outdated and out of context. Have you looked up Wahabism yet?
I would suggest reading a tafsir, or Quranic commentary
http://www.qtafsir.com/
Wahabism, is in fact indistinguishable from any of the four schools of Sunni Islam.
book of Wahab, Kitaab At Tawheed traditional Islam.
Wasn't bin Laden tied into that sect?
Yes.
Islam is a teaching of hatred very much like National Socialism and Communism. Just like these 2, it needs to be eradicated and relegated to the proverbial trash pile of the history.
Anonymous, you preach a lot like Adolph ???
Anon is a dikhead and he knows what he is talking about.
Current dikheads running isreal right now are no different than adolf. If they think they can cover up, they would probably wipe out palestinians..
Did the French authorities check the shooters mental state? Before Israel uses this tragedy as a call to arms, maybe the young man was deranged. And please excuse me for my stupidity, but were these not French citizens? Why were they flown back to Israel? Is that the custom?
I agree that the talk from the party of Netanyhu is strangely familiar to the same talk that Iran spouts off.
There is something about Right Wing, Ultra Conservative Religious people, (world wide) that is making the rest of us alarmed. I think the devil is behind it.
Every religion has it's nuts just like every family--one cannot condemn en masse all Muslims, Jews or Christians because of what some who call themselves such do! Some of these posts are sad. Try to think about what you post or what you say carefully, because words are as powerful as weapons.
Shlomo Amar, the Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Israel "We will keep on fighting”
Umm fighting who mac? You’re being awfully vague there
“Our enemy will not defeat us.”
Again which enemy? Care to be a bit more specific?
They have no friends. I must assume everyone is their enemy.
“They have no friends”
I don’t know I’m pretty sure America classes Israel as a friend, whether Israel actually classes America as a friend and not just a tool is debatable but still it would appear they do have friends
My request to MOSAD is that they should try as much as they can to wipe out the whole group which was responsible for these deaths. remember we follow the laws of the jungle where the strongest survives and shows no mercy to the weakest. so find the root group which is responsible and wipe it out
I am so very sorry for this loss. But really, evil has touched all of us. We live in a dying, decaying world. And revenge, just serves the very evil that you condemn.
America is everyone's tool right now...
when will it stop