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Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Kochava Shriki, who was killed when a suicide bomber targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria this week, at a cemetery in the city of Rishon Letzion, Israel, on July 20, 2012.
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Family and friends attend the funeral of Itzik Kolengi, 28, who was killed and his wife injured in the bombing in Bulgaria, in Petah Tikva, Israel, on July 20, 2012.
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Family and friends attend the funeral of Itzik Kolengi in Petah Tikva on July 20, 2012.
The Associated Press reports — The five Israeli victims of a bombing in Bulgaria were laid to rest in a series of funerals Friday, two days after the bloody attack on a tourist bus at a popular vacation spot set off a new round of charges aimed at Iran.
Childhood friends Itzik Kolengi, 28, and Amir Menashe, 27, were buried in Petah Tikva.
Kolengi's wife, Gilat, was injured in the attack and remains hospitalized. The couple has an infant daughter.
"I promise you that the family and I will watch forever over your wife, Gilat, and your amazing daughter, Noya, who looks exactly like you, and we'll raise her just as you would have wanted," Kolengi's brother David eulogized. Read the full story.
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OK, how's this for a nutty notion...which still might be valid. IMHO it is at least possible that some of our more extreme posters on both sides are really provocateurs...that they viciously villify Jews or Muslims, Israelis or Arabs, to the point of saying they would like to kill them or at least exile them all, with the real goal of building up sympathy for them. Naturally, this forces the rest of us to defend the targetted group. In my case, I often find myself responding that we must not drive away all Muslims, because I rely on my own fine Muslim doctors.
Needless to say, these provocateurs would be only a small minority. I feel sure that the vast majority of our extremist posters are saying exactly what they believe.
No, you're wrong. I actually do feel that American, European, Russian and other Jews who continue to move to Israel and displace Pals deserve whatever they get (rocketed, bombed, etc). Only natural born Israelis (because they were born there, it's their home) and the indigenous Jews should be allowed to stay. What kind of horrible parent leaves the west and takes their children into a war zone? That's just evil- to their kids and to the Pals.
But EJ, you are not responding to my nutty notion about provocateurs. I never said that you were one of them...only that I felt that it was very possible that at least some of the most violent, vehement anti-Zionist and anti-Muslim posters were.
Sounds like Juliet believes that West is just one big bed or roses. Not for the jews it's not.
It seems realtively safe to be jewish in Europe right now, but there were peaceful periods like that before, they would always end and a jew-hunting season would begin. Excuse some jews for not wanting to wait for another open season and feeling safer in a country where there is such a thing as a jewsih army, that can defend your children for those who might want to kill them just for being jewish.
From what I hear, Russia is reverting to its old anti-semitic roots. The beautiful Jewish actress Mila Kunis said that that's why her family left there.
Russian anti-semitism is at an all time, and I mean ALL TIME low. That is largely thanks to Putin, who is the first Russian leader to visit Israel and was warmly welcomed there because he's been good at keeping Russian government anti-semitism in check. The KGB was deeply anti-semitic and for a cold warrior like him to be so cool with Jews says a lot. The anti-semitism within the government has been 99% rooted out and the anti-semitism we see now in Russia is kind of a popular movement largely restricted to the usual ahole (neonazis and old guard types). There is for the first time no official government body or person espousing anti-semitic views. Putin won't allow that kind of cr@p under his watch. I commend him for that. He has, however, criticized the US for being under what he calls 'Zionist control', which is pretty much on point. He didn't say that fact was a bad thing he just called it for what it is. I wouldn't say Russia is reverting back its age old habit of anti-semitism because instances of it are few and far between and not condoned by the govt. Putin didn't really even want to go after the oligarchs but his hand was forced in the context of a power struggle, not ati-semitism.