Thousands Attend Funeral of Mother of Slain Palestinian Toddler

Tensions run high as mother of Ali Dawabsheh, Reham, laid to rest in West Bank village of Duma five weeks after arson attack that killed her 18-month-old son and her husband.

ed note–please remember, within the Judaic paradigm, there is nothing abnormal or ‘extreme’ about what took place with the deliberate incineration of these innocent people. This is exactly what Judaism demands of its followers, to wit–

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall save nothing alive that breathes…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy. You shall destroy their altars, break down their images, cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire. For you are a holy people unto the LORD thy God and He has chosen you to be a special people above all others upon the face of the earth…”

Book of Deuteronomy

And do not make the mistake of thinking this is only a ‘Palestinian’ issue. As should be patently obvious by now, the Jews are hard at work right now burning down not only the entire Middle East, but indeed THE ENTIRE WORLD.

Haaretz

Thousands of people attended the funeral of Reham Dawabsheh, a Palestinian woman who was seriously wounded in a West Bank arson attack that saw her 18-month-old son Ali burned to death. Dawabsheh succumbed to wounds sustained in the attack on Sunday night, five weeks after the incident that killed her husband, Saad, and left her other son, Ahmed, seriously wounded.

Reham Dawabsheh’s condition took a turn for the worst on Saturday after being on life support since the attack in the intensive care unit at Tel Hashomer’s Sheba Medical Center. She suffered third-degree burns on 90 percent of her body as a result of the firebomb attack in the West Bank village of Duma in July.

Dawabsheh, whose 27th birthday was on Sunday, was a teacher at the Duma elementary school and her funeral was attended by scores of her students and colleagues. Tensions ran high at the funeral, with dozens of Palestinian youths congregating at the entrance to the village. According to some reports, the youths pelted settlers’ cars with stones.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement Monday afternoon extending his condolences to the Dawabsheh family in wake of Reham’s passing, which he said was a result of an “act of terror.” The prime minister said that Israeli security forces were doing everything in their power to apprehend those behind the attack and bring them to justice.

Senior Palestinian Authority official Saeb Erekat also issued a statement, saying he was saddened by her passing and blaming the Israeli government for the incident.

“If Israel is not stopped and held accountable then Reham will not be the last victim of Israeli terror,” Erekat said in a statement. “Over a month has passed and the Israeli government hasn’t yet brought the terrorists to justice… We hold the Israeli government fully responsible,” the statement said.

“The death of Reham Dawabsheh is heartbreaking,” MK Aida Touma-Suliman (Joint List) said on Monday morning. “[Our] thoughts go out to little Ahmed, the sole survivor of a family that was burned in flames of hatred and evil,” she said.

Touma-Suliman blamed Israeli policy for the deaths and said that “the murderers are still on the loose and terror and hate crimes against Palestinians continue to happen.”

UN envoy to the Middle East Nickolay Mladenov expressed concern on Monday over what he described as Israel’s “lack of progress” in apprehending suspects in the attack. In a statement, he called “for justice.”

Her husband, Sa’ad, died a week after the attack from the burns he sustained in the incident. Their four-year-old son Ahmed, the sole survivor of the family, suffered second-degree burns on more than 60 percent of his body. He is hospitalized at Tel Hashomer.

The arson attack, which has been attributed to Israeli extremists and was labeled Jewish terror by top Israeli officials, fueled unrest in Israel and the Palestinian territories and prompted the government to crackdown on far-right extremists.