Two Kiryat Arba men killed by terrorists outside Hebron December 29, 2007 From: hebron@hebron.org.il Shortly after 12:00 this afternoon Arab terrorists, shooting from a jeep, shot and killed to young Israel men, both in their twenties, between the communities of Telem and Adura. The two men, both serving in the IDF, were hiking with a young woman. At the time of the shooting she managed to hide, thereby saving her life. The exact site of the attack is a wadi, leading to a spring, near Telem. Telem is a small community located adjacent to the transJudea highway, about 10 kilometers west of Hebron. The identities of the two men have not yet been made public. The funerals will be at Har Hertzel at 9:00 PM Saturday night. Details of the attack: Two men from Kiryat Arba, soldiers serving in an elite unit, on vacation, were hiking near a stream near Telem. A vehicle, with four terrorists, began shooting at them. The soldiers fired back, killing one terrorist at the scene and critically wounding another.  The other two were slightly wounded and managed to escape. Both men were killed and their weapons stolen. The critically wounded terrorist died in a Hebron hospital. Their blood-stained terrorist's car was found, but the other two terrorists have not yet been found. A woman with the two men who hid during the attack made contact with the authorities, who then began searching for them. She was taken to hospital in shock. A Hebron spokesman issued the following statement: It's started again. Israeli concessions lead down only one road: Killing. Only a few weeks ago Ido Zoldan was shoot down near Kedumim. Now two young men, both serving their country in an elite army unit, are dead, having been betrayed by their country, by their leaders, by the Prime Minister and Defense Minister. The concessions Israel is making, the refusal to build in Judea and Samaria, the willingness to abandon more of our sacred Land, the determination to expel more Jews from their homes, the willingness of the Prime Minister to 'make difficult sacrifies for 'peace'' is the perfect recipe for Arab terrorists: we will get whatever we want, so let's kill some more Jews - what difference does it make. Olmert won't allow Jewish blood to stand in the way of 'peace.' After all, Israel has all but decided to release terrorists with 'blood on their hands' as a 'gesture' to Abu Mazan and his 'moderate' colleagues. So again, why not kill Jews? What have they got to lose? The injustices facing Jews, such as the determination to again expel Jews from a building legally purchased in Hebron, is a clear message to the terrorists: Israel is willing to go the whole way, giving whatever the terrorists demand in return for... more dead Jews. The Olmert government must go. Olmert, Barak, and Livni are leading Israel down a path of bloodbath, a path of communal suicide, a path of injustice, a path leading to grief, a path leading to extended war. The time has come to replace these traitors with leaders of faith, leaders who believe in G-d, who believe in our right to our land, in our right to live in true peace, without continued concessions to evil.  To subscribe to the Hebron list, simply email: hebron.mail-subscribe@hebron.org.il

1. Amen Karen he has an ulterior motive
   Peres is the top man of the Freemason, anti-Jew, anti-biblical Judaism, Liberal Zionists who established the state of Israel for their own purposes - to complete the Holocaust. That''s why they don''t put down the Muslim enemy, don''t hand out gas masks, etc. See http://thebarrychamishwebsite.com   books,
   http://www.hirhome.com, http://www.watch.pair.com/new-israel.html, etc.
   
    Evn Perach 8/14/2007 9:29 AM
   
2. He must have another ulterior motive
   This is beyond human reasoning.....it is sick. Actually, when a person does this deed, and those released are committing murder to an Israeli,.....it is seen as the person who made the decision to set them free is guilty of murder as well........it sounds like what he is doing is purposefully destroying the nation of Israel, as well as that Olmert and anyone else who sides with them. This is an indication of Yahshua''s return is soon.
   
    Karen 8/14/2007 6:20 AM

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 By Barry Chamish

Theater J's Shattering 'Pangs of the Messiah'

By Peter Marks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 30, 2007; Page C01

The corrosive effects of perpetual crisis wear almost as meaningfully on an audience as they do on the characters of "Pangs of the Messiah," Motti Lerner's heated and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of a besieged Jewish settlement on the West Bank.

The time in which this provocative Israeli playwright sets his drama is a few years into the future, but the scenario he unfolds feels entwined with the tragic here and now. In the play, at the Goldman Theater, a peace accord is about to be signed in Washington between the Israeli government and the Palestinians that will cede the West Bank to a formal state of Palestine -- a change that will mean the enforced removal of Shmuel (Michael Tolaydo) and his fellow settlers from the hilly enclave to which they have dedicated their lives.

From left, Joel Reuben Ganz, Lindsay Haynes, Alexander Strain and Laura Giannarelli in Motti Lerner's updated drama about Jewish settlers in a near future forced to move from a new Palestine. (By Stan Barouh -- Theater J)

Lerner lays out the spectrum of passionate reactions within Shmuel's circle to convulsive, swiftly evolving political events in ways that give intriguing complexity to a people and a movement often painted as a monolithic cadre of occupiers. The playwright's tale is apocalyptic rather than sympathetic -- it's about the inexorable pull of extremism, and the amplification of suffering to which radical beliefs inevitably lead.

Yet, regardless of your preconceptions, Lerner compels you to see not only the array of viewpoints on the side of the Israeli settlers but also the faces. The play is a visit with those who reside in the vicinity of doom, in a neighborhood that seems both sun-kissed and cursed.

Director Sinai Peter's splendid production for Theater J -- featuring sharply drawn performances by, among others, Tolaydo, Laura Giannarelli as Shmuel's wife, Amalia, and Alexander Strain as their fragile son, Nadav -- marks the play's first performance in English, according to the company. (The fine translation is by Anthony Berris.) Lerner wrote it in Hebrew 20 years ago, when its title was "Waiting for the Messiah"; in addition to modifying the title, he has updated events and specified the year as 2012.

However, the fictional political developments he describes in "Pangs of the Messiah," as reported throughout by the voice of an actual newsman, Dan Raviv, never seem outlandish. (That the play holds up after two decades speaks as much as anything to the intractability of the issues it examines.) In contrast to Lerner's fascinating if hyperbolic "Murder of Isaac," a piece set in a post-traumatic-stress ward among the disabled veterans of all of Israel's wars -- and which had an American premiere last year at Baltimore's Center Stage -- "Pangs" frames its arguments in fairly sober and naturalistic terms.

The setting is the sleek hilltop home of Shmuel, a rabbi and a leader of the settlement, who, Lerner suggests, is the embodiment of a paradox. He's both spiritual and practical. He's enough of a moderate to be on speaking terms with Israel's conciliatory-seeming prime minister, yet sufficiently devout in his investment in a Jewish state that includes the West Bank.

As the prospects for the peace agreement intensify, so do the fissures in Shmuel's family; the settlers appear to be more furious at their own government than at their Arab neighbors. Hard-liners such as Shmuel's son Avner (John Johnston) and son-in-law Benny (Joel Reuben Ganz) -- the latter having been in prison for killing Palestinians with roadside bombs -- agitate for resistance against the Israeli army, while Avner's wife, Tirtzah (Becky Peters), argues vehemently against any kind of violence.

Caught in the middle are the innocents, such as Strain's tenderly rendered Nadav, a simple soul who is joyously engaged in the building of his own home, and who does not quite grasp the huge moral and political implications that this normally mundane activity has acquired.

The ideal audience for "Pangs" might be one with some familiarity with Israeli politics. Sorting out the ideological branches of Shmuel's family tree becomes a bit labored in Lerner's more schematic first act. We learn, for instance, that Avner and Tirtzah have just arrived from Washington, where Avner had some role representing the settlers' interests. It takes some time, too, to understand all the facets of Shmuel's responsibilities in a community fragmenting over the potential peace treaty.

But these concerns are allayed in the second act, as the momentum of outside events accelerates and Shmuel must try to reconcile the precepts of his faith with the struggle over his settlement's destiny.

Set designer Kinereth Kisch picturesquely realizes Shmuel's world: a living room full of glass and light overlooking a handsome valley of modern houses. In bright costumes by Dalia Penn that look as if they were inspired by citrus groves, the family members shuffle in and out in nonstop rotation, coming to rest only when the flickering of a TV news broadcast catches their eyes. It's as if their nerves are so frayed that they cannot bear to engage one another for more than a few minutes at a time.

The director and actors bring Shmuel's family to vibrant life, from Lindsay Haynes's terrific Chava, broken by worry that husband Benny will return to a life of terrorism, to Giannarelli's excellent Amalia, wed as much to a man's religious dream as the man himself. Ganz, Johnston, Peters and Norman Aronovic contribute solidly. And the exceptional Tolaydo takes us resonantly with him on Shmuel's path from adroit mover and shaker to anguished bystander.

While it might be helpful to know something about the Middle East at the outset of "Pangs of the Messiah," Lerner's shattering conclusion requires no information at all. It's the universal handbook of human frailty that is his poignant guide, and ours.

By Motti Lerner. Directed by Sinai Peter. Lighting, Martha Mountain; composer, Hannah Hakohen; sound, Clay Teunis. About 2 hours 15 minutes. At Goldman Theater, D.C. Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW. Call 800-494-TIXS or visit http://www.boxofficetickets.com.