In loving memeory

Ma'alot massacre May 15, 1974

(Israel's Independence Day)]

 

On one black date in May 1974, three PLO terrorists slipped from Lebanon into the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot.  They murdered two parents and a child whom they found at home, then seized a local school, taking more than 100 boys and girls hostage and threatening to kill them unless a number of imprisoned terrorists were released. When Israeli troops attempted a rescue, the terrorists exploded hand grenades and opened fire on the students.  By the time the horror ended, 25 people were dead; 21 of them were children.

 

Thirty years later, no one speaks of Ma'alot anymore.  The dead children have been forgotten.  Everyone knows Arafat's name, but who ever recalls the names of his victims?

 

So let us recall them:

 

Ilana Turgeman 

 

Rachel Aputa 

 

Yocheved Mazoz

 

Sarah Ben-Shim'on 

 

Yona Sabag

 

Yafa Cohen 

 

Shoshana Cohen 

 

Michal Sitrok 

 

Malka Amrosy 

 

Aviva Saada

 

Yocheved Diyi 

 

Yaakov Levi

 

Yaakov Kabla 

 

Rina Cohen

 

Ilana Ne'eman 

 

Sarah Madar 

 

Tamar Dahan 

 

Sarah Soper 

 

Lili Morad

 

David Madar 

 

Yehudit Madar 

 

The 21 dead children of Ma'alot, 21 of the thousands who died at Arafat's command.

 

 http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_plo_un_1975.php

 

 

 

 

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    Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun.  Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.  I repeat: do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

    ~Yaser Arafat; 1974 the UN General Assembly

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