The rockets don’t differentiate between Moshe and Raja

Among all the stories we hear on Israeli nightly news, perhaps, the one which best encapsulated the essence of what is going on was the account of Tamra resident, Raja Katib which aired on the N12 Friday evening broadcast.

Raja, a Muslim Arab who lives in the Arab city of Tamra, located in the Lower Galilee, recalled how he returned to his home a week ago on Sunday night. Having just parked his car under his apartment building, he suddenly heard an enormous boom which took out the electricity, causing the area to descend into darkness, dust and complete silence.

It was at that very moment when his 16-year-old daughter, Razan, covered with white ash, walked out of the bomb shelter. He says, “I began to scream the names of my wife and my other daughters – give me a sign of life, something!  But there was nothing. Just silence. I said, why didn’t God take me too? In another six seconds, I would have been upstairs, so why didn’t He take me?” 

Shai Gal, the N12 interviewer said, “We’ve come from Bat Yam and all the other parts of Israel that have been hit very hard.  How do you connect this?” Raja answered with just one word, “Unifying,” He said, “The rocket came from Iran.  Iran is Muslim, no?  And I’m a Muslim. Did it make that distinction? The rocket didn’t differentiate between Raja Katib, a Muslim or Avi or Moshe. Four coffins came out of my house. I don’t want this to happen to anyone else. Not us, and not you!”

“Each day, as I go to work, I hear about someone else who was killed – a 21-year-old.” Asked if it hurts him, he responded, “Sure it hurts me. He’s a human being, isn’t he? Doesn’t he have parents? A father, a mother? This is worldwide destruction, and I hope this war will end quickly.”

Raja’s final words were, “I have just one hope.” Holding back the tears, on his anguished face, and breathing deeply in order to finish his sentence, he continued, “I must stay strong. Not for me, but for my daughter, Razan who did survive. She’s a wonderful 16-year-old, and she needs a father!  She has no one else except for me.  I need to be strong – just for her.”

It was this heartbreaking account which loudly says what we already know.  Civilization has been infected with a demonic spirit, devoid of all sentiment. How else could anyone explain the cold-blooded killing of Muslims by other Muslims? 

The enemy knows that Israel is a tapestry of ethnicities and religions – some of which are identical to its own. It knows that they speak the same language, worship the same way and share a great many things in common, but none of those grant Israeli Arabs immunity from the wholesale killing to which the Iranian mullahs are fanatically committed.

This is what makes it all the more insidious. The hearts of the Iranian regime have been hijacked by a diabolical ideology of death – one which makes no exception for relatives, kinsmen or anyone else. It is a vital part of what the world must see, because the ability to comprehend that destruction and annihilation are the end game of this vicious enemy of mankind, is to grasp the urgency of why they must be eradicated before they succeed in bringing the human race to its close.

Failure to comprehend the enormity of this evil is, likewise, a delusion which will allow the enemy, bound by radical Islam, to continue their killing spree, enabled by the silence of those who could have risen up in defiance but, instead, preferred to remain indifferent to the horrors, believing that they would never be touched.

Who can now say that everyone is not vulnerable? The stories of Tamra and Bat Yam are evidence that evil is raging against all of mankind, regardless of one’s faith, ethnicity or other defining factors. Raja’s story is just one heartbreaking example, but the last 18 months have shown us that if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, it can happen to you. It can happen at an airport while you’re en route, it can happen while visiting someone in another country or it can happen while watching a parade in New Orleans or walking out of a Jewish museum in Washington D.C., just because that same evil has taken hold of other humans who now defend the indefensible.

This deadly virus has only one antidote, and that is total excision of the growth which is rapidly spreading throughout the body of humanity. Just like all threatening tumors, it must be surgically cut out and removed in order to allow for a full recovery. Once that’s done, the tissue must be diagnosed by a pathologist in order to ensure that everything dangerous was removed or there will be further risk of spread.

Those pathologists are the ones leading the fight. They are meticulously planning the next steps to recovery so that the world can be free of these deadly tumors which are rising up against us all, aspiring to take us out at any moment. 

For those who have been led to believe that it’s best not to poke the bear, hoping that appeasement and non-activity would allow them to continue their peaceful lives, just think what would happen if those same people would ignore the raging warning signs being sent by their body, letting them know that something is terribly wrong. Would they refuse to undergo a medical examination if they coughed up blood or witnessed some other frightening evidence that they were very ill?

For those who care about their lives, as well as their loved ones, they know that the only way to ensure that they enjoy many more years together is to responsibly get diagnosed, treated and make the necessary life changes which will help to extend their time on this earth.

Mankind can no longer afford to put off what needs to be done. This is not the fight of one country or one people. It has arrived at every shore and is a looming danger to each one of us.  It makes no distinction, because its goal is singular – the death of God’s creation!  

The time to act is now, because, as Raja so articulately said, “This is a worldwide destruction” and it’s coming for all of us! I don’t want this to happen to us or to you. Would that it finish quickly!”