10 years ago...

People tend to forget. History is today rather turned into propagadna or indoctrination  (of different things, depending who and where uses it) and for majority I would dare to say forgotten beauty. Yet it is sometimes important to remember, to be reminded....
Ten years ago, on 27th March 2002 it was Pesach (Passover), one of the absolutely major Jewish holidays celebrated in memory of leaving Egypt on their way to the promised land.
Sedar (Passover celebrated dinner) was organised, among other places, in Park Hotel in Netanya. Majority of attending were lonely, often elderly people, among them were Holocaust survivors.
The celebration was entered by suicide bomber, a Palestinian dressed up as a woman. His name was Abdel-Basset Odeh, 25 years old. At 7.30 PM he detonated bomb killing instantly 28 people (2 more succumbed later to their injuries) and wounding 140. Some of those killed were Holocaust survivors, the oldest 90 years old. Among other victims were a father and a daughter, few married couples.....

Terrorism, atacking victims who happen to be in the wrong place at a wrong time is one of the most despicable, repulsive things one may come across, it is treating people as objects of some game. Equally repulsive and obscene are racist crimes and among them one of the most notorious is connected to anti-semitism. Palestinian terrorism, calling for killing as many as possible randomly chosen Jews - be it passangers on the bus, people celebrating, children on their way to school (Toulouse) and so on - blands together those two horrible crimes yet there seems always to be an army of whitewashers ready to supply excuses (no matter how absurd) for those evil deeds.
Taking another man's life is bad enough, doing it driven by racial hatered to somebody we don't know, don't care for, don't know anything about (gener, age, views, family) is so horrible that this horror should be acknowledged by everybody. Unfortunately that is not the case.

In aftermath of this horrible attack Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel at the time, Shimon Peres, stated: "… the details of every peace plan must be discussed directly between Israel and the Palestinians, and to make this possible, the Palestinian Authority must put an end to terror, the horrifying expression of which we witnessed just last night in Netanya." And of course he was right. There is no talking with somebody craving to kill you.
The terror, as is obviously known to you all, hasn't stopped. The Palestinian Authorities (even these on West Bank called "moderate" (in what aspect one is tempted to ask) in 2003, a year after the events, sponsored a soccer tournament named the "Tulkarm Shahids Memorial soccer championship tournament of the Shahid Abd Al-Baset Odeh" describing the perpetrator as a "shahid" (Martyr).

Let's not forget these people who came to celebrate and were killed/ wounded/ horrified. We owe them that!