frumlife: Interview With 12 Year Old Tamar Fogel

Thursday 31 March 2011

Interview With 12 Year Old Tamar Fogel

I hesitated to publish this. Too often in times of tragedy there are those who jump on the bandwagon to exploit the victims for their own political purposes and I suspect that there are those who are already creeping around. But, when I listened to this young girl speak I found it hard to believe she is only 12 years old and had just lost most of her family in an horrific slaughter! We should all listen to her words of wisdom and learn from them...

She speaks of unity which many adult Jews have yet to learn. After speaking to the Prime Minister at the shiva for her family, she tells the interviewer (at 4:12) of the hypocrasy--when she factually relates, he (Mr. Netanyahu) said "they kill us and we build. We build and we build and we continue to grow."

So I (Tamar) said to him "And then you evacuate. Fine, at the funeral and when you offer comfort and condolence, you say we are building, always expanding and so on, but in reality they are evacuating all the time."

For those who don't know, Tamar Fogel and her family were among those who were forcefully expelled from their homes in Gush Katif (2005), watched as they were demolished and watched as Hamas moved in and to this very day use the area as a base from which to fire rockets into Israel and call for our destruction.

May Hashem watch over and protect these precious children.