- Kay Wilson's attacker and Kristine Luken's murderer honored by PA TV with interview with murderer's mother
about his favorite food during Ramadan and how
his children need him released. PA TV ignores his
gruesome attack and murder
- Wilson described
the terrorists' actions:
"He stabs
me in the back so hard that I fall to the ground... and he is repeatedly
plunging his machete into me. He's doing it with such force that I can hear my
bones crunch and as he tugs out that serrated blade I hear my flesh
rip"
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques
Zilberdik
Last week, official Palestinian Authority TV decided to
honor Palestinian terrorist murderer Kifah Ghneimat. On Dec. 18, 2010, Ghneimat
and his accomplice Iyad Fataftah attacked and stabbed two women, Kristine Luken
- an American citizen and member of the Church's Ministry among Jewish People
(CMJ), and British Israeli Kay Wilson, as they were hiking in a forest near Beit
Shemesh. Luken was brutally stabbed to death and Wilson was critically injured
and left for dead. After the terrorists fled the scene, Wilson forced herself to
get up and walk for help. Wilson has described the attack, the cruelty of the
terrorists and her will to survive:
"He stabs me in the back so hard that I fall to the
ground...
and he is repeatedly plunging his machete into me.
He's doing it with such force that I can hear my bones
crunch
and as he tugs out that serrated blade I hear my flesh
rip"
(See longer excerpt and link to video
below)
Terrorists Ghneimat and Fataftah were arrested a month
after the attack and admitted to the crime. Ghneimat was sentenced to 2 life
sentences and an additional 60 years imprisonment. Fataftah was sentenced to 1
life sentence.
For their murder, Ghneimat and Fataftah are presented by
the PA as Palestinian heroes. According to PA law, they have received monthly
salaries from the PA since they were arrested in 2011. By now, entering their
sixth year of imprisonment, they should be receiving 4,000 shekels/month
- $1000. Since their arrest in 2011, each have
received more than $30,000 from the PA.
In a PA TV broadcast last week, the TV host referred to
terrorist Kifah Ghneimat as "the heroic prisoner." The terrorist's mother was
invited to participate and was interviewed, but not about Ghneimat's crime or
what it is like to be the mother of a murderer. Rather, PA TV wished to know what this murderer's favorite food
was during the Ramadan. In addition, PA TV served as a podium for the mother to
complain about not having visited her son for the last "three or four months,"
how his children need him to be freed, and how she yearns for him. The mother
also prayed that "Allah will free him from prison":
Official
PA TV host: "Here with us is the mother of heroic prisoner Kifah Ghneimat
who was given a life sentence and arrested 10 (sic) years ago..."
Terrorist
Kifah Ghneimat's mother: "May Allah free him [Kifah] from prison, and also
all the prisoners - my son Kifah and all the prisoners who are our children and
brothers... I have not visited Kifah in the last three or four months. They
[Israel] do not give us permits... During Ramadan, [a mother] yearns for her son
to be with her out of [prison]."
Official
PA TV host: "What were his favorite dishes during Ramadan? How did he spend
the evenings?"
Terrorist
Kifah Ghneimat's mother: "He was kind and calm. He did not have any
problems... Meat with tahini, grilled meat, chicken with rice... You know that
only a father can properly educate his children. A child does not have respect
for his mother... Allah willing, he [Kifah] will get out [of prison] and educate
his children... Don't despair of Allah's mercy. Allah willing, it will arrive
soon. Allah willing, my son, you will be among us."
[Official PA TV program Giants of Endurance, June 23,
2016]
PA TV completely ignored the fact that Ghneimat murdered
Luken and stabbed and severely injured Wilson.
The contrast between terrorist murderer Kifah Ghneimat's
mother's account of his favorite food being "meat with tahini and chicken and
rice", and Kay Wilson's account of the attack and the horror, pain, and
suffering Ghneimat and his accomplice
inflicted on her and her friend, is striking and horrifying:
Excerpt from Kay Wilson's TEDx talk:
"We'd been standing there for half an hour, gagged,
bound, bare foot, being held hostage by two Palestinian men who have their
machetes at our throats. Half an hour of terror, shock, confusion, emotional
inertia that leads to the delusion of reprieve that we will be released or
rescued. Half an hour of debilitating uncertainty and half an hour of
unadulterated fear...
Finally, one of the men pushes me on my knees and shoves
my head forward to the ground. Out of the corner of my eye, I see this light.
It's the sun glinting off his machete and I prepare myself to be beheaded. I
wasn't.
The forest rings out with this cosmic symphony. They
scream "Allahu Akbar." My Christian friend Christine cries, "Jesus help me." And
I hear my own pathetic and helpless wimper of "shema yisrael." He stabs me in
the back so hard that I fall to the ground and now I'm lying on my side and he's
leaning on my thigh and he is repeatedly plunging his machete into me. And he's
doing it with such force that I can hear my bones crunch and as he tugs out that
serrated blade I hear my flesh rip. And in a total state of shock, I plead
heaven give me one more chance, let me live. And the only chance I have is to
play dead. And I know people die with their eyes open so I just focused on the
sight ahead of me and took those blows. And the only thing that I saw was two
meters away: an innocent woman [Kristine Luken] valiantly struggling with her assailant in vain. I
watched her hacked to death in front of my eyes.
They leave. My ear is pressed to the forest ground and I
become aware of these vibrations which crescendo into the thuds of footsteps.
They're coming back. One of them turns me over and now I'm looking at those blue
skies and the setting sun, which is obscured by a silhouette of a man's hand
clutching a knife. And I watch him plunge it into my chest, and I didn't move,
flinch or blink. It missed my heart by 4 millimeters. Believing I'm dead, they
leave. At that point, I didn't know if I was dead or alive or in heaven or
hell."
[From Kay Wilson's TEDx talk at Ben-Gurion University on
May 13, 2015,
"Step by Step: The Idiot's Guide to
Surviving a Machete Attack"]
Click to watch Kay Wilson's important TEDx talk where she
described the attack, her incredible will to survive, and her determination
to continue living after the terror.
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