Heart-wrenching story:
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JERUSALEM - A Florida teen died Sunday of wounds suffered in a suicide bombing last month at a fast food outlet in Tel Aviv.
Daniel Wultz, 16, of Weston, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, recovered enough to tell his Israeli doctors "I want to live. Please help me," according to Avi Zuri of Davie, Fla., who recently returned home from Wultz's Tel Aviv bedside. The teen was fighting a strong tide, however.
"They (the doctors) thought he had a 5 percent chance of living," said Zuri, an escort for 44 students from the David Posnack Hebrew Day School in Plantation, Fla., who flew to Israel to pray for their 10th grade classmate.
"I'm in total shock, said Rachel Keller, director of Judaic Studies at Posnack. "We were sure that all our prayers were going to help."
Wultz, who was the 11th fatality in the April 17 attack, was in Tel Aviv with his parents, Tuly and Sheryl Wultz, visiting his grandparents and celebrating Passover. He and his father had stepped out for a snack at The Mayor's Falafel when a 21-year-old suicide bomber named Samir Hammad detonated 30 pounds of explosives at the entrance to the popular eatery.
"Daniel was thrown into my hands, and asked me to pick him up," Tuly Wultz, who suffered a leg injury, told the Jerusalem Post shortly afterward. "But when I saw the extent of his injuries, I laid him down to wait for an ambulance. I held his hand and told him I loved him, and he told me he loved me."
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Knight Ridder).
It is hard to understand anyone's opinions if they feel the need to detonate bombs in civilian areas, aimed at inflicting mass casualties. A more shocking pat:
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Suicide bomber Hammad, from the remote West Bank village of Arka, left behind a videotape of himself wearing the black-and-gold headband of the militant group Islamic Jihad, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
In his videotape, Hammad said: "We say to the enemy that our operations will continue and the martyrs are coming, and they love death and martyrdom as much as you love life."
Hammad's mother, Samia, praised her son in an interview with a Knight Ridder reporter shortly after the attack. "I am proud of what he did," she said. "If my other sons follow in the footsteps of their brother, I would be proud."
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A lot of people wonder why the US is so slow to throw any support behind the Palestinian cause, but I think in incidences like this the answer is quite clear: the Palestinians promote terrorist activites doctrinally, and culturally have proven to be more than lacking to live up to the term 'civilized.'
We are not asking for Palestinians to give up their religion, but rather, we are asking them why they think they are responsible enough to have their own state if the only precedent we have seen from them is one of inflicting terror on civilian targets.
Any society with a collective glorification of terrorism, where children are often dressed in imitation of them at rallies of the elected, ruling political party Hamas, will never have my moral backing.
There seems to be little choice other than support for Israel, being that there is no other alternative that makes sense.
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