The pianist they slaughtered on October 7
RIPYuval Buyum, 21, was a dedicated pianist who played classical music, jazz and his own compositions. He was murdered in cold blood at noon, a year ago today, in Kfar Aza by armed Hamas invaders.
His father said: ‘In recent months Yuval was blossoming in music and in general. He had a new love in his life. He was glowing with happiness which affected all those around him and infected us all with joy. There was light simply flowing from him.’
This video survives.
How fortunate his family is to have this recording and perhaps other recorded treasures. The losses suffered by all the families in this conflict are unimaginable.
All the losses here and the orgy of violence suffered by Israelis, the Palestinians, and the Lebanese, are disgusting. I long for the return of all the hostages to their families and loved ones, for a restoration of peace, for the perpetrators of violence on all sides to be held accountable for their gross actions, and for justice to see the light of day so that everyone can live together in peace.
Yes, but that is not possible if most of the Arabs maintain as their priority to eliminate ‘the Jews’. The Israelis never had as a political goal ‘to eliminate the Arabs’. On top of that, pro-palestinian demonstrations in the West – apparently unaware of the fact that an overwhelming majority choose to be led by terrorists – complicate the matter. Peace is impossible if one party insists of killing the other. If you read the history, it is again and again the Arabs fighting an aggressive war and the Israelis a defensive one. This background is often forgotten.
So is the beginning of the background, when Arabs were driven from their homes so that European refugees could have them.
Yes that was what I thought earlier as well. But when you read the history, it appears to have been quite different. The area was always an immigration one, with Arabs, Jews, Westerners, Christians, Egyptians, etc. Everybody settled there in a mix. Only the Jews were not accepted.
You can find all of that in the very many historical articles on the net.
Not talking about acceptance or not. I’m talking about taking over other people’s homes. Or putting so much fear into them that they fled, they hoped temporarily till things settled. The entry of the European refugees was not accomplished by negotiation or benignity — I cite only the King David Hotel. But it was not the only thing blown up.
When you start a war, unprovoked, and you loose, it can happen that you loose your land also. You cannot then suddenly play the vitcim, it seems to me.
Did some Zionists do some bad things during the British Mandate of Palestine? Yes, and I condemn those acts and always have. Acts of terrorism are always wrong. Fortunately the terrorist Zionist groups were a small minority as most Jews sought peace through compromise (sadly not returned by the other side).
That is true… I read that there have been many attempts from the Israeli side to come to reasonable agreements with its neighbours but they were sabotaged again and again.
At some point violent resistance to the inevitable becomes self-defeating. Looking at those fleeing on carts pulled by donkeys tells an awful lot. This is the 21st century – not the 12th.
Dear V.Lind, here’s the background: Israel is the only country in the world with the same name, inhabited by the same people, speaking the same language and worshiping the same god, as was the case 3,000 years ago.
And the Arabs who lived there? What are, or were, they — chopped liver?
That leaves out the great diaspora after 70CE when the Romans slayed down a fiery rebellion, it seems that there hardly remained any Jews after that. And why did the Jews, as a people, rebell quite some times against the Romans? Why did they not want to be part of the then commonwealth where so many very different peoples and cultures formed part of a whole that in general meant a big improvement of society? It has been described well in Yourcenar’s ‘Memoirs of Hadrian’: the Romans could not understand the Jews’ religious bigotry, like their deep hurt when a Roman temple was built next to their’s, Solomon’s one. While the Romans imported and accepted gods from all directions. All in all an awful history of misconceptions, misunderstandings, and violence.
Jews are not ‘European’. Both Jews and Palestinians are indigenous to the Middle East. DNA and history confirms this.
Nobody is saying they are European. But they were definitely refugees from Europe.
V.Lind, many Jews that created Israel were from Europe, but that is only because the Romans kicked the Jews out of their own land 2000 years ago. Did it not occur to people that one day they would come back? After all, at the end of Jewish prayer books it says Next year in Jerusalem. The Jews have never forgotten where they came from. There must be an understanding between the Palestinians and Israelis if there is to be peace. The Arab world railing against Israel’s existence will either end in the deliberate slaughter and genocide of the only Jewish State in the world, or continual carnage that leads to ignoble failure time after time.
I understand the return to Israel, although the events of history made the return more dramatic and perhaps less considerate of other Semites who were in situ in the land they aspired to regain. I agree it is a very great pity that these peoples cannot see one another’s position and try to reach an understanding and a solution.
But we are currently faced with an Israeli PM who is adamantly opposed to a Palestinian state, a requisite for the Palestinians that one would think Israelis would understand. And the worst thing about Netanyahu is that his motivation is chiefly to keep himself out of prison. The fate of the remaining hostages is very low on his priority list.
Both sides have suffered from lousy leadership, and both have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Netanyahu, who is funded by the US, refuses to listen to American representations regarding possible solutions. His only cause is to appease the extreme right wing in his government, who are as bad as any of their enemies.
I am no friend of Netanyahu. His government had put the peace process in the deep freeze and this policy was going to increase the frustration of the Palestinians. It also didn’t help that the Palestinians of Gaza chose Hamas to be their governing body either…
True. Except of the Romans ‘kicking-out the Jews of their own land’. The Romans destroyed as much as they could, to hammer it in who was boss, so much so that the area became unlivable for most people, so they left, looking for a habitual place.
The Egyptians were also conquered by the Romans, in some way, and that after thousands of years of independence and being a strong empire. But when they formed part of the Roman Empire, everybody continued their live as before and a mixed culture emerged with Egyptian and Helenistic elements. Religious intolerance is something that especially emerged with the Abrahamian religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.
Yes, that is true.
Jews in Israel came from all over the place, also from beyond the West: Irak, Egypt, Syria, from all Arabian countries because they were expelled there. And not all Jews will have left the area after the Roman crack-down in 70CE, and always have formed a (small) part of the population. But it were the Western values later-on that provoked indignation with the Muslems, hence the hatred. It’s a sorry tale.
By the way, everybody can be or become European. That is the reason so many non-Europeans want to come here. It’s the best place to live, simply that.
Only by a certain political cohort.
Amen
I wish more people thought and wrote as you did. For too many this tragedy is a sporting event.
And how many Palestinian musicians and artists have been slaughtered in the year since? Hundreds? Thousands? It would be appropriate to see some recognition of this here as well.
Of course none of these Palestinian musicians were out on the streets celebrating when Hamas announced they had invaded Israel and slaughtered 1200+ men, women and children. None of them in fact, voted Hamas into power and supported them since Hamas came to power did they? None of them signed up to the Hamas Charter which explicitly states that 1 Israel has no right to exist 2 There can be no negotiations between Hamas and Israel and thirdly All Jews should be hunted down and killed because ALL Palestinian musicians are peaceful ………excuse me whilst I stop laughing!
They sure FAFO’d, didn’t they?
No palestinians were “slaughtered” – put to death by knives like annimals. That only happens to victims of Hamas.
OK, name them.
Sad that one of the contributors to Slippedisc has swallowed the lies about the origins of the Israeli population. Over 50% of the Jews in Israel originated from Arab countries. So should they go back to where their parents, grandparents or great grandparents came from?
In fact all ethnic Jews can trace their origins to the Middle East.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
..and come again and talk about slaughtering.
If it’s true (which I doubt) it’s disgusting, but the source of the violence is a population that overwhelmingly has chosen to be ‘led’ by terrorists who set-out to completely annihilate Israel. All the suffering landing on Gazans is due to their own choices and cultivation of lethal hatred, with videos circulationg on national TV feeding collective bloodlust, and training children for killing.
Palestinian now admit that 80% of those killed in Gaza are Hamas people, or their family members. If Israel was intentionaly killing civilians, surely it would kill many many more in a years fighting.
The Arab don’t want to “elmininate” Israel it’s the Hamas. Remove Hamas and problem solved.
Mmmm…. Hezbollah, Iran, and the mix of islamist hobby clubs spread-out throughout the Middle East.
What about Hezbolla, the Houthis and the Iranians? Are they chopped liver? And that says nothing at all about the students and faculty at the Ivy League.