Arutz-7\'s Haggai Segal reported today: \"Over a full day has passed since the mutilated bodies of the two boys from Tekoa were discovered in a cave, yet a significant military response has not come... In Tekoa, unlike in previous similar situations, they are not talking about establishing a new settlement as the \'appropriate Zionist response\' to the shocking murder. The residents there, who established nearby Nokdim after David Rosenfeld was murdered by terrorists, and attempted to build another town after their neighbor Mordechai Lipkin was murdered almost eight years ago, knows that with this government, such talk stands no chance, due to the pressures of the Americans and the Labor party partner in the national unity government.\"
Following Lipkin\'s murder in 1993, Ariel Sharon arrived in the area - Lipkin\'s widow said she remembers til this day the great concern and care that he showed her and her family - and said, \'In my opinion, there must be at least one more settlement between Efrat and Tekoa. The road here has seen several murderous attacks on Jews, and only a continuous Jewish presence here can guarantee normal Jewish life... Every effort must be made towards this end, not only because of the historical value of the area - this is where the Jewish nation was born as a nation - but from a pure security standpoint.\'\"
In the same conversation eight years ago, Sharon related to the possibility of talking with Arafat, and said, \"True, negotiations are conducted between enemies - but not with murderers, and there is no man with more Jewish blood on his hands since World War II than Arafat...\"
Ilana Lipkin, widow of Mordechai Lipkin, has since moved with her children to nearby Alon Shvut. She told Arutz-7 today, \"I think yesterday [the day of the discovery of the bodies of 14-year-old Kobi Mandell and Yosef Ishran] was one of the hardest days in my life, even in comparison with the murder of my husband, which was a terrible tragedy for me and my children; when adults are killed, it can somehow be seen as part of our war for this Land, but for children to be killed, this is very difficult for me... I immigrated to Israel [from the Soviet Union] 13 years ago, out of a clear desire to build our home in Eretz Yisrael, and so that my children, our children, should grow up as Jews, as Israelis... When we arrived at the cemetery yesterday, with my two older children, at the funeral, my children suddenly turned to me and said, \'Ima (Mom), we weren\'t at the burial of Abba (Dad).\' I explained to them that they were very small, but that whatever they are seeing here now, that\'s what was then...\"
Following Lipkin\'s murder in 1993, Ariel Sharon arrived in the area - Lipkin\'s widow said she remembers til this day the great concern and care that he showed her and her family - and said, \'In my opinion, there must be at least one more settlement between Efrat and Tekoa. The road here has seen several murderous attacks on Jews, and only a continuous Jewish presence here can guarantee normal Jewish life... Every effort must be made towards this end, not only because of the historical value of the area - this is where the Jewish nation was born as a nation - but from a pure security standpoint.\'\"
In the same conversation eight years ago, Sharon related to the possibility of talking with Arafat, and said, \"True, negotiations are conducted between enemies - but not with murderers, and there is no man with more Jewish blood on his hands since World War II than Arafat...\"
Ilana Lipkin, widow of Mordechai Lipkin, has since moved with her children to nearby Alon Shvut. She told Arutz-7 today, \"I think yesterday [the day of the discovery of the bodies of 14-year-old Kobi Mandell and Yosef Ishran] was one of the hardest days in my life, even in comparison with the murder of my husband, which was a terrible tragedy for me and my children; when adults are killed, it can somehow be seen as part of our war for this Land, but for children to be killed, this is very difficult for me... I immigrated to Israel [from the Soviet Union] 13 years ago, out of a clear desire to build our home in Eretz Yisrael, and so that my children, our children, should grow up as Jews, as Israelis... When we arrived at the cemetery yesterday, with my two older children, at the funeral, my children suddenly turned to me and said, \'Ima (Mom), we weren\'t at the burial of Abba (Dad).\' I explained to them that they were very small, but that whatever they are seeing here now, that\'s what was then...\"