Author: Aaron Klein
Publication: WorldNetDaily.com
Date: April 27, 2006
URL: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49952
Terror leaders rejoice in injuries of boy
critical after Tel Aviv bombing
Daniel Wultz, a Florida teenager lying in
a coma after being critically injured last week in a suicide bombing at an
Israeli restaurant, is the "best target combination we can dream of -
American and Zionist," Abu Nasser, a leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades,
one of the groups responsible for the deadly blast, told WorldNetDaily.
Abu Ayman, a leader of the Islamic Jihad,
which also took responsibility for the April 17 bombing in which Wultz was
injured, threatened all Americans and Jews worldwide and expressed regret
Wultz is still alive.
Wultz, 16, was one of over 60 people injured
in the attack in which a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded
section of Tel Aviv as Israelis celebrated the fifth day of the Passover holiday.
The blast ripped through a falafel restaurant just outside the city's old
central bus station, killing nine. The same restaurant was hit by a suicide
attack in January, wounding 20 people.
Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Brigades, the
declared military wing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah
Party, claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Wultz is a resident of Weston, Fla. He was
on Passover vacation in Israel along with his family. The teenager was seated
with his father, Yekutiel, at an outside table of the targeted restaurant
when the bomb was detonated.
Described as an avid basketball player, Wultz
lost his spleen and a kidney in the attack. Last Friday, one of his legs was
amputated, and doctors at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital have reportedly been
fighting to save his other leg, which is suffering from severely reduced blood
flow.
Wultz' father suffered a fractured leg in
the attack.
Wultz has been lying in a coma in the intensive
care unit since the bombing, though he briefly was aroused earlier this week.
His story has generated extensive media coverage
and has prompted a flurry of e-mails across the Internet asking people worldwide
to pray for the young terror victim.
In a WND exclusive interview yesterday, Abu
Nasser, a senior leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in the West Bank, rejoiced
in Wultz' injuries. Abu Nasser is part of the Brigades leadership in the Balata
refugee camp suspected of plotting the attack.
"We are sorry there was not more of this
stuff. American and Zionist - this is the best target combination we could
dream of. This is the ideal target. He is a young American who came to encourage
the enemy to continue his war against us," Abu Nasser said.
The terror leader went on to blast America's
role in the Middle East, which he said was aimed at achieving Jewish world
domination:
"I want to use this occasion of speaking
to the American people to tell them that the unfair support of your people
to Israel is the reason that you are targeted almost everywhere in the world.
Second, I want to bring to your knowledge that the most cruel settlers are
those who came from America. It is known that the Jews are sly and not honest,
and they are leading into this trap of the Middle East in order to carry out
their plan of controlling the world."
Also speaking to WND, Islamic Jihad senior
member Abu Ayman warned Americans are now enemies of the Palestinian people.
"The Americans are now the typical enemy
of the believers like it is mentioned in the holy Quran. They think that they
are all mighty and invincible, and they seem to not have the right conclusions
from what happened to them in the last few years. The Americans are now the
best representatives of the devil on earth," Abu Ayman said.
Asked whether his terror group would target
a restaurant here if they were informed it contained American civilians and
not Israelis, Abu Ayman replied, "This is a hypothetical question, but
in my opinion at the execution step [of an attack] nothing changes."
He said Jews of all backgrounds are targets:
"The meaning and the goal of our lives
is to fight the devil spiritually and physically. The Jews are the expression
of both kinds of devil. No mercy for devils."
Abu Ayman expressed regret Wulz wasn't killed
in last week's terror attack.
"The only sorrow that I feel is that
the Jewish parents of this Daniel Wultz did not suffer like an average Palestinian
family who lost its child. Maybe if their child was killed they and the Americans
would have to pay attention to the suffering of thousands of Palestinian families
who lost their children."
Waltz opened eyes as Rabbi wrapped him with
Scripture
Waltz last night returned to a coma state.
He had been temporarily aroused earlier this week. His situation remains very
critical, said a source close to the family.
WND reported that on Monday the teen opened
his eyes for the first time since the attack seven days prior just as his
rabbi donned him with teffillin, or Jewish prayer phylacteries.
Yisroel Spalter of the Chabad Lubavitch Jewish
outreach movement, had flown in from Florida this week to be with the Wultz
family. He described the moment during which Wultz opened his eyes to Chabad
newssite Shterum.net.
"I started to put the tefillin on his
hand and right before our very eyes Daniel opened his eyes and stared at us
despite his comatose state. Maybe it was just a reflex, maybe not, but the
fact that it happened precisely when the tefillin were placed on his hand
shocked us all. Even the doctors were surprised.
"The family members who were present
could not hold back their tears and were full of emotions. I cannot describe
to you the electricity that flowed through the room then. It was one of the
most moving and emotional experiences I ever witnessed."
Spalter the next day again put tefillin on
Wultz, who soon after opened his eyes again and for the first time began showing
signs of communication to his doctors, including blinking his eyes in response
to questions. But he returned to a coma yesterday.
Tefillin are leather objects with black straps
containing biblical verses that are worn on the head and on one arm by Jewish
men during weekday morning prayers. The verses inside the tefillin are hand-written
by a scribe and consist of the four sections of the Torah in which tefillin
are commanded.
One of the main commandments for wearing tefillin
comes from the biblical verse in Deuteronomy: "And you shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. ... Bind
them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a frontlet between your
eyes."
Tefillin have been directly connected to war
and terrorism, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Lewin, a Tel Aviv rabbi, explained to
WND.
A verse in Deuteronomy states, "Then
all the people of the earth shall see that the name of God is proclaimed over
you and they will fear you."
The Talmud explains the biblical verse is
referring to the donning of tefillin, which contains the name of God.
In response to the verse, Rabbi Menachem Mendel
Schneerson, the revered leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, promoted
a tefillin campaign in Israel and around the world following the 1967 Six
Day War, in which the Jewish state was attacked by several Arab countries.
"After the Six Day War the Rebbe [Schneerson]
recognized the power of tefillin and its connection to war against Israel
and the desire of its enemies to annihilate the Jewish state, and he started
an enormous tefillin campaign," said Lewin.
Spalter and Wultz's family have requested
people around the world pray for Daniel Wultz. Prayer sessions have been held
by Chabad in Florida and by Wultz's high-school friends. Hundreds of e-mail
alerts have been sent to the Florida Jewish community and to lists worldwide
asking recipients to pray for "Haim Meir Naftali, son of Sara and Yekutiel,"
the Hebrew name of Daniel Wultz.
