Abrabanel: Musings on the Jewish condition

It appears the Indian doctors are now saying the Mumbai victims were not tortured:

Dr. Gajanan Chawan, who saw the bodies, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday he did not believe the wounds he observed suggested the hostages had been tortured prior to their deaths.

Asked if he saw any evidence of torture on the bodies, Chawan replied, “No, I don’t think so.” He added that the majority of the wounds he could identify had been caused by firearms.

On Monday, a morgue employee at the JJ hospital who had also seen the bodies told the Post by telephone that the bodies of the Jewish victims had a higher number of gunshot wounds than the bodies of other victims.

“On the Jewish bodies, there were more injuries in numbers, they were firearms injuries,” the morgue official said.

A strange sort of comfort, but comforting nonetheless.

Back in Tel Aviv, however, the incredible police mobilization earlier in the week produced results. According to a close friend in the Tel Aviv District Police, three terrorists were captured with explosives in a small apartment on Levinsky Street. Almost nothing was said on the news, so it may be the beginning of something big – a terror network we’ll hear about again when it is rolled up for good.

Obviously you noticed the Mumbai terror saga. But in all the noise and on-site reporting, I hope you didn’t miss this:

The doctors who conducted the autopsies on the victims say that many of the bodies showed signs of torture. One doctor explains that “of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again.”

As the intelligence services and Indian newspapers have reported, Ajmal Kamal, the terrorist arrested at the Jewish Nariman House, “said they were specifically asked to target the foreigners, especially the Israelis.”

We go, as always, into fire. We emerge, as always, the ones remembered for good.

Little Moshe will grow up a prince among his people. The nasty kind of Islam that sent those brutal men will be brutalized by its own creations.