A former US Marine who is now an ultra-Orthodox activist in Israel has confessed to security services inside Israel to a bombing that nearly killed Ami Ortiz, son of a Messianic pastor.
See: US-born Jewish terrorist suspected in series of attacks over 12 years.Ami Ortiz writes,
Here are additional details from the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, a legal defense organization:It's been a year and a half since the unthinkable. The attempted murder of an innocent 15 year-old Messianic Jewish boy in Ariel, Israel. He and his family are followers of Yeshua (Jesus) the Jewish Messiah. The Israeli police has deliberately not taken interest in helping to investigate this inhumane crime nor have they made legitimate efforts to capture and bring the terrorists of this atrocity to justice. Why? Who did it? Is it the usual suspects...or not? If the truth came out would there be mass public outrage on the streets of Israel? Will these terrorists strike again? Will there be a next victim? If so, when? Who? You?...Did you look closer? The Israeli police can take that much of a closer look at the evidence and take action, but they won't. For a country that was founded on the basis of escaping religious persecution, why do they allow never to happen again?
Find out more about this very mysterious crime which the Israeli police priorly had on media black-out status. This true story has caught the world's attention by storm. If this had happened to a 15 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy in Israel, the case would have been solved in a matter of days or weeks and the criminals brought to swift justice immediately. What makes this case different? Why has the Israeli police and government chosen to turn the other way from this heinous anti-semitic crime?
Please stand with us in prayer that this case will be solved and the terrorists of this inhumane crime will be found and brought to justice. There are many ways you can get involved today. Find out more here.
For latest updates see Ami OrtizThe Jerusalem Institute of Justice would like to congratulate the Israeli Police and the General Security Services for their successful apprehension of Yaacov "Jack" Teitel, the self-described "anti-missionary" activist, who confessed to the bombing of Ami Ortiz on April 20, 2008. Besides his violent activities against Messianic Jews, Teitel a 37 year old former US Marine turned ultra-orthodox, admitted to carrying out several other crimes, including the murder of at least two Palestinian Arabs and the bombing of Israel Prize Laureate Prof. Ze'ev Sternhall.
This religious hate crime is the direct result of the daily incitement which is spread without interference by ultra-orthodox extremists against minority groups in Israel, solely because of their faith and religious affiliation. These same extremists, who do not view Israel as a legitimate state because it is not a rabbinical theocracy, purposefully incite violence and persecute innocent citizens simply because these minorities do not fit into their warped definition of who is a Jew. Indeed, the prosecution of Jack Teitel is an important milestone for Israeli democracy.
The sad reality is that shortly before this religious hate crime in Ariel, posters were spread throughout the neighborhood inciting hatred against the Ortiz family, an act which was ignored by the local law enforcement authorities. It is impossible to overlook the fact that Jack Teitel probably received his evil motivation to murder the Ortiz family from those same posters.
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Haaretz U.S.-born Jewish terrorist suspected of series of attacks over past 12 years
BBC News Israeli settler held over attacks
Mr Teitel is also said to have confessed to sending a booby-trapped gift basket in March that year to a family of Messianic Jews, who believe in Jesus as a saviour. The blast seriously wounded the family's 15-year-old son.Video footage released on Sunday purportedly shows him leaving the bomb outside the Americans' home in the settlement of Ariel.He was also suspected to attempting to bomb Israeli police stations and patrols because they provided security for gay pride parades, but not for the attack on the gay youth club, police said. Responding to the arrest, Mr Sternhell said: "I hope the system deals with this terrorist as it deals with all other terrorists, Jewish and Arab alike.
"Leah Ortiz, one of the Messianic Jews whose home was bombed last year, said she was "horrified by the fact that there are elements of Israeli society, Jews who feel justified in taking the lives of other Jews because of their beliefs".
