A Jewess Who Knows What the Inside of a Synagogue Looks Like Sounds Off (strong language warning)

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We confess that we have been passive fans of Joan Rivers, in spite of herself, but one of the reasons why, she demonstrated to-day.   The cold-blooded  murder being caused Hamas (yes we normally spell it Jamas...it means in Spanish and Arabic "Forever" and "Never" depending upon the context).   The idea that one can hide weaponry and combatants in a mosque, school, hospital, and/or orphanage is the mark of absolute depravity.  It is the open admission of being a degenerate sub-human piece of fungus on camel vomit.  It is an obscene insult to the Abrahamic Religion that has essentially been systematically destroyed by Sunni and Shiite denominations and mullahs and imams who daily break the covenants and admonitions that Islam, Judaism, and  Christianity share from the prophets...and from the second most important prophet of Islam, Jesus of Nazareth.

     Very recently, the ISIS scum who essentially set up an Islamic terrorist state in central Iraq and easternmost Syria destroyed the mosque-tomb of the Prophet of the Three Abrahamic Religions....the Tomb of Jonah.

 

The destruction by the ISIS of the Tomb of Jonah
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Hosea: Chapter 8 verse 7
 

 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

 

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We remember, with equal sadness,  when the Taliban blew up the 1,400 year old cliff Buddhas so as to "purifiy" the mountains and to rid Afghanistan of the mark of any infidel.  Marvelous.

 

El Gringo Viejo

 

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Honduran President Blames the United States?

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Juan Orlando Hernández

President of the Republic of Honduras

 

     We are given to understand that the individual pictured above has offered to the consideration of all that the problem with the sudden exodus of a significant segment of the population of Honduras to the United States of America is the fault of the United States of America.   To the extent that the President of the United States devised, along with Valerie Jarrett and various marxist thinkers within the cartel occupying the White House and executive ranks of the American bureaucracy, a system to induct unqualified people into the United States, there is truth to the charge.

     However, one might consider that Costa Rica is another nation where the United States has also been very brutal.   The United Nations has pictures of Israelis and Americans literally sneaking in at night and carrying away all the wealth of Costa Rica on a regular basis.  In spite of this, we do not see hundreds upon thousands of people trying to flood up to the Rio Grande to gain access to the Honey Pot of WIC, AFDC, Section 8, Food Stamps, Head Start, Medicaid, and all the other nice free things that are part of the elusive American Dream.  Costa Rica has its problems, but the Costariquenos seem to be able to stumble through Life in Paradise without a lot of nationalistic pathos and accumulated chips on the shoulder.

 

The birth rate in Honduras has slowed markedly in the
last three years.  It is now hovering around 2% per
annum and falling, still a nearly staggering amount.

     Geography and sociology are interesting academic and scientific theatres of thought.   For instance, in the case of Honduras, there is no other nation in the world where the value of the land divided by the number of people in the population of that nation would yield the fact that per capita, Honduras is the richest nation per capita on Planet Earth.  There are many ways to figure this and certainly Canada, Russia, and certain of the African nations in the sub-Saharan area might be in the running....but in the photo finish, Honduras and her 8,500,000 people would certainly be in the mix.   How could this be possible?

Copan is called by romantics
and hard-core archaeologists
alike, "The Athens of the Maya"
Stella "H" is an example of the
almost unbelievable detail one
finds in Copan.  Sculpture with
Chinese and Japanese overtones
abounds in the site and other in
Honduras, as well as Guatemala.
(below)

 

     It is possible because Honduras is laden with incalculable amounts gold and silver.   Other minerals and metals are found in abundance in the mountains of the central core of the nation.  Agricultural alternatives are limitless.  The fishing industry has never been developed to any significant degree, and considering the comeliness and archaeology of the nation, it should be overrun with foreign and domestic honeymooners and archeophyles.  The pyramid site of Copan could provoke the introduction of 1,000,000 visitors annually if developed correctly.   This could be done by developing any of several hundred "helper" sites so as to take off the daily pressure on the main star.  Presently 150,000 visitors tour Copan per year, about forty per cent are foreign.







     Honduras has about 8,500,000 inhabitants, and a total gross nation product of a little less than 9,000,000,000 (nine billion) USD.  This is a production that allows for about 2,100 USD per person.   Interestingly, a family of four or five, with a bit of luck, with two-and-one-half wage earners in the family can make do fairly comfortably, considering the lack of need for heating or cooling, for instance.
  The abundance of cheap and high quality tropical production, avocado, banana, zapote (kiwi) beans, rice, corn, and a hundred other goodies make Honduras a place where a Gringo could retire early, set up a little business and pay a little too much for better help, and live like a Duke on an income of 2,000 USD / month.   But, the civil authority gave up trying to control the most vicious of the gangs...whose membership is well above 100,000.

Numerous cruises stop at Roatan Island
on the Caribbean side of Honduras.  With
more, moderate development the number
of calls-of-port could be multiplied by 10.

     Luckily, the gangs, Los 18 and the MaraSalva Trucha, and a hundred lesser and affiliated groups tend to spend most of their time killing and terrorising one another.  But sometimes, after 10 or 12 reefers and two bottles of aguardiente (burning water) at 160 proof they set about killing and terrorising anything.  Sniff a little glue, snort a little coke or meth, and only the Devil knows what potential these people can fulfil in terms of criminality.

The nature of Copan.  Much of it is under the canopy of

Ceiba, Cocao, and tropical oak, while another large part

is displayed in wide meadows, with few visitors.  Tranquil

and elegant.

    To be sure, it would take a while, perhaps 15 to 20 years to pull Honduras up to a level similar to Mexico's right now.  But with calm, and a rigid, authoritarian, but fair, regime in place further foreign and domestic investment could raise the per capita income from the paltry 2,000 USD/year to four or five thousand in the time indicated above. The thing is, to do it!  But, after having the gumption to replace Zelaya and stand up to Chavez, the President of Honduras takes the easy road, and blames the United States for what is a systemic cultural problem within his own country.

Una Favela
Less than 1% of the favela area
 of Rio de Janiero

    Our point is that from order can come progress, and as tough as the authorities have been on the criminal element in Honduras over the past three years....with some success, admittedly, in reducing the crime rate, more must be done.   One notices that in Brazil, as soon as the Games were over, and the last penalty shot kicked,  the authority lessened its choke hold on the gangs in the favelas.   Almost immediately the gangs began a donnybrook that continues to this day.   It is almost as bad as Chicagoland or Detroitland.

 

     In any regard, now we are given to understand that Father Obamaham is going to send cruise ships down to San Pedro Sula to gather all the children and bring to the United States so that they can be given a place and time to report for their immigration status hearing.   That way the children will know when and where not to be or not to be.   So far, well over 90% of those who have been given dates from this last batch, have for some good reason or another apparently not reported for their hearings.  One suspects that the 90% figure will become the norm.

 

Thanks for the time!  Your attention is appreciated.

El Gringo Viejo

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So You All Will Know - We are surrounded.

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    We place this in the blogroll just so the OROGs and other visitors will know that we are completely and totally surrounded.  We are even surrounded, at times, by our own presences.  This inclusion comes from another group that studies the acts of violence as well as the intricacies of relationships that can be traced among the entities, loosely named cartels.

     The world is an all too complicated place, and one must try to avoid saying that this place is bad and that place is good before actually checking into the matter.   Our readers, however, do not need my life-lesson preaching.  The following article is substantially to perhaps totally accurate.  With my understanding  and familiarity with "hard gossip" and generally understood understanding....we are sure that the reader can develop his own understanding.

     It is not pleasant, but it will help the reader to wisdom. concerning this issue.

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Possibly 30 Years for Canadian Narco with ties to Sinaloa Cartel and the Mafia

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 | Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis

By Chivís Martínez for Borderland Beat

Canadian Drug Kingpin , Jimmy Cournoyer, with Ties to the Rizutto and Bonanno Crime Families, the Hells Angels and the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Plead Guilty in 2013 to Narcotics Trafficking Crimes Carrying Sentence of 20 Years to Life and $1 Billion in Forfeiture.

He will discover his fate on August 20th when his sentence will be handed down. 

However, U.S. feds are now seeking a 30 year sentence, arguing that a lighter sentence would amount to little incarceration time for Cournoyer, due to the fact he has elected to spend his sentence in Canada. Canada has a very liberal probation system that would drastically cut actual time spent behind bars.  

Pointing out that Cournoyer "had a cadre of high-priced lawyers in Canada and the United States working to intimidate and threaten underlings into not cooperating with authorities. Various lawyers helped monitor several criminal cases related to Jimmy Cournoyer's massive cross-border drug trafficking network, probing for tips about investigations, warning co-conspirators against testifying and even offering 'bribes,' pay-offs and implied threats of harm to themselves or members of their families," say prosecutors.

Cournoyer feared his 1.2 million dollar Bugatli would draw attention from law enforcement

French Canadian Jimmy “Cosmo” Cournoyer was living the life Chino Antrax thinks he had.

A Canadian “narco newbie”  at the age of 21, and until his arrest at age 33, he developed a billion dollar marijuana business operating a business with associates such as the Hells Angeles, Sinaloa Cartel,  and New York’s Bonnano Crime Family while being back by Montreal’s Rizzuto mob (Vito Rizzuto below left). 

Cournoyer was part of an operation with the mafia on both sides the US/Canadian border that involved in a vast cross border trafficking that channeled Canadian ecstasy and weed to New York, then using  the profits in purchasing  Mexican cocaine, which was shipped back to Canada.

U.S. Federal prosecutor Steven Tiscione stated “the illegal narcotics distributed worldwide by members of the criminal enterprise have a retail value of more than $1 billion… conservatively.”

U.S. charges the Cournoyer network specialized in growing and distributing potent hydroponic marijuana harvested in British Columbia.. The marijuana was then transported by Hells Angeles, in motor homes and trucks, across Canada.

  

By 2009, he sent at least 1,000 pounds of hydroponic cannabis a week to New York, most of it to a Bonnano associate.

The biker gang and the Montreal mob then smuggled the marijuana from Quebec into upstate New York, where trucks delivered it to a warehouse in Brooklyn, authorities and sources said.

Cournoyer acquired his $1-billion drug empire by “gaining control over ports and customs checkpoints through a combination of covert operations and outright political corruption” and abusing “sovereign tribal lands” on First Nations’ reserves “that are almost impossible to police,” prosecutors said.

Additionally, he maintained a 2 million dollar execution fund, used to eliminate known or potential informers. 

Cournoyer was apprehended by Mexican police on Feb. 16, 2012 when he landed in Cancun for a planned vacation.

Cournoyer’s  Brazilian-Canadian model girlfriend,  Amelia Racine’s (at left) jailed brother, Mario Racine, was reported to be acting as the kingpin’s trusted lieutenant.

U.S. is seeking 800 million dollars in forfeiture

Jimmy Cournoyer indictment by ServingDope

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Thanks as always for your time and attention.  More To-morrow.

El Gringo Viejo

A Suggestion, and an observation and a bit of news

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El Gringo Viejo
 granting an interview during a
recent formal portrait session before his
 speech before the combined Arian Nations,
 Ku Klux Klan and Tea Party Convention
 somewhere in rural Mississippi. 

      With a bit of humility, and especially for the new readers who join us with increasing frequency, we would urge that the OROG, new or veteran, review the previous ten or so entries so as to become accustomed to El Gringo Viejo's sardonic nature, his satire, his humour, and his quirks.  At times the passing reader is taken aback because there still exists one last knuckle-dragging Neanderthal who has not agreed to be an politically correct,  eunuch drone....who also has a bit of a sense of humour.    We know that we have many pearls of wisdom to render but also that we have to deal people who feel strongly, but think weakly.
     So, with that said, we think that the preceding ten or so entries give the readers a bit of the eclectic nature of this commentator.   It is a bit unfair  because much of the time we speak with humour in mind.  And, the humour can be a bit dry and sharp.  We also know that our writing, as it seeks precision, can be dreadfully tedious for the eyes and mind.   This is especially when we are trying to be serious and contemplative.  The word being sought is probably .....boring.    But! Boring can be fun too.   So let's get right to it.

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The Wisdom of El Gringo Viejo:

     For perhaps four months we have been pointing out that the corner had been turned against the rampant impositions by the cartel people of their will upon the populace.   Capricious, vicious, animalistic behaviour could erupt at any time and at any place.  Rich, poor, and in the middle....children, middle-aged, and the elderly....everybody was running a risk at any time of being caught up in a fire-fight.   Small and Large businesses....from a million pesos per year or a million pesos per hour in sales might be "taxed" at any time by a sub-human slug who would "collateralise" the payments by the businessman/woman's daughter's survival.    He would also be good enough to arrive every other month or so with an impressive accompaniment of gorilla-thugs with gold-handled p-38os or 45 semi-automatic showing in the waistband or belt.   He was also good enough to take his payments in cash.
     The constant application of military resources, repeatedly applied, in the midst of all uncertainty gradually began to have a largely un-anticipated positive effect.  Mexicans can endure almost anything.  But, beyond the Virgin of Guadalupe (Saint Mary of Tepeyac) Mexicans are fatefully pessimistic and sceptical.  This affects almost all Mexicans, regardless of class, mixture or lack thereof of bloodlines, or geographical placement.   So, when the clouds began to part, and real, live public safety improvements began to occur, it was like when no one wants to handle the fine crystal in the antique shop for fear of breaking it.
     But, it became more and more evident that, when confronted by the Mexican Army or the Mexican Naval Infantry the "invincible" cartel ''soldiers'' were in no wise a match for the military.   After several hundred major skirmishes, and several thousand significant armed contacts the scorecard reads  99.6% military and 0.4% cockroaches.
     Two things have been presented to the present reality in various places in Mexico, including the totality of the States of Tamaulipas.
         (1)  People are moving around almost exactly as they had before the inter-cartel and intra-cartel wars. It is not yet a perfect recovery, if anything be truly perfect.   But it is a palpable thing.

        (2)   The underpinning reason for the flood of Centroamericanos coming up to Reynosa is never mentioned.  One reason is because the people who know everything are unaware, apparently of the fact the El Gringo Viejo will fill in now;   the Centroamericanos understand that the State of Tamaulipas has been essentially placed under martial law and that there are four geographical divisions within the State, each with thousands of heavy infantry and support personnel.   That is why the Centroamericanos have chosen to come "up the pipe" through an area that they had been avoiding due to the very, very rough treatment parcelled out to the Centroamericanos, especially by Zeta Cartel people.
     Reinforcing this is the fact that the Centroamericanos are in the main arriving without "benefit of coyote" into Reynosa, and by following previously related experiences from friends and family are all but "landing" on the banks of the Rio Grande.  They then manage to cross with "jitney" river-taxis....inner-tubes, children's swimming pool blow-up "boats" , jet-skis, inner-tubes tied to a couple of 3 X 5 plywood sheets....it's das Wunderland of free enterprise.
     The many fewer coyotes than there used to be tried in the beginning to "receive" the Centroamericanos and regimentalise them into certain jeapordy of debt and perhaps even kidnapping, extortion, and/or sexual predation but there were too many people.  And then the various little factions and groupings of the coyotes began to be seriously distracted about six to eight weeks ago by matters very far beyond their control.  To wit:

     On Tuesday last, 21 July 2014 a pursuit began with six gang members that pertained to what used to be the Cartel del Golfo chasing down a fellow member from Reynosa to Rio Bravo to the east and then to the edge of the famous Gringo Tourist Mecca and still popular Nuevo Progresso community on the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo).  The lone individual was killed by the six gang members who then began to return to Reynosa.  In their haste, some of their friends had gone out and commandeer a couple of freight trucks, parked them to block traffic on the four-lane and then went out to meet their buds coming back from Rio Bravo.  Shortly they encountered a mobile machine gun platoon of Mexican Army.  This is a group of 18 fellows with armoured pickups mounted with a belt-fed machine gun.  All the personnel is armed with automatic rifles and accoutrements one associates with a professional soldier.   The soldiers confronted the gang members and demanded that they stand down, but were met with shots and menacing posturing and deployment for cover.   In less than one minute there were six dead gang members and three wounded and under arrest.
    During the rest of the afternoon and evening encounters occurred in Padilla about 30 miles from our adobe hut.  Results were similar, with another six dead.   Then, in Mier, up near Falcon Lake on the Rio Grande 8 gang members were confronted and they surrendered.  They had just arrived from San Luis Potosi State, fleeing Army patrols.  There were active wants and warrants on the eight of them, so they were cuffed and transferred to a detention on the edge of Monterrey.   Then near San Fernando, another Army patrol encountered five boys and one girl, also with wants and warrants, but this group did not desist and surrender.  Within one minute, they were all dead.  At about the same time four more gang members were fleeing towards the Rio Grande from the community of Valadeces, not far from our home in Mission but obviously on the other side of the Rio Grande. These four were then engaged in a frontal and rear attack, and failing to desist and surrender, they became one with the Cosmos.    All in all there were 16 killed when all was said and done, 9 arrested, and 6 or so wounded enough to be hospitalised.   The Army suffered two with minor wounds to the extremities.
     Of further interest is that the authorities announced that the leader of the 'insurrection' was  "El Aleman Comandante (the German Commander) Miquel Angel Salinas who is neither smart nor experienced was captured by the military a week ago, and his underlings....mainly 18 - 20 year old nobodies designed an "insurrection" that wound up getting ten or twenty per cent of the remaining cartel troops killed or sent off to major time.  "El Aleman" supposedly styled himself as the New Comandante of the Reynosa Cartel del Golfo chief...having replaced a previous "comandante" who was killed.  Glory was fleeting.

     The military is working on the snake pit of the underworld of Tampico - Madero in the far, southeasternmost corner of the State of Tamaulipas, once again with some success, albeit slower.   It is apparent, in any regard, that the patient was badly injured, but is making a vigorous recovery.

These are just a few of the happenings.  The cartel gangsters are killing each other and attempting to fight the Army and Naval Infantry.  All's right with the world.
El Gringo Viejo

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Bob-tailed Nag? or Bet on the Bay?

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     The first observation, or perhaps Sarah Palin would say, "You betcha!".....in terms of betting....which I do not do....one of the very few sins that I do not have....betting, lottery tickets, and all such ...but, the issue at hand is the following.

 

City Judicial Building - Rio Linda. California

     Be it this day that people can come back to me and say, "You are a genius," or "You are a fool".  The reason is because I declare that there is a better than even chance that Barry Seotoro, aka President of the United States of America,  will resign the Presidency within six weeks of the United States Senate being taken over by the Republicans.   While there is no doubt that the GOP can commit enough suicide to jerk defeat from the jaws of victory, internals of both parties, especially in the critical States, show that the Democrat Party is scaling a glass wall with Wesson Oil on it and the incline of the glass is approaching 90 degrees(Straight up and down, for those OROGs who live in Rio Linda). 

     They are waiting at this time for the elections of  4 November 2014, hoping against hope  that some miracle can occur that will keep Harry Reid standing at the dike with all 57 fingers pushing back against any reasonable legislation.

Secretary of State
United States of America

     It is known that the Soetoros are shopping for an estate in foreign countries such as California, New York, Massachusetts, and (seriously) Cuba, and the Island of Rotan, a territory of Honduras in the Caribbean, and Jamaica.  There is some mention of Costa Rica, because it also has no existing extradition agreement with the Gringos.

     Barry would leave, of course, Uncle Joe Biden in charge as President, and it is possible that Biden will name Pocahontas Warren to serve as Vice-president.  The second choice would be a dolt like Herman Munster if Herman has finished bringing peace to the Israeli - Palestinian matter and dis-armed the Iranians again.   We have to forgive Herman's appearances on the Sunday Morning  Disinformation Media Circus.   He did set a new low point, even lower than Susan Rice who managed to tell an average of 27 whoppers per show on the Benghazi Serenade Show.   Herman told about the same number of whoppers, mixed with banal euphemisms and pointless snarking.   He also managed to make it through each programme by making absolutely no sense whatsoever and being very sincere about parking his yacht in Rhode Island because the tax is less there than in the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Chappaquiddick.   So we give him first place for being a whopperoo, obnoxious, ignorant, arrogant, and generally useless and despicable.  Sorry, Susan.

     Susan, Lurch, and Uncle Joe all bring to mind the question, "Just what was it that (Sir Edmund) Hillary  was supposedly to have done while she was....just think of it....flying all those miles as Secretary of all 57 States?" 



First Lady boarding for her afternoon
shopping trip to Paris, with 57 of her
favourite friends and relatives.

Sheesh...what a bunch of ghouls and slugs.  But we do believe that if Barry Soetoro loses the Senate, he will resign and go on an extended vacay, with or without Michelle and her belles.  They will return and hide behind the protection of the Chicago legal system for a while.   But even Carol Mosely Braun, who was SOOOOOO offended because the Daughters of the Confederacy had requested a continuance of their charter to do relief work for Ist Gulf War Veterans....even Carol wound up mired in corruption charges, some of which she escaped by pleading stupidity (seriously).

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Ah!  Chicago.   Mrs. O'Leary, where are ye and yer bossy-cow when we need ye?

Chicago Fire - 1871

 

 

Thanks for your time, patience, and understanding.   Obama will resign if the GOP carries the Senate.    Percentage probability?  63 of 100

El Gringo Viejo

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Sergeant Nissim Sean Carmeli - Rest in Peace

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The fall of a lone soldier from the Lone Star State

Texas-born Sgt. Nissim Sean Carmeli, who moved to Ra'anana when he was 16, was one of 13 members of the Golani brigade killed overnight Saturday.

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | Jul. 21, 2014 | 10:09 PM | 2

Sean Carmeli Photo by from Carmeli's Facebook page .

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Sgt. Nissim Sean Carmeli may have been born and raised in South Padre Island, Texas, and moved to Israel when he was 16, but it quickly became clear after the announcement that he was killed in Gaza along with the 12 other members of his Golani brigade overnight Saturday that he was far from a “lone soldier.” 

           

The term “lone soldier” refers to those in the IDF whose parents live overseas. Traditionally, lone soldiers are Jews who choose to immigrate at army age, leaving behind their families who either have no interest in immigrating to Israel or plan to do so at a later date. But Carmeli, 21, was an example of a new and increasingly common breed of lone soldier — a native Hebrew speaker with Israeli parents who chose to move abroad in pursuit of business opportunities, but instilled a strong sense of Israeli identity in their children, so strong that they choose to return to Israel and serve in the IDF rather than attend university overseas.

            

In Carmeli’s case, his family moved to the city of Ra’anana when he was 16, with his parents, Alon and Dalya, returning to Texas for months at a time to tend to their business, leaving their son in the care of older siblings.

            

So while Carmeli may have officially been a lone soldier, he wasn’t alone. In addition to his two sisters, Or and Gal, who also lived in Israel, he had many friends in the city of Ra’anana, home to numerous immigrants to Israel from English-speaking countries, where he went to Ostrovski High School and studied in one of the school’s classes designed especially for immigrant students, which acts as a magnet for many “returning Israelis” from around the United States and the rest of the world.

            

Roy Elisha, 17, grew up three blocks from him on South Padre Island, where he said they were, together with one other friend, “pretty much the only Jewish boys in our community.”

            

Elisha’s family moved to Ra’anana  just a year after Sean’s — he also attends Ostrovski — and when Sean was on his own, would join his family for Shabbat.

            

“I’ve known him my whole life — we were like family, we spent time together, took trips together,” he said. “Sean was an amazing person. I always looked up to him. He never fought with anyone, never had an argument. He was a great person, he would always smile, he saw the good things in life and he was optimistic about everything. He was such a Zionist, he was so proud of his country and what he was doing. He loved his unit. I am going to the army next year, and he would tell me, ‘Come to Golani – it’s the best unit in the army.’”

            

Elisha said Monday he still had a hard time believing that his friend was gone. “I still couldn’t understand that it had really happened until I went to his sister’s house today. I heard the rumors yesterday in the morning but I heard in the news that we shouldn’t believe what was being said on social media and WhatsApp, so I was optimistic and I prayed. Now, I’m just heartbroken.”

            

In high school, Carmeli regularly played pick-up American football — according to his Facebook page, he was a Dallas Cowboys fan — with a group of U.S. immigrant boys that included Eitan Moed, 18, who had also moved to Ra’anana from the U.S. and attended Ostrovski. “We would play on the weekends for fun. I didn’t know him well, but he was a kid who always smiled and he just came off as a happy sort of person,” said Moed. 

           

Another part of Carmeli’s unofficial family was the group of fans of the Maccabi Haifa soccer team. After his name was made public, a photo of Carmeli sporting the team’s green scarf appeared on the team’s Facebook page and other social media outlets along with an appeal for fans to attend his funeral. The post expressed concern that since Carmeli had spent most of his young life abroad, attendance at his funeral would be sparse. The post on Facebook read: “We don’t want his funeral to be empty. … Come and pay final respects to a hero who died so that we can live. It’s the least we can do for him and for our people.” 

           

In addition to the Haifa fans, scout groups planned to send hundreds of young people to the funeral. 

           

Back in Texas, the local Chabad chapter expressed its condolences in an article on its website.

“Sean was a gentle kind boy,” says Rabbi Asher Hecht, co-director of Chabad of the Rio Grande Valley in the report. Hecht said he met Carmeli in the summer of 2006 when he and a friend ran a day camp for local Jewish children. “He was the oldest of the local boys in our camp, and was a sweet and kind example to everyone else.” 

           

The Chabad report said that Sean’s father, Alon, purchased the South Padre Island community’s first Torah scroll and dedicated the synagogue in memory of his father-in-law, Nissim, whose name Sean shared.

 

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