'It was clear they came to kill us', says survivor of Jerusalem stabbing
Victim of attack allegedly perpetrated by two Arab men near Jerusalem recalls the incident which killed her friend and forced her to play dead to save her own life.
By Yair EttingerRecuperating in her bed at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem on Sunday, Kaye Susan Wilson described the stabbing attack near Jerusalem that wounded her and left her friend dead as having been a clear plan for murder.
Wilson, an immigrant from the United Kingdom who now resides in a Jerusalem-area community, was hiking with a friend visiting from abroad when they were attacked and stabbed by two men she believes were Arabs. Wilson sustained 12 stab wounds but managed to escape her to her freedom. Her friend, Christine Logan died at the scene; her body was found Sunday morning. Police have identitied her as a citizen of the United States.
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Police search after Christine Logan near Jerusalem on Dec. 18, 2010. |
| Photo by: Emil Salman |
Wilson says that she and Logan were hiking near Khirbat Hanut when they left the trail to sit on a nearby hill. "We were sitting, when suddenly two Arab men asked us in Hebrew if we had any water," Wilson said. She tried to get the men to leave, telling them "yallah bye", but said the incident left her with a feeling that "something wasn't right."
Wilson told her friend she thought it would be best for them to return to the hiking trail.
"On the way back to the trail, I took out a small knife and opened it. I saw that the men weren't in the area but then suddenly I noticed them. It all happened so fast. They came and attacked us," Wilson recalled.
According to Wilson, one of the men took out a long knife which she described looking "like a bread knife with a serrated edge."
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IDF soldiers participating in the searches for a missing tourist near Jerusalem Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. |
| Photo by: Emil Salman |
"I was scared but my friend became hysterical. I told her in English to be quiet and not make noise," Wilson said. The men then began to stab both Wilson and Logan.
"It was clear that they came to kill.," Wilson recalled from her hospital bed. "Who carries around a knife life that?"
"I had a Star of David hanging on a chain around my neck," Wilson told Haaretz. "He took it off like a gentleman and then turned me around and stabbed in the place where the Star of David had been."
"I saw that the stab had not penetrated my heart and I played dead. While I lay there I could hear my friend dying. Her breath sounded like bubbles. I waited two minutes, we lay in the corridor. Our hands tied behind our backs and something was covering my mouth. It was terribly hard for me to get up but I managed to go. I saw that we were in a bush area and I did not know then that they had fled. I felt myself getting tired, all I wanted to do was sleep but I knew I could not."
When Wilson managed to reach the parking lot she noticed a car with Israeli license plates. Its occupants were looking over at her, she said. "I couldn't scream because of my breathing and the car had started to leave.
So I had to go another 20 meters, and there were kids there; I didn't want to scare them with blood, so I just turned around with my back to them, so they could see my hands ties. And then they called the police."
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An act like that is done purely from a psychological deficit in the criminal. People who respond with the same frenzied violence have a similar deficit. Copying a crime is not "justice".
Where is their unequivocal and swift condemnation of this tragic event. On the other hand, my condolences to these two victims and their families, at least I truly care.
For there to b e peace, Muslims will have to stop believing that the Koran was literally dictated to Muhammad by Allah (as most Jews have stopped believing that the Torah was literally dictated to Moses by God). They will have to stop believing that any land territory conquered by Muslims at any time is "Dar al Islam" (the House of Islam) and rightfully belongs to them. (This includes, of course, not only Israel, but also Spain, Portugal, part of Southern France, Greece and the Balkabs.) They will have to stop believing that all non-=Muslims are "infidels" amd ,must convert to Islam, either by peaceful means or by subjugation..
Why did it take the police so long to find the body of her friend? The survivor was coherent enough to find her way to the road and not frighten the youngsters, also she seems to be clear about what exactly happened. Why did it take until this morning for the body of her friend to be found when it was a well-known area and the urgency of the need to find her friend was so strong? If the woman was bleeding/unconscious this would be understandable ..but this seems not to be the case..
Now is the time for the US Congress to stop all financial aid to the murdering Palestinians (Arabs really). Our generous dollars and shekels have only bought misery and funded the terror of innocent Israelis.
This why the Palestinians will never get their state
And the Obama White will remain quiet for fear of offending Hamas and Adhmadinejad.
Not necessarily true. If the Palestinians can deter tourists from coming to Israel they will cost its economy billions of dollars at no cost to themselves. Egyptians fighting their government have done the same thing.
Looking through the "ratings" on these comments, it seems like there are quite a few nuts who read Talkback.
This is a terrible, senseless and shameful act, only coward can carry out. I wish the survivor a speedy recovery and my heart felt condolences go out to the family of the murdered woman. Whoever may the perpetrators be, I hope they will be caught and punished.
I hope this doesn't get politicised. It isn't a 'terrorist' attack, it is more ethnic violence. No one called the settler who ran over two children a terrorist. As if only 'Arabs' are capable of terrorism. hypocracy. I condemn this murder and I hope Wilson gets a speedy recovery.
Anyone is capable of terrorism however 'usually arabs who do terrorism. They are always blowing themselves up in Iraq and afghanistan and killing 100s of civilians.This fellow Pal is clearly an enemy of the Jewish people. I condemn Pal
Yes, it is Arabs who start illegal wars on flimsy evidence, it is Arabs who dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Arabs who massacred in Cambodia and Vietnam, Arabs who support military juntas in Latin America or Africa, Arabs who manufacture all the weapons in the world. Get real!
I wish her a speedy recovery, and wish the countless palestineans who were killed and maimed to be able to tell their side of the story with such details, but never got their chance
These women were not attacking anyone; just enjoying an outing. You cannot say that of Palestinians who murder Jews. If there are good Palestinians who reject the attacks on Israel and Jews where are they?
These (expletives) must be hunted down, water boarded for information on their friends and other terrorists (just like Bush did) and then shot.
However, in Israel there is no penalty.
Of course the Left will think that if we give the Arabs what they want this will never happen.
Of course the right will think that all Arabs are murderers and that if we negotiate with the Palestinians this will happen to all Jews.
And I wonder what they will say if it happened to one of them?
More likely they are than not if they are Islamic from that area . Israel has negotiated with Palestinians and they have made it clear they want Israels destruction - but that is OK with the Left
no....but it sure encourages them
I guess some out there don't understand the combination Arabic-English slang term in Hebrew 'yallah bye'. It means something like 'see you later' or perhaps 'got to go, bye." Wilson's account is lucid and indicates a botched terrorist attack rather than just a botched robbery.
What a tragedy, this woman has nerves of steel....May she have a speedy recovery.
There are no words to express the bravery and clarity of mind of this woman during this horrific attack .That she had the presence of mind to turn around so the children would not see her bloody wounds is mind-boggling. May she have a speedy recovery and never know of any more pain.