Remembering the Mombai Massacre
Shaheed - Amalek
acrylics on canvas
26"
x 62" (66 x 158 cm)
The surprised face of a terrorist
who has just blown himself up (and others as well)
and instead of entering a paradise with 72 virgins
finds himself burning in hell.
Perhaps my most macabre work.
It was originally "inspired" by the pogrom
in the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva
in Jerusalem last year.
My son luckily left the library room two
hours before the killing occured.
One can see the same
empty "face of evil"
in other horrible jihad events,
such as in the morgue shots
of the killers in Mombai.
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