Mother of Terror Victim: ‘President Obama, Say Something!’

Author Sherri Mandell, mother of Koby Mandell, who was murdered by terrorists in 2001 at the age of 13, demands that US President Obama make a statement about the kidnapping by Hamas of American citizen Naftali Frankel and two other boys more than two weeks ago.

I would like to know why President Barack Obama has still failed to publicly condemn the kidnapping of Naftali Frankel here in Israel, who is both an Israeli and American citizen. Two weeks ago, Naftali, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach were kidnapped by terrorists on their way home from school. There has not been any word from them since.

I would like to know why President Obama and the First Lady don’t say that Naftali and the other two boys are like their children, as they said about the girls who were kidnapped in Nigeria. Michelle Obama said she was outraged and heartbroken about those girls. I would like to know why the President and First Lady have made no public statements at all about our boys, and especially about Naftali, an American citizen.

After my 13 year old son Koby, also an American citizen, was killed by terrorists in 2001, a law was introduced in Congress called the Koby Mandell Act. It later passed as an omnibus rider (my son’s name was erased), which opened an office in the Department of Justice called the Office of Justice for the Victims of Overseas Terrorism (OVT). The office’s mandate was to actively pursue terrorists who murdered Americans abroad.

To read this article in Times of Israel, click here.