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“I am Ruth Goldberg” Chezi Goldberg‘s mother, Ruth Goldberg, speaks out a the Chezi Goldberg memorial on March 2, 2004: I am Ruth Goldberg, Chezi’s mother. While my sons and daughters are individual people, we are proud to tell the world, collectively we are Yechezkel Chezi Scotty Goldberg’s family. Daily we continue to hear amazing stories about my son, Chezi. If we are to learn from Chezi’s death, we must stop the media from making a mockery of my son’s murder. For one month now headlines are screaming the wrong message favoring politics over morality, preferring to focus on politicians behaving badly, when there is only one message to be taken into each of our homes and heart. Three words. I repeat, three words, ‘safety, security, defence.’ Safety. Security. Defence. The father of my 7 grandchildren, the love of my Shifra’s life, would be standing here today, instead of me, talking with you. Chezi would be alive if the world would abide by one standard with regards to the wall in Israel. Keep bad people out and keep good people like my son safe and alive. We must stop deluding ourselves. We must admit that terrorism does not respect borders, zip codes, culture, race or religion. One month ago, January 29, 2004, bomb murderer Ali Jarrah climbed aboard bus Number 19. Ali Jarrah did not say “jews to the back, everyone else get off. ” He looked into the faces of innocent commuters. He sat down in front of my son. Then he murdered eleven people including the heart of our family, leaving over fifty innocent victims severely injured. Countless bystanders, doctors, nurses, volunteers and civilians will never forget their horror of that day. News moves forward. Our nightmare won’t. This is my son. This could be your son, your brother, your father. I could be your mother standing here. On a personal note, thank you ZAKA for the dignity your volunteers gave my son in death. If only the leaders of the world would give equal value to the living as ZAKA gives to the dead.