By COLlive Reporter
Anti-terror activist Devorah Halberstam praised New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio‘s response after Tuesday’s attack in Manhattan, as something she has been working towards for years.
On Tuesday, 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, driving a rental truck, plowed down people on a Manhattan bike path, killing 8 and injuring 11, before being shot and arrested by police.
Immediately afterwards, Mayor Bill de Blasio called the attack “a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians.”
Wednesday, the Mayor held a press conference, and spoke definitively and clearly about what had occurred, calling it “an act of terror.”
“This was an attack on the United States of America, an attack on New York City, an attack on our people. And it was the definition of terrorism, an effort to take away people’s hope and spirit and to make them change,” the Mayor said.
“The attack yesterday was horrible. One death is too many,” Halberstam, an expert on terrorism and an adviser on terror issues to the FBI and NYPD, told COLlive.
Halberstam praised the Mayor and NYPD for their quick and resounding response to the terrorist attack.
“It was amazing that our Mayor called it without any hesitancy – he was definitive and clear,” Halberstam said. “That is the most important and significant statement in response to this terror attack. Never before have we had such clarity.”
Halberstam, whose son Ari Halberstam was murdered in a terror attack on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, said the reality of terror is something she lives with every single day.
“Every attack is one I feel personally,” Halberstam says. “My fight has always been about calling terrorism what it is, without denial.”
Halberstam says we must “go back to the drawing board” and look at what we can do to prevent terror attacks in the future.
“We have to evaluate the lottery system that allowed this terrorist into our country. And as I will continue to say, there is no ‘lone gunman.’ The network exists,” she says.
“The elections are next week. Every person must know that every vote counts and they need to vote,” Halberstam points out. “Too many people stay home and think it’s not their problem. We can’t do this alone. The least people can do is take a tiny bit of time and help us do our job with the right representation in our city.”
It takes no guts for the mayor to say it wan an act of terror. It takes some courage to say it was Islamic terror and that what the mayor unfortunately didnt do. Its very importent that politicians are able to identify who the enemy really is. The mayor along with all his lefty friends will never admit the fundamental connection Islam has with all these terror attacks, and thats what we as citizens have to act upon by not voting for him this Tuesday. We have to vote for someone who will actually call out the enemy for who… Read more »
The general impression that the left has tried to project is that they are humanists who want to save humanity from every imaginable pitfall. They want to reduce the population to save us from starvation and global warming, so killing babies is the messianic thing to do. They want to put drugs in the water to prevent pregnancy to keep us from over-population. They want to eliminate fossil fuels that protect us from our sometimes hostile environment, to protect our environment. . They encouraged the return of pagan religions that practiced human sacrifice. And they are allies with the most… Read more »
t seems like only yesterday after the Chelsea Dumpster bombing, which injured 29, that Gov. Cuomo said, “We’re not gonna let them win.” Yesterday he dusted off his favorite platitudes once again and said, “We go forward stronger than ever. We are not gonna let them win.” “Thoughts and Prayers” Blah and blah. His prayers do not reach the ceiling. His partner de Blahsio called it a “cowardly act of terror on innocent civilians.” Or is it a cowardly act of governance to continue your emphasis on the lone wolf narrative, the sanctuary city, and the religion of peace? The… Read more »
i wouldn’t vote for de blasio no matter what he says about this evil attack; he doesn’t reflect my view of government or life but he isn’t evil. he’s unrealistic, misguided and very often not objective.that’s enough reason for me to vote for his opponent.
So true, I was watching last night on Fox news, on Hannity, great show, where a former NYPD Detective, said how that liberal mayer, took away his right on surveillance
De Blassio is a very liberal Mayor who because of his connections in Boro Park has been decent to the Frum community on some issues. His opponent is a very weak Republican who has zero chance of winning. There could be some benefit to us holding in our stomachs and voting for the incumbent.
New York and the world still didn’t get it. Now they are beginning to see the pain of Jews in Israel who live with this daily. The Rebbe said it won’t be just Israel but it will spread to America- when will the world get it. I guess we are closer to Moshiach.
You are working hard to bring truth to the world and you can now, many years later, see the fruits of your labor.
Had they realized when your son, was murdered by a terrorist, many years ago, the truth, we may have advanced by now.
If you vote for de Blasio, you must have a death wish. You cannot trust a liberal, aka a terrorist sympathizer. He is close to the sonei yisrael, anti-Israel,activist, Linda Sarsour. He gave her a grant of $10 million. He only called it a terror attack because elections are next week. This is the guy who plans to sue the Federal govt because he wants to keep NYC as a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants who commit crime and not have them deported. He said today that Trump was politicizing the terror attack by talking about stopping terrorists from coming… Read more »
This mayer is the one to blame for the attack, because he took off the surveillance from the mosques, including the one that this terrorist extended..
dont vote for de blasio he is a leftist democrat vote republican
What election? And who does she want us to vote for? This liberal Mayor