echoes of Isaiah 11

I have started receiving a news post regarding news of Israel, called "The Lekarev Report" - the following report was heartening, and reminded me of Isaiah 11.

Ten attackers descended on four Jewish students on a New York subway this past Friday and a Muslim student intervened to help them.

Hassan Askari fought off the attackers, giving Walter Adler time to call for help. Askari is being hailed as a hero for taking on the 10 attackers who singled out the Jewish students for attack.

"I did what I thought was right," Askari said later. "I did what I could to help." Askari is a student at Berkeley College in Manhatten and suffered a broken nose and lip wounds from being beaten by the attackers. Eight men and two women pleaded not guilty but a NYC officer said the charges may well be upgraded from assault to hate crimes.

"This is what's great about New York," Adler said after the incident. "A random Muslim kid helps some Jewish kids."


6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
9 They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples;
of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.