Posted on 03/11/2006 6:38:50 AM PST by Hannah Senesh
Palestinians throughout the West Bank expressed sorrow Saturday over the killing of American Tom Fox, 54, who had traveled to the West Bank to protest for their cause before he was taken hostage in Iraq.
Fox's body was found shot in the head and chest Thursday near a Baghdad railway station. He had worked with Christian Peacemaker Teams in the Palestinian areas before he began work with the group in Iraq.
Fox, from Clear Brook, Virginia, had demonstrated in the West Bank town of Jayyus against the construction of the security fence and he helped Palestinians pick olives, local Palestinians said.
"Tom used to sit in front of the (Israeli) bulldozers to block them," said Jayyus' mayor, Shawka Shamha. "Hearing news that he was killed makes me very sad."
Sharif Omar also from Jayyus said that Fox lived at his brother's house for three months while local Palestinians and foreign activists protested against the construction of the barrier.
"I'm very sorry to hear that he has been killed," Omar said.
Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron also remembered Fox. Neither Fox nor the Briton and two Canadians taken hostage with him deserved to die, said Hisham Sharabati, a human rights activist who met Fox.
"I'm calling for the kidnappers to release the other hostages," Sharabati said. "This killing harmed the Palestinian and Iraqi causes because the hostages were working for peace."
The two Canadians - James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden - also worked in the Palestinian areas.
When the four were taken hostage in November last year, the Palestinians' top Muslim clergyman, Mufti Ikrema Sabri, called for their immediate release.
What a tool!
Its about time these "peace idiots", I mean "activists" get nominations for the Darwin award!!!
Beyond anything else, how anything can be termed a "wall" when between 95% and 97% of the structure is purely fence is utterly beyond me.
Their protests only delay the eventual.
In the eyes of fanatical Muslims no peace activist is a friend.
Useless idiot.
"These fools should know that if they don't get killed now...it's only a matter of time."
They are called "peace activists," but, in reality, they are just supporters of terror. When did a "peace activist" ever sit in a Jerusalem bus or a Tel Aviv cafe to protest suicide bombers?
With friends like these ....
Their definition of peace is surrender to evil.
"With friends like these ...."
Yup, and we Jews have millions more just like him all across the world.
'delusions of grandeur' and 'messianic complex' come to mind. Poor misguided naive man.
Their definition of peace is surrender to evil.
These "peace idiots" deserve what they get. In the end, they are still an infidel, and when they no longer serve as a usefull tool for the Jihadists, They are given Mohammad inspired "justice".
This should be an example that all these leftist idiots should pay attention to. This is the reward they will recieve for all the help they give to the barbaric animals, the son's of Satan, enemy of all mankind.
The idiocy of the pacifists.
From what I've seen with these people....
it's usually over-use of illegal drugs that damage the parts of the brain supporting logic.....
and inevitably......
the loss of a conscience!
Will they do the wallalwallalwallalwallalwallalwalllah Dance and pass out candy?
Gee, somebody forgot to tell the terrorists they were working for peace. Oh, well.
Codswallop. They were working for the insurgents who took them hostage and killed one of their number.
Being an American trumps all, as far as the kidnappers were concerned. It is no accident that only the American was killed.
I agree.
"Being an American trumps all, as far as the kidnappers were concerned."
Being an Infidel - a Christian, a Jew, a non-believer - is what trumps all, not just with these medieval butchers but also with many ordinary followers of Islam.
These peace activists are both stupid and evil. Innocent people die because they have to make spectacles of themselves. It's a big ego trip. I fully expect to see Cindy Sheehan show up in Iraq one of these days. Or maybe Iran, when it's a smoking ruin.
Dyslexic he is.
Object do I to that surl.
By this guys reasoning, if you are against the palistinians, then I suppose you do deserve to die.
I'd like to see them 'walk in Israel's shoes' for six months. There's nothing like a few hard lessons in life to rearrange your priorities.
Hisham Sharabati was deported from the U.S. in 2002:
"Hisham Sharabati, a Palestinian peace activist who was to have spoken at events sponsored by San Francisco Catholics, was denied entry into the United States July 22 [2002], then deported."
http://www.catholic-sf.org/81602.htm
These so-called peace activists are largly hard-core leftists. The left has become profoundly anti-semitic. I won't cry crocodile tears over naifs who side with terrorists. Those who do are hypocrites.
Don't these people have jobs?
you gotta give to the palis, they know how to use these useful idiots, they would never kill one because they promote their causes so well,maybe now he be able to see Yassar and continue the good work in hell.I hope and pray not one drop of our military men blood is wasted to rescue these fools when they are captured; so they can return and write a degrading book and appear on the lamestream media to bash our country and it's military
I just find it intersting that what this guy DID NOT SAY was that "no hostage deserves to die". He said only these select few hostages did not deserve to die.
"These so-called peace activists are largly hard-core leftists."
Tom Fox attacks American actions in Fallujah on his blog:
"There are no words. A city that has been demonized by Americans and many Iraqis, using the words “the city of terrorists.” A city that its residents call “the city of mosques.” A city that even its residents have to enter at checkpoints, often taking up to an hour to traverse. A city that is being choked to death economically by those same checkpoints."
http://waitinginthelight.blogspot.com/2005/11/there-are-no-words.html
These so-called peace activists are largly hard-core leftists. The left has become profoundly anti-semitic. I won't cry crocodile tears over naifs who side with terrorists. Those who do are hypocrites.<<
I'll shed a tear for people like Rachel Corrie, she was raised in conditions that simulate a madrasa.
They still side with terrorists, and what must be done, must be done. Hang with terrorists, and don't be surprised when 1000 pounds drops in,
DK
The Presbyterian Church USA is also working against the fence in Isreal. Was Fox a member of the Democrat Presbyterian Church USA?
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them" 1st Thessalonians, 5:3
Have we heard the family and friends blame Bush and his "illegal war" for his death yet?
The optimist in me would like to see the terrorist sympathizers (aka "peace" movement) learn that these fanatics want them dead as well. The realist in me (who likes to eat the optimist for breakfast) knows that they will use this to argue that Bush is now responsible for the death of an AMerican civilian.
The Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast
Little Green Footballs
Posted on 03/06/2006 12:48:00 AM CST by San Franistan
"WE DON"T CARE WHETHER YOU ARE ON OUR SIDE, YOU ARE NOT MUSLIMS AND WE WILL KILL YOU AND USE YOU LIKE THE DIMMI PIGS YOU ARE!"
Now do you liberal socialist wing nuts get it YET?
Make sure to convert to Islam before you go over to Iraq or you will die!( Sarc/)
the job of being a useful idiot to the next level...
ALWAYS ...
He flies 12,000 miles to pick olives??!!
To lame to fight for their beliefs, they are neither fish nor foul.
And the world doesn't even notice them as speed bumps!
He is no Christian.
I'll regret any American death to these evil people, but I have to ask if this guy was related to "Grizzly Man"
Have you heard about this movie? This guy loved Grizzly bears so much that he lived near them and chronicled his life living with the bears.
Unfortunately, one day the bears killed and ate him.
Connection?
F = m Ap = m v
Lay down with dogs, get up with a bullet in your head.
Tom Fox-usefull idiot.This should send a clear,unmistakeable message to all so called "peace activists"in the ME;the terrorists don't care if you support them and their cause.In the end,Tom Fox was simply a piece of meat that was kidnapped and then executed simply for propaganda purposes.Oh well:(
Holy crap. That is FLAT OUT the best thread I've seen in a long time!
B(ulldozer) = f(lat)R(achel)
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