In this undated image made available by Christian Peacemaker Teams, Christian activist Tom Fox is seen at a demonstration in the West Bank protesting the security fence. Photo: associated press
Posted on 03/12/2006 5:19:05 PM PST by Sabramerican
Palestinians saddened at Fox's killing Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 11, 2006
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.
If the universal answer to the universal question "Why do they hate us?", is because of our support of Israel- how do you explain them murdering this guy?
How about this -- "I am very sorry he has been killed by ONE OF OURS. And I am going to do something to stop that idiocy." I would like that even better.
In this undated image made available by Christian Peacemaker Teams, Christian activist Tom Fox is seen at a demonstration in the West Bank protesting the security fence. Photo: associated press
I can envision them dancing their sad dance as they burned Al-Qaeda flags in the streets.
There is absolutely no sense in commenting on this. What a sorry bunch of buggers who are absolutely beyond redemption.
The poor man was killed because he was a Christian and would not convert to the "Religion of peace".
That's probably just the English version of what they said.
-PJ
"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."Good luck.
Because they can.
The terrorists don't respect these "peace activists" and will use them in death as they did in life as pawns to accomplish their larger goal of driving the West out of the Middle East and cowing moderate Muslims, who refuse to take out their own garbage.
Hopefully this will give pause to other loony liberals that think they can play nice with terrorists. Try to pet the tiger and you will likely pull back a stump - if you are lucky enough not to get pulled into the cage and eaten.
As if the IslamoFascists were seeking peace, or valued it in the least.
A Palie fubar: "Tom used to sit in front of the Palestinian shotguns to block them".
Read the whole story.
Read the whole story.
Me, too. What hypocrisy.
I am very sorry he has been killed by ONE OF OURSPerhaps they don't recognize them as such. As most of the population of Iraq does not. An even better sign, IMO.
-Eric
Wasn't he the costar along with O'Peter Toole in Arab of Lawrencia?
However,
"I have no intention whatsoever of changing my politics, questioning my hatred, or accepting Jews in my world.
Too bad really,
good old Tom was one of the better useful idiots you keep sending over..."
End quote.
It would take a statement of that nature before I even would THINK of taking their "grief" seriously...
But we will never see such a statement, because even the Pali's who directly benefitted from this guy's obstructionist ways still hate everyone besides themselves (and often appear to even hate themselves).
No, it harmed you because it was wrong. < / MORAL ABSOLUTE MODE >
One's the he!
That's what happens when you sing Kumbyah off key to Muslim music critics.
"Tom used to sit in front of the (Israeli) bulldozers to block them,"
And yet it was not a Jew that killed him but a muslim.....
Gee, I'm starting to get the impression you can't appease, placate, mollify or negotiate with these terrorists.
I come from a long line of Mennonites. They are genuine pacifist and Freepers should be ashamed of themselves for mocking them.
Neither you nor the reporter has any idea who murdered "this guy." A decent person would simply show respect and sorrow, as did his Palestinian friends. Yet you take this opportunity to mock both.
Take a chill pill, babe.
I'm not a "babe".
I'm not a "babe".
I'm not a "babe".
This should make the loony left wake up to the insane depravity of the Islamo-fascists, but of course the left will find ways to rationalize and everything will be Bush's fault anyway for driving these poor terrorists to such extremes. If Rachel Corrie had made it to Iraq to be murdered in the same way THAT would be blamed on the USA, too. What is it about the psychotic left that makes them incapable of grasping that, however much they may hate Bush, the Islamo-fascists are a far far greater threat to their cherished leftist ideals....???
What does the death of this man have to do with "the left"? Can you identify his killer?
If you don't understand my meaning then you don't understand much about this guy, his "work" to protect Palestinian terrorists (see photo in #3) and keep Israel vulnerable, or the situation in Iraq.
Go to that link. You will change your mind about these leftist loonies.
You still need to take a chill pill.
Give us a list of suspects the suspects who may have murdered this guy.
A decent person understands that Israel's fence saves innocent lives from the barbarians you champion. And that the IDF has protected Israelis from those same savages for decades and a decent person would not attempt to interfere in such protection.
Don't make the same mistake this guy did. On your next trip to the Mideast don't leave at home your "Don't kill me I hate Israel too" t-shirt.
The truth comes out.
Your group has a history of supporting the barbarians against Israel.
Still want to stick with your original story of a typical American mom on a random trip to Israel who "discovered" that the Israelis were rude and in the wrong and the "Palestinians" were innocent angels?
Friends of yours?
MCC - Mennonite Central Committee Website: http://www.mcc.org/
MCC's activities and publications reveal a highly politicized and anti-Israel agenda, including campaigning against the Israeli security barrier while ignoring Palestinian terror and providing links to highly politicized NGOs, including PENGON and the "Stop the Wall Campaign". MCC's "Peace Office Newsletter" produced by the organization's Middle East leadership, contains highly vitriolic attacks on Israel, while claiming that the views of the authors do not necessarily reflect those of the MCC. Newsletter contains contributions from radical anti-Israel NGOs, including the Palestinian Authority affiliated Applied Research Institute and Jeff Halper from the highly politicized Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, with other links to highly politicized NGOs Al-Haq, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, the Electronic Intifada, the Stop the Wall Campaign, LAW - a leading NGO at Durban conference, ad-Dameer, a Palestinian prisoners' rights organization, and al-Awda, an NGO promoting the Palestinian 'right of return' and destruction of Israel.
Relevant Articles:
Mennonite Central Committee - Promoting Conflict via Divestment (Update) (Vol 3, No.12)
BADIL - Promoting Extreme Palestinian Refugee Demands, January 31, 2005. NGO Monitor's Guide to Charities in the Tsunami Zone, January 3, 2005
Mennonite Central Commitee Campaign & Newsletter Promotes Anti-Israel Propaganda (Vol. 3, No.2) Exchange of Correspondence with Ronald J.R. Mathies, Executive Director, Mennonite Central Committee, in response to NGO Monitor's analysis of 15 October, 2004 (Vol.3 No.3)
I'm not mocking him - he died proving my point: You can't defend our nation by treating terrorists as reasonable people. Why just the other day one of Clinton's State Dept. officials said that we need to listen to Bin Laden and see that he may have a point.
They're probably "saddened" because he didn't strap explosives to himself and take a few Jews with him.
After Giuliana Sgrena and Susanne Osthoff, I am kind of suspicious of these supporters of the Islamic "activists" who wind up getting themselves kidnapped. It has been well established that the kidnappings of both Sgrena and Osthoff were put-up jobs, where the women were more or less allied with their captors, who profited hansomely from the ransom.
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