ARAFAT'S RADIO BLESSES WOMAN BOMBER

IMRA ^ | Jan. 14, 2004

[Alouette]

ARAFAT'S RADIO BLESSES WOMAN BOMBER By Michael Widlanski 14 January 2004 In an unprecedented show of support for a human bomb attack, Yasser Arafat's official radio greeted with elation the news of latest suicide assault in the Gaza Strip.

"Citizen Rim al-Riyashi was heroically martyred when she carried out an explosive operation at the Beit Hanoun Junction , killing four soldiers of the Occupation," declared Voice of Palestine Radio in its 4-PM newscast, about an hour after the attack in the Gaza Strip.

The style of the news item, which opened the afternoon news round-up, was more like a birthday greeting than a regular news report, stressing the woman's identity and "heroic martyrdom" (Arabic: istish-haad) repeatedly.

There was no mention that she was a member of the Islamic terror group known as HAMAS (Haraka al-Muqawwima al-Islamiyya: Islamic Resistance Front).

Arafat's VOP radio said Israel was to blame for the attack, and it offered no condemnation for the assault at the Gaza crossing point which also serves as a place of employment and access into Israel for Palestinian laborers.

Michael Widlanski, who teaches at the Hebrew Unviersity's Rothberg School, is a former reporter for The New York Times, The Cox Newspapers, and The Boston Globe. He recently completed his doctoral dissertation on the political role of the Palestinian mass media.

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Wed Jan 14, 6:27 PM ET
A video image shows Palestinian suicide bomber Reem al-Reyashi in an undated video released on January 14, 2004. The mother of two blew herself up at the main border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip Wednesday, killing four Israelis and wounding seven people. The militant Islamic group Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the suicide bombing, which they said was to avenge Israel's killing of Palestinians, and vowed to escalate attacks. (Reuters)

Wed Jan 14, 3:50 PM ET
Reem Raiyshi a mother of two from Gaza, makes a statement in this image taken from a Hamas released video Wednesday Jan. 14, 2004. Raiyshi was named as the woman who blew herself up Wednesday at the major crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip, killing at least four Israelis and wounding seven others. (AP Photo/Hamas via APTN)

Wed Jan 14, 3:36 PM ET
A Palestinian medical staffer shows photographers the wrapped body of suicide bomber Reem Saleh al-Riyashi at the Shifa hospital morgue in Gaza City(AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Wed Jan 14, 1:22 PM ET
Palestinian medical workers carry pieces of the remains of female suicide bomber Reem Raiyshi, 21, into the morgue at Shifa Hospital after the body was handed over by Israeli authorities in Gaza City, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004. Raiyshi blew herself up Wednesday at the major crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip, killing at least four Israelis and wounding seven other people, Israeli rescue services and media said. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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[observer5]

Why not take out 5 Hamas leaders for each suicide bomber...

[tet68]

What's the downside to being a female Hamas terrorist?

You end up being a "bag" lady.


When O when is Israel going to take off the gloves
and clean out this nest of vipers.

[angkor]

S-I-C-K

[clintonh8r]

...a mother of two...

Gee, why didn't she take the kiddies along if martyrdom is so fab?

[JamesA]

Pittiful, These ignorant people kill themselves for Palestine or Allah and Arafat sits on his big stack of money. You'd think he'd at least be able to purchase a toothbrush and shaving equip.

[fatidic]

Good idea! Arafat and Jimmy Carter, best friends, Nobel Peace Prize recipients, and both worthy of utter contempt.

[clintonh8r]

and get a decent dermatologist

[Radix]

If I were that ugly, I think that I might have blown myself up too!

[nothingnew]

Why isn't saddam like oudead and kudead..saddead?

FMCDH

[Let's Roll]

Yeah, before Arafart etal figure out that this has been the answer all along - murder jooze and use worthless women to do it. No downside from their POV.

[Doc On The Bay]

---5---"FIVE???---How about FIFTY!!

To SO SCRAMBLE a Mother's Mind that she Abandon's her Infant Children is MORE than a "Crime;"--it is a MORAL ABOMINATION.

THOSE WHO "Used, Twisted, Distorted, Perverted" the Mind of this Young Mother are MONSTERS BEYOND RECLAMATION!

There can be NO "Justification" for such an act--"Political, Racial, Religious, Biological"--beyond a level of Ignorant Cruelty unworthy of the most "Degraded" of "Life-Forms" on our Planet.

WHOEVER is responsible for this INSANE ACT OF CRUELTY should be regarded as a "Rabid Animal," & "Treated as Such!"

Doc

[Zionist Conspirator]

When O when is Israel going to take off the gloves and clean out this nest of vipers.

Though he was constantly villified as a "racist," the late Rabbi Me'ir Kahana' (zt"l, Hy"d) actually had a much more compassionate and sympathetic view of the Arabs of 'Eretz Yisra'el than the "compassionate" liberals do. He said as long as two people claim the same homeland there will always be conflict. Not only would expelling the hostile alien population save Jewish lives but Arab lives as well, since the two would no longer be in conflict.

`Am Yisra'el belong in 'Eretz Yisra'el (performing the `Avodat HaShem in the rebuilt Holy Temple). Arabs belong in Arabia. Makes sense.

Just what is the "compassionate" "non-racist" "liberal" strategy getting anyone in this mess???

[McGavin999]

This woman was obviously never the mother of anything. She was merely a breeder. A mother would never have abandoned her kids. Imagine her surprise when she arrives at the gates of heaven and is shown to the down elevator.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

The bitch looks retarded.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

What I don't understand about these Palewackos is when one of their people are killed by the IDF they put on this big show of a funeral procession weeping and calling for revenge yet they intentionally send their young to blow themselves up. Is this miserable kibbles and bits going to have a big funeral like that? The only people they have to blame is themselves and I do not feel a bit sorry that they do not have a homeland. They can all rot in hell.

[Alouette]

The bitch looks retarded.

All these "people" are freaks.

Israel 'to blame for Gaza attack'

The novelty of female genocide bombers is wearing off. I predict that this year we are going to see the first pre-teen kiddie bomber.

[doug from upland]

Can I say Palestinians are subhuman without worrying about the hate speech police like Kilroy?

[Alouette]

Can I say Palestinians are subhuman

I think Palestinians were the inspiration for the Orcs in LOTR. Or should I say the Orcs were the inspiration for the Palestinians.