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.

[kingu]

ARAFAT'S RADIO BLESSES WOMAN BOMBER

Damn radios.

[Doninnj]

Kill the skunk now.

Then deliver him to his constituency soaked in pig blood.

[Bobby777]

"Road Map" to Armageddon

[Bobby777]

allah must be very proud ...

[Doninnj]

With a face like hers, the only one happy is Mr. al-Riyashi.

By the way, does she get the virgins too?

[Bobby777]

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

I imagine, should the Lord tarry, that a few years from now, her children will be force-fed the video, along with candy and other video showing glad-handing by Arafat and this woman's friends after today's events ... she will have a street and possibly a holiday named after her and I wouldn't be surprised if some "joyous" announcement is made in Arafat's state-run newspaper ...

[blastdad51]

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

5!!......... Hell make it 10 just for good luck....

[clintonh8r]

Someone yet unborn is likely to be the victim of her spawn.

[blackbart.223]

"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."

When are going to figure it out and knock the old bastard off.

[hunter112]

Deliver the body back to the Palis in a sausage casing (from a pig, of course). When are the Israelis (and the Bush Administration) going to say enough is enough, and just start at one end of the Gaza Strip, and keep blowing stuff up until its all leveled??!

[Bobby777]

yep, that's the mindset ... that's why it's in schoolbooks, and the days are named for them and the streets ... they see all the "hero-worship" they get ... the twisted world that Arafat and his ilk have shaped ...

[Darlin']

If becoming a martyr is so heroic why hasn't Arafat strapped on one of those homicide belts ?

[Bobby777]

If becoming a martyr is so heroic why hasn't Arafat strapped on one of those homicide belts ?

he's like Osama bin Laden and Saddam ... recruiting others to go out and do their dirty work ...

[rogator]

Why don't the Israelis stop letting these human vermin cross their borders?

[GHCubana]

If becoming a martyr is so heroic why hasn't Arafat strapped on one of those homicide belts ?

Why wasn't Saddam when our boys found them in the hole?