Posted on 06/19/2004 5:20:49 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon
"This act is to heal the hearts of believers in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula," Johnson's captors said in a statement posted on the internet late on Friday.
Since US-led forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, already waning international attention on resolving the raging Palestinian-Israeli conflict has diminished significantly.
With almost daily reports of ferocious Israeli invasions, Palestinians being crushed to death as their homes were demolished over their heads and Iraq increasingly spiralling out of control, it is not surprising that the Arab street is frustrated with the United States.
While Arabs were horrified by the nature of Johnson's death, they said such incidents were bound to occur as long as Israel continued its brutal occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with virtually no intervention from the international community, along with the occupation of Iraq.
Bloodbath
Dr Bahaa Ghalayani, an obstetrician/gynecologist at the Aawda Hospital in the northern occupied Gaza Strip, said Johnson's killing was "horrible and unacceptable. This person has nothing to do with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict."
"Since Americans were sent to Iraq it's become a bloodbath...Please ask the Europeans and Americans what they expect the reaction to be"
Dr Bahaa Ghalayani, Palestinian
However, Ghalayani said that "the events in this area (Middle East) are crazy. We have foreign troops everywhere.
"What are they doing in Iraq? Why are they depriving natives from their most basic rights?" he asked.
Ghalayani, who hails from Gaza City and faces the daily struggles of an occupation, said foreign troops are killing Palestinians and Iraqis in cold-blood.
"Since Americans were sent to Iraq it's become a bloodbath," he said. "Please ask the Europeans and Americans what they expect the reaction to be…They are expected in these circumstances," he said.
Johnson, however, had nothing to do with his government's foreign policy, said the physician. He expressed frustration at what he said is increasing Western interference in the Middle East's internal politics.
"We can rule our own nations," he said.
"I wouldn't say those who killed him are mad - the mad are the Americans and Europeans who came to this region and interfere in everything."
Internal battle
Umm Khalid Ashur, a housewife living in the occupied Gaza Strip town of Tal al-Hawa, said: "Our cause is between us and Israelis within our nation… (Johnson) wasn't fighting us. Our struggle should be face to face with Israelis."
More Arab funerals fuel greater Arab anger in the region
She expressed concern that the international community will take a hostile stance towards the Palestinians if their fight spread.
Iraqi television news director Salam al-Amir agreed, saying that there will probably be a backlash in occupied Iraq where foreign troops will be harsher with civilians.
"Innocent people are being sacrificed for the sake of politics," he said. "What will happen next? How are we going to benefit from this?"
Jordanian journalist Nur al-Din Shahadi said Washington will seize the latest incident to justify any future violence it will inflict in the Middle East under the guise of a war on terror.
"The United States is the only one to benefit from this incident," he said.
Another Jordanian, Kawkab Hanafna, said such killings were being carried out under the banner of Islam but they were prohibited in the religion.
Sanna Qandil, a Palestinian-Jordanian secretary working in Amman, said the Johnson's killing was not out of the ordinary taking into consideration the violence across the Arab world.
"Let Americans know what it feels like to be a Palestinian, to lose a mother, child or father," she said.
Surely descent people in the world feel that these evil evil monsters, God will surely punish them, for we can barely look , how can they do these things, makes you wonder what is inside these people. Its seams they want the world to be run Islamic, this is what was said on our radio this morning.
Funny how delusions work.
For example, at the moment, I have my fist up their prophet, right to the elbow, and am using him as a hand puppet. Is that mad enough?
No, we are not mad.
Yet.
In a real world, we'd never have to take blather like this seriously. It's obviously crap.
But, on Earth, I read something like this and have to think about all the brainwashed and ignorant masses who either do or pretend to believe it. The pretenders are the most dangerous. The rest can probably be saved, but only if we don't have to kill them first.
Maybe that new atom-moving-transferring thingie can beam me up to someplace nice.
I agree wholeheartedly with your earlier post that asked when we were going to begin "Operation Flaming Turban".
The Arabs are a different people. They fight each other with the same ferocity as they fight us. I served along side them and found them to be mean. The pecking order among their soldiers ended at the commander who was the most ferocious of the lot. Decency, humanity, compassion that we call desirable, is looked upon as weakness in their society.
I'm surprised no one has yet posted that picture of the vomitous Pali pig wagging her tongue on 9/11/01.
To say that the Muslim religion is "fastest growing" is puire BS. It is not.
Further, since the beheadings I have "had it" with Muslims. I am in my own private Jihad now, and it means if there is a Mulsim I avoid him, if I see a head scarf I fart on the way past, and if there is a Muslim running the shop or pumping the gas I do not buy there.
I want Muslims and their stinking religious faith out of my country, ASAP
What do they want from us.
"palis = it's all about them."
You nailed it right on the head!
This is very shortsighted of you. Wipe out Mecca and Madinah and liberate the Arabs from Islam and you will have peace loving Arabs such as Lebanese Maronites and Syrian Orthodox Christians.
This is very shortsighted of you. Wipe out Mecca and Madinah and liberate the Arabs from Islam and you will have peace loving Arabs such as Lebanese Maronites and Syrian Orthodox Christians.
Given the fact that they brutally murdered Mr. Johnson, the fact that these terrorist monsters gave the Saudis a list of prisoners that they want wanted released, and the fact that the Saudis still practice public beheadings, I think that it would only be right for the Saudis to publicly behead every person on that list.
Stinking savages!
Mark
"What are they doing in Iraq? Why are they depriving natives from their most basic rights?" he asked.
The right to be shred.
The right to be hung.
The right to be raped.
The right to be silent.
(their mouths filled with the earth of the mass grave.)
The usual BS from the "religion of peace." These are the same self delusions that allowed many Germans to deny the death camps even though the stench of death and ashes of the cremated dead rained down on their towns. Remember the films of the German towns people being forced to tour the death camps and how they continued to deny the horror even as they saw it?
And many of them are now millionaires. Considering the cost ($1.00)/benefit ($ millions) ratio, perhaps it is not so irrational despite the odds.
Good point about the doctor's mixed message. That may be about as close to an outright admission of moral failure that we're going to get from a citizen of that part of the world.
But since we are the "good guys", that really is not an option. We could (and should) however, simply cause the families to disappear (to detention camps where they will be held incommunicado) and simply not tell anyone (especially the slimy media types) where they are. They'll probably live better in U.S. sponsored detention than they are currently living. Let the thugs believe that they are dead.
Then level everything above ground and fill in anything below. Revisit periodically and kill anything that moves.
Crown Prince Abdullah..pro American..is as deluded as the Souk merhcants in Cairo and Gaza who think 9-11 was a Zionist plot.
When Mr Johnsons kidnapping unfolds...Abdullah claims its a Zionist plot to undermine the Kingdom.
Prince Bandar...photo opp at Crawford...Ambassador to the U.S.
His Father Prince Sultan is jetting around the planet attempting to aquire nukes....openly desires parting company with the U.S. for a Military/Economic pact with the Chi Coms.
This ride is just..[Fill in the blank]...they are messed at the top of their pecking order...just messed.
How about half-heading these goathumpers? A guillotine blade right across the bridge of the nose ought to do.
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