Posted on 08/03/2004 12:03:21 PM PDT by anotherview
Aug. 3, 2004 14:43 | Updated Aug. 3, 2004 15:13
Al-Aksa terrorist gets two life sentences
By JPOST.COM STAFF
A Palestinian terrorist affiliated with Fatah's al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades was sentenced to two life sentences and 35 years imprisonment by the Hebron Military Court Tuesday.
Ya'acoub Kadri, 32, of Bir el-Basha in the West Bank, was convicted of taking part in the killing of two Israeli citizens, firing at Israeli civilians and security forces and planning terror attacks against Israeli targets.
Kadri joined al-Aksa ranks in September 2000 at the start of the second Palestinian intifada. At the time he pledged to kill as many Israelis as possible, Army Radio reported Tuesday.
His activity was centered on recruiting, assisting and dispatching suicide bombers to Israel. Most of the suicide bombers he dispatched were caught be security forces, the radio said.
Kadri dispatched two suicide bombers to Beit She'an to perpetrate a double suicide bombing. The two were impelled to abandon their mission due the heavy presence of security forces in the town at that time.
Two years ago Kadri was convicted of killing Yosef Ajami, 36, of Jerusalem, as he drove on the Mevo Dotan-Hermesh road near Yabad in September 2002.
Also in september 2002, Kadri dispatched a suicide bomber that blew himself up outside Umm el-Fahm killing Moshe Hizkiyahu, a twenty-one-year-old police officer who tried to stop him from entering the town.
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Not to undermine good news, but some Israelis are still treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue rather than a matter of fight-to-the-death warfare.
The Palestinians certainly are not arresting, trying, convicting and executing their enemies [the whole of the Israeli people]. They are conducting total war.
I do not advocate Israel declaring war upon Palestinian men, women and children as they are. There should be instead a similar objective as was the case for WWII: Unconditional surrender, regime change and smothering occupation until Palestinian society is completely de-Arafatized/HAMASized/Islamic Jihadized.
Anything less will result in a continued war of attrition that Israel stands a good chance of losing.
One death sentence would have been better.
I think that both the Sharon government and the Israeli people as a whole see the current conflict as a war. Indeed, it's part of the same war for survival as a nation we've fought since 1948, and part of the war we've fought against Arabs who wish to eliminate any Jewish presence in the region for far longer than that.
The current government policy is one I think can work: keep the Palestinians out of the country by finishing the fence and placing the IDF all along the route of the fence and on the borders separating the Palestinians from other Arab nations. Take out as much of the terrorist infrastructure as possible without bringing down an internvention by the "world community" on the side of the Palestinians. Simply prevent them from being able to attack us in any menaningful way. Even though the fence is incomplete it is already working. There haven't been any suicide bombings in a while, right?
We also have to do something about threats like Iran's nuclear program without endangering the allied troops in Iraq. That, to me, is tougher than the Palestinian conflict and much more dangerous to Israel.
Israel only has the death penalty for one crime: genocide. Besides, a life in prison can be much harder than simply dying. I think a good decades long period of punishment is far more effective against those who believe in martyrdom.
OK, you twisted my arm........
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