Palestinians saddened at Fox's killing

JERUSALEM POST ^ | Mar. 11, 2006 | AP

[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.

[Right Wing Assault]

Wasn't he the costar along with O'Peter Toole in Arab of Lawrencia?

One's the he!

[Bosco]

Here's the skinny on the Christian Peacemakers Team from DiscoverTheNetwork.com

[BW2221]

Thanks for your posting on the link. Here is an excerpt:

"Finally, CPT has maintained a continuous presence in Iraq since October 2002, five months before the start of the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Said CPT in November 2005, "The primary focus of the team for eighteen months following the invasion was documenting and focusing attention on the issue of detainee abuses and basic legal and human rights being denied them [by the U.S.]. Issues related to detainees remain but the current focus of the team has expanded to include efforts to end occupation and militarization of the country and to foster nonviolent and just alternatives for a free and independent Iraq." Notably, CPT said nothing about the insurgent terrorists' relentless stream of suicide bombings and beheadings aimed at innocent civilians in Iraq. The organization's entire focus was on alleged instances of misconduct by a small percentage of U.S. troops."

While I am sorry Mr. Fox was killed, he and his group had no business being where they were. The group is obviously far-left.

[Random Access]

That's what happens when you sing Kumbyah off key to Muslim music critics.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

"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.....

[Dilbert56]

Gee, I'm starting to get the impression you can't appease, placate, mollify or negotiate with these terrorists.

[littleleaguemom]

I come from a long line of Mennonites. They are genuine pacifist and Freepers should be ashamed of themselves for mocking them.

[littleleaguemom]

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?

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.

[opinionator]

Take a chill pill, babe.

[littleleaguemom]

I'm not a "babe".

[littleleaguemom]

I'm not a "babe".

[littleleaguemom]

I'm not a "babe".

[Enchante]

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....???

[littleleaguemom]

What does the death of this man have to do with "the left"? Can you identify his killer?

[Enchante]

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.

[MamaB]

Go to that link. You will change your mind about these leftist loonies.

[MamaB]

You still need to take a chill pill.

[Sabramerican]

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.

[bondjamesbond]

This killing is liable to put a damper on the whole Fake Kidnapping thing.

[Sabramerican]

I come from a long line of Mennonites.

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?