Posted on 03/12/2006 5:19:05 PM PST by 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.
Friends of yours?
MCC - Mennonite Central Committee Website: http://www.mcc.org/
MCC's activities and publications reveal a highly politicized and anti-Israel agenda, including campaigning against the Israeli security barrier while ignoring Palestinian terror and providing links to highly politicized NGOs, including PENGON and the "Stop the Wall Campaign". MCC's "Peace Office Newsletter" produced by the organization's Middle East leadership, contains highly vitriolic attacks on Israel, while claiming that the views of the authors do not necessarily reflect those of the MCC. Newsletter contains contributions from radical anti-Israel NGOs, including the Palestinian Authority affiliated Applied Research Institute and Jeff Halper from the highly politicized Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, with other links to highly politicized NGOs Al-Haq, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, the Electronic Intifada, the Stop the Wall Campaign, LAW - a leading NGO at Durban conference, ad-Dameer, a Palestinian prisoners' rights organization, and al-Awda, an NGO promoting the Palestinian 'right of return' and destruction of Israel.
Relevant Articles:
Mennonite Central Committee - Promoting Conflict via Divestment (Update) (Vol 3, No.12)
BADIL - Promoting Extreme Palestinian Refugee Demands, January 31, 2005. NGO Monitor's Guide to Charities in the Tsunami Zone, January 3, 2005
Mennonite Central Commitee Campaign & Newsletter Promotes Anti-Israel Propaganda (Vol. 3, No.2) Exchange of Correspondence with Ronald J.R. Mathies, Executive Director, Mennonite Central Committee, in response to NGO Monitor's analysis of 15 October, 2004 (Vol.3 No.3)
I'm not mocking him - he died proving my point: You can't defend our nation by treating terrorists as reasonable people. Why just the other day one of Clinton's State Dept. officials said that we need to listen to Bin Laden and see that he may have a point.
They're probably "saddened" because he didn't strap explosives to himself and take a few Jews with him.
After Giuliana Sgrena and Susanne Osthoff, I am kind of suspicious of these supporters of the Islamic "activists" who wind up getting themselves kidnapped. It has been well established that the kidnappings of both Sgrena and Osthoff were put-up jobs, where the women were more or less allied with their captors, who profited hansomely from the ransom.
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