Posted on 04/17/2006 9:41:28 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Palestinian militants linked to President Mahmoud Abbas's increasingly fractured Fatah movement threatened on Monday to attack Jews overseas to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners from its jails.
Two other main Palestinian militant groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, also said they supported violence to free more than 8,000 prisoners held by the Jewish state, but neither explicitly backed attacks on Jews outside Israel.
The call by militants of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades could heighten tension between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which has been crippled financially by the loss of Western aid, and of tax and customs revenues frozen by Israel, after Hamas's crushing electoral win over Fatah in January. "This is an open call to all our fighters in the homeland to focus on kidnapping Israeli soldiers and civilians inside our occupied land. And if the enemy does not release our prisoners, then Zionists outside Palestine will be an easy target for our fighters," the group said in a statement.
The threat was made shortly before a Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and six other people at a sandwich stand in Tel Aviv, an attack claimed by both Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa.
The call could also sow discord between al-Aqsa militants and more moderate Fatah politicians including Abbas, who has been struggling to control gunmen from his own party.
Senior Fatah official and lawmaker Saeb Erekat declined to comment directly on the threat, but said securing freedom for prisoners was at the top of Abbas's agenda.
Palestinian security sources say al-Aqsa gunmen were behind some of the recent rash of kidnappings of foreigners in the Gaza Strip, which Israel quit last year after 38 years of occupation. They have also been involved in internal Palestinian clashes.
But gunmen from the group, which has also carried out suicide bombings and other attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories during the five-year-old uprising, have not previously threatened Jews abroad.
The smaller Islamic Jihad group made a similar call, announcing at a Gaza rally that they might seize Israeli soldiers and settlers unless Palestinian prisoners are released.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, whose party now controls the Palestinian government, said militants had given Israel "a complete chance" to free the prisoners during a de facto truce reached last year.
"Therefore we believe our people have the right to use every possible means, including the use of force, to free prisoners and end their suffering," he said.
Israel freed nearly 400 prisoners in June as part of pledges to secure the ceasefire, but Palestinians said this was not enough. Israel has said it will not release prisoners who have "blood on their hands".
They really know how to win hearts & minds don't they...
"Palestinian militants linked to President Mahmoud Abbas's increasingly fractured Fatah movement threatened on Monday to attack Jews overseas to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners from its jails.'
Translating...
"Palestinian militants threaten bombings in Western Europe and even America if they continue to withhold protection money*."
* "aid"
No Shiite!!!!
Must have something to do with believing in the excrement spewed from the koranus!
Sura 9:5 of the “Koranus,” “wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush.”
" upon such of those to whom the Scriptures have been given as believe not in God, or in the last day, and who forbid not that which God and His Apostle have forbidden, and who profess not the profession of the truth, until they pay tribute out of hand, and they be humbled." Sura 9:29
"Strike off their heads then, and strike off from them every finger tip." - Sura 8:12
*{… As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them [first]. [Next], refuse to share their beds, [And last] beat them [lightly]; but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For Allah is Most High, Great [Above you all].}* (Surat An-Nisaa’ 4:34)
The Hadith
Bukhari vol IV #537
The Prophet said, "If a house fly falls into the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (into the drink) because one of its wings has a disease, and the other wing has the cure (for the disease)".
Someone needs to read the Book of Esther to the Philistines - ping!
This is frightening.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
are we supposed to equate the iranians to the syrians to the palestinians? lets see 50 million to their coffers from iran,
50 million from qatar
lets see who else has 50 million to fund the terrorists
"They really know how to win hearts & minds don't they..."
They do when it comes to Jew-haters (and there is an endless supply of those).
There is not enough room on this planet to live with the Islamists.
They or the rest of us will need to go.
Qur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels.
So wound their bodies and incapacitate them
because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”
Qur’an 8:57 “If you gain mastery over them in battle,
inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them,
so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.”
This could be Times Square, Park Street, Union Station or another other American city. How long will we wait to counter the global Islamic threat by openly uniting with Israel and issuing long over due reciprocity on the entire Islamic terrorist infrastructure, including the OPEC bank-rollers of jihad?
"There is not enough room on this planet to live with the Islamists.
They or the rest of us will need to go."
The Islamists have already decided it's to be the rest of us.
The arabs will attack if you don't give them what they want, and they will attack if you do give them what they want.
Seal the border, and seal it now. Don't let anyone enter Israel by land.
I'm gonna start using this to make a point instead of saying "that's like Bobby Heenan calling himself The Smartest Guy In Professional Wrestling".
And note that the writer just can't help himself. Not "less bloodthirsty" or even "less radical", oh no it's "more moderate" than Hamas, which presumably is Just Moderate.
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Aid = Dhimmi Tax.
This ultimately will only end when Islam is defeated. Mecca will need to be destroyed and end their religion. These people are barbarians, following a barbarous religion.
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