Posted on 04/30/2007 9:46:56 AM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) The Arab “man in the street” living under the Hamas-ruled Palestinian Authority government is starting to realize that voting for the terrorist organization has not brought the shining salvation it promised.
Thousands of Muslim worshippers living in PA-controlled territories are trying to flee their increasingly violent surroundings. Their religious leaders are doing what they can to force them to stay.
Sheikh Hamad Al-Bitawi, a Muslim religious leader and Hamas member, has announced that Arab Muslims are forbidden to emigrate from Israel.
Al-Bitawi ruled recently that Muslims must remain in order to counteract the fast growth of the Jewish population. Thousands of Jews arrive in Israel each month, Al-Bitawi said. It “makes the heart weep,” he told PA residents.
Despite Muslim leaders’ protests, however, thousands of Arabs are abandoning their homes and flooding out of Israel every month, particularly from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.
PA Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Suboh told reporters at a news conference in Ramallah last November that 10,000 Arabs had received permits from foreign and Arab diplomats to enter their countries since July 2006.
Suboh added that some 45,000 more had requested permission to emigrate since the deterioration in the economic situation and constant violence between the Fatah and Hamas terrorist groups.
Firefights between factions have continued to pour blood into the streets, particularly in Gaza. And the frequent so-called “ceasefires” between Hamas and Fatah and the recent cobbling together of a “unity government” have done little to stem the violence.
On Sunday, a 55-year-old man was killed in Gaza City by members of a rival clan. Two Arab residents of Gaza were moderately wounded in a shooting attack near Khan Younis. Several gang members were also arrested in Gaza City after attempting to kidnap a child outside of a local school; the members confessed that they planned to hold the child for ransom.
Yeah, I bet this works out really well. Next: Muslim leaders demand Palestinians ignore calls of nature.
Most enemies try to limit civilian casualties at least on their own side. The islamderthals see them as advantageous.
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That’s not a bright side...
That’s 10,000 more terrorists in waiting spread out among (as I expect) the infidel western nations.
And soon we’ll most likely see those 10,000+ start their jihad against the west.
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