Posted on 01/23/2008 9:26:58 AM PST by tobyhill
NABLUS, West Bank – It is hard for me to describe Ahmed Sanakreh as a terrorist, although I know it's true. Hard, because I got to know him and his family quite well, and when you understand people, it's hard to hate them: Twenty-year-old Ahmed, baby-faced with black hair sticking up in gelled spikes, and a passion for his Nokia 90 cell phone; and his elder brother, Alaa, the intense, hollow-cheeked leader of the Palestinian al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus. They are the hard core of the hard core. Although Alaa was the leader, Ahmed was the one Israel most wanted dead. I often asked Alaa why his younger brother had so many bodyguards, and Alaa would only smile mysteriously. But one day he confirmed Israel's claims: that Ahmed blew up an Israeli officer, and was the bomb-maker behind other suicide bombers.
Alaa, Ahmed and their friend Nasser abu Aziz were my de facto guides to the Palestinian side of the second Intifada (uprising). They were terrorists to the Israelis, freedom fighters to their neighbors, and sources to me.
I quizzed them often about the latest developments. My NBC colleagues and I met them in their safe houses, hid with them in the alleys, sat in their home with their parents, and listened as their mother cried that she did not want her boys to die.
I wrote about my relationship with this band of gunmen in my book, "Breaking News," which comes out in New York on March 4. Now I'll have to update it.
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NBC is public enemy #1 in America
pushing the queer agenda is their goal
pushing one world America defeating law is their goal
“I got to know him and his family quite well, and when you understand people, it’s hard to hate them:”... Ah yes! Liberalism!...the great pile of crap that it is!
“and when you understand people, it’s hard to hate them:”
No, when you know they attack women and children because they are weak and defenseless. When they torture and behead people for fun, it is not hard to hate them. They are vile, sick bastards that do not deserve to live. They can rationalize their actions any way they want, but it does not make those rationalizations valid. Islam is a cult of death.
Hitler liked dogs.
Islam is repugnant to Freedom and has no tolerance for it. Islam is a cult of misery and death. NBC is simply pandering to the bastards and promoting their success by obfuscating the situation.
I’ll just note that without MSNBC, John McCain wouldn’t be running for President today, and leave it at that.
This is the Palestinians logic to dealing with Israel.
NBC = Nothing But Crap.
They wasted him.
The former is fair game in war, not terrorism. If he'd stuck with that I could call him a soldier, deserving of the consideration and respect normally accorded to enemy soldiers.
But I'll bet the latter was in large part aimed at civilians, so he was a terrorist. Shoot on sight, his whole family should be hauled away for supporting this illegal activity.
“It is hard for me to describe Ahmed Sanakreh as a terrorist, although I know it’s true. Hard, because I got to know him and his family quite well, and when you understand people, it’s hard to hate them:”
The SS guards at the Nazi death camps also carried pictures of their families in their wallets. Liberals have this ‘Disneyland’ concept of what evil looks like: they are children.
Martin Fletcher should also be arrested.
But on the other hand, hating George Bush, that’s quite a different matter.
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