Posted on 12/02/2008 10:21:00 AM PST by forkinsocket
The cabinet decided on Sunday to authorize the release of 250 terrorist prisoners from Israel's jails, as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinian Authority (PA) ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. In statements to the media, both the extra-parliamentary Women In Green organization and the Likud's Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction linked the decision with the Mumbai Massacre perpetrated by Muslim terrorists last week.
Women In Green said that the "criminal and murderous terror attack [in Mumbai] by Islamic terrorists against non-Muslims, Jews and non-Jews alike, should have made the government of Israel understand that time has come to finally start fighting against Arab Islamic terror from Gaza and from Judea and Samaria, instead of capitulating to terror and rewarding it. But instead, to our shame, shock and horror, the government of Israel decided this morning to release another 250 terrorists as a 'goodwill gesture' to the mass murderer Abu Mazen (the terrorist name for PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas)."
That decision, Women In Green said, "is a spit in the face of victims of Arab terror in general and of the latest Mumbai victims in particular."
Jewish Concessions Feed Global Terror A Manhigut Yehudit spokesman took the theme further and claimed, "The fact that the government in the Jewish homeland releases terrorists as a 'goodwill gesture', only empowers the terrorists and makes citizens of free countries worldwide susceptible. Olmert’s actions clearly create a situation that could precipitate more attacks globally."
The policies of Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and other Israeli leaders, according to the Manhigut Yehudit statement, have "only lead to dead and maimed Jews, and the loss in the belief of the justness of our cause by Jews, in Israel and worldwide. [Manhigut Yehudit faction leader Moshe] Feiglin is the only leader in Israel who has a cogent platform that is in tandem with the stated American goal of fighting and defeating terror."
Reflecting on past Israeli concessionist policies, Manhigut Yehudit said, "Oslo resulted in thousands murdered throughout Israel, and suicide bombers then made their way next to US soil on 9/11. The United States would never adopt a land for peace platform on its own homeland to appease al-Qaeda. Why should Israel?"
Response: Build! Women In Green added that the appropriate response to Islamic terrorism and the government's policies is "to show the terrorists that the People [of Israel] will not be scared off and will continue to be proud Jews in the Land of Israel, will continue to settle it, build in it and expand in it."
The non-governmental organization called on Israelis to join the people defending the rights of Jews to live in the Peace House in Hevron, where Israeli authorities intend to forcibly evict the building's residents despite the absence of any legal resolution mandating their removal.
The Israeli government has become the ultimate Charlie Brown.
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And Israel wonders why terrorists feel free to set off nail bombs, shoot up schools, and bash in children’s heads???
Israel sounds more and more like its own worst enemy. Were it up to me, terrorists would not be captured alive, unless it was desirable to interrogate them—and I don’t mean by asking nicely.
Yeah, let them go only to come back and destroy you- WOW!
A Proposal made by the new Israeli Suicide Party.
Oops, got the name wrong. That is Israeli National Suicide Party. The INSP.
Oslo - Reflections On A Decade Of Death
By Stan Goodenough - September 12, 2003Ten years ago, on September 13, 1993, the sun rose on a day the world would hail as heralding an era of peace for the Middle East.See the Rest Of It HereAs dignitaries gathered on the White House lawn, and television cameras sent their signals to the farthest corners of the earth, Israel and the PLO signed the agreement that became known simply as "Oslo."
Lost amidst the celebrations and drowned out by the applause, the scattered voices of disbelief, the pleas for reason, the sounded warnings - all were derided, steamrollered, waved away.
This writer, who two years earlier covered the International Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid - there to learn first hand the extent of the world media's unbridled disdain, contempt and even hatred for the Jewish state - was in the ranks of the relative few who urged Israel not to go down the Oslo road.
For me, that road could have no other ending than the one it inevitably arrived at.
Apart from the global prejudice weighing heavily in favor of the Arabs, I based my warning on the geo-political realities of the day, and on my understanding of the true agenda of Islam. I based it too on my knowledge of the bigger picture, the 2000-year history of a people who had never been allowed to live in peace and safety, and who I knew were not going to receive that gift under Oslo.
Primarily, though, I based it on two passages in the Hebrew Scriptures.
The first came to me a few weeks earlier, when the news originally broke that an agreement had been reached following a series of illegal (under Israeli law) secret meetings in Norway between Israel's left wing politicians and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Going to the Bible, and wondering in my heart how to view what I was hearing, I felt led to the 13th chapter of the book of Ezekiel.
In those verses, the prophet describes a peace arrived at between Israel and its foes, a peace based on "futility" and "lies." He likens this peace to a wall built with "untempered mortar." And he describes God's anger towards Israel's leaders who have given their people false hope in "visions of peace when there is no peace."
I read of His rage at the way these leaders had "profaned" His holy name by "killing people who should not die and keeping alive people who should not live."
And I read about the fate God had decreed over these false peace predictors, vowing to cause a stormy wind to break forth in His fury, and to send a flooding rain and great hailstones to bring down their false peace agreement - their wall built with mortar made from lies and deceit.
Those who had built it, God said, would be swept away with its ruins.
On the same evening that I read through this passage, a Christian friend of mine 3000 miles away felt led to the same chapter and received the same insight into it.
But...but I thought Israel was torturing Palestinian detainees.
Were it up to me, terrorists would not be captured alive, unless it was desirable to interrogate them—and I don’t mean by asking nicely.How should terrorists be interrogated?
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