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Palestinians recreate Sbarro bombing
Jerusalem Post ^ | 09/23/2001 | AP

Posted on 09/23/2001 1:09:40 PM PDT by Sabramerican

Palestinians recreate Sbarro bombing
By Mohammed Daraghmeh, The Associated Press

NABLUS, West Bank - Opening an exhibition today marking a year of violence, a Palestinian re-enacted a bloody suicide bombing in Jerusalem.

Wearing a military uniform and a black mask, he entered a doorway under a replica of the Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, and set off a fake explosion.

Visitors crowded through the doorway to see a recreation of the August 9th suicide bombing, complete with body parts and pizza slices strewn all over. In the downtown Jerusalem attack, the bomber and 15 other people were killed.

In another room of the exhibition, visitors looked through dark windows to see figures dressed as suicide bombers, each with one hand on Islam's holy Koran and the other on an automatic rifle, re-enacting the grisly last testament by real suicide bombers in front of video cameras before carrying out their deadly attacks.

"Our message from this exhibition to our people is that the occupiers will suffer as long as we are under occupation," said Ala Hmedan, one of the organizers of the exhibition.

"To the Israeli people: if you leave the occupied territories, you will not suffer and you will not see blood any more," he said.

Twenty-one Palestinians have blown themselves up in the past year, killing more than 50 people and wounding hundreds, unsettling and infuriating Israelis.

The Palestinians have said their uprising, or intifada, was a struggle for statehood and an end to Israel's 34-year occupation in the West Bank and Gaza.

A shrine in one room pays tribute to three leaders of the militant Hamas killed in targeted attacks by Israel. Three open graves surrounded by candles expose three white coffins for Jamal Mansour, Jamal Salim and Salah Darwazeh, all top Hamas men in Nablus.

Near the end of the exhibition stands a large rock. Behind it is a figure wearing a black hat, black jacket and black trousers, typifying an ultra-Orthodox Jew.

A recording from inside the rock calls out: "O believer, there is a Jewish man behind me, come and kill him."

Al Najah University, a hotbed for militants, has spawned several suicide bombers since the violence began. Many students belong to or support Hamas, which opposes peace deals with Israel and has claimed responsibility for many of the suicide bomb attacks.

Palestinian support for suicide bombings against Israel has increased sharply in recent months. A July poll showed 58 percent support for the bombers, more than double the figure of four years ago, when hopes for a peace deal were strong.

Looking at the exhibits, economics student Ghadir Haddad, 19, identified fully with the displays of violence.

"This exhibition shows the reality we live in. Suicide bombings here, killings there," she said. "I'm very happy because as they kill and torture us they are also killed and tortured."


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To: ConvictHitlery lent
Very interesting post #21
41 posted on 09/23/2001 4:43:13 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw
The Coptic Christians know first hand what the Jihad is to this very day being subject to the prejudices of an "Islamic country" and being periodically attacked and massacred by Islamic fundamentalists.
42 posted on 09/23/2001 4:48:53 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Fabozz
Oops. I didn't notice it in Netscape 4.7. When I switched to 6.1, horror of horrors! I had to put a font "black" color change in the source.
43 posted on 09/23/2001 4:57:26 PM PDT by Lent
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To: DistantVoice
Shimon Peres embodies the same traitorous spirit as the late Leah Rabin, may she rot in Hell!
44 posted on 09/23/2001 5:45:29 PM PDT by mrustow
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To: jonatron
Thaks for the heads-up. Otherwise, I wouldn't have believed this story. This is surreal.
45 posted on 09/23/2001 5:49:05 PM PDT by mrustow
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To: Silvertip

46 posted on 09/23/2001 5:55:12 PM PDT by neutrino (Neutrino)
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To: goldstategop
So there you have it and while one would wish the overwhelming majority of Arabs and Muslims were consistently for peace and brotherhood because that is what Israelis and Americans WANT for themselves, the truth is empirical reality has demonstrated exactly the opposite prevails in their societies. And until that is understood the likelihood of an accomodation with the Arab/Muslim world is exceedingly remote.

We don't believe this because we don't want to believe this. This may require another bombing. Maybe an attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.

We can see how absolutely insane this blind hatred is. If they do take out a bunch of american cities, they can expect us to discharge about half of our nuclear weapons in the middle east. What is their goal? Self-destruction?

47 posted on 09/23/2001 6:16:06 PM PDT by Aquinasfan
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To: neutrino

48 posted on 09/23/2001 6:22:28 PM PDT by Sabramerican
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To: Sabramerican
And I had just been to a Sbarro Pizza place at the Galleria in Houston, about the same week of this bombing. It is unusual for my husband, three almost grown kids, and I to go shopping all day together - but we had to do some banking with their college funds, so we went to the Galleria - which is in the same area as our broker. Then when I heard of this bombing, it scared me more... since we had just been at a Sbarro here in the US. Now with what the a**holes did in NYC and at the Pentagon and in Penn., it is MUCH SCARIER! I know where we would go if we died. God is in control of HIS universe.... but we are NOT in any hurry to get there!

I would sign up and serve in this war, but they don't take 'near elderly' ladies!

49 posted on 09/23/2001 7:22:34 PM PDT by buffyt
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To: Sabramerican
These people are not human like the rest of us.
50 posted on 09/23/2001 7:26:43 PM PDT by GuillermoX
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To: Sabramerican
Oh, God, is it REALLY a sin to HATE these bastards?
51 posted on 09/23/2001 7:49:06 PM PDT by BenR2
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To: Sabramerican
Those who celebrate death must die.
52 posted on 09/23/2001 8:39:03 PM PDT by GEC
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To: mrustow, Silvertip

The September 11th Commandment

(September 24) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon nixed a proposed meeting last night between Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, yet this is not the significant fact. What matters is that Peres himself remains open to a meeting, and seems to be constantly attempting to lower, rather than raise, the standard of what is being expected from Arafat.

For all his talk of the need to formulate a global coalition against terrorism, Peres seems unable to fathom that the post-September 11 world is a different place. In this new world, Arafat's Palestinian Authority not only belongs on the list of regimes that support terror, it is the only regime that directly engages in and justifies terror on a systematic basis.

While it may yet be proven that government agents from Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Syria have directly engaged in terrorist acts, these governments by and large prefer to support proxies - such as Osama bin Laden and Hizbullah - to do their dirty work. Arafat has no such distance from terrorism. Organizations directly loyal to Arafat, such as Force 17, his hand-picked "presidential guard," and the Fatah Tanzim, have committed about half the terrorist attacks against Israelis over the past year. And just yesterday, a Fatah representative told Israel Radio that the current "cease-fire" is being coordinated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and that there is no distinction between these groups when it comes to "resisting occupation." The whole point of America's war against terrorism is that there are no "good terrorists." Yet the Arab world, led by the Palestinians, is trying to argue exactly that: there is terror and there is terror against Israel.

One of Egypt's most prominent journalists, Ibrahim Nafie of Al-Ahram, just wrote that there must be a "demarcation between terrorism and national liberation. It is unacceptable, for example, to brand as terrorists - as Israel has sought to do for its own ends -- members of Palestinian and Lebanese liberation groups exercising their internationally sanctioned right to resist foreign occupation." Israel has, indeed, been at the forefront of a what was a lonely battle, arguing that gunning down civilians on roads and blowing them up at discos and pizzerias is terrorism, not some exalted form of resistance. Now, tragically, the world is ready to listen, and who should come along but our own foreign minister saying - Wait a minute, I am ready to meet with the man who practically invented the idea that terrorism is a legitimate form of "struggle," and still champions that idea to this day.

If the Bush administration announced that it would meet with Osama bin Laden after 48 hours of "absolute quiet," it would be the laughing stock of the world and would be roundly criticized, not least by Israel. We are beyond the point where pathetic, partial, and temporary cease-fires can be held up as a standard for acceptance into the community of nations.

The Peres-Arafat meeting did not take place because Arafat has not produced 48 hours of quiet. On Friday, Israel Radio's 6 p.m. news reported that Peres was pleased that there had been "a few hours" of quiet, while the same broadcast reported that three firebombs, 15 grenades, and three mortar shells had been thrown and fired at Israelis just that day. Peres's standard of "quiet," it seems, is if by dumb luck no one has been killed in the last few minutes.

But let us say that the deadly Palestinian attacks were to stop for two whole days. What reason is there to believe that they would not resume once Arafat had received the stamp of approval he covets from Israel?

We expect the United States to be serious in the fight against terror; we must expect no less from ourselves. For all our exalted reputation as a terror-fighting nation, our foreign minister seems to be determined to set exactly the wrong example for the US and the world.

Israel should be insisting that the Palestinian Authority, as a minimum, scrupulously fulfill the commitments it made to CIA Director George Tenet after the Dolphinarium massacre in May. This means not only a total and unconditional end to terrorism by the Palestinian Authority, but arrests of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who refuse to abide by a permanent cease-fire.

If Peres had so insisted on September 12, rather than continued to entertain the idea of (and even press for!) a meeting with Arafat, the United States would not be mistakenly pushing Israel toward such a meeting now. Peres has done more than squander an opportunity to hold Arafat to a new, post-September 11 standard - he has created an eminently avoidable rift between Israel and the United States.

When Ehud Barak was trounced in the last election, it seemed that Peres might have internalized the overwhelming message from the public: no more negotiations under fire. September 11 should have established an equally resounding commandment: no more business as usual with regimes that support terrorism. Israel should be the last country in the world to exempt itself from this commandment.

Silvertip, Kahane Chai!!!!


53 posted on 09/23/2001 10:43:50 PM PDT by NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
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To: NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
'Scuse, please
54 posted on 09/23/2001 10:47:29 PM PDT by NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
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To: Sabramerican
Fantastic cartooooon.
55 posted on 09/23/2001 10:52:18 PM PDT by jws3sticks
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To: NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
I think all this appeasement started in the Gulf War, when George Bush I got the Sabras to endure scud missile attacks from Hussein without retaliating, just in order to appease our great "allies," the Saudis. You know, the "moderate" folks who just stabbed us in the back, as payment of their debt? It's been a slippery slope downhill, ever since.
56 posted on 09/23/2001 10:53:45 PM PDT by mrustow
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To: Sabramerican
Many here are too young to know that Arafat was the Osama Bin Laden of his day! It's surprising how many young Americans know nothing of history. As a result they buy into the propaganda of the Left without even realizing it.
57 posted on 09/24/2001 12:46:11 AM PDT by brat
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To: sinkspur
I know all my neighbors were impressed when I recreated this mornings bowel movement. Alot of cheers all around.
58 posted on 09/24/2001 1:16:52 AM PDT by GOPforever
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To: Sabramerican
Associated Press

The exhibit itself.

60 posted on 09/24/2001 8:06:58 AM PDT by JAWs
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