An optical illusion…
Posted on 12/18/2001 10:10:19 AM PST by the_second_moon
Israel Radio West Bank correspondent Avi Yissakharov reported this evening that Yasser Arafat declared in a fiery speech in Ramallah today that "all Palestinians are Muhammad al-Dura", that all Palestinians are martyrs. 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura was killed in the Gaza Strip last year while his father tried to protect him from crossfire. Arafat called for all to join in the struggle to stop what he termed the Israeli program to Judaize Jerusalem. The crowd roared back to Arafat "millions of martyrs are already marching to Jerusalem." Israel Television Channel Two reported this evening that Arafat also told the crowd that "I am willing to sacrifice 70 martyrs to kill one Israeli" and called for a continuation of the struggle against Israel.
Is that the little boy who was killed by Arab fire, but whom the Arabs insisted was "murdered" by the Jews?
An optical illusion…
Little did I know then. In just over a year, this sum has ballooned from $28 to $120 million, and now nearly all European countries, and perhaps the USA too, has had its taxpayer funds emboozled by this nasty little career terrorist.
His "wife" Suha, in the meantime, has claimed that Israel was poisoning Arab water supplies (they had none before Israel came along, of course)...while she lives in luxury in Paris with her daughter(s) who may or may not really have been fathered by Arafat, a well known pervert and pedophile (boys).
Why is it that our government and other governments, of what once were the most decent nations on earth, are pandering to this monster? He isn't even a Palestinian, of course, nor is Arafat his real name. He was born in Cairo in 1929. Like 77% of the so-called Palestinians, he is an impostor, the descendant of Arab (esp Egyptian and Syrian) laborers drawn in after 1917 by the prosperity and decency brought about by the non-corrupt British administration and the hardworking Jewish citizens immigrating to the future Israel.
All Islamic regimes are murderous and corrupt. You can quote me on that.
Back at Ya.
But I think what the father did is very important. It proves that the Arabs killed this kid.
If he had reason to believe that the only "danger" was from Israelis, then he is covering his son totally: his son is completely behind him.
You then see the look on his face, as he turns to see unexpected danger. The killers: Arabs.
One can accuse the Palestinians of failing to stop children from taking part in violent incidents. One can also be indignant over the use of child fighters and of the exploitation of their injuries and deaths for propaganda purposes. However, the IDF must take action to stop killing a high number of young people. Israel should not accept the use of lethal fire when it is not for self-defense purposes.
The IDF, too, understands the impact on Israel's image of the list of those killed in the conflict. This is apparently the basis for the inquiry which Southern Commander Major General Yom Tov Samia ordered into the death of Mohammed al Dura.
Anat Cygielman's investigative report (Ha'aretz, November 7) reveals that the IDF has asked two civilians, physicist Nahum Shahaf and engineer Yosef Duriel, to try and reconstruct the incident. These people, who have volunteered their services, had their own preconceived ideas about the reason why al Dura was killed. In interviews to the media, Duriel contended that it was a premeditated incident staged by the Palestinians with the participation of the father, the television cameraman and Palestinian shooters. Shahaf admits that he shares Duriel's view, but is convinced Duriel made "a tactical error" in talking to the media. Duriel has been duly removed from the investigative committee, but Shahaf, who continues to serve on the committee, has not bothered to consult ballistics experts. Nor has he depended on the testimony of the soldiers or of the television crew.
It is hard to describe in mild terms the stupidity of this bizarre investigation. The circumstances of al Dura's death raise questions that definitely require a response. The IDF was quick to apologize at the time, without conducting an investigation as to whether the youth was killed by IDF fire. No Israeli institution bothered to set up an independent, expert investigation when this was possible. Now it is clear that the chances of getting to the truth of who shot the youth have been lost. With it, the belief in an independent IDF investigation has also been lost.
The fact that an organized body like the IDF, with its vast resources, undertook such an amateurish investigation - almost a pirate endeavor - on such a sensitive issue, is shocking and worrying. Is this the level of management of the head of the southern command? Where was the chief of staff? Why didn't the political echelons - the defense minister, for example - demand that a proper investigation be conducted?
Even if the investigation of the death of al Dura has gone badly wrong, top brass in the IDF as well as the political echelon which oversees the army must take into account the mounting significance of the growing list of youthful victims on the Palestinian side. It is their duty to find a solution that will decrease or even prevent this phenomenon.
November 8, 2000
Ha'aretz News, Israel
Mofaz: al Dura probe was initiated by Southern Command By Anat Cygielman
Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday that the team looking into the circumstances of the death of 12-year-old Mohammed al Dura at the Netzarim junction was put together at the initiative of GOC Southern Command Major General Yom Tov Samia and not the General Staff. Mofaz promised the members of the committee that he would look into how the decision to form the investigative committee was reached and why it had chosen to employ the particular methods it has used.
Mofaz fielded questions about the investigation into the death of al Dura after Ha'aretz reported yesterday that the IDF had staged re-enactments of the Netzarim shootout. These re-enactments, Ha'aretz reported, were initiated by two civilians, physicist Nahum Shahaf and engineer Yosef Duriel, who contacted Samia and argued that it is implausible that the boy was shot by IDF bullets. Samia appointed Shahaf to head the committee despite the fact that the physicist lacks experience in areas critical to the inquiry.
Questioning Mofaz about the committee's report, MK Ophir Pines-Paz (One Israel) said, "One gets the impression that instead of genuinely confronting this incident, the IDF has chosen to stage a fictitious re-enactment and cover up the incident by means of an inquiry with foregone conclusions and the sole purpose of which is to clear the IDF of responsibility for al Dura's death.
Dead-on description from what I can gather about this little toad.
Probably not!
Islam is a pseudo religion masking a militaristic cult engaged on conquering the world at the point of a sword (or muzzle of a gun).
In the economy, the average Palestinian employed full time in day (near-unskilled) labor, makes some $700 per year, compared to some $20,000 for comparable Israeli help.T This yields the ratio of some 30 to 1 formerly used. But since both males and females work for pay on the Israeli side, one can double this to 60. Going to seventy may be an alliance for constant Muslim knocking off of work, for prayers, prayers, prayers.
All to the empty sky, for Allah is Satan disguised as the angel Gabriel.
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