Posted on 04/01/2002 1:14:45 PM PST by The Human G-Nome
i thought you folks may be interested in this personal account. this isn't a comment from me, just passing on the infromation.
Dear all,
Lois drafted this update. Before I start typing it, I was busy outside during the day trying to get more fuel for our electric generator. In the meantime, however, we got our electricity back. We are still safe in our house.
"Third day of third military reoccupation occupation in Ramallah"
We went to bed last night exhausted by the tension of Israeli tanks and soldiers blowing up buildings and the seige on Arafat's compound and the security compound in Beitunia. The city has been for 2 days without electricity, and in some places with no water. The army has been going house to house and building to building, Gestapo style, looking for those who oppose occupation. They came also in the night with blackened faces. 600 men have been arrested.
Today, their tanks fired into more buildings. We are still trying to get accustomed to the black smoke on the horizon that follows the blasts. The fires burn a long time because they don't allow the fire trucks to put them out. There is a lot of shooting, almost all of it by the Israelis, to terrorize us, and yes we are terrorized. Nine more bodies have been found today; 5 yesterday, shot in the head, executions of our defenders. Sometimes they use our men as human shields when they enter buildings. They are breaking into stores and taking the things they want and everywhere they enter they trash it. They have taken over our 3 television stations and now boradcast pornography on one of them.
Does this sound like self-defense?
Today they stormed Arafat's compound after a lot of tank and gunfire. We were fearful that they had done something awful, and then as I was feeling most abandoned by the world, the news came that a group of 32 international solidarity activists (who had donated blood yesterday when the rest of us could not leave our homes), had marched into Arafat's compound to act as the observers we need. We are under full curfew while the army ravages through our city. And today is Easter Sunday!
Lois
No, it sounds like lies.
What a give-away. This supposedly is a Pali Muslim complaining about alledged Jewish acts and on a Christian holiday (oh horrors). LOL, this wouldn't be anti-Israeli Muslim propaganda hoping to appeal to Christians, would it?
Nope: Ten Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel found dead in the West Bank
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!
Broadcasting it to all those people without electricity. The woman must be delusional...
no, it's not a dead giveaway. the correspondence is legitimate.
A lot? Like 8% with approx. 87% Sunni Muslims. I think we should revisit the words "a lot".
March 31, 2002: On the fourth day of Passover: Why was the Arab suicide attack in Efrat different from all other suicide attacks? Because it was directed against the medical services that Arabs receive from private Jewish funds.
Late in the afternoon of Sunday, March 31, 2002, which this year was both the fourth day of Passover and Easter Sunday, an explosion rocked Efrat, where I make my home on the West Bank.
My wife, typing away yet another e-mail to one of many corresponding women from the world over, looked around the living room to see that the children were OK, and resumed her correspondence, including the boom in her closing graph. Elchanon, our almost sixteen year old son who helps me in every aspect of my work, ran to the scene of the blast, cell phone in hand. He stood on a hill overlooking the evacuation of the wounded so that he could report to me at the press center in Jerusalem, and to his brother, Noam, now a soldier on the Lebanese front.
Elchanon's first words said it all. This attack was different from all the other attacks. This time, an Arab blew himself up at the emergency mobile medical unit that dispatched a medic to treat him.
As the terrorist blew himself up, the medic that responded, Assaf Perlman, was riddled with shrapnel, sustaining injuries in his head and chest. Assaf is fighting for his life. He is the same medic who risked his life under fire at the Joseph Tomb compound in October 2000 to try to save the life of a Druze (Arab) Israeli soldier, Mamduch Yusef, who wound up bleeding to death in Assaf's arms. Five other paramedics were also hurt, including Elchanon's tenth grade classmate, Netanel, whose parents, Moshe and Debbie, are old friends of mine. We attended graduate school together in New York 25 years ago and all settled in Efrat.
This attack was clearly aimed at our village's policy of providing medical services for the two Arab villages that are contiguous to it. As a matter of policy, the Rabbi of Efrat, Shlomo Riskin, raised substantial funds from liberal Jews for medical clinics and schools in these nearby Arab villages --- a policy that earned the wrath of Arafat's Palestinian Authority.
Rabbi Riskin made such a policy decision in the spirit of the Torah, which states 36 times that when a non-Jew who lives at peace with you in the Land of Israel, he must be treated with dignity, respect and service.
In Januray, and without warning, Moscow's Channel One filmed the Arab villages near us, expecting to hear stories about the "Israeli occupation" and tensions between the small Arab village and the 16 expanding Israeli Jewish settlements of Efrat and the Etzion Bloc. The Russian TV crew heard the opposite message --- only praise for the Jews there, and seething anger against Arafat and the "PLO occupation" of their fellow Palestinian Arab brethren in the Bethlehem region.
Family after family in these Arab villages told Russian TV that they were receiving the best medical treatment possible from their Jewish friends in Efrat, while their families in Bethlehem had to bribe officials just to get the basics of treatment from the PA. They also spoke with pride about the school we had built for them.
All this was aired on Russian TV Channel One very recently.
It would seem that the PA was watching. The clear purpose of the attack was to disrupt a proper relationship between a Jewish city and an Arab village.
Despite the threats to their lives from Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, the people of Efrat's nearby Arab villages gathered in an emergency town meeting to issue a statement that denounced the attack in the strongest of terms. It surprised nobody in the villages that Arafat's police force took credit for the attacks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/657163/posts
Of course. The Arab leadership have a conscious policy to increase the PalPot misery index so that they can churn out Islamic nazis by the truckload.
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