Posted on 04/07/2002 6:54:43 PM PDT by Kay Soze
Why isn't the PLO seizing perhaps the most sacred Christian site a big deal worthy of a huge amount of violence directed at the Arab people? hmmmm.
I know the answer but the reason (cited by the whack jobs) for the current 18 months of nonstop violence has been the Temple Visit by Sharon. Which was known in advance and authorized by Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security service. Rajoub even stated there would be no reaction.
Does the seizing of the Church of Nativity by the PLO justify a bloody campaign of nonstop terror against the Arabs that want to create a Palestinian nation? Or Muslims?
I believe it does not.
This is the deference between faith in God and faith in man (Mohhamad).
The building is important architecturally, historically and symbolically... If it saves even one jewish child from being nailbombed... I say raze it to the ground.
Do nothing that gives the terrorists any hope of rescue, or retrieval... wipe them out. We know they are in there. Tear Gas them, and then end it. Cut off the power and use night vision to infiltrate the compound. Do whatever it takes to arrest the nailbombers of little children.
There will be no peace or palestinian state till those who deny Israel's right to exist and live securely are gone. Sad to say, the musli think hiding in a Church will save their murdering hydes... if it does, they will do it again and expand on the concept even more the next time.
Take away all chits from their collection of terrorist tricks. End the siege, storm the building. It will be over tomorrow. I am guessing.
ICEJ NEWS - 04/08/2002
In a secret session Sunday in Gaza City, a Palestinian military court sentenced six Palestinians to death for collaborating with Israel.
One of the accused, a 15-year-old boy, had his sentence commuted to 15 years of hard labor because of his age, Palestinian officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The court ruled that the other five, adults who had been arrested over the past six months, would be executed for giving information to Israel about Palestinian security installations and details on Palestinian men who were later assassinated by Israel.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat must approve the death sentences before they can be carried out.
Chances are that the 15-year-old might be killed anyway by vigilantes who take it upon themselves to carry out justice. Killings of suspected collaborators have become almost a daily occurrence in recent weeks: Last week, Palestinian militants killed 10 Palestinians in one day for allegedly cooperating with Israel. Two collaborators were dragged out of a jail in Bethlehem and executed publicly and then dragged through the city. In Jenin, eight people were taken out of jail and killed in public.
In Ramallah last month, the corpse of an accused collaborator was strung up from a monument in the center of town. And earlier this year Palestinian gunmen stormed a court session in Jenin when they heard that one of three accused collaborators was sentenced to hard labor instead of the death penalty because of his young age. The gunmen beat and killed the suspects in the bathroom and later dragged the bodies through the streets.
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