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The required awareness - [A Palestinian statement AGAINST targeting innocent civilians]
Palestine News Agency - WAFA ^ | 4-25-02 | By Wafa political Editor

Posted on 04/25/2002 4:41:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Gaza April 25th 2002, By Wafa political Editor;

Abusing our lives and living by Israel must come to an end; we have to reorganize our strategies to meet up with the growing heroic struggle of our people. Because no one even Israel that possesses the ultimate power of deception, lies, and committing massacres and other war crimes, practiced against the Palestinians, and while defending its atrocities it is depriving the Palestinians the legitimacy of struggling against the occupation and for independence.

No one can deny the heroic conducts of the Jenin Refugee Camp’s strugglers, a struggle that invoked the world admiration and brought the Israeli field command to a nervous breakdown when incapacitated the advance of the most equipped military in the region for a long time.

Even though we support the fight missions against the invading forces and the armed settlers that commit lynches against the caught or the surrendering Palestinians, we disapprove killing Israeli civilians and we denounce such acts, because many Jews are demonstrating for our cause and against the Israeli practices and many even were tried for their attitude, and because basically we are against killing people according to our religions and believes.

We are focusing now on the three boys killed, last night in Sheikh Ejleen, by the Israeli forces that used tanks, artillery and light bombs as is if it was a battle between equal armies.

Due to narrow minded mistakable thinking we haven’t opposed the participation of children in the struggle against the occupier, an act that was taken as a single conduct, but when these acts grew to become a phenomenon, it is time when we should strongly object, we have to be courageous enough to admit that sending boys to be slaughtered meters away from “Nitsarem” settlement is an unforgivable mistake and even a crime, it is a crime against our children, our future and our ethical cods, and we must question those behind it and try them. The terms, of right and wrong, and a matter of opinion are not applicable in the case of children, because children are minors that lack proper judgment and we do not own their God gifted life.

The whole Palestinian society condemns sending such children to suicidal operations, this is a healthy and natural logic, these children are our treasures for the future they will be the men who will lift high the Palestinian society, and we did not raise them to become almost men and women in order to be sent to their early death.

In their age the discussion on martyrdom or heroism is a sick and over due logic and against all social, cultural religious and ethical cods, and those who prepare them for the operations are criminals that have betrayed and disgraced the Palestinian society, this society that have proudly presented true heroism to the whole world, and it impact is imposing its dark shadows over the Israeli community.

Our image in presented in Jenin Refugee Camp, in Nablus and the historical steadfast in the rest of the Palestinian cities, towns, villages and refugee camps, and that Palestinian fighter that conquered ten Israeli well armed soldiers, using only a simple old rifle killing them all, polarizing the world’s admiration and the Israelis’ astonishment, this is our Palestinian image and our storage of inventing new methods of struggle, but not these boys at Nitsarem settlement’s fence.

The Palestinians have presented largely, operation revealing a great deal of experience, wisdom, and the ability to deal with the events, are not allowed now to destroy all this record by childish actions while our future and credibility are in stake and judged by the entire world.

Frankly, this incident’s stupidity is beyond our acceptance, besides it diminishes our gained proud image by hard work and intensive efforts. An image peaked at Jenin Refugee Camp the camp of the massacre that disgraced the Israeli entity throughout the entire world.

Let us save our children protect them and prepare them for the future’s independent State.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; civilians; palestinian; pna; statement; suicidebombers; wafa
Note that this is from the "official" PNA news organization. Could this signal the end of Arafat's radical left-wing suicidal control over "Palestinian" people?
1 posted on 04/25/2002 4:41:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Naw, it means that Israel either arrested or killed the guys who were ordering the mass murderers into Israeli cities to kill innocents at pizza parlors, coffee shops, bat mitzvahs, discos, coming out of synagogues, into Seder dinners--and the Israelis busted up a number of the bomb factories. It's PR spin.
2 posted on 04/25/2002 4:46:22 AM PDT by Catspaw
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sounds like a lonely voice in a sea of irrationality.
Someone ought to polish this translation and give it wider distribution.
This voice has been overdue about 54 years...
3 posted on 04/25/2002 4:48:05 AM PDT by Publius6961
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Note that this is from the "official" PNA news organization.

Israeli hackers cracked their website.

4 posted on 04/25/2002 5:06:51 AM PDT by Alouette
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"Note that this is from the "official" PNA news organization. "

How official is official here? Who controls them, and how much influence do they have relative to other policy promoting Palestinian organizations? Does the editor reside some place where it's difficult to shoot him?

Could it be that Arafat's isolation and half-hearted forced statement against terrorism has created an opportunity some less militant personalities to test the water?

5 posted on 04/25/2002 5:42:30 AM PDT by elfman2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Did the author sign his name? IMHO, this statement isn't worth a bucket of warm spit if the author is unwilling to sign his name to it.
6 posted on 04/25/2002 5:52:13 AM PDT by mewzilla
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Source: 

Palestine News Agency

© Palestine News Agency - WAFA. All rights reserved.

Tel: ++972 8 2824056,   Fax: ++972 8 2824046

 

7 posted on 04/25/2002 6:03:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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I have been reading their website and posting a few articles for a few weeks and the author's byline is usually the "Wafa Political Editor". I've never seen the writer(s) actually put their name on one of their articles.
8 posted on 04/25/2002 6:05:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
and because basically we are against killing people according to our religions and believes.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is a joke, right?

9 posted on 04/25/2002 6:09:33 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hmmmm. Well, I guess we all know the reason why they won't sign their John Hancocks to anything, don't we?
10 posted on 04/25/2002 6:11:38 AM PDT by mewzilla
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Note that this is from the "official" PNA news organization. Could this signal the end of Arafat's radical left-wing suicidal control over "Palestinian" people?

No. It means they believe they are close to getting their statehood, which will allow them to field a proper army with which to attack the Jews from within while the other muslims attack from outside. Once they get their state, they figure they can coordinate the final battle plans and kill all the Jews within a few hours.

Boy, are they in for a surprise...

11 posted on 04/25/2002 6:14:50 AM PDT by Lion's Cub
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I looked at that first, but who knows what they are.
12 posted on 04/25/2002 6:19:15 AM PDT by elfman2
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To: Publius6961
the Israeli forces that used tanks, artillery and light bombs as is if it was a battle between equal armies.

This sort of remark always just makes me shake my head: "it wasn't a fair fight." Oh really. Well, folks, this isn't a game, is it? We develop superior technology so that we can win battles. I can never figure out people who think that if the person trying to kill you has only a knife and you have a gun, you should put down your gun and give him a fair shot at your throat.

13 posted on 04/25/2002 6:55:10 AM PDT by Anamensis
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'm not sure written English language statements would have any credibility. What is notably missing is a spoken, videotaped statement by Arafat supported by other senior members of the PA denouncing the terror by all ages and in all forms. Until then, IMO skepticism should reign.
14 posted on 04/25/2002 10:17:45 AM PDT by swarthyguy
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