Posted on 02/11/2002 9:29:23 AM PST by kattracks
Excerpt:
HEBRON (Reuters) - About 500 Palestinians stormed a jail in the West Bank city of Hebron Monday and freed 10 prisoners belonging to the Islamic militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, witnesses said.
The prison guards were unable to hold back the crowd, who burst through the prison door, they said.
The incident was the latest in a series of attacks on prisons by Palestinians who say they fear Israeli air attacks on Palestinian security compounds will spread to adjacent prisons where dozens of militants have been jailed.
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They're just not "storming" jails like they used to. Once upon a time a good "storming" would burn off at least 500 calories. Today a brisk walk is more exertion.
The Arab terrorist who murdered a Jewish mother, her 11-year-old daughter and a soldier on Wednesday night in the agricultural community of Hamra was granted the equivalent of Palestinian "sainthood" by the PLO media. So reports Michael Widlanski of www.themediaonline.org. Yasser Arafat's Voice of Palestine radio opened its morning newscast by labelling the attack "istish-haad" -- an act of "heroic martyrdom." News anchorman Nizar Al-Ghul said, "The man carrying out the operation became a heroic martyr after killing two settlers and a soldier and wounding at least four." During Thursday morning's news magazine, the Voice of Palestine played an operatic song that repeatedly calls for "martyrs" and for acts of "heroic martyrdom" inside Jerusalem. The name of the song is "Al Quds Madinat Al-Salaam" [Jerusalem, City of Peace].
The discrepancy between Arafat's conciliatory message to the world in English and his support of terrorism among Palestinians was further evident in the praise afforded Wafa Idris. Idris, a 27-year-old Arab woman, entered Jerusalem last week in an ambulance belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent and later set off a huge bomb on Jerusalem's busiest street, killing one man and wounding 150. The newspapers and broadcast outlets of the Palestinian Authority glorified the woman, running her picture on the front page continuously and proclaiming her a martyr. Three days before the publication of Arafat's New York Times op-ed ["The Palestinian Vision of Peace, Feb. 3, 2002], in which he condemned "the attacks carried out by terrorist groups against Israeli civilians," Arafat's Fatah organization led a demonstration for young Palestinian girls to exalt the woman suicide bomber. Elementary school girls carried posters of the suicide bomber. The text on the posters read: "The Fatah Movement ... proudly eulogizes their heroine martyr, from the Alamari refugee camp, the martyr Wafa Idris."
In an interview with MSNBC television, Arafat refused to condemn the woman's act. "Don't we have the right to resist occupation?"
For the last week there has been no mention whatsoever in the PLO media in Arabic of Arafat's op-ed piece in The New York Times where he said he opposed terrorism.
Should we hide behind the women and children again?"
"Good idea, Habib... that always plays well in France and Belgium."
Hehehe, good one!
How many times has this line been used and why is a reporter this ignorant given such a powerful weapon...that pen's in the hands of an irreponsible child.
Thanks for the ping, M&M. The photo of the child proudly offering to blow himself up to please his "elders" is a heartbreaker.
The only possibility I can figure is that Israel is cleaning the Palestinian areas of active terrorists, one at a time. That it takes prisoners, squeezes them for information, enters another town, takes more prisoners, squeezes them, etc. Does anyone elss see any logic in this? Does that seem likely to achieve the end result of a "peaceful" Palestine?
And by the way, I think Israel's response to the European Union's absurdity that a Palestinian state should be created now, should be this: There are a number of neo-Nazis in various countries in Europe. When Europe as a matter of geopolitical logic creates a new state for all those neo-Nazis, THAT's when Isreal should create a Palestinian state, with the terrorism war still going on.
Congressmna Billybob
Pretty tacky picture. Sorry. I can have it removed if you like. Let me know. . .
Yeah right, I'm sure they put up a big fight.
When the Israelis were in control.
Note there are no Tanziem or Force 17 prisoners just Hizbulla or Islamic Jihad lowlifes. All the prisoners are from the opposition party to Arafat, a good portion of the rest are Arab-Christians. You oppose Arafat's handling of things, you get to visit prison for a bit of PE. Rubber hoses, hang from the ceiling kind of stuff. To bomb the prisons would be counter productive. That is why they bomb the Police Stations. The Israeli's know where the real bad guys hang out.
Arafat cannot be negotiated with as long as his ultimate goal is to drive Israel into the sea. Therefore we must choose a successor, and I don't have a clue who could be next in line, considering that all Palestinians desire that Israel be driven into the sea.
But hey -- pick just about anyone, and we will be no worse off than with Arafat!!
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