"What do you think Abdul...
Should we hide behind the women and children again?"
"Good idea, Habib... that always plays well in France and Belgium."
(/sarcasm)
They probably offer them coffee and point to where the keys to the cells are.
How do these people ever expect businesses and industry to develop in their region if this is how stable the people are? Don't they understand that this is the type of behavior that keeps them poor, unemployed, ignorant, and dangerous?
Sigh. How can anybody take anything Arafat says or claims to do seriously anymore? Arafat's Palestinian Authority has what, about 30,000 troops, largely armed with assault rifles (the real kind, not the Brady Bill kind). Yet the average prison stay for an "Islamic militant" in PA custody seems to be about three days, after which an "uncontrollable mob" reliably "bursts" into the "prison" to "free" him—and that only happens in the rare case when the "guards" don't simply drop the charade and release the "prisoner" themselves. Obviously those 30,000 machine-gunners aren't guarding prisons, quelling riots or busting up mobs, so what exactly are we supposed to believe they are doing each day?
Why can't I shake the sneaky suspicion that the guards didn't try very hard?
Where's Kevin Costner when you need him?
"What do you think Abdul...
Should we hide behind the women and children again?"
"Good idea, Habib... that always plays well in France and Belgium."
How would one tell ?
The United States gave them recognition, pressure on Israel, money, training, etc.
Their end of the bargain was that all they needed to promise was to renounce violence and jail the terrorists.
We are at the "fool me a thousand times shame on me" stage.
This is no longer the Arabs fault, it is now all the fault of Israel and the United States.
When has there ever been law and order in Palestinian-ruled areas?
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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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.
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
Yeah right, I'm sure they put up a big fight.