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God punished Columbia because an Israeli 'spy' was on board, Palestinians say
Jerusalem Post ^

Posted on 02/02/2003 10:09:51 AM PST by RCW2001

God punished the space shuttle Columbia because its crew, which included an Israeli astronaut, was on an espionage mission against the Arab and Muslim nations, some Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip told The Jerusalem Post today.

Many did not share the feelings of their leaders, such as Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat who offered his condolences to the US over the Columbia tragedy.

"They were sent to space to spy on the Arabs and Muslims,"said Rudainah Salman, a 28-year-old schoolteacher from Ramallah. "I have no sympathy for the astronauts because they were doing something bad to us. Allah punished them because of their bad intentions. I hate the Americans and the Israelis because of what they are doing to our people."

Salim Najjar, a mosque preacher from a village near Jerusalem, told a group of Muslim worshippers that a "divine omnipotence" was behind the tragedy.

"This is a message from God to America and Israel that they must stop their aggression against the Arabs and Muslims," he said. "Israel and America are trying to control the world through their arrogance and with the help of military force. On Saturday they were reminded that God is there to protect the believers, the people of the Prophet Mohammed, God s blessing and peace be upon him."

At the Kalandya refugee camp south of Ramallah, a group of young men sitting in a small restaurant said they felt happy when they heard the news of the space shuttle explosion.

"We heard that the Israeli was a pilot in the Israeli air force who had participated in the attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor," said Jamil Shehadeh, a 22-year-old mechanic. "God is great because this pilot has now been punished for the crime which he committed. I wish we will have more disasters like this in the US and Israel. Who do the Americans and Israelis think they are?"

One of his friends, Ayman Dweik, 19, said he heard "somewhere on TV" that the Columbia explosion was the first in a series of disasters that are expected to hit the US.

"They said on TV that the next strike is going to be when the sea opens and swallows one of the American warships that s on its way to attack Iraq. This is the will of Allah, that all the enemies of Islam shall be destroyed. People here say that the shuttle was on an espionage mission to gather information on the Arab and Muslim countries," Dweik said.

A Christian shopkeeper in the Old City of Jerusalem said he was stunned to see that many of his colleagues expressed their joy at the tragedy. "I can't understand many of these people who say they are delighted that the space shuttle exploded," he said.

"This isn't a political issue. So what if an Israeli astronaut was on board. We need to deal with this subject on a human and scientific basis. This is a tragedy to all mankind."


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: backwardspeople; columbia; feb12003; jpost; palestinians
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To: Chi-townChief
And Mr. Dweik wont have to worry about looking 'somewhere on TV' for Gods wrath, because it will be in his backyard.
41 posted on 02/02/2003 11:14:45 AM PST by ewing
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To: RCW2001
The best way to ensure peace is to kill the enemy.

Ensuring peace also shuts the enemy's mouth.
42 posted on 02/02/2003 11:16:43 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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To: RCW2001
Once again, the Palestinians prove themselves to be a filthy, ignorant, superstitious rabble that lives in the 15th century. Their culture is a blight on humanity.
43 posted on 02/02/2003 11:34:32 AM PST by Astronaut
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To: Blue Collar Christian; LindaSOG; mhking
What the Goddess was writing is actually from a book that I've really found interesting to read.

Mess With Israel At Your Own Peril

44 posted on 02/02/2003 11:41:02 AM PST by MoJo2001 (I'm honoring America today, I am staying home and not arguing with Liberals in person.)
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To: denydenydeny
LMAO!! I feel the same way when I read any thread he posts. Perhaps, he'll volunteer to be a HUMAN SHIELD on behalf of Iraq.
45 posted on 02/02/2003 11:42:38 AM PST by MoJo2001 (I'm honoring America today, I am staying home and not arguing with Liberals in person.)
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To: Will_Zurmacht
Does anyone actually care what these fools think?

I care. I care because we give them money. I care because they celebrated on 9/11.

46 posted on 02/02/2003 11:42:45 AM PST by Catspaw
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To: null and void
Wasn't the koran written based on voices heard in a cave???

Islam is what Julian Jaynes had in mind when he wrote The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

From the Julian Jaynes Society website:

At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but is a learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastrophe only 3000 years ago and still developing. The implications of this new scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed, our future. In the words of one reviewer, it is "a humbling text, the kind that reminds most of us who make our livings through thinking, how much thinking there is left to do."

Presents a theory of the bicameral mind which holds that ancient peoples could not "think" as we do today and were therefore "unconscious," a result of the domination of the right hemisphere; only catastrophe forced mankind to "learn" consciousness, a product of human history and culture and one that issues from the brain's left hemisphere. Three forms of human awareness, the bicameral or god-run man; the modern or problem-solving man; and contemporary forms of throwbacks to bicamerality (e.g., religious frenzy, hypnotism, and schizophrenia) are examined in terms of the physiology of the brain and how it applies to human psychology, culture, and history.

47 posted on 02/02/2003 11:53:11 AM PST by LouD
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To: RCW2001; All
I was over at CPAC that day, and some guys were spreading around lies that the Israeli astronaut had a bomb in his bag and Israel blew up the shuttle in order to galvanize the situation between Israel and the US.
48 posted on 02/02/2003 11:55:06 AM PST by yonif
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To: txradioguy
"OPERATION: RAGHEAD BEGONE"... has just become...

"OPERATION: SAND TO GLASS"...

Mustang sends...with hope it'll come to fruition.
49 posted on 02/02/2003 12:12:46 PM PST by Mustang
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To: RCW2001
Note to Palestinians, you don't have anything worth spying on.

Outhouses are not vital technology.

50 posted on 02/02/2003 12:14:59 PM PST by DAnconia55
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To: Righty1
LOL... you beat me to it.
51 posted on 02/02/2003 12:15:44 PM PST by DAnconia55
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To: Blue Collar Christian
What are the spokesmen for God going to say when Islamic countries are demolished by the U.S. and Israel?

*crickets chirping*

52 posted on 02/02/2003 12:16:26 PM PST by PokeyJoe (Act with Courage, Support Promethius)
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To: LindaSOG
4. January 21, 1998: Lewinsky Scandal—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Clinton at the White House and is coldly received. Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright refuse to have lunch with him. Shortly afterwards on that day, the Monica Lewinsky scandal breaks into the mass media and begins to occupy a major portion of Clinton's time.

So what you're saying is this caused God to make Monica give Klinton a hummer. That's the cause and effect you other items has.

Makes perfect sense, if you're nuts.

53 posted on 02/02/2003 12:18:46 PM PST by DAnconia55
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To: yonif
I was over at CPAC that day, and some guys were spreading around lies that the Israeli astronaut had a bomb in his bag...

Somebody at CPAC was saying this? Do you mean they were actually pushing such a story themselves, as opposed to repeating something that was said in the Arab press?

54 posted on 02/02/2003 12:19:45 PM PST by AzJohn
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To: RCW2001
Another Paknews.com exclusive...

Columbia's Disaster: Mistake Of Indian's Chawla?

55 posted on 02/02/2003 12:23:33 PM PST by milestogo
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To: AzJohn
Yes. A few of those people, during the news that came in, went around talking to their "buddies", saying that Israel did this. I was listening in and one of them said he is conducting a private conversation which was none of my business. I asked who is saying this and he said that it was his opinion.
56 posted on 02/02/2003 12:29:58 PM PST by yonif
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To: yonif
Wow--I would have expected this from the Muslim press or a hard left group. I suppose there is a lunatic fringe everywhere.
57 posted on 02/02/2003 12:32:28 PM PST by AzJohn
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To: MoJo2001
"Mess With Israel At Your Own Peril."

I could not agree more with that statement, however I doubt the validity of ANYONE'S interpretations of current events implying that a political mistake, or an instance of moral ineptitude by a particular party or person are a direct link to Biblical theologics. Same kind of thing with the natural dissasters. When persons of the Christian/Judeo community of thinking put current events up to fulfilment of prophesy, they are stooping to the same level as these Muslim extremists. Interpretation of prophesy and statisics are used and misused by all parties of all sides of issues to make their own particular point of view seem to be the truth. It is senseless argueing and a waste of resourses when we should be prepared for the best or the worst at all times.

We are best off knowing to stay allied with Israel, no doubt.
58 posted on 02/02/2003 12:37:56 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian
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To: RCW2001
God punished Columbia because an Israeli 'spy' was on board, Palestinians say

Maybe the US should punish the palies by just telling the Israelis to do what they need to do.

59 posted on 02/02/2003 12:38:57 PM PST by Centurion2000 (The question is not whether you're paranoid, but whether you're paranoid enough.)
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To: DAnconia55
Do they finally have outhouses? Boy, am I out of the loop!
60 posted on 02/02/2003 12:40:06 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian
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