AUTHOR:G.
DATE:10/12/2002 12:30:00 AM
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Why they are proud of suicide bombings
I read the following piece in today’s Yediot Ahronot (Israeli newspaper), it’s part of an interview with an Egyptian writer, Tzunaallah Ibrahim, published in the French newspaper Liberacion. Ibrahim explained why “Shahids” (“martyrs) are so adored in the Muslim world.
“Our industry is weak, almost nonexistent. I write with a pen made in Japan, on a paper manufactured in Finland, wear clothes that were sewed in China and eat food from abroad. It’s not surprising that we are proud in the human bombs that were created by Arabs. At least there is one thing that is an original and effective product.”
I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. (By the way I’m quite sure that even suicide bombing is not an Arab invention)
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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:10/11/2002 11:53:00 PM
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Abu Mazen again
Abu Mazen, Palestinian Authority number 2, continues to slander Arafat and cry about the mistake the Palestinians have made by choosing the way of terror. Ma’arive reports that Abu Mazen used phrases usually used by US government officials and Prime Minister Sharon. Imshin translated the piece into English. Not that Abu Mazen is close to overtake Arafat, far from it, but still it’s nice to know that there are Different Palestinian leaders. A glimpse of hope.
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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:10/11/2002 11:25:00 PM
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Another miracle
One day after a suicide bomber failed to explode in a bus another suicide bomber failed in his mission of “martyrdom”. The security guards of the American embassy at Tel Aviv’s Herbert Samuel boardwalk nabbed the bomber. The boardwalk is a very busy place, especially in Friday nights.
Eyewitnesses said that bomber aroused the suspicion of a security guard during a standard check at a restaurant’s entrance. The security guard called the security guards of the American embassy. They took off his explosive belt and grabbed his hands and legs while nearby police officers rushed to help them. The explosive belt was removed and detonated by the bomb squad in a safe place.
Not only that the attack was foiled, as a bonus they the bomber was caught alive. He was immediately taken to be investigated by the Shabak, he his up for some nasty experience, nothing like the sexual delights he anticipated. I don’t envy him. There are good chances that all the members of that specific terror cell will be apprehended or wasted in a short time now.
Information: Ha'aretz, Jerusalem Post.
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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:10/10/2002 12:19:00 PM
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1 dead in what could have been a much worse suicide bombing
I woke up this morning and read the newspaper while eating breakfast. There was a big headline about a possible terror attack today. A few minutes later I opened the computer and then I learned that indeed there was a suicide bombing this morning.
An elderly women died another person was moderately injured and about a dozen more were lightly injured near Bar Ilan university. The number of casualties would have been much higher if it wasn’t for luck and the suicide bomber clumsiness. He apparently tried to sneak into the bus from the back exit but the doors were slammed in his face. He was knocked down and laid on the street. The bus driver and a cardiologist rushed to help him not knowing he was a suicide bomber. They took his shirt off and so the explosive belt. They grabbed the terrorists and warned the passengers. Everyone ran away, the terrorist began to struggle and the driver and the doctor decided to let go and run. The bomber ran about 30 meters and blew himself up.
A great deal of luck in this unusual event, no doubt about it. It’s easy for to say it when I wasn’t there but someone should have shot the suicide bomber in the head while the other 2 were holding him, or even smash his face to knock him down for a long time. Again it’s easy to say it now, the 2 men who caught him did a brave thing and saved many lives.
Information: Ha'aretz, Jerusalem Post
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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:10/09/2002 09:52:00 PM
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Def still in serious condition, expecting blind date in heaven
Israeli Channel 2 reported tonight (according to Palestinian sources) that Mohammed Def, who escaped death in an Apache missile attack, is still in serious condition, having trouble recovering. According to rumors in Israeli discussions groups Def lost one eye, he can’t see with the one he still got, one of his legs was amputated and he fractured his ribs. So the bastard can’t see, when he’ll die he will have a “blind date” with the 72 virgins.
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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:10/09/2002 01:27:00 PM
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Shameful
Yesterday 4 Israelis were wounded (update: one of the wounded died today) when their car was fired on near Hebron. Indeed a terrorist brutal act by, as claimed later, the Hamas. But that ugly attack was no excuse to what followed in Hebron later. Jewish settlers agitated by the news went on a rampage tour against Palestinian property. They trashed down merchandise, overturned stalls and smashed the windows of four Palestinian owned cars. The poor Palestinian could nor resist as the settlers carry weapons (with an IDF approval) and they were unarmed. IDF soldiers who urged to stop this shameful attack had to struggle with the loony settlers who tried to go on with their destruction acts. (as seen on the photo).
I understand that the settlers were upset and angry because of the terror attack but that gives them no right to attack innocent Palestinians and confront IDF soldiers who are there to protect the settlers asses. This is not an unusual event in Hebron, the settlers there are continuously taking the law into their own hand harming their neighboring Palestinians and giving headaches to the IDF and the Israeli police. This ugly behavior not only deepens the hatred between the settlers to the Palestinians, it’s also deepens the disgust that sane Israelis feel for them.
I don’t mean to generalize, I’m sure some of the Hebron settlers are different but a lot of them aren’t. They are one of the most fanatic settlers of them all what forces the Shabak (Israeli internal security service) to keep an eye on them.
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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:10/08/2002 02:19:00 PM
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Blog stuff
I’ve added a guest map (on the left above my yet to be used PayPal button {hint} :-) and it would be nice if you’ll add your name (we don’t want the map to stay empty, don’t we?).
Poll results. I asked if you agree with what I write. Not too many chose to answer, there were only 100 nice visitors who where kind enough to answer. (If you didn’t answer you can compensate me by listing yourself in the newly added guest map. Anyway the results:
I always agree 13%
I usually agree 69%
I usually disagree 9%
I always disagree 9%
As from today the blog’s author has a face not just a name. My photo is down at the end of the link list.
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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:10/08/2002 01:06:00 PM
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Letter from a father of a suicide bomber
A brave Palestinian, father of a suicide bomber, publicly protests against suicide bombings. In a letter to London Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat the father wonders why till the leaders of the terrorists groups didn’t send their own sons to blow them selves up? He also understands that the suicide bombings lead the Palestinians to nowhere. Read the all piece, translated by MEMRI (via Ma’ariv).
"I can find no better words with which to begin my letter than the words of Allah, in his precious book [the Koran]: 'Act for the sake of Allah, and do not throw yourselves to destruction with your own hands.'(2) I write this letter with a languishing heart and with eyes that have not ceased weeping. We must, today more than at any other time, obey this Koranic verse, act for the sake of Allah, and refrain from carrying out acts that will throw us to destruction."
"Four months ago, I lost my eldest son when his friends tempted him, praising the path of death. They persuaded him to blow himself up in one of Israel's cities. When the pure body of my son was scattered all over, my last signs of life also dispersed, along with hope and my will to exist. Since that day, I am like [an] apparition walking the earth, not to mention that I, my wife, and my other sons and daughters have become displaced since the razing of the home in which we lived."
"But the last straw was when I was informed that the friends of my eldest son the martyr were starting to wrap themselves like snakes around my other son, not yet 17, to direct him to the same path towards which they had guided his brother, so that he would blow himself up too to avenge his brother, claiming 'he had nothing to lose.'"
"From the blood of the wounded heart of a father who has lost what is most precious to him in the world, I turn to the leaders of the Palestinian factions, and at their head the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and their sheikhs, who use religious rulings and statements to urge more and more of the sons of Palestine to their deaths – knowing full well that sending young people to blow themselves up in the heart of Israel deters no enemy and liberates no land. On the contrary, [it] intensifies the aggression, and after every such operation, civilians are killed, homes are razed, and Palestinian cities and villages are reoccupied."
"Then these leaders and spokesmen appear [in the media] to threaten the enemy with even graver acts of vengeance for their barbaric deeds. They push more young people to their deaths."
"I ask, on my behalf and on behalf of every father and mother informed that their son has blown himself up: 'By what right do these leaders send the young people, even young boys in the flower of their youth, to their deaths?' Who gave them religious or any other legitimacy to tempt our children and urge them to their deaths?"
"Yes, I say 'death,' not 'martyrdom.' Changing and beautifying the term, or paying a few thousand dollars to the family of the young man who has gone and will never return, does not ease the shock or alter the irrevocable end. The sums of money [paid] to the martyrs' families cause pain more than they heal; they make the families feel that they are being rewarded for the lives of their children."
"Do the children's lives have a price? Has death become the only way to restore the rights and liberate the land? And if this be the case, why doesn't a single one of all the sheikhs who compete amongst themselves in issuing fiery religious rulings, send his son? Why doesn't a single one of the leaders who cannot restrain himself in expressing his joy and ecstasy on the satellite channels every time a young Palestinian man or woman sets out to blow himself or herself up send his son?"
"Why, until this very moment, haven't we seen one of the sons, or daughters, of any of these people don an explosive belt and go out to carry out in deed, not in words, what their fathers preach day and night?"
"Are Jihad, martyrdom, and pointless death restricted to a single sector [of the people], without concerning another sector? Doesn't what applies to the sons and daughters of the general public apply [also] to the [leaders'] own sons and daughters? How long will this steadfast people continue to pay the price for the idiotic policy that has proved a colossal failure at obtaining even a tiny part of the usurped Palestinian rights?"
"But what tears at the soul, pains the heart, and brings tears to the eyes more than anything else is the sight of these sheikhs and leaders evading sending their sons into the fray – such as Mahmoud Al-Zahar, Isma'il Abu Shanab, and Abd Al-'Aziz Al-Rantisi. The moment the Intifada broke out, Al-Zahar sent his son Khaled to America; Abu Shanab sent his son Hassan to Britain; and [as she stated to the press], Rantisi's wife has refrained from sending her son Muhammad to blow himself up. Instead, she sent him to Iraq, to complete his studies there."
I think that eventually the Palestinians will come to their senses and stop this ongoing madness.
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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:10/08/2002 12:12:00 AM
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Hamas - PA clash
“Gunmen disguised as police officers kidnapped the chief of the Palestinian riot police Monday and killed him with at least 10 shots in an apparent revenge attack blamed on members of the Islamic militant group Hamas. The car of the police chief, Col. Rajeh Abu Lehiya, was intercepted at a fake checkpoint set up by the assailants, police said. Later Monday, four men were shot dead in clashes between Palestinian police and Hamas supporters. Two men were killed in clashes between Hamas supporters and police in Gaza City, and another two Hamas backers died in clashes in the Nusseirat refugee camp.“ (Jerusalem Post)
Apparently the police officer was murdered as revenge for the death of a Hamas activist, who was killed by PA police, during Hamas’ support demonstrations in Bin Laden right after September 11. The family (“hamula”) who wacked this PA officer is strongly linked to Hamas. Hamas officials say they have nothing to do with the killing but that does not satisfy the Palestinian Authority, they demand that the murderers will be handed over to them. When it comes to their own men the PA don’t have any problem to confront Hamas. They already killed 4 Hamas members and injured 35 Palestinians (where is the EU to shout that innocent civilians are getting hurt?), further more the PA threats Hamas it will arrest it’s people if the murderers wont be handed over.
Stupid stupid people.
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