Would-be suicide bomber runs home

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, April 24, 2002

[JohnHuang2]

Israel's month-long offensive to smash Palestinian terrorist strongholds in the West Bank has had a side effect worth noting: Some ordinary Palestinians are no longer afraid to speak out and admit their distress – in front of television cameras.

In the Jabalya camp of the Gaza Strip, the local correspondent for Israel's Channel 2, Seliman a-Shafi, gave Sunday night viewers a rare glimpse into the mind of a would-be suicide killer – a terrified adolescent aged 14 who freely told his story.

Sent on a suicide mission against an Israeli military position – he did not say by which group – he set out with another boy in the dark of night. Halfway there, he stopped.

"I didn't want to die," he said, tears rolling down his face. "I wanted to go back to my family." He tried to persuade his friend to return home with him. The friend refused. The boy turned back alone and a few minutes later heard an explosion. Filled with fear, he ran hard until he reached the safety of home.

The boy's family took part in the interview, led by his comfortably ample mother and surrounded by her large brood. "They take our children when they are too young to understand, to decide if they want to die. Why don't they take the louts hanging round the markets? My boy is in shock. He can't stop weeping. He doesn't know whether he did right or wrong. We don't let him out of the house without his father – in case he changes his mind again, or they catch him. We are all in shock."

In a strong, assertive voice, she told the interviewer that she was not the only mother in this situation. The Gaza Strip is full of women keeping a tight hold on their young sons. "All of us here are badly traumatized," she said. "But there is not a single psychologist in the whole territory to help us."

The boy from Gaza was not by any means the youngest child to be marked out as a "martyr." In Jenin, where the walls were plastered with large posters depicting dozens of dead youths, Israeli soldiers learned to beware of innocent-looking 10- and even 7-year-olds with hidden bombs.

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[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, April 24, 2002

Quote of the Day by ArrogantBustard 4/23/02

[My Identity]

"I didn't want to die," he said, tears rolling down his face. "I wanted to go back to my family."

Thanks to TomGuy for much of the above.

MORAL CLARITY
An honorable, moral solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Isn't the only honorable way to "solve" the Arab-Israeli conflict through the use "ethnic cleansing?" (And by that term I mean the polite, but forceful removal of all 3 million Pali from Eretz Yisrael -- which is not "genocide", as some on the Left misuse the term.) Let me explain.

The current wave of "suicide" bombers (a misnomer, since their primary goal is not suicide but the mass murder of civilians) is unprecedented and unrelenting. But it should not be unexpected. It is the direct (and obviously planned) result of brainwashing that started with Pali children as young as kindergarteners. Look at the faces of the babies in the pictures above. What vomitous horror - visiting this upon their heads. What unspeakable evil.

The Palestinian descent into barbarism does not have some dimly-lit origin. The homicidal-bombers are not some unforseen phenomenom that sprung forth from the "hopelessness" of the populace (as the PA "leaders" would have us believe). They are part and parcel of the war machine created by the PA to wreak systematic havoc on Israel. Someone paid to have the Pali youth trained -- or more accurately, brainwashed -- in "martyrdom". Someone paid to have the explosives acquired and the bombs made. Someone paid to have weak spots in Israeli defenses searched out. Someone paid to have these weapons stored and then distributed to the homicidal-bombers. Someone paid to have videotapes made of the bombers' farewell messages. Someone paid to have these homicidal-bombers transported across security lines. Someone paid the family tens of thousands of dollars specifically for the "martyrdom" of their children. And, as we are now learning, those paymasters include Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the Saudi elite.

The PA has not been preparing its people for peace, but radicalizing them for the sole purpose of destroying Israel. The PA has appointed militant clerics who preach hate and "martyrdom". By doing so, they have knowingly turned this into a religious war, one in which compromise is heretical. And in doing so, the Palestinians have rejected the Oslo premise that the conflict is about borders, about which compromise is required. Indeed, as Henry Kissinger has noted:

In reality, the number of Palestinian leaders... who want peace in the Western sense -- as a point after which the world lives free of tensions with a consciousness of reconciliation -- is minuscule. The fundamental schism is between those who want to bring about the destruction of Israel by continuing the present struggle, and those who believe that an agreement now would be a better strategy to rally forces for the ultimate showdown later on.

The result of Arafat's strategy of hatred is now known: Pali society cannot co-exist in peace with Israel. Recent polls tell the story clearly. Over 87% of the Palis support the murder of Israeli men, women, and children, even babies. Given these numbers and the underlying religious fervor, there is NO POSSIBILITY of a negotiated settlement that would be honored by the Palis within their lifetime. Arafat has filled the Palis with visceral hate to prepare them for unrelenting war. He has brainwashed an entire generation of youngsters to become terror-bombers. He has unleashed almost 10 years of official "judeo-nazi" indoctrination on the Pali people. Arafat has committed crimes not only against the entire populace of Israel, but against Palestinians and their children as well. Truly, these are Crimes against Humanity.

Current conditions make ethnic cleansing not only justified, but morally required. As antithetical as it sounds to liberal ears, ethnic cleansing is literally the only humane solution. To pursue a negotiated settlement is akin to locking a tiger and a human with a gun in the same cage. Assign the roles to whomever you wish, but the result is the same. Someone in the cage is eventually going to be killed, maybe both.

The world community's role in this to date has been to create this inhumane spectacle, this caged, semitic death match. The world community's response going forward ought to be the equivalent of an "Allied invasion of Nazi Germany" because nothing less will suffice to rid the world of this monstrosity. Eject all Arab peoples from Gaza and the West Bank (because once you eliminate the terrorists, their supporters and their families, virtually nobody is left). Then round up the PA "leaders" (including "clerics" and "teachers"), and put them on trial for their Crimes against Humanity. If they are found guilty, hang them in public.

And to the extent that this PA policy was conducted, funded, supported, promoted, or otherwise enabled by their Arab bretheren (notably Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia) then it is incumbent upon these countries to pay for their sins by taking in the Palis. Arabs created this mess. Let Arabs bear the toll for the human misery they created.

Even Tom Friedman of the New York Times has come around, finally grasping the global ramifications of Arafat's evil:

"...all they [the Palestinian leaders] can agree on is what they want to destroy, not what they want to build... Let's be very clear: Palestinians have adopted suicide bombing as a strategic choice... This threatens all civilization because if suicide bombing is allowed to work in Israel, then, like hijacking and airplane bombing, it will be copied and will eventually lead to a bomber... with a nuclear device threatening entire nations."

What is needed is the elimination of this cancer on humanity. End it quickly before more innocent lives are lost. End it now or it will escalate to Weapons of Mass Destruction. End it clearly and with finality so that there is absolutely NO ambiguity that civilization finds this abhorent. If nothing else, as a sop to liberal sensibilities, end it for the children. Moral clarity demands nothing less.

[cavador]

The way I see it is that ALL Palestinian males should be charged with child abuse.These bloody cowards are too scared to fight Israel themselves so they have children and force the children to go and blow themselves up next to israelis and hopefully kill some jews.

These cowards(wanabe's) have no intestial fortitude to face a professional soldier like the Israelis,and perhaps the only military training they have ever had probably would have been a visit from a member of the saudi branch of Al Quieda .

The sooner these lowlife scum are eradicated the sooner some stability will return to the Israel /Lebanon area.

[The Great Satan]

In a strong, assertive voice, she told the interviewer that she was not the only mother in this situation. The Gaza Strip is full of women keeping a tight hold on their young sons. "All of us here are badly traumatized," she said. "But there is not a single psychologist in the whole territory to help us."

Now the palibabies want us to pay for psychiatrists to talk them out of blowing themselves up. Truly, these must be the dumbest people on the face of the earth.

[xm177e2]

DEBKAfile is remarkably good at repeating the exact words from conversations. It's uncanny </sarcasm>

[billybudd]

No, ethnic cleansing is not moral clarity, it's more of an evasion. It may be true that Israel, by nature defined in terms of its Jewish ethnicity, may need to resort to ethnic cleansing to prevent the conflicts inherent in maintaining a permanent ethnic underclass. But that does not make it moral. We certainly would not accept anything like that here in the US because our state is not defined by ethnicity, but by acceptance of the laws and Constitution. The best alternative for Israel is to simply expell people on the basis of whether they are engaged in the planning or execution of terrorist activities. This would solve the terrorist problem, and would probably be easier to carry out than attempting to forcibly relocate 3 million people. It would also remove the need to legally discriminate on the basis of ethnicity. In all likelyhood, for all the demonstrations we see on TV, if the Israelis removed all terrorist elements from its territories, there would still be million of Palestinians willing to work and live peacefully in Israel.

[My Identity]

One cannot deport a suicide-bomber.

The problem is that the Pali society is sick.
It will take at least a full generation to "fix" it.
Israel and the Palis, each by their own admission,
would be better off without the other.
Since Israel can't go anywhere, and the Pali situation
was artificially created by their Arab "bretheren",
the humane move would be to put the Palis under Arab care.

[JAWs]

Why don't they take the louts hanging round the markets?

Because they're the ones who will be the secret police under Yasser.

[Alouette]

"I didn't want to die," he said, tears rolling down his face. "I wanted to go back to my family."

This kid and his whole family just "outed" as "collaborators."