PA Media Glorify Bomber of Tel Aviv Night Club

Arutz 7 ^ | Mar 07, '05 | staff

[Nachum]

Abbas poses pragmatic for the Western press, while the PA Media Portray Feb. 25's Suicide Bomber of a Tel Aviv Night Club as a Hero fighting for Allah.

While PA leader Mahmoud Abbas issues tersely worded condemnations of the February 25th suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv night club, the PA news media has been glorifying the memory of the bomber, Abdalla Badran, calling him a “shahid”, a martyr, a person who died for the highest ideals of Islam.

Taking a page right out of Arafat’s book, Abbas has been projecting a moderate, pragmatic image abroad while the PA's state-controlled media depicts the suicide bomber as a hero fighting for Allah.

The daily newspaper, Al-Ayyam, for example called Badran’s family, “the family of the Shahid” and the bomber an “istish-shahid” a shahid who sought death for Allah and succeeded.

Another paper, Al-Hayat Al-Jedida, printed a giant color photo of the terrorist on the front page with a caption calling him the “Executor of the Tel Aviv Operation”, a caption more appropriate for a fighter carrying out a daring commando raid behind enemy lines than for a terrorist who killed five innocent people at a birthday party.

PA officials interviewed in Arabic expressed dissatisfaction over the attack, not because innocent people were killed, but because the timing was bad.

Hasan Asfour, a member of the PA parliament said to PA television, “This is the first action that no one is happy about. Everyone felt that the timing is not [right] and there is absolutely no need for it... It is not because the resistance against the occupation is a mistake, but because the nature, location and timing of the action are a mistake."

Under Abbas’ PA, killing Jews is still mainly a question of the finding the right location and timing.

[TheDon]

Oops! I guess Abbas is a terrorist after all....

[river rat]

How many times must we be reminded that these bastards will NEVER change...

It's insanity to plan anything but their complete and utter defeat or destruction...

It really a case of them or us --- if there ever was one.

Semper Fi

[SJackson]

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[sheik yerbouty]

Make them all shahids..Send them to Allah, wrapped in pigskin..

[xm177e2]

If this is true, then the honeymoon is already over. The peace process is in its dying throes.

When it goes down this time, we can consider it dead forever.

[familyop]

"Under Abbas’ PA, killing Jews is still mainly a question of the finding the right location and timing."

Yes. One of many problems for Abbas' people is that their vanities will not allow them to find effective location and timing. They are being defeated as they wallow in their pride.

[onedoug]

But...but...but...Bush has promised them billions.

More American tax money to kill Israelis, and Americans with.

[American in Israel]

More American tax money to kill Israelis, and Americans with.

Thanks for including the Americans, 24 so far.