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PA Media Glorify Bomber of Tel Aviv Night Club
Arutz 7 ^
| Mar 07, '05
| staff
Posted on 03/07/2005 2:23:28 PM PST by 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 Arafats 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 Badrans 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.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomber; club; glorify; media; night; pa; telaviv
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posted on
03/07/2005 2:23:35 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Oops! I guess Abbas is a terrorist after all....
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posted on
03/07/2005 2:54:34 PM PST
by
TheDon
(The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
To: Nachum
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
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posted on
03/07/2005 3:36:14 PM PST
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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posted on
03/07/2005 3:53:36 PM PST
by
SJackson
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posted on
03/07/2005 4:06:47 PM PST
by
Alouette
(Learned Mother of Zion)
To: Nachum
Make them all shahids..Send them to Allah, wrapped in pigskin..
To: Nachum
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.
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posted on
03/07/2005 5:06:11 PM PST
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: Nachum
"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.
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posted on
03/07/2005 5:25:55 PM PST
by
familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: Nachum
But...but...but...Bush has promised them billions.
More American tax money to kill Israelis, and Americans with.
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posted on
03/07/2005 9:29:11 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: onedoug
More American tax money to kill Israelis, and Americans with. Thanks for including the Americans, 24 so far.
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posted on
03/07/2005 9:53:41 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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