Posted on 03/11/2006 6:38:50 AM PST by Hannah Senesh
Palestinians throughout the West Bank expressed sorrow Saturday over the killing of American Tom Fox, 54, who had traveled to the West Bank to protest for their cause before he was taken hostage in Iraq.
Fox's body was found shot in the head and chest Thursday near a Baghdad railway station. He had worked with Christian Peacemaker Teams in the Palestinian areas before he began work with the group in Iraq.
Fox, from Clear Brook, Virginia, had demonstrated in the West Bank town of Jayyus against the construction of the security fence and he helped Palestinians pick olives, local Palestinians said.
"Tom used to sit in front of the (Israeli) bulldozers to block them," said Jayyus' mayor, Shawka Shamha. "Hearing news that he was killed makes me very sad."
Sharif Omar also from Jayyus said that Fox lived at his brother's house for three months while local Palestinians and foreign activists protested against the construction of the barrier.
"I'm very sorry to hear that he has been killed," Omar said.
Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron also remembered Fox. Neither Fox nor the Briton and two Canadians taken hostage with him deserved to die, said Hisham Sharabati, a human rights activist who met Fox.
"I'm calling for the kidnappers to release the other hostages," Sharabati said. "This killing harmed the Palestinian and Iraqi causes because the hostages were working for peace."
The two Canadians - James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden - also worked in the Palestinian areas.
When the four were taken hostage in November last year, the Palestinians' top Muslim clergyman, Mufti Ikrema Sabri, called for their immediate release.
What a tool!
Its about time these "peace idiots", I mean "activists" get nominations for the Darwin award!!!
Beyond anything else, how anything can be termed a "wall" when between 95% and 97% of the structure is purely fence is utterly beyond me.
Their protests only delay the eventual.
In the eyes of fanatical Muslims no peace activist is a friend.
Useless idiot.
"These fools should know that if they don't get killed now...it's only a matter of time."
They are called "peace activists," but, in reality, they are just supporters of terror. When did a "peace activist" ever sit in a Jerusalem bus or a Tel Aviv cafe to protest suicide bombers?
With friends like these ....
Their definition of peace is surrender to evil.
"With friends like these ...."
Yup, and we Jews have millions more just like him all across the world.
'delusions of grandeur' and 'messianic complex' come to mind. Poor misguided naive man.
Their definition of peace is surrender to evil.
These "peace idiots" deserve what they get. In the end, they are still an infidel, and when they no longer serve as a usefull tool for the Jihadists, They are given Mohammad inspired "justice".
This should be an example that all these leftist idiots should pay attention to. This is the reward they will recieve for all the help they give to the barbaric animals, the son's of Satan, enemy of all mankind.
The idiocy of the pacifists.
From what I've seen with these people....
it's usually over-use of illegal drugs that damage the parts of the brain supporting logic.....
and inevitably......
the loss of a conscience!
Will they do the wallalwallalwallalwallalwallalwalllah Dance and pass out candy?
Gee, somebody forgot to tell the terrorists they were working for peace. Oh, well.
Codswallop. They were working for the insurgents who took them hostage and killed one of their number.
Being an American trumps all, as far as the kidnappers were concerned. It is no accident that only the American was killed.
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