Posted on 03/14/2002 6:56:38 AM PST by truthandlife
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:39:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A leader of the largest Palestinian terrorist group spearheading suicide bombings and other attacks against Israel says he is following the orders of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
''Our group is an integral part of Fatah,'' says Maslama Thabet, 33, a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Fatah, headed by Arafat, is the largest group in the Palestinian Authority, the government of the autonomous Palestinian territories.
(Excerpt) Read more at usatoday.com ...
BTW, why are their parents allowing the children to look at this dead body? To enforce the idea that if you are even thought to be a collaborator with Israel, this is what happens to you?
What is zero divided by zero???
What's the matter? You seem very dedicated to trashing the current President...are you a left over McLame guy or, perhaps, you are preparing to join Alec Baldwin in the land of the absurd.
Try utilizing some current event knowledge, instead of dribble to make your non-sensical commentary.
It is absolutely AMAZING to me that this kind of statement NEVER EVER reaches the mainstream US press!!! I don't care HOW leftist they are, this is an outrage and a disservice to our citizens who need to know that Arafat is PART OF THE PROBLEM. He is nothing but a diplomat-assassinating, wheelchair-tossing, athlete-murdering, airplane-hijacking, child-sacrificing, international aid-stealing thug, and our press legitimizes his actions every day that they don't tell the truth about him. Makes me sick.
End rant.
As the terrorist wing of Arafat's Fatah faction, the brigade has the support of the largest political and military faction in the Palestinian Authority. Hussein A-Sheikh, a Fatah political leader in the West Bank, seems insulted when asked whether the brigade is under Arafat's control. ''Of course, there is control,'' he snaps. ''What do you think? That we are just a bunch of gangs?''
What a statement. He is so arrogant that he doesn't dare let us believe that they are just a bunch of rock-throwing hooligans out raising cain past curfew. Oh no, make no mistake about it, folks, we take our orders from The Man, and we're proud of it.
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Notice that it doesn't say anywhere what you might expect to see in any area that was not controlled by thugs and barbarians - specifically, it does not say that "the alleged murderers have been arrested by Palestinian police, and have been arraigned on charges of murder, and are being held in jail with no bail set, pending the setting of a trial date. The suspects have been identified as...".
He is doing that himself by aligning himself with terrorists. I know, I'm not being helpful.
And Bush decided to back him ...
Bush and Arafat
I can see them in the Rose Garden together ...
I'm definitely not happy with aspects of the Bush administration's Israel policies, but considering how drastically different it is from Clinton's, I am willing to wait and see for a little while longer. So far it seems all Bush has done is give Arafat rope with which to hang himself, and there are always conditions, ones that I suspect Bush knows Arafat has no intention of EVER meeting. But like I said, we'll see. We do know that all nations will one day be against Israel so unfortunately that includes the US too. Bush has to stand before God one day just like the rest of us, and he surely has a tough line to walk in the meantime.
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