Posted on 01/15/2002 6:25:27 AM PST by consrv_at_IsraelForum_dot_com
The body of an Israeli man has been found in a bullet-riddled car in the West Bank.
Palestinian security officials say the body was found in Beit Sahour.
Initial reports say the man, who also carried a foreign passport, had been kidnapped by gunmen.
Earlier, the two largest Palestinian militant factions said they will stick to a truce with Israel despite their accusations that Israel assassinated a West Bank militia leader.
Supporters of Raed Karmi took revenge just hours after his death killing an Israeli soldier and wounding an officer who had left their armoured personnel carrier to question two Palestinians at a checkpoint.
Israel did not confirm or deny involvement in the killing of Karmi, 27, leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in the West Bank town of Tulkarem.
Karmi had boasted of killing two Tel Aviv restaurant owners and was accused by Israel of having killed a total of nine Israelis. He survived an Israeli missile attack on his car in September.
Karmi's funeral procession wound through the streets of Tulkarem, with mourners carrying his body, wrapped in a Palestinian flag.
Militiamen shot in the air, and one shouted "settlers, beware."
The latest violence undermined US truce efforts, and it is not clear whether Washington mediator Anthony Zinni will return to the region later this week as planned.
Story filed: 14:52 Tuesday 15th January 2002
We absolutely should. We should never have financed the PA, in my opinion. The amount we give to the PA is a drop in the bucket in comparison to what we give to Israel.
Right. You can't, and the land never belonged to the Palestinians. Palestinian refugee is a bit of propaganda which is now accepted as fact by most of the world.
I should have been a little more clear. My statement was an amalgomation of the anti-Israel views which were expressed on the topic. Most of the veiws were expressed by Muslims. Still can't find it. I think Planetarabia deleted it, darn it. It WAS pretty hot. Still looking...
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That's interesting. So you regard the blowing up of teenagers at a disco, blowing up babies and toddlers in a pizza parlor, blowing up high school students strolling in the mall on a Saturday night, smashing the face of 14 year old American kid with rocks until he dies, as what exactly?
stop calling the West Bank "occupied territory" and start calling it "Israel." That is a valid alternative that may be offered for discussion. However, one must understand the situation harly has any precendents in history or law.
Oh, but Israel is a "democracy" isn't it? If the "occupied territories" were, in fact, "Israel" then they'd have to acknowledge that the Palestinians have human rights, How does Israel not acknowledge that Palestinians have human rights?
and the Israelis would be thwarted in their efforts to create an ethnically pure state based on their being the "chosen people." I am not sure whether you have stidied the history of that country or traveled there. Israel has much greater diversity than almost any country in Western Europe. This is not unlike the U.S. because the immmigration there proceeded from all parts of the world. This is includes Black Jews from Ethiopia.
So, best occupy the territories and manage them like a zoo, since the Palestinians, not being chosen and all, are no more than animals anyway. Not worthy of a comment.
Since our support of this noble government in Israel has drawn us into the Mideast quagmire, The Middle-Eeastern "quagmire" we are drawn in started with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. This where out troops are. We have bases in Quatar and Yemen. This has something to do with oil, not with Israel.
at least partly responsible for our own terrorist travails, we owe the Israelis a deep debt of gratitute for their astute management of the Palestinian problem. Well, you attribute our travails to the Palestinian problem, very much in line with Arab progpaganda. There has been enough written about this, so I need not ridicule this any further. You may consider another cause: we all eat potatoes, from time to time; this may have caused Sep.11.
In sum, you atrtibute facts to emotive factors, not exercising even due intellectual care to be correct.
Straight out of central casting.
Fortunately, when it comes to most of the terrorist groups operating within the PA, (Hamas, Hizbollah, PFLP, al-Jihad,PIF, PLF) the US government doesn't share your opinion. In our war on terrror, most of the PA terrorists are our enemies too.
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| Palestinian gunmen fire into the air during the funeral for Palestinian militia leader Raed Karmi, in the West Bank town of Tulkarem Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2002. Members of the Al Aqsa brigade, of which Raed Karmi was the leader in Tulkarem before his death Monday, said they planned to return to their normal routines to avoid being killed by pinpoint Israeli attacks and added that "the Israelis cancelled the cease fire, the Israelis don't want peace". (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh) |
We send about $2.5 billion to Eqypt, Jordan and the PA. Do they get held to a "higher standard"?
End all the US handouts. BTW, why do we send so much money to them?
Arabs Lynch Elderly Jewish Man A 70-year-old Israeli man was lynched in Bethlehem today. His body was found with signs of severe and brutal violence in a soccer field in PLO-controlled Beit Sachur. The man also held American citizenship. PLO naval police, who man a nearby roadblock, were eyewitnesses to the lynch but did nothing.
The victim entered Bethlehem with an Arab acquaintance, who apparently reported the lynch to Israel security forces. Lieut.-Col Sharon Levy, commander of the Bethlehem District Coordinating Office, told Israel Radio that when they received reports of an Israeli in distress, they checked with the PLO police who denied that any such incident was taking place. Levy indicated that he relied upon the PLO report and subsequently "lost connection with the unfolding incident." When he discovered that they had lied to him, it was too late. Levy said, "We have strong complaints against the Palestinians that the police there did not protect the man, did not report the incident to us, and then lied about it."
Officers who saw the body are saying that the victim was badly beaten and shot many times. Not all of the details have become clear; an investigation is underway. For more news as it unfolds, see the Latest News section on http://IsraelNationalNews.com.
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