'Why are they killing children just like me?'(Bahrain)

Gulf Daily News Bahrain ^ | 4/15/02 | staff

[LarryLied]

A 10-YEAR-OLD Bahraini girl yesterday sent a heart-breaking appeal to US President George Bush, urging him to stop the Israeli massacre of Palestinians.

Modern Knowledge School student Fajer Hussain Mohammed presented a letter yesterday to US Ambassador Ronald Neumann, at the embassy in Zinj.

"What caused this anger, to kill poor, innocent children," Fajer asks in her letter to President Bush.

"The children of Palestine have a right to enjoy their childhood and not die at this young age."

Fajer, accompanied by her mother Mona Ibrahim, read the letter to Mr Neumann, who promised to make sure that it is delivered to President Bush.

They both later released a white pigeon from its cage in the embassy's courtyard, as a symbol of peace.

"I am very pleased by the warm welcome I received from Mr Neumann, whom I am sure will do his best to give this letter to the US president," said Fajer.

"The letter was my only way to express my deep sadness about the brutal killing of the Palestinian people by the Israeli armies.

"I wish I could have done more for my brothers and sisters in Palestine but for the time being this is all I can do."

Fajer said she wrote the letter to President Bush because she was confident he would be able to end the war in Palestine.

"The president is a very strong and powerful man. I am sure that somehow he can come out with a solution and stop the killing of the innocent people in Palestine," she added.

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Open letter to Bush...
By Tom Martin in
Israeli-Occupied Washington DC

Dear Mr President,

I saw footage of the destruction of Bethlehem on CNN. I am sickened and repulsed at the wanton destruction of this city. Unfortunately, every Palestinian city is experiencing the same. I have many friends in Bethlehem, all of whom have families, young children. God only knows the terrors they are experiencing. I am so sad and angry that I can barely write this note to you. While you are probably sleeping, your allies are slaughtering the hopes of an entire people and destroying their lives. You make me ashamed to be an American citizen.

You have made the entire nation accomplices to this barbarism. You have made all Americans accomplices to Nazi-like thuggery and it is a stain the American nation will NEVER be able to remove. Just as the Germans have been stained by their past, so have you stained the reputation forever of every American citizen.

Mr President, your continued support for the regime of Israel and its murderous and destructive action is disgusting and immoral. I don't know what Bible you read but it is not the one I used when attending Mass in Bethlehem. For you to ever walk in a church after your support for this murderous escapade will be sinful.

You can be assured that I and my entire family will spend the rest of our lives to make sure that this Nazi-like nation never receives another US penny to use to murder more people. When I worked in the US Congress, I considered what we were giving to be excessive then. Now, we have already given $100 billion to Israel. The problem they face is that their greed to steal more land and murder more people met with resistance and they are paying the price. The occupation has corrupted that country to its rotten core.

Israel defending itself. What a joke. Ariel Sharon is a war criminal and you have made us his sponsor. This is no war on terror. This is terror unleashed on an entire unarmed population with a few fighters trying to defend their families and homes. You have stained the reputation of the United States of America. My country!!!

Mr President, you are an embarrassment to humanity. And, unfortunately, you have just cheapened the life of every American. Your administration will go down in history as the one that snapped the moral fibre of this country to the rest of the world.

Ashamedly yours.

[LarryLied]

Several freepers have family members stationed in Bahrain. One freeper is leaving for Bahrain in a week or so on a work contract. We use an airfield and Naval pier in the country. Last week our embassy was firebombed and 50,000 protested the US and Israel in the streets. Bush called the King of Bahrain up last Thursday. We used Bahrain's facilities in the Gulf War and this winter Bahrain sent a frigate to assist us in humanitarian relief off the coast of Pakistan. This level of unrest is not usual for the country.

[weikel]

I think the trouble is being caused by rent a mobs organized by Saudi agents( who blend in among the other Saudis who go to Bahrain to get drunk) the Saudis are responsible for all this crap.

[weikel]

BTW why did u post the letter by that Tom Martin ahole you know how bad the Palis are.

[Governor StrangeReno]

This is Radio free westbank propagating hatred from womb to tomb today we have Archmullah Rabidbraini from Hommous to address you...

[Jethro Tull]

The prevailing thought on the FR seems to be that anyone the Israeli's kill deserves it.

Therefore, your posting will soon be deemed the work of an anti-Semitic disruptor.

Sorry...

[MadIvan]

To the Bahrani girl:

Your people have hounded Israel from Day 1 of its existence. They have plotted its destruction through a number of wars, killed innocent civilians through terrorist actions and suicide bombings, tried to isolate it, invade it, tear it asunder.

Under normal circumstances, no state would tolerate this kind of nonsense. Israel's obligation is to protect her people. It was created in the first place to ensure that a massacre like the Holocaust never happened again.

If the Palestinians do not raise a hand to Israel again, the retaliation will stop. But not before. And no one should stop Israel from defending itself. Even if it offends brainwashed children.

Your people also have committed a great crime against my country, Britain, by your support of IRA terrorists that have killed my countrymen. Your people's religious fanaticism created the World Trade Centre incident and the slaughter of innocents from a variety of nations, including Muslim ones.

It is not Israel nor the West that needs to stop. If you want to live in peace, purge the hatred in your own heart. If not, it will be purged for you by force.

Mad Ivan

[LarryLied]

I posted it so freepers who have relatives stationed over there and others know what the local paper is saying about us. Wonder what the guy did in Congress. Hope he takes the next flight home

[Cindy]

...and now a break for the news: TERRORISM NEWS BOX: SUICIDE-HOMICIDE BOMBERS DefenseLINK.mil - AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE: "TERRORIST SUICIDE BOMBERS ARE 'KILLERS,' DEPUTY DEFENSE SECRETARY PAUL D. WOLFOWITZ SAYS" by Gerry J. Gilmore (041502)

Dubai GULF NEWS.com: Sharjah. "ENDOWMENT FUND FOR AL AQSA, PALESTINIANS" (041502)

JANG.com.pk: "ARAFAT'S WIFE DEFENDS SUCIDE BOMBERS" (0413402)

NY POST.com - Opinion Column by Daniel Pipes: "MAKE THE SAUDIS PAY FOR TERROR"

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "PALESTINIANS VOW TO KEEP USING SUICIDE BOMBERS" by Paul Martin (041502)

ABSOLUTE NEWS (BP): "POWELL HEARS SUICIDE BOMBER DETONATE; EVANGELICALS SEEK 1 MILLION IN PRAYER" by Art Toalston (041502)

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE.com: "HAMAS TERRORISTS TRIGGERED MIDDLE EAST VIOLENCE" by Joseph A. D'Agostino (041502)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "NETANYAHU WARNING CONFIRMED" by Joyce Howard Price

NETANYAHU.org: BINYAMIN NETANYAHU SPEECH BEFORE THE U.S. SENATE (041002)

JERUSALEM POST.com: "11TH GRADER CAUGHT IN FIFTH TERRORIST ATTACK" by Etgar Lefkovits (041402)

NewsMax.com: "SAUDI DIPLOMAT PRAISES SUICIDE BOMBERS IN POEM" by Carl Limbacher and the NewsMax.com staff

IRNA.com - ISLAMIC REPUBLIC NEWS AGENCY: Tehran. "SHAHROUDI SAYS PALESTINIANS STRUGGLE IN DEFENSE OF ISLAM" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "He called for the Palestinian people and youth to continue their movement of Intifada which he said was the main measures that could secure a victory for the Palestinians over the Zionists.")(041402)

TIMES OF INDIA.com: "AL-QAEDA SYMPATHISERS' CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY FOR YEMEN BLASTS" (041302)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): "SAUDI TELETHON RAISES OVER $100 MILLION FOR PALESTINIANS" (041302)

CNS NEWS.com: "SAUDIS RAISE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR PALESTINIAN FAMILIES" by Lawrence Morahan (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Saudi Arabia's government has paid out millions of dollars to the families of Palestinians killed or injured in the 17-month-old uprising against Israel, including $5,333 to the "family of each martyr," a reference that some believe means the next-of-kin of suicide bombers who have killed scores of Israeli civilians.") (041202)

ARABIC NEWS.com - Egypt-Palestine, Religion: "GRAND IMAN TANTAWI SAID PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE SUICIDE PERSONS ARE 'MARTYRS'" (March 21, 2002)

MEMRI.org - THE MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Latest News: Dispatch No. 367: "SAUDI GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED DAILY PRAISES PASSOVER AND JERUSALEM SUPERMARKET SUICIDE BOMBERS" (041102)

Dubai GULF NEWS.com: "Saudi Arabia raised more than 50 million riyals by midnight in a telethon held yesterday to help Palestinians in the Occupied Territories"

(DUBAI) GULF NEWS.com - Sharaj: "MUSLIM GIRLS TOLD TO PROJECT ISLAM'S TRUE IMAGE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Salha pointed out that the club plans to hold a solidarity evening for Palestine on the sidelines of the meeting. It will include a documentary film on the situation in the Occupied Territories and a charity dinner, the proceeds of which will be allocated to the families of the martyrs in Palestine.") by Doaa Zeitoun (041102)

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS.com: "SUICIDE BOMBER APPREHENDED IN TULKAREM" (The JERUSALEM POST is identifying the would-be suicide bomber as Shifa Adnan-an Kutzi, age 24.)

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: "WHY A PALESTINIAN GIRL NOW WANTS TO BE A SUICIDE BOMBER" by Cameron Barr (ARTICLE NOTE: The girl being interviewed was Shireen Oudeh, age 14.)

WASHINGTON POST.com (REUTERS): "CLERIC LAUDS BOMBING BY WOMEN" (040102)

NY POST.com: "U.S. 'ALLY' PAYS BOMBERS" by Niles Lathem and Vincent Morris

UPI.com: "SAUDI ARABIA SET ASIDE $50M FOR 'MARTYRS'" by Pamela Hess, UPI Pentagon Correspondent(040902)

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com

WorldNetDaily.com - from DEBKA Intelligence Files: "ARAFAT 'LOSES' $50 MILLION Payroll Funds Diverted To Terror Campaign, EU Makes Up Difference" (February 26, 2002)

GULF-DAILY-NEWS.com: $1 MILLION FOR PALESTINIANS" (040702)

GULF NEWS.com - Dubai: "FUJAIRAH WELFARE GROUP CASH ASSISTANCE BENEFITS 24,855" by Tahseen Shaghouri (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Twenty university scholarships were given to Palestinian students.
The association also sponsored 44 Palestinian families and more than 1,500 orphans, and sent 500 cartons of medicine and other relief material to the people of Palestine last year.") (040502)

JERUSALEM POST.com: "DOCUMENTS: ARAFAT APPROVED PAYMENTS TO TERRORISTS" (040502)

MEMRI.org - THE MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Latest News - Special Dispatch No. 363: "LEADING EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT CLERIC CALLS FOR 'MARTYRDOM ATTACKS THAT STRIKE HORROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE ENEMIES OF ALLAH'" (040502)

YAHOO! News - Photo Gallery: "Suicide Bomber" (NOTE: Click on any of the numerous thumbnail photos to get THE BIG PICTURE.)

THE MEDIA LINE - Bulletin: "YASSER ARAFAT'S HEADQUARTERS WAS CENTER FOR COUNTERFEITING MONEY" by Michael Widlanski WorldNetDaily.com: "THE KORAN: SUICIDE PLAYBOOK" -Commentary by Paul Sperry (040902)

INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONCERN Press Release: "INDONESIAN 'JIHAD' READY TO COMBAT AMERICA"

KNOX STUDIO.com (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH): "CONCERN ABOUT SUICIDE BOMBERS IN U.S." by Philip Dine (040302)

FBI.gov: "MOST WANTED TERRORISTS"

FBI.gov: "SEEKING INFORMATION" (Click Here)

IDF.il: "FIGHTING PALESTINIAN TERROR"

JERUSALEM POST.com: All the latest news and updates from Israel online

CLICK HERE for archived war on terrorism, suicide-homicide bomber news & commentary links.

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[kattracks]

"The children of Palestine have a right to enjoy their childhood and not die at this young age."

Is she talking about the children that the Palestinians are training to become suicide bombers?

[LarryLied]

I think the trouble is being caused by rent a mobs organized by Saudi agents

On another thread somebody pointed out that the protesters were the Iranian style of Muslims. Many were carrying Hezbollah flags.

[weikel]

I believe the extreme minority of Palis who don't need killing are executed as collaborators. The rest are either direct involved or support, harbor, encourage etc terrorism.

[MadIvan]

Is she talking about the children that the Palestinians are training to become suicide bombers?

Precisely. Sod them.

We got a good dose of what all this was about on the day of the WTV attack and I will never forget this - after the attack, the Israelis sent specialists to help pull people out of the rubble. The Palestinians fired guns in the air to celebrate. That is the end of the discussion so far as I am concerned. Israel is doing us a favour.

Regards, Ivan

[weikel]

The rank and file Persian doesn't give a damn I suppose since Bahrain is mostly Shiite but has a Sunni ruling family the Iranians could be involved.

[MadIvan]

It's all the same Al Jazeera watching public. They don't have Fox News in the Arab world.

Regards, Ivan

[KDD]

To those who always complain that I weep for Jewish children but not Muslim ones, let me say I weep for Ayat Mohammed al-Akhras, the straight-A high-school student who blew herself up in a supermarket last week. She spent eight years in a toxic education system run by Yasser Arafat, she grew up in a culture that glorifies human sacrifice promoted by Yasser Arafat, she was recruited by subordinates of Yasser Arafat, supplied with explosives paid for by Yasser Arafat, and dispatched as a human bomb with the blessing of Yasser Arafat.

I weep for every Arab child so perverted by a contemptible cowardly old man.

My advice to Sharon: Arrest him and fly him to The Hague. If the Europeans like him, let 'em have him.

There are two sides in this struggle: One is prepared to offer land, the other is prepared to offer "the right to exist."

That argument should have been settled six decades ago. As it says on the wall at Dachau, "Never Again."

But, as the old song says, "I'll Never Say 'Never Again' Again."
Mark Steyn

[weikel]

Ive heard in confidential surveys there are a lot of satellite dishes in Iran and "Baywatch" is the most popular TV show I don't think the average Persian believes in Pan Arab crap or despite the Mullahs wants to convert the world to Islam by fire and sword.

[MadIvan]

The Iranians are a bit different (and they hate to be identified as Arabs). They had a secular government and developed a taste for it. Most of the Arab world isn't that lucky.

Regards, Ivan

[Death2Islam]

Dear Tom,

Sincerely,

The Good Guys

[weikel]

Like the name.

[weikel]

Damn Carter to hell the Shah would still be there if he hadn't pressured the Shah to realease all the Fundis and Soviet agents he imprisoned and fired all of our field agents in the Middle East.

[Death2Islam]

after the attack, the Israelis sent specialists to help pull people out of the rubble. The Palestinians fired guns in the air to celebrate. That is the end of the discussion...

Perfectly stated. As far as I'm concerned, Israel is the 51st state. What is done to them is done to us all.

[MadIvan]

I will also never forget that my mother was in the New York area at the time. Had she been in the WTC, the Israelis would have tried to get her out, the Palestinians danced on her grave. And people want to criticise me for saying we ought to kick Arafat up the jacksie?

The same applies to anyone else. Who is your friend and who is your enemy. This reaction proves it to any reasonable level of satisfaction.

Regards, Ivan

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Hope he takes the next flight home

Me too! We can string him up on the same lamppost as Johnny Jihad!

[csap]

Kids like these?

Oh, no. those kids are Jews, not "Kids Like Me"

We don't care about those jew. Let them all die.

[sleavelessinseattle]

I get so nauseated when I see the little trainee suiciders with their fake belts on. Maybe that makes us weak. Here is a people who literally take credit for parading human bombs in the street. I feel like a paradigm shift needs to take place in the portrayal of these people...They have to be declared as combatants and bloodied so badly that the massari schools abandon this strategy...Otherwise this will never end.

I would be in favor of permanently "tagging" people who show up at these protests and show violenct intent with dye or dusts or something and permanently banning them from the US and Israel just based on their attendance at these rallies...Then we have border detectors that pick up the signature of the taggant and the people are turned back...In jails "you gotta keep em separated" meaning gangs...If this isn't a case of gang criminality, I don't know what is. Civilization cannot stand against this death cult without getting its hands dirty.

[weikel]

In a way having no innocent ones around makes the job easier the IDF can kill every Pali over the age of 10 and then go sleep the sleep of the just knowing that yes they really were all bad people to a man.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Another alternative is to totally disarm the populace, set up real schools and medical care and wait out the generation of bitter malcontents crying out for justice(psyops(small "P")could be used to discredit whatever press attention the hard core powerless militants would undoubtedly receive.

Moral insanity requires the highest and most sophisticated form of opposition...I don't know if we can get enough information into the hands of the global community to reach that diagnosis, but that ISLAM is PEACE crap has GOT to be deconstructed!

[eclectic]

"The children of Palestine have a right to enjoy their childhood and not die at this young age."

Tell that to Arafat!

[Phil V.]

To: Death2Islam

Like the name.

I believe you.

Flies like dead things too.

[Phil V.]

To: Death2Islam

Like the name.

I believe you.

Bye, bye, D2I

[csap]

And this boy?

Also not "Children Like Me".

[verity]

Ugly kid!

[ohioman]

Well....if you support the Pali's (the same folks who cheered on Sept. 11) then ye shall be deemed as a terrorist lovin asshole.

[My Identity]

The children of Palestine have a right to enjoy their childhood and not die at this young age."

Thanks to TomGuy for much of the above.

MORAL CLARITY
An honorable, moral solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Isn't the only honorable way to "solve" the Arab-Israeli conflict through the use "ethnic cleansing?" (And by that term I mean the polite, but forceful removal of all 3 million Pali from Eretz Yisrael -- which is not "genocide", as some on the Left misuse the term.) Let me explain.

The current wave of "suicide" bombers (a misnomer, since their primary goal is not suicide but the mass murder of civilians) is unprecedented and unrelenting. But it should not be unexpected. It is the direct (and obviously planned) result of brainwashing that started with Pali children as young as kindergarteners. Look at the faces of the babies in the pictures above. What vomitous horror - visiting this upon their heads. What unspeakable evil.

The Palestinian descent into barbarism does not have some dimly-lit origin. The homicidal-bombers are not some unforseen phenomenom that sprung forth from the "hopelessness" of the populace (as the PA "leaders" would have us believe). They are part and parcel of the war machine created by the PA to wreak systematic havoc on Israel. Someone was paid to train -- or more accurately, brainwash -- the Pali youth. Someone was paid to buy the explosives and make the bombs. Someone was paid to search out and plan a path to a weak spot in Israeli defenses. Someone was paid to store the bombs and then give these homicidal-bombers their weapons. Someone was paid to videotape their farewell messages. Someone was paid to transport these homicidal-bombers across security lines. Someone paid the family tens of thousands of dollars specifically for their "martyrdom." And, as we are now learning, those paymasters include Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the Saudi elite.

The PA has not been preparing its people for peace, but radicalizing them for the sole purpose of destroying Israel. The PA has appointed militant clerics who preach hate and "martyrdom". By doing so, they have knowingly turned this into a religious war, one in which compromise is heretical. And in doing so, the Palestinians have rejected the Oslo premise that the conflict is about borders, about which compromise is required. Indeed, as Henry Kissinger has noted:

In reality, the number of Palestinian leaders... who want peace in the Western sense -- as a point after which the world lives free of tensions with a consciousness of reconciliation -- is minuscule. The fundamental schism is between those who want to bring about the destruction of Israel by continuing the present struggle, and those who believe that an agreement now would be a better strategy to rally forces for the ultimate showdown later on.

The result of Arafat's strategy of hatred is now known: Pali society cannot co-exist in peace with Israel. Recent polls tell the story clearly. Over 87% of the Palis support the murder of Israeli women, and children, even babies. Given these numbers and the underlying religious fervor, there is NO POSSIBILITY of a negotiated settlement that would be honored by the Palis within their lifetime. Arafat has filled the Palis with visceral hate to prepare them for unrelenting war. He has brainwashed an entire generation of youngsters to become suicide bombers. He has unleashed almost 10 years of official "judeo-nazi" indoctrination on the Pali people. Arafat has committed crimes not only against the entire populace of Israel, but against Palestinians and their children as well. Truly, these are Crimes against Humanity.

Current conditions make ethnic cleansing not only justified, but morally required. As antithetical as it sounds to liberal ears, ethnic cleansing is literally the only humane solution. To pursue a negotiated settlement is akin to locking a tiger and a human with a gun in the same cage. Assign the roles to whomever you wish, but the result is the same. Someone in the cage is eventually going to be killed, maybe both.

The world community's role in this to date has been to create this inhumane spectacle, this caged, semitic death match. The world community's response going forward ought to be the equivalent of an "Allied invasion of Nazi Germany" because nothing less will suffice to rid the world of this monstrosity. Eject all Arab peoples from Gaza and the West Bank (because once you eliminate the terrorists, their supporters and their families, virtually nobody is left). Then round up the PA "leaders" (including "clerics" and "teachers"), and put them on trial for their Crimes against Humanity. If they are found guilty, hang them in public.

And to the extent that this PA policy was conducted, funded, supported, promoted, or otherwise enabled by their Arab bretheren (notably Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia) then it is incumbent upon these countries to pay for their sins by taking in the Palis. Arabs created this mess. Let Arabs bear the toll for the human misery they created.

Even Tom Friedman of the New York Times has come around, finally grasping the global ramifications of Arafat's evil:

"...all they [the Palestinian leaders] can agree on is what they want to destroy, not what they want to build... Let's be very clear: Palestinians have adopted suicide bombing as a strategic choice... This threatens all civilization because if suicide bombing is allowed to work in Israel, then, like hijacking and airplane bombing, it will be copied and will eventually lead to a bomber... with a nuclear device threatening entire nations."

What is needed is the elimination of this cancer on humanity. End it quickly before more innocent lives are lost. End it now or it will escalate to Weapons of Mass Destruction. End it clearly and with finality so that there is absolutely NO ambiguity that civilization finds this abhorent. If nothing else, as a sop to liberal sensibilities, end it for the children. Moral clarity demands nothing less.

[denydenydeny]

Indexing.

[LarryLied]

Therefore, your posting will soon be deemed the work of an anti-Semitic disruptor.

I'm becoming more opptimist about that. Seems many freepers (to my surprise because it doesn't happen with other identity politics labels) didn't want to post and be called an antisemite for not following a certain party line or for saying the "wrong" thing without even knowing it. Slowly that is changing as more as speaking up and the baseless charges of antisemitism are repeated so often they become an object of mockery.

FR is returning to a good old days of honest all-American knock-down drag-out fist fights. The creeping up and slitting of throats from behind is slowly receding.

[veronica]

Disgusting. Can't say I am surprised though.

[One4Indictment]

Sorry it has taken me so long to reply to your question on whether I would be able to post on FR when I get to Bahrain. As far as I know, there will be no restrictions on internet use. I leave for Ft. Worth, TX this Sunday for a week of training and then I'll come home to Reno for a week and then fly out to Bahrain. The contract is for approx. 19 months. I will keep you up to date on the happenings there to the best of my ability. And thank you for your interest and concern for me. God Bless you.

[LarryLied]

Don't you disappear on us. The freeper posse will track you down no matter where you are.

Best wishes for a great trip. Sounds exciting.