Why isn't Muhammad Abu Shahala all over the western media?
Have you ever heard of Muhammad Abu Shahala? If not, you should. Caroline Glick tells his story. THIS WEEK, a Palestinian court sentenced Muhammad Abu Shahala to death for selling a home in Hebron near the Cave of the Patriarchs to Jews. Shahala was arrested shortly after several Jewish families moved into the house last month. He was reportedly tortured and quickly tried and sentenced to die by a PA court.And who is protesting Muhammad Abu Shahala's death sentence? Only the Jews.
The PA was established in May 1994. The first law it adopted defined selling land to Jews as a capital offense. Shortly thereafter scores of Arab land sellers began turning up dead in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria in both judicial and extrajudicial killings.
Leaders of the Jewish community of Hebron wrote a letter to international leaders this week asking them to intervene with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and demand that he cancel Shahala's sentence. They addressed the letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, the director-general of the International Red Cross, Yves Daccord, as well as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres. In it they wrote, "It is appalling to think that property sales should be defined as a 'capital crime' punishable by death.
"The very fact that such a 'law' exists within the framework of the PA legal system points to a barbaric and perverse type of justice, reminiscent of practices implemented during the dark ages."
They went on to make the reasonable comparison between the PA's law prohibiting land sales to Jews to Nazi Germany's Nuremburg laws that constrained and finally outlawed trade between Jews and Germans. The letter concluded with the question, "Is the Palestinian Authority a reincarnation of the Third Reich?"
Certainly this is newsworthy. Yet a search of the New York Times Web site turn up zero matches for the search term "Muhammad Abu Shahala," only asking if you meant someone else.Where? It's just Muslims killing Muslims. No one is interested in that. Peace?
Similarly, a search of the Washington Post Web site also turned up zero matches for "Muhammad Abu Shahala."
And a search on the Wall Street Journal Web site returned, "Sorry, there are no results for your search query, please try another search."
Maybe the fact that even the sale of property by a Palestinian to a Jew is a crime punishable by death under the Palestinian Authority is "another example of why there is no peace." And remember, this is the "moderate" regime to which Israel is supposed to make concessions.
Where's the good sense? Where's the tolerance? Where's the coverage?
Labels: anti-Israel media bias, Arab land sales to Jews, Hebron
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:38 AM
2 Comments:
Easy. The Western press is a department of the marxist enterprises of each country. The Left has spent a generation teaching the planetary proletariat that we cannot Judge any person or culture that is not operating in the first world. So anything the dictators do is a non-judgeable action, because it's just how they do things. I recently heard a high level corporate officer say *exactly* that about women being ripped up from the inside in Egypt.... "it's just how they do things there." FGM? "It's just their culture." So they hate Israelis and are ready to execute to prevent real estate deals? "Poor babies; it's just how they do things there. It's been like that forever." So Caroline, there will be no coverage except maybe to chastise Jews for wanting to live.
if he is to be executed for selling the Hevron home to Jews, doesn't that make the post zionists argument that the sale was not legal moot?
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