Long overdue
Over the last 48 hours, the IDF has done what it should have done a long time ago: It has
arrested most of the Hamas leadership in Judea and Samaria. Now, we should start executing them.
Hamas' parliamentary speaker in the West Bank Abdel Aziz Dweck was
among 50 people arrested by security forces Sunday night and Monday
morning. Hamas leaders Bassem al-Za'arir, Azzam Salhab, Samir al-Qadi
and Maher al-Kharraz were also among those taken into custody.
The arrests come on the heels of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's announcement
that Hamas was responsible for the kidnapping of three Israeli
teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer, and Naftali Fraenkel, on
Thursday.
There are also reports that some of the Hamas terrorists will be deported. That would be a mistake. First, no one will take them. Second, no one will keep them in line if they do take them. And third, they should be executed. Slowly and painfully.
In the meantime, Shimon Peres' creation, in which Hamas is now a full partner, has
condemned the arrests.
Palestinian government spokesman Ehab Bessaiso told reporters in
Ramallah that the latest escalation in security measures was in the
context of Israel’s “collective punishment” against the Palestinians.
He
called on the international community to intervene and demand that
Israel halt its latest measures, including the siege on Hebron and its
refusal to allow families of prisoners held in Israel to visit their
sons.
The PLO leadership condemned Israel for holding the PA
responsible for the safety of the three Israeli youths who were
kidnapped in the West Bank.
“The Israeli government can’t hold the
Palestinians responsible for security in occupied territories,” the
spokesman said, referring to Area C of the West Bank, where the three
boys were kidnapped from, and which is under Israeli security control.
A
statement published by the PLO Executive Committee, following a meeting
in Ramallah chaired by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, accused Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of waging a “racist campaign” against the
Palestinians.
The statement said that Netanyahu’s “false
allegations” were intended to cover up for Israel’s failure to prevent
the kidnapping, and condemned it for imposing “collective punishment” on
the Palestinians, especially in the Hebron area, as part of efforts to
locate the kidnapped youths.
The response to that ought to be to do to Abu Bluff the
same thing that was done in 2002 to his beloved mentor, Yasser Arafat.
Labels: Abu Mazen, Hamas, Mukhata, Palestinian terrorism, Yasser Arafat
Abu Bluff compares terror attack on 9-year old girl to 'Palestinian' rioters being shot
In a meeting with nine Leftist Israeli MK's, '
moderate' '
Palestinian' President
Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen mentioned the
terror attack on a 9-year old girl in Psagot on Saturday night, but
would not condemn it.
“Two days ago a girl was shot or stabbed. That is
not the topic of discussion for today. Four Palestinians were killed in
Kalandiya, too,” Abbas stated.
“We should all condemn murder and
bloodshed of innocents.”
Sounds just like Arafat, doesn't he? But that's not all there is to this story.
Only nine Labor MKs and Hatnua’s David Tsur of
the Knesset Caucus to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – led by MK Hilik Bar
(Labor) and sponsored by pro-peace NGO One Voice – traveled to Ramallah to meet
Abbas in a conference room featuring a large portrait of Yasser Arafat and a
mural of the Temple Mount.
Several Palestinian officials, including PLO
executive committee secretary Yasser Abed Rabbo and Palestinian Committee for
Interaction with Israeli Society chairman Muhammad Madani, attended the
event.
The PA did not return the caucus’s gesture and hang an Israeli
flag in the Mukata even though a Palestinian flag was hung in the Knesset when
officials visited in July. At the time, Madani said that it would be “logical”
to hang an Israeli flag in the Mukata for the MKs’ visit.
Abbas thanked the MKs for visiting,
saying that meeting Israeli and Jewish leaders helps spread a message of
peace.
Keep your barf bag handy and
read the whole thing.
Labels: Abu Mazen, Israeli Knesset, Israeli Left, Middle East peace process, Mukhata, Palestinian terrorism, Samaria, Yasser Arafat
Arafat museum a year away
Thursday will make seven years since the World's most unrepentant terrorist went to hell. A museum honoring the memory of the terrorist, Yasser Arafat, will be opening in the Mukhata complex in Ramallah within the next year. The cost of building the museum is now estimated at $3.4 million - nearly double the
original estimate. The museum will have
thousands of artifacts from Arafat's life.
Thousands of artifacts from former PLO terrorist leader Yasser Arafat's life are being gathered for a new $3.4 million museum in Ramallah. The facility, set to open within the year, is being built on to the Muqata – the compound where the PLO chairman spent the last two years of his life.
That section of the building, which now serves as the headquarters for his successor, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has been sealed since Arafat's death on November 11, 2004.
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The museum is being built by the Yasser Arafat Foundation, inaugurated in Cairo in February 2008 by a group that included PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa and Arafat's nephew, Nasser al-Qidwa, who became chairman of the board.
Some $5 million was already in the foundation's coffers by the time the organization was officially launched. However, the source of the funding is not clear, and no information is publicly available. [What? So little? And he didn't even leave them the Swiss bank account number? CiJ]
Among the thousands of items in the collection being catalogued is one of the famous black and white cotton keffiyehs worn by Arafat, that eventually became the worldwide symbol of Palestinian terrorism, and later, the Palestinian Authority.
“Arafat wasn't better than those in charge today because he brought us all those thieves of the PLO,” a Ramallah shopkeeper, Mohammed Sobeh, told the Associated Press. “But despite all that, I love Arafat because he died while he was resisting” Israel and the United States.
YNet adds a few more '
artifacts.'
Six years after his death, the keepers of the Former Palestinian Authority Chairman's memory are gathering thousands of objects - photographs, pistols, the trademark sunglasses and military-style suits he favored - for display in a museum under construction at his former West Bank headquarters, where Arafat spent the last three years of his life encircled by Israeli forces.
Let's not get all nostalgic for this terrorist scum.
A year and a half ago, when this story first came out, I wrote a list of the top ten things I'd like to see in an Arafat Museum. It's time to break that list out again.
Well, I can think of a few things I'd like to put in that museum. Here's my top 10 list.
1. Video of Arafat's physician saying Arafat died of AIDS.
2. Video of PFLP leader Ahmad Jabril admitting Arafat died of AIDS.
3. "Red Horizons" by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former head of Romanian intelligence under Nicolai Ceausescu.
4. Book by Clinton aide Terry McAuliffe recounting how Arafat made a pass at him.
5. Arafat's blue pajamas.
6. Arafat's uniform that was sold for NIS 200 (about $47 at the time).
7. Arafat's missing Nobel Peace Prize medal.
8. The list of terrorists to whom Arafat was paying salaries during the intifada (taken from computer hard drives when Israel raided the Mukhata in 2002).
9. Arafat's Swiss bank account numbers.
10. Suha Arafat's monthly budget in Paris (one month of which would more than pay for this museum).
For the record, the reason I'm emphasizing things having to do with Arafat's homosexuality is because it's the thing that will most destroy his image among the 'Palestinian people.'
I'm sure Jimmy Carter will be there to cut the ribbon at the opening. But what happens if they find Muslim graves inside when they're doing the construction? Hmmm.
Labels: AIDS, Mukhata, Nobel Peace Prize, Yasser Arafat
