Abu Bluff: Enforcing minimum sentences for honor killings would not benefit women
Of course. Enforcing minimum sentences for honor killings would not benefit 'Palestinian' women. No 'Palestinian' would be deterred from honor killings by a law that imposes minimum sentences. And death sentences are only for 'collaborators' with Israel (Hat Tip:
Jack W via
Blazing Cat Fur).
In May 2011, the president pledged to amend the law to guarantee maximum
penalties for "honor killing" in response to protests over the killing
of university student Aya Baradiya in Hebron.
The decision was announced in a phone call to a primetime show on state
TV, drawing tears among crowds of mourners shown in a live link-up from
the Ramallah studio to Baradiya’s hometown.
Abbas suspended
Article 340, which offers a pardon for murder if the perpetrator
committed the crime on finding his wife in bed with another man.
The reform was cosmetic: Article 340 had never been used in Palestinian courts since it was legislated in 1960.
"So why did we change the law? To garner public opinion," [Abu Mazen's legal adviser Hassan] al-Ouri said in an interview in the presidential compound in Ramallah.
"I,
personally, was against the amendment because the crimes that happen in
the street have no relevance to Article 340," the legal adviser added.
Al-Ouri
says the president will not change the go-to clauses for lawyers
seeking leniency for clients who claim they committed murder to defend
family "honor."
Articles 97 to 100 of the Jordanian Penal Code,
in force in the West Bank, still offer reduced sentences for any act of
battery or murder committed in a "state of rage."
"The (law) only addresses 1 percent of the problem. What we need is a new culture," al-Ouri said.
Sounds like the same new culture they need to get with respect to Jews. Maybe if they get a state.... Nah. Don't bet on it.
What could go wrong?
Labels: Abu Mazen, honor killing, Palestinian leaders
The red carpet that welcomes 'Palestinian leaders' in the West becomes a shabby rug in Arab countries
Yoram Ettinger points out an anomaly: 'Palestinian leaders' are warmly greeted in the West while
the Arab countries treat them quite shabbily.
Arab leaders have never considered the Palestinian issue their prime concern, but an intra-Arab tool and a pawn against Israel. They are aware of the subversive and treacherous history of the Arafat-Abu Mazen wing of the Palestinians, which was therefore expelled from Egypt in the late 1950s, from Syria in 1966, from Jordan in 1970, from Lebanon in 1982 and from Kuwait in 1991.
Thus, Arab leaders marshal their rhetoric, but not their resources, on behalf of Palestinians. For example, during the October 2010 Arab Summit in Libya, Arab leaders pledged $500MN to the Palestinian - only seven percent was ever delivered. More than $2 billion were pledged by the Arabs in support of the first and second Palestinian Intifada against Israel, but less than $500 million reached the Palestinians. During the 1980s, Arab financial support of the PLO was less than 10% of Arab financial support of the anti-Soviet Muslims in Afghanistan.
Arab regimes did not actively support the PLO during its 1982 war (in Lebanon) against Israeli and they did not flex a significant muscle on behalf of the Palestinians during the 2008 war in Gaza. In fact, this has been the Arab attitude toward the Palestinian issue since 1948, irrespective of the identity of the Palestinian leader: Haj Amin al-Husseini, Shukeiri, Hammuda, Arafat, Abu Mazen or Haniyeh.
The Red Carpet, which welcomes Palestinian leaders in the West, is transformed into a shabby rug upon landing in Arab capitals. What do Arab regimes know about the Palestinian issue that Western policy makers do not know or understand?!
The Arabs are smart enough not to trust the 'Palestinian leadership.' They read what they say in Arabic and know what they have done in the past. The West reads what they say in English and thinks they're a bunch of exotic underdog revolutionaries.
Labels: Palestinian leaders, Palestinian lies
Israel starts to cut the 'Palestinian' VIP count down to size
On Wednesday night, at the Allenby Bridge crossing into Jordan, Israel began to cut the
number of 'Palestinian' VIP's down to size.
Israel prevented former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia from crossing into Jordan by car, Ynet reported Wednesday. The soldiers at the crossing told Qureia he would not be able to cross in his car and that he had the option to take a bus as others do.
Israel has officially announced that from now on only Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad would receive special treatment. Security establishment officials admitted that Wednesday's decision had to do with Qureia's recent statements against Israel's settlement policy.
So from now on, only 'Palestinian' leaders who want to live in peace with Israel will be allowed to cross as VIP's. By that definition, one has to wonder why Abu Bluff and Fayyad aren't told to take the bus as well.
Labels: Abu Ala, Abu Mazen, Allenby bridge, Palestinian leaders, Salam Fayyad
