The problem is what happens when and if he returns
Israel has a problem with 'Palestinian' hunger strikers. Despite the fact that the Knesset has passed a law allowing force feeding, we have Leftist doctors who have decided to defy orders and let the 'Palestinians' starve themselves to death. The Israeli government lives in fear of a 'Palestinian' terrorist dying in Israeli custody. And so, we have this:
So we kick the can down the street for four years. And then? And how many more terrorists will we release this way?
Labels: deportation, hunger strike, Palestinian terrorists
Terrorist who planned and funded teens' kidnapping was released for Gilad and deported to Gaza
Last week, I reported on the arrest of Hussam Kawasme, the
confessed ringleader of the plot to kidnap Gilad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach HY"D (May God Avenge their blood) in June. Two other terrorists who are also members of the Hebron Kawasme clan - Marwan Kawasme and Omar Abu Aysha - are wanted in connection with the kidnapping and remain at large. Now, the Times of Israel reports that a third Kawasme brother, Mahmoud Kawasme, who was released as part of the terrorists for Gilad trade and deported to Gaza, has become very close with Hamas in Gaza, and
planned and funded the operation on Hamas' behalf.
Mahmoud Ali Kawasme was one of the Palestinian inmates deported to Gaza in the 2011 prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit.
He is suspected of funding and planning the
June 12 West Bank attack in which Israeli students Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal
Yifrach and Naftali Fraenkel were abducted and killed near Hebron.
His ties to the attack and to Hamas will
likely further implicate the terror group in the killings. Israel has
alleged Hamas involvement, though Hamas’s leadership has denied any
connection to the scheme.
Mahmoud Kawasme’s brother, Hussam, was recently arrested by the Shin Bet and the police anti-terror unit near Jerusalem.
Hussam Kawasme admitted during his
interrogation that he was the commander of the two kidnappers, Marwan
Kawasme and Omar Abu Aysha. All four live in the same area of Hebron.
The latter two are from the Haris neighborhood, while the families of
Hussam and Mahmoud live in the nearby Wadi Abu Ktayla neighborhood in
the northwestern part of the city.
Mahmoud Kawasme is a known Hamas operative who
was imprisoned in Israel until the Gilad Shalit deal, when he was
deported to Gaza under the terms of the agreement, which also obligated
the former prisoners to not return to terror.
Kawasme, though, continued to work with
members of Hamas’s military wing there, in an attempt to bring about
terror attacks in the West Bank. He maintained contacts with terror
operatives in Hebron, as well as other cities like Tulkarm.
According to Palestinian sources, Mahmoud
Kawasme initiated and planned the kidnapping along with his brother
Hussam. Senior members of Hamas’s military wing were aware of the plan,
and gave him money to fund the attack. The kidnappers needed vehicles,
Israeli license plates, weapons, and safe houses.
Israel has not rushed to blame Hamas’s senior
leadership for the kidnapping and murder. Israeli officials have said
there was a general directive for a kidnapping and funding for it, but
there is still no proof of a direct order to kidnap the teens.
But you can bet that if this 'cease fire' holds, Obama-Kerry will be pressuring us to free more 'Palestinian' terrorists (not to mention that Hamas wants us to re-free all the terrorists who were arrested after the kidnapping).. What could go wrong?
Labels: deportation, Gaza, Hamas, Hebron, kidnapping, murder, terrorists for Gilad trade
Beck: Saudi national Alharbi is a terrorist
Glenn Beck reports that Saudi 'person of interest' Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi was involved in the Boston Marathon terror attack alongside the Tsarnaev brothers.
Let's go to the videotape.
The Blaze (quoting Beck)
adds:
“This week has changed me,” [Beck] said at
the top of his radio program on Monday. “The events in Boston changed
me….The events in Washington around Boston changed me.”
We crossed an “extraordinarily disturbing threshold” last week, Beck said, but we know “exactly who we’re dealing with now.”
...
Beck proceeded to put the issue in a larger perspective, noting that multiple news outlets reported after 9/11 that prominent Saudis were allowed to leave the country, even as all flights were grounded.
“The Bush administration would later
block the investigation into Saudi involvement into 9/11, even though 15
of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, and would eventually force the
redaction of a 28-page chapter of the 9/11 Commission report regarding
foreign, specifically Saudi, support for some of the Al-Qaeda
hijackers,” Beck said, noting that the questionable relationship between
Saudi Arabia and the United States goes back further than the current
administration.
But, he said, we have now taken that relationship to a whole new level. “On
January 14, 2013 President Obama met with Saudi Minister of Interior,”
Beck remarked. “Two days later Janet Napolitano signed agreement with
Saudi minister allowing ‘trusted traveler’ status on Saudi student
visitors, meaning greatly reduced security checks and scrutiny.”
“This is trusted traveler status that
we don’t give to some of our most trusted allies, and we gave it to
Saudi Arabia last January?” Beck said. “So they can just walk into our
country no questions asked?”
“There is a pattern,” he said.
“There is a relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia the American
public doesn’t know about. The case of Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi is only
the latest example.”
Read the whole thing and follow the links.
What's puzzling about this is why the Saudis have such a hold over the United States. Why is an 8th century Kingdom able to dictate policy to the world's greatest democracy? It's not oil anymore. The US doesn't import that much, and the prospects for the coming years are that it ought to need even less oil from Saudi Arabia. Obviously, the Obama administration is enamored with their Islam, but why are other people (like the American media, for example) still under the Saudi spell?
Labels: Boston, Boston Marathon, Department of Homeland Security, deportation, illegal immigration, Islamic terrorism, our friends the Saudis
Church terrorists become choir boys?
Monday will mark ten years since a group of terrorists from our peace partner's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took over Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, one of the holiest places for Christianity. After a month-long standoff, which featured ISM members sneaking into the church to resupply the terrorists, the IDF flushed out the terrorists. 13 of them were deported to European countries, while 26 more were deported to Gaza. I posted an extensive account of the siege and its aftermath
here.
YNet reports that some of the terrorists are behaving like choir boys, begging to come back, and mouthing those words that every Israeli wants to hear (but should not believe):
Violence is not the way.
Yassin al-Harimi claims that he is a new man. A decade after he walked out of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, when the world's eyes were all trained on it, the oldest of the Palestinians who were deported by Israel, a man who waited for the IDF's troops among dozens of Palestinians armed to the teeth with explosives, no longer believes that violence is the right path.
"The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the armed struggle were the Palestinian leadership's biggest mistake," he told Ynet on Sunday from his Amman residence. "I'm against an armed struggle – I support peace."
...
"In the last decade most of us haven't done anything special, we mainly hope that one day we can go back to our homes," Samed Halil, who was deported to Gaza and who moved to Jordan after the Hamas takeover told Ynet.
"I think things have completely changed, it's a different era. The whole idea of an armed struggle against Israel is completely over. I no longer think it's the solution – we had experience with it and we realized it wasn't the right thing."
Halil notes that the deportees still keep in touch, mainly by phone but surprisingly, the people they are no longer in contact with are people in the al-Aqsa Brigades who remained in the West Bank.
"I'm different from the man I was then and believe in a popular struggle through peaceful methods. Dialogue between the two sides must be supported as well as the possibility of negotiations in accordance with the conditions stated by the Palestinian Authority within the 1967 borders."
Al-Harimi expresses similar statements. "The armed struggle is not in the interests of the Palestinian people. We need to continue with the struggle through non-violent means in order to obtain peace with the Israeli people and I hope that when there are negotiations it will enable us to come back.
Of course, they don't all feel that way.
Read the whole thing. But I suspect that one of the reasons the IDF was willing to agree to deportation in the terrorists for Gilad trade was because of this experience.
Labels: Church of the Nativity, deportation, Palestinian terrorists
Delicious: Airlines: Let the flytilla 'activists' rot in prisons
In an earlier post, I noted that the airlines are
required to return to their departure points any flytilla 'activists' who are denied entry by Israel. There are currently 124 'activists' being
held in Israeli prisons who have been denied entry into Israel. The airlines are supposed to return those 'activists' to their departure points any flytilla 'activists' who have been denied entry to Israel. There's just one small problem: The airlines are
overbooked. Would you like to give up your seat so that a flytilla 'activist' can be released from jail and sent home?
A senior official for one of the large European carriers told Haaretz on Saturday that "The airlines will have a hard time dealing all at once with large groups of pro-Palestinian activists that Israel wants to deport."
"We're talking about the peak of summer traveling season and the flights are full. We'll have to act accordingly and make different preparations, but first of all, we'll have to receive instructions from the head of the aviation authority in Israel for the deportation of the activists," he said.
"At present, we are unprepared to deal with this, in terms of human resources and in terms of amount of planes," the official added.
The authorities are expected to deport more than 100 pro-Palestinian activists that landed at Ben Gurion airport in the past few days. The last group of 35 activists landed on Friday just before midnight on a Lufthansa flight from Farnkfurt, and were transferred to a police detention facility.
The airline official estimated that the massive deportation will once begin on Sunday, continuing into the week, and will occur in small groups.
And what if the flytilla 'activists' don't want to leave?
The official also said that in the event of violent resistance or physical commotions on the plane on the part of the deportees, the plane's captain is entitled to decide not to carry them on board. The official referenced the return of deportees that arrived in Israel on the Gaza flotilla in June 2010, during which the activists caused disruptions on the flights, delaying them.
Why don't they just tie them to the wings? Heh.
Labels: deportation, flytilla, Palestinian fly-in
