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December 05, 2003
Jihad gazette
News that another terrorist attack has been foiled by Israel raises even more desperately serious issues. Two Palestinian alleged human bombs were captured by the Israelis in the West Bank, on their way to blow up the pupils of a junior high school in Yokne'am. Just pause for a moment and take that in. They were setting out deliberately to murder children. Not even innocent civilians in some cafe or on some bus where children might have been present: they intended schoolchildren to be the specific targets of their death cult. Truly, the Israelis are up against something that is anti-human. But strategically, the foiled attack was even more serious. For these two would-be human bombs were both members of the Palestinian Authority security forces, heaven help us, and the Damascus-based Islamic Jihad. If the attack had not been foiled, the strategic implications of Syrian involvement -- three days after Syrian President Bashar Assad called for renewed talks with Israel-- would have meant a dramatic escalation of the conflict. And how can the PA be regarded as anything other than a straight terrorist organisation and front for the annihilatory programme of hostile Arab regimes when members of its 'security forces', no less, are themselves Syrian-backed terrorists? Needless to say, the British media have ignored these implications altogether, and the next Israeli military action against this evil will doubtless once again be presented as unwarranted aggression. Posted by melanie at December 5, 2003
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I'm surprised that you're not picking up on another point - this targetting of schools is clearly a response to Israel's cheek in attempting to introduce that motion to condemn the killing of Israeli children at the UN last week. Posted by: at December 5, 2003 11:27 AMYes, they are evil terrorists directed by evil puppet-masters who should be liquidated. Posted by: Trianon at December 5, 2003 11:29 AMA UN Resolution to protect Palestinian children was passed unanimously. However, a very similar proposal for a Resolution to protect Israel children was turned down in the same week that a Resolution about anti-semitism was turned down. It does make one wonder whether the UN, which now comprises many Islamic nations, is highly prejudiced... Is an Israeli childs life worth so much less than a Palestinian one? Posted by: nannette at December 5, 2003 11:42 AMThe UN prejudiced against Israel? Heaven forfend! Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge at December 5, 2003 12:45 PMSo Trianon, who would you rather see liquidated? Children? Or terrorists who are trying to kill children? Or perhaps just a particular sub-set of the world's children, eh? Posted by: Martin Adamson at December 5, 2003 01:40 PMTell me again why that fence is 'evil'? The terrorists admitted that they tried to cross where there was no fence. The fence is working already. Posted by: Travis at December 5, 2003 03:18 PM
By the way just saw this: What really surprises me is the measured and restrained response of Israel and Israeli generally, to the deliberate targetting of Jewish children by Arab terrorists. If any other people were so targetted, I can say with certainty, that the response would be more then just reciprocal. This unusual docile response of Israelis, has two consequences for Israel 1. It encourages the terrorists to continue with their attacks on children 2. It makes the enemies of Jews, view them with contempt. Docility when your children are deliberately murdered, is not a sign of civilised values; quite the contrary.
"If any other people were so targetted, I can say with certainty, that the response would be more then just reciprocal." Oh, but then the Arabs/Muslims could scream "racism," just as they did when the US attacked Afghanistan after the monsters they had supported attacked us. The whole of the Palestinian culture appears to be psychotic. They teach babes in arms about the "nobility" of suicide jihad. Their school-books are astounding in their hatred of Jews and the "infidel." Ditto for the rest of the Islamic world. They quote the Qu'ran and do exactly what it says to do against the "non-believers and the Jews".
The Palestinian Authority, headed by Yasser Arafat, is paying members of a Palestinian militant organisation which has been responsible for carrying out suicide attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians, a BBC investigation has found. . . " A total of up to $50,000 a month is being sent to members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed group that emerged shortly after the outbreak of the current Palestinian intifada, a BBC Correspondent programme reveals. . . " http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3243071.stm
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20021219-52187544.htmo! News ----- "Child to killer" by Fatima Farideh Nedjat Reasons behind idolization of destructiveness ". . . The relationship between the status of women in the "constructed Islam" (different from what the holy book prescribes) by the heads of some theocratic governments and the environmental profile of being raised by some abused mothers in a religiously strict, ascetic household lead us to the psychological, ideological, and sociological reasons why one can be encouraged to idolize destructiveness in order to become a martyr. I describe a few socially situated conditions among such populations. The lack of public and economic benefits results in functional illiteracy. Women's oppression then flourishes under these constructed Islamic traditions. This creates dominant psychological conditions that promote fundamentalism. The political aspect of suicide bombing among Muslim fundamentalists is the central concept of this paper. We must understand the instigating forces that drive individuals to become perpetrators of suicide bombing. These influences are divided into four categorical segments: The psychological impact of family environment; the moral efficacy of religion; hegemonic ideology; and a society of organized violence. All of these forces are inculcated through women's oppression, the agent whose nurturing power becomes dysfunctional. The backbone of such structure is a theocratic government ruled by hard-line fundamentalist militants, whose outlook is determined by a literal interpretation of scripture. This oppression produces fundamentalist households in which abused, narcissistic mothers raise children. The current global violence perpetrated in the name of "God" by the Islamism fundamentalists makes one wonder what encourages individuals to act so violently. What is the ideology behind the phenomenon that enforces such behavior? The viewpoint justifying the act of violence is defined as "retaliation and retribution" in the classical Shari'a law. Muslim societies living under this ideology must systematize such ideology within the government, in order to execute punishments terrorizing the unbeliever, or the enemy of Islam. The violent act of suicide bombing and the moral efficacy of religion are interlocking. The government passively observes as the disease of intellectual deprivation is spread among lower socio-economic groups that are functionally illiterate. The interrelation of martyrdom and reprisal are positively reinforced within the social context as a pillar of Islam, Jihad. The child growing up is conditioned to believe in martyrdom. For instance, during the Iraq and Iran War, positive reinforcement for becoming shahid's family (the family of a martyr) came in the form of extra coupons for food rationing and monthly payments of an equal to $50 to families who lost a son in the war. . . " Full article: http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2002/February/Mind/index.html
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