This is the kind of story you should remember the next time you hear about Israeli troops firing on civlians. Palestinian Arab fighters routinely launch attacks from civilian areas, precisely in order to provoke this. From Haaretz (scroll down), with thanks to the many who sent it to me:
An Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades cell killed a 16-year-old Palestinian boy in Beit Hanun on Friday after a row in which his family opposed the cell's attempt to launch Qassam rockets from their yard, Israeli security sources said.According to a report obtained from Palestinian sources, the cell, comprised of six men, arrived in a van at the Za'anun family's Beit Hanun home on Friday morning. The militants then placed a Qassam rocket launcher adjacent to the family home, and one of the cell members opened fire on an armored Israel Defense Forces vehicle nearby.
Members of the Za'anun family came out of their house holding sticks and rocks, and tried to drive the Al-Aqsa militants from their yard, most likely fearing that their house would be demolished if Qassam rockets were launched from it.
During the clash, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades members opened fire, killing Hassan Za'anun and wounding three other family members.
The cell left the area following the incident, without firing the Qassam rockets.
What wonderful protectors of the palestinian people.....and these are the groups that the Wests media is now trying to portray in a favourable light. They are thugs and murderers nothing else.
The gullibility of the compassionate socialists is truly dumbfounding.
Agree with you,Joe.They have fancy names but its Mafia mentality all round."Thugs" is probably too
polite for this bunch of crims.Makes you realise
what Israel is up against and thankful we don't have them as neighbours. Think Mike Moore ought to make a Documentary about peaceful Palestinians.
That's if he can find any...!
Mike Moore would have not problem finding any. He would just lie again. The religion of peace. How nice.
You know what? This article gives me hope for the "Palestinian" people. It is probably the first thing I have read or heard that showed any personal courage or determination to survive in rebellion to the powers that run their lives, and keep them oppressed for political purposes!
To the family of that 16 year old I offer my sincere condolences and to those that survived this attack and the courageous effort they made to resist, I say Thank You...Thank You for giving me back hope in humans...Hope that regardless of what regeime rules the lives of the people there are a few left that will stand up and say NO even when faced with danger.
I hope anyone that can help this family will help them. They are a wonderful example of excellence for all "Palestinians".
What a bunch of idiots! They claim to be fighting for the Palistian people. In fact they are fighting to impose some sterotype of Islam on whomever they can, all people be damned.
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Despite the “Palestinian” entity’s parlous internal state, its attacks on Israel carry on. After all, the Arabs’ PRIORITY has never been the building of “Palestine”, but the elimination of Israel. War on Israel, now more than ever, is a tool to delay civil war among the “Palestinians” and to divert them from the ACTUAL source of their troubles - their leadership and ideology.
The reptilian “President” of the terrorist PA/PLO-Hamas-Jihad Islami-“Pal” Hezbollah, Yasir Arafat, in his latest gimmick to re-establish his personal power, back out in the open, looks - for the moment, anyway - to have regained the upper hand in the Gaza Strip (his hold on the West Bank’s always been slightly stronger than on Gaza, the main centre of Hamas.).
Though sporadic scrapping reportedly continues in the Gaza Strip, Mohomed Dahlan, Arafat’s intermittent rival there, has quit his most recent rebellion yesterday and decamped for Amman, leaving Yasir’s loyal nephew, Musa Arafat, “controlling” the “resistance to occupation” in Gaza.
Arafat’s smoked out those within his PA/PLO apparat - though not in Hamas or Jihad Islami - who’d dare to defy him and lightly disposed of their challenges (at least temporarily). He’s visibly exerted his Will, consolidating his power, so enabled to step forward - again - to paint himself as “MR INDISPENSABLE”, manifesting his contempt for the “Isolation” imposed on him by Israel, to be overridden by the “international community”’s far greater “sensitivity”, when (as he dreams) he rises in his helicopter, out of Ramallah, to revisit them, in triumph….
Once more hoodwinked into accepting his “Indispensability”, this sleep-walking “international community” above will have no bother at all in next cheerfully swallowing Arafat’s predictably forth-coming boasts - that HE, alone, can be the one to clean-up of the mega-corruption in “Palestine”, and then that nobody but HE will rein in the terrorism in the disputed territories!
In reality, however, Arafat totally DISDAINS such trivia: what truly, solely engages him is to be strutting the global stage anew, being fêted like in the old days, plus escalating his genocidally-motivated violence against Israel, while whipping up extra antipathy to Israel in every forum in the world that he can get into - together with cadging as much additional cash as possible, from even more donors, for the “Cause” of his “Great Palestinian Revolution”, his idée fixe.
As long as he’s alive, there can be no peace. But following his demise, there’s a good chance that a further, extensive period of hostilities will nonetheless persist, since - by that tense stage of developments - no putative “Palestinian” leader will find “moderation” to be of any benefit whatsoever, in swaying the highly radicalized, fanaticized and frenzied mobs to his side; in fact, for years - or decades - any “moderation” on an aspirant’s part would probably be a MAJOR handicap. (In Arab politics, this is a disability which, not infrequently, soon turns lethal.)
On TV - though recent footage has been RARE, with NO close-ups - the repulsive, monomaniacal, narcissistic “President” of “Palestine”, Yasir Arafat, looks - most distressingly - healthier than he deserves to: but he’s 75 and is suspected to have Parkinson’s and several venereal diseases. - Many project that, once he's gone, "Palestine"'ll be free bloom into a democratic Nation....
With him, at length, departing from the scene, in an “interregnum” phase, “Palestine” could be nominally governed by a “collective leadership”, somewhat akin to the (transitional) group in the Kremlin of Malenkov, Molotov, Bulganin, Mikoyan, Voroshilov, Kaganovich and Khruschev (after the execution of Lavrenty Beria, Chief of the dreaded NKVD - arranged as virtually the clique’s first act), which succeeded Stalin in 1953 and ran the USSR until 1957.
No doubt, the BEST that such a junta (“Præsidium”) would produce in “Palestine” is paralysis and protraction of the unsatisfactory status quo; it would be inherently unstable, doomed to be fleeting and, finally, INCOMPETENT. Any individual member’s’s initiative will be immediately seen as a grab for power, intolerable to the rest. They’d all be aware that whoever at last emerges on top can be the Dictator - rendering the wild scramble, when it does arrive, to be tremendously vicious, feasibly precipitating a savage civil war, if the brewing melée’s not decided with haste and to an adequate level of acquiescence from a complex, fractious mess of interests.
Below the feckless “ruling” circle, there’s liable to be a division of quotidian power in the West Bank and Gaza Strip among a disparate “patch”-work of contesting fiefdoms - ambitious, fully-armed, quasi-independent, local, precinct and district, factional war- &/or gang-lords, abrading one another’s prickly tempers in continuous turf-wars, over an inexorably shrinking economy.
Plausibly, the post-Arafat “Palestine”, in effect, will be completely shot through with an even greater measure of anarchy than prevails there today - unable to seriously enter into meaningful negotiations, nor to stop the terrorism, nor to halt its domestic descent into crime and chaos.
Optimally, with Arafat’s passing, “Palestine”’ll be constituted as a peaceable democracy, but the odds - and the record - are stacked strongly against it. So for the neighbours of “Palestine” (as it disintegrates due to its own innate, ultra-violent, absurd anomalies), the problem, for some time, sadly, WON’T be amenable to the sweet approaches of “conflict resolution”, but, alternately, it COULD prove responsive, in this interim, to “conflict management” techniques. (The security barrier Israel’s now erecting is a good example of one of these.)