More peace and tolerance. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Doc Washburn:
It was about midday when a young Palestinian woman from the refugee camp of Jabalya in Gaza approached an Israeli checkpoint clutching a special permit to visit a doctor on the other side of the border.The girl had big, brown eyes and her black hair was tied in a ponytail, but it was the strangeness of her gait that attracted the attention of the security officials at the Erez crossing, the main transit point between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
When a soldier asked her to remove her long, dark cloak, she turned to face him. All her movements were taped by the military surveillance camera at the checkpoint: calmly, deliberately, she took off her clothing, item by item, until she looked like any normal young woman in T-shirt and jeans. It was then that she tried to set off the belt containing 20lb of explosives hidden beneath her trousers. To her horror, she did not succeed. Desperate, she clawed at her face, screaming. She was still alive, she realised. She had failed her martyrdom mission.
That afternoon, on June 21, the 21-year-old, Wafa Samir al-Biss, was brought before the press by Israeli intelligence. Her neck and hands were covered with scars caused by a kitchen gas explosion six months earlier. The ugly scars - which had been treated in a hospital in Israel - had probably helped turn her into the perfect would-be huriia (virgin), the ideal martyr, since they would make it difficult for her to find a suitable husband.
The decision to publicise her case was intended to show that a terrorist threat remains despite a lull in the intifada since the Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire agreement at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in February.
According to the Israeli doctor who attended Wafa at the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, she received blood transfusions during her treatment. "I told her, with a laugh, that now she has Jewish blood in her veins," he said, adding sadly that she had "seemed so nice - we got a lovely thank you letter from her family.''
Wafa had been sent on her mission by the Abu Rish Brigade, the small militant faction with links to Fatah. She did not, she said later, regret it, though she stressed that her decision had had nothing to do with her scarring. "My dream was to be a martyr. I believe in death," she said. "Today I wanted to blow myself up in a hospital, maybe even in the one in which I was treated. But since lots of Arabs come to be treated there, I decided I would go to another, maybe the Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews …''
Asked whether she had considered the consequences of her planned attack, that it might have now precluded access to Israel for Palestinian patients who meant no harm and needed special medical treatment that could be achieved only here, she answered: "So what?" With a flat look in her eyes, she said: "They pay you the cost of the treatment, don't they?"
And what about babies? Would you have killed babies and children? she was asked. "Yes, even babies and children. You, too, kill our babies. Do you remember the Doura child?"
Yes, and I remember that the story was trumped-up.
Then she started to cry. ''I don't want my mother to see me like this. After all, I haven't killed anyone … will they have pity on me?'' It is unlikely. Wafa has become one of a very special group of females: the women who have tried - and failed - to die while killing for the Palestinian cause. I recently visited the Israeli jail that holds these "suicide women" near the finest Israeli villas, in the heart of the most fertile area of the country, the Plain of Sharon.They are here, and still alive, because they changed their minds at the last moment, because they were arrested, or because, like Wafa, they did not succeed. They are kept in a kind of labyrinth, behind seven, or perhaps eight, iron doors and gates, at the end of long corridors to which few people are allowed access, and which are reached after climbing and descending one flight of stairs after another....
One of the inmates, Ayat Allah Kamil, 20, from Kabatya, told me why she had wanted to become a martyr: "Because of my religion. I'm very religious. For the holy war [jihad] there's no difference between men and women shaid [martyrs]."
According to the Koran, male martyrs are welcomed to Paradise by 72 beautiful virgins. Ayat, as with many of the women she is incarcerated with, believes that a woman martyr "will be the chief of the 72 virgins, the fairest of the fair".
Her fellow prisoner, Kahira Saadi, from Jenin, is one of the jail celebrities. A mother of four, aged 27, she was held responsible for an attack in which three people died and 80 were injured. Zipi Shemesh, five months' pregnant, and her husband, Gad, were among the dead. They had gone to an ultrasound appointment and had left their two daughters, Shoval, seven, and Shahar, three, with a babysitter. They never came back.
Kahira was given three life sentences and another 80 years. She looked pale, sad, anguished. I asked her if the dead tormented her during the night. "No," she said. "Anyway, the actual attacker would have blown himself up even without me. I didn't kill anyone myself, physically."
Who do your children live with? "With my mother-in-law, my husband is in jail, too."
Aren't you sorry you ruined their lives as well as your own? "I did it to defend them. I'm not sorry, we're at war. But perhaps I wouldn't do it again. It was an impulse," Kahira answered balefully.
I think the real reason for what you did was different from the official one. "You're right," she said, "but I'm not going to tell you what the reason was."
You're paying heavily for it. Who comes to see you here? "Nobody came for the first two years, but now my children are beginning to come."
Have you had the courage to tell them you're never going to get out of here? "No, and I trust that God will solve my problem somehow. I tell you again that I didn't physically kill anyone that day."
What did you do? "I helped the attacker to get into Jerusalem. I gave him some flowers to hold in his hands."
When? "I don't remember the exact date, only that it was Mother's Day. That's why I prepared him some flowers."
Then it was February, I told her.
"How can you remember it so well?" she asked.
Because my son was killed on Mother's Day, I said, and I watched as she grew pale and seemed to stagger.
No, it wasn't you, I explained. He was killed in 1998, while your attack was in 2002. But we certainly have an anniversary in common.
At this, Kahira gave me a look that I'll never be able to describe. She didn't utter another word.
That horrific article holds within itself the truth of its' commonality.
As long as Islam is treated differently than the Klan or neo nazis or Nazism the longer this problem will fester.
hate groups dont get to fly under the banner of a great religion or thought of as a solemn choice.
these idiots need to be rediculed ,persecution ,teased and put out of jobs homes and refused service .
These are people with out souls.
everyone of them support genocide to one extent or another.
they will not share the planet.
leave one of them alive and respected and they will mulitply and this will start again.
"Emad Alaabadi, a Saudi citizen who converted from Islam to Christianity, was arrested in December 2004 and has likely been tortured."
Please send a letter to your congresmen and president requesting the secure release of this and other prisoners of conscience in the Saudi gulags.
It's just too bad she wasn't shot. On the upside, at least a few of us can listen to the filth from her mouth.
I wonder when Oprah will do a show or write an article about this "poor misunderstood girl," who was forced by circumstance to become a murderer? (sarcasm on)
How very very sick...The Palestinian society has more problems that billions of dollars or nationhood can solve. This disturbed girl stated, "I don't want my mother to see me like this. After all, I haven't killed anyone...will they have pity on me." Probably not, Wafa. The Israelis have not one single reason to pity you and many reasons to fear you and your twisted mind. And, as for your family, you have failed in your mission, and have brought shame on your family...and, Wafa, you surely know what happens to Muslims girls who bring shame on their family. You better count yourself lucky that you are in an Israeli prison and not on the dirty, dusty streets of a PA controlled territory, without your "honor."
If she is not shot, then a hysterectomy is in order, immediately.
Any woman willing to admit she wanted to blow up children deserves to have the possiblility of breeding further brainwashed killers removed.
But I favor shooting.
Just in case medical advances render the sterilization option moot one day.
A loathesome lunatic of Allah.
May she meet him real soon.
I'd like to believe that full exposure of this story will do something positive for the broad public's perception of things, but I remain skeptical. The Palestinians are very good at staying "on message" with a very simple message at that -- we were dispossed by people with money and power and seek only what is rightfully ours.
The Israeli side of the story is far more nuanced and complex. Worth reading, as a very concise account, is David Meir-Levy's piece on the myths and realities of "the occupation" posted June 24/05 on frontpagemag.com. See http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18543
Ignorant whore... she just wrecked free medical care for thousands of "palestinians" that won't be allowed into Israel.
Every suicide bomber, would-be and actual, are just "more bricks in the Wall" to borrow a phrase. The more of them get into Israel, the higher that Separation Barrier (a.k.a. "Apartheid Wall") is going to be.
People of Israel: when will you stop importing cheap labor at the expense of hundreds of your countrymen's lives? When will you wake up and stop being fooled? Finish the wall, and CLOSE the checkpoints. If any "palestinian" or his faithful pet hippy/ISM-er wants to travel from Ramallah "palestine" to Gaza "palestine" let the bastard go through Jordan and Egypt: NO SHORTCUTS THROUGH ISRAEL. When the "palesitians" start talking about needing a shortcut, let's see what kind of "land trade" they bring to the bargaining table.
FINISH THE WALL AND TO HELL WITH "INTERNATIONAL" OPINION.
FINISH THE WALL AND TO HELL WITH "INTERNATIONAL" OPINION.
FINISH THE WALL AND TO HELL WITH "INTERNATIONAL" OPINION.
Nice article; definitely worth saving.
It's always good to see something at frontpagerag.com that does something besides express hatred and contempt of over half of America.
On the Northeast Intelligence site, there is a video taken of this women removing the 22 pounds of explosives she was wearing.
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/
It's always good to see something at frontpagerag.com that does something besides express hatred and contempt of over half of America.~kj
Adding up the politicos and academia, kj, I come up with far less than 50%. You really shouldn't confuse the liberal elites with the people they mislead.
Gary: You really shouldn't confuse the liberal elites with the people they mislead.
And similarly, one should not confuse the conservative elites with the people they mislead. Presently, this is most of inside-the-Beltway Washington Republican establishment.
I give you Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton but you have to give me Jerry Falwall and Pat Robertson in exchange.
You give me Ann Coulter or Pat Buchannan and I give you Geraldo Rivera.
I give you Teddy Kennedy but you give me Bill Frist.
Loxias: I have NO probs giving you those people. I don't believe in them.
And As I have said elsewhere: Defense of my faith (Christianity) IN NO WAY, is advocacy, unconscious or otherwise, for extremism. No 'dispensationalism, or whatever other terms you care to attempt to apply to the vast majority of people.
Just like Horowitz does NOT apply it to the vast majority of those who follow the liberal elite, despite what kj wishes to believe.
They are going to give these people a state??
From an email I received, "In view of the fact that the U.S. recently donated another $50 million to the PA, a friend of the Jerusalem Prayer Team who lives in Jerusalem asked some very pointed questions about that gift, and about this latest suicide attempt:
After almost 15 years of foreign aid (American tax dollars, European tax Euros, and World Bank Funds, etc.,) why do Palestinians need to be at the mercy of the “hated Israelis and Jews” for their medical care?
Why have they not created hospitals and educated doctors? Could the reason be that they are so focused on our death that they have no desire or resources left to consider quality of life for their people?
Does anyone ask themselves how it is that the “evil occupier Israelis” not only treat people who swear to kill them, but who are paying for these expensive treatments"
"the “evil occupier Israelis” not only treat people who swear to kill them, but who are paying for these expensive treatments"
And who send efficient trained teams to assist in disasters worldwide, a presence which far exceeds that of many more populous countries. The incident which remains in my mind was the news footage of an Israeli sniffer dog working at one disaster. A small feisty creature, sniffing determindly across rubble for survivors, it's tail in the air and a Star of David on it's little coat.
Even Jewish dogs do more for humanity than Islam.
According to the Koran, male martyrs are welcomed to Paradise by 72 beautiful virgins. Ayat, as with many of the women she is incarcerated with, believes that a woman martyr "will be the chief of the 72 virgins, the fairest of the fair".
So there you go...the real reason...It's all about sex. The primitive intellect funtions best in a atmosphere of sex and/or violence.
Highly educated jihadists or not, they do indeed have primitive intellects...
kj:
The problem with liberalism is that it isn't liberal any more. Read Paul Berman's excellent book, Terrorism and Liberalism on the topic.
While some of the articles are splenetic, frontpagemag.com publishes a lot of good stuff (including R. Spencer's), as well as the David Meir-Levi piece I passed on via link.
Hey, Hamas-nik, you stupid castrato,
Was Wafa a red-hot tomato?
Those guys whom you seek
To kill got a peek,
iunstead of the bomb-blast's staccato.
Kahira, a jihad's wife,
Is having the time of her life.
It's true, without fail,
In an Israeli jail,
Away from her own family's strife.
A young Falastin lady, al-Bass
Performed an act--twas first-class!
Pure ingratritude
Was her attitude.
She deserved people viewing her @se!