More on the Bush/Rice Fantasy-Based Policymaking: "PA Sees Dimona Terrorists as Holy Martyrs," by Hillel Fendel for Israel National News (thanks to Rachel):
(IsraelNN.com) Newspapers of the Palestinian Authority, controlled by Mahmoud Abbas, say the Dimona murderers were "holy martyrs."A 73-year-old new immigrant from the former Soviet Union, Lyubov Razdolskaya, was murdered in the Dimona suicide attack this Monday, and her husband was critically wounded and is still fighting for his life. The two of them were theoretical physicists who made a significant contribution to particle physics in Ben Gurion University. Over 40 other people were also wounded in the attack.
The descriptions by the PA's official newspapers starkly contrast with official statements by PA leaders that condemned the Dimona attack. Hours after the Monday afternoon attack, Abbas condemned it and added that he also condemns IDF counter-terrorism actions.
However, Palestinian Media Watch reports on a number of quotes in official PA organs showing that in actuality, the terrorists are glorified in PA culture and government. The official news report in Al-Hayat al-Jadeeda read, "The executors of the operation died as martyrs... An Israeli was killed and 11 were wounded in the operation in the Dimona commercial center."
The headline in another PA newspaper Al-Ayam read, "Dimona: An Israeli Woman was Killed in a Bomb Operation in the Commercial Center; the Two Perpetrators Died as Martyrs." Similarly, the PA newspaper Al-Quds ran the story as, "Two Martyrs and a Killed Israeli Woman in a Bomb Operation in Dimona."
PMW notes that the term "martyr" places the terrorists on the highest level in Islam - a far cry from the formal criticism expressed by Abbas. A "martyr" is also looked upon as a hero and a model to imitate, especially among the youth. [...]
PMW concludes, "It is true that terrorists have always been called martyrs, but the significance of the latest reports is that in the midst of the renewal of a peace process, the terrorists continue to receive the supreme badge of honor by the Palestinian Authority itself."
From Article: the terrorists continue to receive the supreme badge of honor by the Palestinian Authority itself."
If Allah honors martyrs, then how can Fatah, Hamas, PA, or any muslims anywhere argue with that?
I read where in the last day or so Hamas killed 24 Egyptian guards, now that ought to help bring peace to the area. I wonder how many martyrs were in that operation?
The two of them were theoretical physicists who made a significant contribution to particle physics in Ben Gurion University.
Contrast that with what the bombers contributed to the world, just oxygen thieves.
That encapsulates the difference betweeen Jews and Arabs. A particle physicist killed by a stupid thug. One a contributor to the advancement of human knowledge; the other, soulless evil.
A lot of the blame has to go to the Israeli government, which has decided to sacrifice its citizens to some nebulous idea of peace with the PA.
A brilliant theoritical physicists who probably never hurt a soul in her life and is now trying to enjoy her life as a senior citizen with her husband.
She is cut down and her killer is exalted as a hero and a martyr.
Isn't their god just wonderful in the way he has created the perfect "religion of peace" for all humanity.
But Abbas, as everyone knows, is a partner in peace, they must have put this in the Fatah paper without his knowledge. No doubt he is FURIOUS about it.
Two young men die to kill one old lady. What a victory! Give out candy! Aren't we a proud and heroic people!
Considering that many politicians "understand" the need to pander to ones constituency, double speak will always be allowed and Western politicians will believe the "condemnation" remarks and label the "martyr" remarks as political necessity to remain in power. And why not? The Western politicians do it all the time. Hell, just look at our current crop of candidates for President. And it is fantasies such as this that allow such obviously flawed policies to continue.
The American government has yet to announce that it has re-thought its promise of still more billions to the Slow Jihadists of Fatah, and that, upon re-considration, has decided not to give them a thing, but to suggest that they phone up their admirers and fellow members of the Umma, Muslims and Arabs in Riyadh, Jiddah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Kuwait, Teheran, Tripoli, and a dozen other places, where the souks drip with gold, and everyone competes who can be most outrageous in his display of luxury, all of it the result not of work or intelligence, but merely the product of an accident of geology, an accident of geology that has led to the largest transfer of wealth in human history, some ten trillion dollars in oil revenues since 1973 alone, with hardly a dollar to spare -- no, that's for the Infidels to pay for -- any of those Arabs or Muslims (including the local shock troops of the Lesser Jihad against Israel known as the "Palestinians") who forgot to be born in lands that sit on oil and gas deposits.
There has to be some recognition, and some policy based on the recognition, that Fatah is a vicious organization of killers, and praisers of killers. It doesn't matter what the Olmert Government, atr the end of its intellectual and moral tether,does or thinks. What matters is a correct analysis of the situation, not only that concerning the Lesser Jihad against Israel, but all the Lesser Jihads that, taken together, add up to the world-wide Jihad, and that menace everyone, not only Israel even if the Jihad against that country, presented by the Arabs as a "nationalist struggle," has until recently received a great deal of attention, but in the case of Israel, that exaggerated attention has been accompanied by grotesque and tendentious misreporting by those who are not merely ignorant of Islam, but actively, viciously hostile to Israel, an outrage that continues, even if becoming more muted as others dare to point out the inaccuracies, dare to speak up, dare to suggest that much of that reporting is not only by Muslims or apologists for Islam (sometimes impelled by hatred of their own West more than an admiration for Islam), but also by those who exhibit all the signs, in their skewed reporting, of that mental pathology called antisemitism, now provided with what seems to be, to some of those affected to be a socially-acceptable, because slightly-camouflaged, outlet. They are quite wrong.
Holy Martyrs.
The amount of "holiness" of the martyr is directly proportional to the amount of ball-bearings in the bomb belt.
Similar to Shredded Martyrs, Headless Martyrs, or Incinerated Martyrs.
"holy martyrs"
There is nothing holy about Islam, so these weren't exactly martyrs either. Just your ordinary, run of the mill, casualties of war. Sorry, no martyrs here.
True martyrs would definitely object to this story.
So how do we solve this problem with poor paleostinians killing themselves? I know, lets give them more money and a state of their own. That should work. /sarc
Do I understand that these guys snuck into Israel through the hole in the wall with Egypt? And this is the first suicide bombing since the wall was put up?
You're right La Raza, a fence on our borders won't keep bad people out.
Is it possible to elect somone to ANY office that truly understands the evil that is islam?
"Gangland" = Gaza
"Thugs" = Martyrs
"Abbas" = Terrorist
Now I understand! It's like a secret code!
Well, of course Abbas will tell us that he is opposed to these attacks (though he had to get in that he also condemned Israeli actions at the same time).
Ever hear of taqiyya?
http://theantisemitismwatch.blogspot.com/2008/02/they-lie-and-world-believes-their-every.html
Oh, but don't you see, this IS progress towards peace and recognition of a two state solution. Otherwise the PA media would not proclaim the death of an "Israeli" woman. Before these great strides of peace process progress she would have been a "Jew" or a "Member of the Zionist Entity".
Why is it, the ninnies of the West cannot, or perhaps dare not see, Abbas and other Palestinian sloths professing to be peace-brokers, are no more than terrorists themselves? This is strictly, rhetorical… however, I, as are most, am tired of courageous Israelis are murdered and not a word of regret or condemnation, is emitted from the mouths of our gutless leadership.
Once again, people, who have contributed to humanity fall victim to a gaggle of psychopaths; whose sole intent is to murder and maim. Then, these murderous thugs are held in admiration by the perfidious and rancid like of Abbas; yet no light goes on in the White House attic or elsewhere, for that matter.
This, Islamist, culture-of-death, out-and-out nihilism, is propped up and mollycoddled by spineless, western, leaders possessed by an out-and-out death-wish.
It seems that when it Israel’s, whether murdered en-mass or individually, it matters naught to this gutless lot of the Western-Democracies.
No, They didn't die as "martyrs" - They died as two gullible idiots who didn't even think to ask "If martyrdom is so wonderful why dont you go first?"
Love that term: "operation". Sounds like an aPAdicktome
duh_swami: From Article: the terrorists continue to receive the supreme badge of honor by the Palestinian Authority itself."
No duh_swami, the Muslim terrorists continue to receive the supreme badge of honor from Bush and Rice. Please. Whose side are you on?
Hugh, it is not the American government.
It is George W. Bush.
You ever wonder why there are so many wars on this planet when there are supposed to be so many politicians that say they can end wars.There used to be a few in the US but then came the 60's.
Abbas is sinister. The word sinister is rooted in the Latin and it meant left-handed in the ancient world. To say one was sinister was to say someone offered their right hand for shaking but concealed a knife in their left hand.
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:P6z53s4KuJQJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed+sinister,+left+handed&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
When will Israel and the U.S. (plus its EU etc."Roadmap" backers) realize that the "Peace Process" is a sham, a joke, an unattainable ideal of a ruptured mind and its truss-belt providers.
Israel and its governmental fools have been playing the "Peace Process" game far too long--with the accompanying loss of too many Jewish lives. The blood of these Jews--children, women, men--falls not only on the heads of the despicable Arabs, but on the heads of those who have ruled Israel far too long.
Whoever believes that what is called the "Peace Process" will result in peace, might as well believe that the mahdi is about to climb out of his well and the trees and rocks are poised to shout "There is a Jew hiding behind me!" alerting the sword-wielding Jew-hunters of Islamic Araby.
We shouldn't be surprised at the PA and Abbas, specially on the forum. What I think is more criminal is the US Representative blithely nodding her head at this rhetoric.
Someone earlier said its not the;
I hate to disappoint you but Bush is the American government until next January.