In a case that illustrates the contrast between the Palestinian leadership and Israel, Palestinian jihad murderer Zakariya Zubeidi was allowed to complete his master’s degree in Israel’s Gilboa Prison. He obtained his MA from Palestinian Birzeit University. A judging committee member at that university even hailed Zubeidi at his ceremony and quoted Quran 19:33, verses 30-34 about Jesus being “servant of Allah.”
Terrorist Zakariya Zubeidi’s benefit from his stay in an Israeli jail, using it to boost his Palestinian jihadist pride. He is now deemed to be a Palestinian hero and is rewarded, while the Palestinians continue to slam Israel. He served as “the head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (Fatah’s military wing) in the Jenin area during the 2000 – 2005 PA terror campaign,” and carried out a series of shooting attacks that targeted Israeli civilians and police. Zubeidi will now almost certainly resume his campaign of jihad terror against Israeli citizens, both violently and via the propaganda war.
Despite Zubedi’s completion of his education in an Israeli jail, the official PA daily used Zubedi’s graduation ceremony to attack Israel as an “occupier,” “calling the arrest of a terrorist murderer a violation against education.”
Although Palestinian denunciations of Israel circulate globally, Palestinians also routinely depend on Israel’s medical care. The Algemeiner story Palestinian Leaders Want Israel Destroyed — Until They Need a Doctor, captures the truth. The lies about Israel being a human rights-abusing nation are in stark contrast to the reality on the ground. Can anyone ever imagine a black man who was convicted of murder completing his MA in a South African jail cell during the height of apartheid?
The Palestinian jihad against Israel leaves Israel no option but to defend itself and its citizens.
“Palestinian terrorist murderer finishes MA in Israeli prison,” by Maurice Hirsch, Palestinian Media Watch, July 18, 2022:
The Palestinian Birzeit University launched its 2022 graduation ceremonies by granting an MA to Palestinian terrorist murderer Zakariya Zubeidi. Announcing the award, a university judging committee member said:
“[Zakariya Zubeidi] completed [his studies] with highest honor in implementation, and with highest honor in theoretical thinking. This is a success for Palestine, for the fighter’s rifle.
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, July 3, 2022]
The official PA daily used the event as on opportunity to attack Israel – which it referred to, as usual, as “the occupation” – calling the arrest of a terrorist murderer a “violation against education”:
“Yesterday, Friday [July 1, 2022], Birzeit University began its graduation ceremony celebrations of the 47th class of its students from the legal and public administration faculty and the faculty for higher education…
The occupation’s actions and violations against education in Palestine were present at the graduation ceremony, as the student daughter of prisoner Zakariya Zubeidi who is imprisoned in the occupation’s [prison] cells, received her father’s master’s degree diploma in modern Arab studies.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 2, 2022]
Zubeidi was the head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (Fatah’s military wing) in the Jenin area during the 2000 – 2005 PA terror campaign. During that period, he oversaw numerous lethal attacks. Despite his terror activities, in 2007, as part of a deal with the PA, Zubeidi was taken off Israel’s wanted list on condition that he refrain from further participation in terror. He was subsequently given a position in the PA Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs and made a Fatah Revolutionary Council member.
Despite having received a second chance in life, Zubeidi was arrested by Israel on Feb. 27, 2019, for again participating in shooting attacks against Israelis….
The following are longer excerpts of some of the statements cited above:
Birzeit University judging committee member: “[Zakariya Zubeidi] completed [his studies] with highest honor in implementation, and with highest honor in theoretical thinking. This is a success for Palestine, for the fighter’s rifle. Peace is on you the day you were born and the day you fought, on the day you were pursued and the day you pursued, on the day you were imprisoned and the day you went out from the freedom tunnel in occupied Beit Shean (i.e., an Israeli city, refers to his temporary escape from Gilboa Prison), and the day you will be raised alive as a free man (this entire sentence is a paraphrase of Quran 19:33, which quotes Jesus; see note below -Ed.).”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, July 3, 2022]
Regarding the paraphrase of Quran 19:33, verses 30-34 there read as follows: “[Jesus] said, ‘Indeed, I am the servant of Allāh. He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet. And He has made me blessed wherever I am and has enjoined upon me prayer and zakāh as long as I remain alive And [made me] dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me a wretched tyrant. And peace is on me the day I was born and the day I will die and the day I am raised alive.’ That is Jesus, the son of Mary – the word of truth about which they are in dispute” (Sahih International translation).
mortimer says
Here we see the Pally delusion in the full light of day. Even though an independent state of ‘Palestine’ was never created, somehow, magically, Israel ‘invaded’ and ‘occupied’ it in 1947!
Forget the Mandate from the League of Nations to establish a Jewish homeland. That never happened. Sure.
The premise of the Pally delusion is to deny that League of Nations established the Jewish stae.
Infidel says
Looks like wokism in Israel is even more advanced than in the rest of the West
Brenrod says
Only a fool allows his murderer to live.
mortimer says
Why did they claim that getting an M.A. “is a success for Palestine, for the fighter’s rifle.”
What does a university degree have to do with FIREARMS? Did the man study rifle engineering?
What in heck is this illogic? Is that the best thinking they have in Jordan’s universities?
Students in Jordan are not getting their money’s worth from colleges like that.
DavidR says
The dependency on non-Muslim countries runs deep and generally speaking, the more dependant people are on others the more resentful they become towards their hosts. Islam, the religion of bridge burners.
Eve 2 says
Jail = Bread and water and solitary confinement! Gives the prisoner the incentive to rethink life! A college degree gives the prisoner the knowledge that the justice system is a funny joke!
Brenrod says
Death is better because the taxpayer is relieved of the insulting burden of providing food and shelter lifelong to the murderers.
Fitna says
Quite the resume for this enterprising young terrorist. Kill some Jews, get a degree. If he goes to Canada, he’ll get a $10 million cheque and a hot oil massage from Trudy.
I’m sure if he smashes some Jewish children’s heads with rocks he’ll get streets named after him in Gaza and the West Bank and be treated as a conquering warrior and hero.
This is the disgusting state we’re descended to in the West. We treat terrorists with kid gloves rather than as an evil enemy that needs to be eliminated.
Israel never seems to clue in for all their butt-kissing of their enemies, it never win them any respect or good will. Instead they’re hated and spat on even more. They continue to get used, abused and killed. Stop sucking up, start killing terrorists if you want to be respected.
Brenrod says
Well said!
Rarely says
Acting humanely is hardly “butt kissing”. If humane behavior goes by the wayside what’s the point. Just nuke them all and flip off civilization.
gravenimage says
Palestinian jihad murderer gets his MA while serving time in an Israeli jail
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Just nuts.
First, I should say that I *am* for providing prisoners with education under certain circumstances. I taught adult literacy in the jails here in Oakland for a while. Those who can read and have a high school diploma or its equivalent are statistically less likely to reoffend.
But paying to get a Jihad murderer a master’s degree at an antisemitic “Palestinian” college? This is suicidal insanity. He has already proven he isn’t going to be rehabilitated and become any kind of decent citizen.
Brenrod says
I don’t want to rehabilitate murderers nor pay their shelter and food their whole life, which further punishes the taxpayer. Their death is better for me and their victim’s families.