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Palestinians in competion to kill Jewish civilians
Palestinians in competion to kill Jewish civilians
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020314-19136531.htm
Hamas, Fatah in race to kill
By Paul Martin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Islamic radical movement Hamas and the mainstream Palestinian militant movement Fatah are waging a struggle for leadership of the Palestinian uprising in which the score is kept in Israeli dead.
Over four days late last week, Hamas leaders noted proudly, the group produced four "martyrs" who blew up a total of 16 Jewish youths at a Jerusalem cafe and a Jewish settlement.
Fatah, meanwhile, killed 12 Israelis — including two babies, a toddler and four other children — in just over a week.
In Gaza, the news of the new Hamas martyrs' work was painted on city walls within hours of the attacks, along with slogans and appeals for greater shedding of Israeli blood.
Long lines of backers and fighters from all Palestinian factions subsequently turned up at a ceremony that ended with the guests kissing and shaking hands with the fathers and other male relatives of the dead killers.
Under the green flag of Hamas, a bearded father stood erect and without tears alongside a clean-shaven older man whose son had died in the same suicide operation. The bodies of both, the fathers said, were mangled by an Israeli tank that ran over them.
"I have eight more sons to give to the struggle as martyrs," declared the father of Mohamed Fatouh, who blew himself up alongside an Israeli armored vehicle a week ago.
"I'd been trying to become a martyr for nine years and am still alive, sadly, so I'm proud we have a martyr in the family at last."
"Peace with the Jews?" sneered the 40-year-old father of the other dead teen-age bomber, Sakr al Boul. "No, impossible."
The suicide killers were Hamas supporters, but followers of the mainstream Fatah movement attended the wake and pleased those in attendance with a speech as virulently anti-Israeli as those of the Hamas orators.
"Fatah has started to imitate us," noted Hamas' most important leader at the "martyrdom" party, Mahmoud el-Zahar.
Fatah, founded and still presided over by Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat, conducted more conventional operations through the early part of the 17-month-old intifada, he said. But he said Fatah had turned to suicide attacks after seeing how effective they were.
Indeed, in the Fatah-controlled Deheisheh refugee camp close to Bethlehem, a more subdued but similar ceremony took place earlier last week.
There, a stream of visitors lined up in a narrow hilltop alley to pay their respects and offer their congratulations to the father and brothers of 18-year-old Mohammed Daraghmeh, a Fatah stalwart, who had blown himself up in Jerusalem.
In the process, he killed a baby, a toddler, three other children and four women as they finished an end-of-Sabbath meal.
"They can see how popular our way has become," said Dr. Zahar, a surgeon who runs a medical clinic while serving as a senior Hamas political leader.
Dr. Zahar said the two movements sometimes work together, as when Hamas agreed to a short cease-fire in December to preserve Palestinian common purpose.
But he said the group balked at efforts to put some Hamas leaders under symbolic house arrest, leading to clashes with Fatah that left six persons dead in a Gaza refugee camp.
The shared policy of suicide attacks is bringing the movements together again, he said, and each successful attack produces new volunteers for death.
"They are lining up," he said with a wave at the dozens of young men milling around at the wake. "We have hundreds and hundreds."
Hamas, Fatah in race to kill
By Paul Martin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Islamic radical movement Hamas and the mainstream Palestinian militant movement Fatah are waging a struggle for leadership of the Palestinian uprising in which the score is kept in Israeli dead.
Over four days late last week, Hamas leaders noted proudly, the group produced four "martyrs" who blew up a total of 16 Jewish youths at a Jerusalem cafe and a Jewish settlement.
Fatah, meanwhile, killed 12 Israelis — including two babies, a toddler and four other children — in just over a week.
In Gaza, the news of the new Hamas martyrs' work was painted on city walls within hours of the attacks, along with slogans and appeals for greater shedding of Israeli blood.
Long lines of backers and fighters from all Palestinian factions subsequently turned up at a ceremony that ended with the guests kissing and shaking hands with the fathers and other male relatives of the dead killers.
Under the green flag of Hamas, a bearded father stood erect and without tears alongside a clean-shaven older man whose son had died in the same suicide operation. The bodies of both, the fathers said, were mangled by an Israeli tank that ran over them.
"I have eight more sons to give to the struggle as martyrs," declared the father of Mohamed Fatouh, who blew himself up alongside an Israeli armored vehicle a week ago.
"I'd been trying to become a martyr for nine years and am still alive, sadly, so I'm proud we have a martyr in the family at last."
"Peace with the Jews?" sneered the 40-year-old father of the other dead teen-age bomber, Sakr al Boul. "No, impossible."
The suicide killers were Hamas supporters, but followers of the mainstream Fatah movement attended the wake and pleased those in attendance with a speech as virulently anti-Israeli as those of the Hamas orators.
"Fatah has started to imitate us," noted Hamas' most important leader at the "martyrdom" party, Mahmoud el-Zahar.
Fatah, founded and still presided over by Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat, conducted more conventional operations through the early part of the 17-month-old intifada, he said. But he said Fatah had turned to suicide attacks after seeing how effective they were.
Indeed, in the Fatah-controlled Deheisheh refugee camp close to Bethlehem, a more subdued but similar ceremony took place earlier last week.
There, a stream of visitors lined up in a narrow hilltop alley to pay their respects and offer their congratulations to the father and brothers of 18-year-old Mohammed Daraghmeh, a Fatah stalwart, who had blown himself up in Jerusalem.
In the process, he killed a baby, a toddler, three other children and four women as they finished an end-of-Sabbath meal.
"They can see how popular our way has become," said Dr. Zahar, a surgeon who runs a medical clinic while serving as a senior Hamas political leader.
Dr. Zahar said the two movements sometimes work together, as when Hamas agreed to a short cease-fire in December to preserve Palestinian common purpose.
But he said the group balked at efforts to put some Hamas leaders under symbolic house arrest, leading to clashes with Fatah that left six persons dead in a Gaza refugee camp.
The shared policy of suicide attacks is bringing the movements together again, he said, and each successful attack produces new volunteers for death.
"They are lining up," he said with a wave at the dozens of young men milling around at the wake. "We have hundreds and hundreds."
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As to religion, all religion is the opiate of the people, that is, it is superstitution, and thus anti-science. Israel is a theocratic state, where there is no division between church and state. It is also a racist state, with all kinds of things, including housing and roads, for "Jews only", unless they are like this writer, who is from a Holocaust family, an atheist, and a staunch opponent of the US puppet of oil imperialism in the Middle East commonly known as Israel, to which we , the American taxpayers, give $4 billion annually above the table and $4 billion annually below the table to protect the oil companies' profits.
There can only be peace in the Middle East when there is socialism, and that is why the workingclass of Israel and all the rest of the Middle East must unite to toss out the bloodthirsty capitalists, who are exploiting all of them. The reason we have seen such desperate actions on the part of Israel as we have this past couple weeks is because the Israeli economy is in serious trouble and cannot deliver the goods and services to the Israeli workingclass.
The old social order is crumbling all around us, and may it crumble faster, as the world has had enough of the endless wars of capitalism.
One thing all Americans can do is to stop voting for the Democrat-Republicans at all levels of government, as they are all pro-Israel, which means they prefer guns instead of butter and as we all know, we do not need war. We desperately need housing, medical care, schools, public transportation, Social Security, and many other social services, all of which are being cut or used to pay for war. This includes Congressperson Barbara Lee and San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who are considered "liberals." I have yet to hear Barbara Lee call for voting No on all money for Israel, and that is the vote that is needed from Congress: Cut off all US aid to Israel. As to Tom Ammiano, he traveled to Israel within the past couple years, came back and announced that he "feels Israel's pain," whatever that is, but he never mentioned the Palestinians' pain. This is obviously an opportunist politician looking for that Democratic Party money to run for office, instead of running on principles.
So, the litmus test for all politicians running for office in the US, regardless of office, must be:
DO YOU SUPPORT CUTTING OFF US AID TO ISRAEL?
If they answer anything other than a clear Yes, do not vote for them. Ignoring you or giving ambiguous answers qualifies as an inappropriate answer and thus you should not vote for that person.
We are going for the gold this time. History is with us, the workingclass, and we shall win.
"Zionism in the Age of Dictators" by Lenni Brenner (1983: Lawrence Hill, Connecticut)
Discusses, among many things, the Zionist-Nazi collaboration, including the Zionist-Nazi Trade Agreement, to which a whole chapter, Chapter 6, is devoted, whereby the Zionists broke the boycott of Nazi goods that existed in the 1930s.
"Jews Without Money" by Michael Gold (1930; 1996) (Can be obtained from http://www.amazon.com and is in every major big city library).
This classic American novel describes the Jewish workingclass community of the beginning of the 20th Century in New York City, from a workingclass, socialist point of view. Mike is an excellent story teller in this book, and was the same in real life.
The Jewish community is divided by class, as is the rest of this society. The workingclass, for which Lenni Brenner and Mike Gold speak, have nothing in common with the wealthy Jews, who are perpetrating this horror called Israel, which to them is a real estate in vestment. These same wealthy Jews supported the anti-Communist witchhunts of the 1940s-50, supported the murder of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the 19.5 year imprisonment of Morton Sobel, for the phony charge of conspiracy to commit atomic espionage of which they were innocent, and continue to support the anti-communist spy organization, the Anti-Defamation League, which originally was supposed to expose right-wing anti-Semitic organizations, but has for many years now been working with the governments of the US, Israel and when it existed, the apartheid government of South Africa, to spy on left-wing and workingclass organizations.
The trash and filth these upper middle class Jews who support Israel write that we have seen in recent days on this website in a desperate, futile and despicable attempt to defend the indefensible, namely the fascist, racist, theocratic state of Israel, is a sign of a very bankrupt social order. They are defending capitalism, not the Jewish people, and they know it.
Labor is on the move all around the world and the capitalist class and all its lackeys will soon have to shut up as they will have nothing left to defend, while the workingclass has a world to win.
Screw you, you fascist. How dare you appropriate MY family and my story to fit your political agenda.
LOL, u sound like a second year Cal student who thinks he is the first person to discover trotsky. All the while having his tuition paid by mom and dad in irvine. Let me tell you something jackass, u live on stolen land in a settler state, enjoying the fruits of a capitalist society. You wanna keep it real? Then go to Cuba or North Korea or china, where your revolution is in progress. But that takes more than slogans, it requires actions and sacrifice, something that the socialists like you expect from others, but never from themselves.
Rock on revolutionary.....hehehe
My hunch is that you know literally nothing about about working class Jewish history, traditions or culture in the US. And your espousal of "Zionism" is a a superficial effort to interject a little identity in what otherwise would be a comfortable, middle class existence, indistinguishable from your non-Jewish yuppie neighbors. So blow it out your tuccus, putz.
===> Run Zayde Run!
and my grandparents are from Brooklyn.
===> Hehehe, you win a prize!
And they were proud union members and socialists, and utterly hostile to those 'Labor Zionists' who often favored labor peace with the bosses ( in NY's garment district) in order to divert attention ( and money) to the immigration and the Zionist policy of "Avodat Havodah", the conquest of Labor..the literal replacement of Arab agricultural workers with Jewish immigrants in order lay the groundwork and create the economy neccesary for an exclusivist Jewish state. A colonial policy racist to the core.
===> Your grandparents sound like the typical self hating apologists for antisemitism who joined the wonderfuly jew friendly revolution in 1917. May they rot.
My hunch is that you know literally nothing about about working class Jewish history, traditions or culture in the US. And your espousal of "Zionism" is a a superficial effort to interject a little identity in what otherwise would be a comfortable, middle class existence, indistinguishable from your non-Jewish yuppie neighbors. So blow it out your tuccus, putz.
===> Your hunch is incorrect, and your reactionary straw man attack on my identity just reveals how pathetic and desperate the socialist left has become as they impotently plead their discredited drivel on sites like this. Zolst ligen in drerd you cheesedick Yid.
Oh well, such drivel is not surprising, now that the rightwing racists of the JDL have a lot of free time on their hands with their boss sitting in the pokey for his efforts to blow up a mosque in LA.
===> 'Zionist Keyboard Warrior', thank you, that is a good one! Am I 'desperate' to bash leftists? No, outside of your own imaginations leftist progressives have little-to-no political power. And you guys know it, which makes it that much funnier.
===> What isn't funny is the self hatred and rejection of culture and religion in the name of the 'Revolution' that my Jewish brother's grandparents engaged in, trying to achieve their utopian world. Whether you understand that Marcus means nothing.
Oh well, such drivel is not surprising, now that the rightwing racists of the JDL have a lot of free time on their hands with their boss sitting in the pokey for his efforts to blow up a mosque in LA.
===> Tee-hee, maybe Irv Rubin can play drop the soap with Mumia!