Speaking of Jew killers – jailed multiple murder mastermind Marwing Barghouti is contemplating run for President of the Palestinian Authority from his Israeli prison cell. Seems entirely apt for a mafia like organization which the PA so closely resembles. Ynet News
Following doubts surrounding Abbas’ political future, the source said that Marwan Barghouti’s camp has started looking into the option that he will run for Palestinian Authority president. The source said that Barghouti passed a message on to his associates saying that he will announce his candidacy if there are any developments with Abbas.
The source said that though the chance that Abbas won’t run “does not actually exist, Barghouti sees himself as the natural candidate, and really the only candidate, for whom there is broad consensus within the movement. His associates have started examining the possibility.”
According to him, this position is bolstered by reports recently received by Barghouti and his associates from Hamas claiming that Barghouti will be included in a prisoner swap deal with Israel. “We understood from people close to Barghouti that he believes his chances of being released in a deal are more than 90%.”
I have no idea if the Israelis will ever let him on a prisoner exchange or not but I cannot help but smile at the thought of mulitple world leaders and foreign ministers having to make the trek into an Israeli jail to ‘commune or communicate’ with Barghouti. Pity the poor slob who has to frisk Hillary Clinton, but then again, maybe it could be arranged that the guards in charge of frisking the visiting foreign dignitaries just so happen to have been the parent, spouse, or sibling to one of Barghouti’s many, many victims. It appeals to my sense of justice. Besides I am ready to the coming campaign to free Barghouti by world leaders twisting themselves into knots trying to justify the unjustifiable and I have a whole collection of pictures to remind the world of the gruesomeness of the blood from his handiwork.
Photo Credit – NY Times
I know the title sounds cynical, but really people, when does it stop? I mean, when does the whole ‘killing Jews’ thingie ever get too old? Apparently never. Ynet News is reporting that an extremist Somalian group is threatening to carry out attacks against the Israelis for the imaginary attacks commited against the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
A militant Islamist group affiliated with al-Qaeda has for the first time threatened to attack Israel, on the backdrop of reports that the Jewish state is carrying out excavations in east Jerusalem, the CNN network reported Sunday.
According to the report, the al-Shabab rebel group, which is fighting to control the east African country, accused Israel of “starting to destroy” the al-Aqsa Mosque. “The Jews started to destroy parts of the holy mosque of al-Aqsa and they routinely kill our Palestinian brothers, so we are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers,” said Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur, a prominent al-Shabab commander.
Abu Mansur’s threat was part of a series of fiery sermons delivered after Friday prayers in Baidoa in southwest Somalia, CNN said. Other leaders of the group also threatened Israel, the first time the group is known to have done so. “We will transfer and expand our fighting in the Middle East so we can defend al-Aqsa Mosque from the Israelis,” al-Shabab commander Abdifatah Aweys Abu Hamza said in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
According to the report, it is not clear whether al-Shabab has the capacity to carry out its threats against Israel, but international organizations have already warned that the group should be taken seriously. We should not underestimate the capacity of Al-Shabab,” said Rashid Abdi of the International Crisis Group. “This is a deadly organization, a formidable foe.”
It may be a deadly organization and a formibable foe but I say – get in line and make it orderly.
Elyakim Haetzni’s was invited to speak before a mixed group of Jewish and Arab Israelis. And then he wrote an opinion piece for Ynet News based on his experience:
The discrimination, said the Arab student, is not the problem. Even if you grant us full equality, the conflict will go on as long as Israel is a Jewish state. This country was our home, and you turned it into a foreign place for us. In a Jewish state we will always feel like foreigners: The Star of David is not our flag, and HaTikva is not our national anthem. It is impossible to replace our Palestinian dream by a Zionist dream.
These words, which were uttered calmly, put an end to the internal Jewish debate at once. Burning issues such as “territories” and “settlements” suddenly became irrelevant. I realized that the Hamas spokesman, who refers to the southern town of Sderot as a “settlement,” gives expression to a deep sense felt by all – Hamas, Fatah, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinian Authority residents. I recalled the refusal of our “partner,” Mahmoud Abbas, to recognize the Jewishness of the state – a position that was openly backed by Egypt. This shows us that it is possible to sign a “peace treaty” with the State of Israel while at the same time fight against the fact it belongs to the Jewish people.
With the help of the Arab girl, the layers of dishonesty disappeared and I responded to her that we do not need her to “recognize our existence” – if we exist, her recognition won’t add a thing, and if we do not exist, her recognition won’t help. As recognition is not some kind of merchandise, there is no need to pay for it.
The Left asks the Arab girl to give up Jaffa, and in exchange is willing to give up Hebron. Yet even if she signs such deal a thousand times, it is clear that she would take Jaffa back as well once she is able to do so. And still, even such meaningless signature is incredibly difficult for her and she may even pay with her life for doing that – because a de facto reality is tolerated by the Arabs, in the absence of any other option, while a formal de jure concession is considered treason.
And if an agreement is impossible, there can be no meeting of the minds between side A that does not reconcile itself to the existence of side B, so there is no point in negotiations and a process of give and take – particularly the “give” part of the equation.
The student expressed an authentic Arab position, which the Jewish Left has been ignoring: A complete rejection of the “1967 in exchange for 1948″ formula: You will concede what we already occupied and expelled and settled in the 1948 War of Independence and we will concede what we took in the 1967 Six-Day War. An Arab “partner” who pays some lip service to such “deal” is simply deceiving us.
This explains the Arab emphasis on two of the “core issues” – Jerusalem’s Old City, because the Jewishness or Arabness of the entire country is determined based on this, and the demand to allow millions of refugees into a Green Line state, which would erase Israel’s blue-and-white character.
And that, in a nutshell, is why there will be no peaceful resolution to this conflict until only one people live in this land. I invite anyone to attempt to dispute by showing me your proof that it can be otherwise but I have 60 years of history on my side.
