How pathetic is this?
Schoolgirls marched and shopkeepers closed down their stores in Jenin on Monday in protest at the death sentence handed down against Saddam Hussein by a Baghdad court which found him guilty of crimes against humanity.
Carrying pictures of Saddam, about 250 girls from seven to 13 years old paraded through the town’s refugee camp, chanting “Beloved Saddam, strike Tel Aviv,” the same slogan shouted by jubilant Palestinians when Iraqi rockets slammed into Israel during the 1991 Gulf War – before the marchers were born.
Under Saddam’s rule Iraq donated $25,000 per household for Jenin residents to rebuild homes destroyed in a 2002 Israeli military offensive there.
In the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, masked gunmen from a previously unknown group calling itself Arafat’s Army threatened reprisals against foreign citizens in the Palestinian territories if the sentence against Saddam is carried out.
“We warn the American administration and its collaborators not to hurt Saddam Hussein because … we will target all foreigners, especially the Americans and their British supporters,” one of the men said, without giving his name. “We warn all foreigners in the Gaza Strip, especially the Americans, that they will be kidnapped and killed in front of witnesses.”
The “previously unknown group” label is what the wire services use when terrorist from a known terrorist group—either Hamas or Fatah or their offshoots—suddenly want to kill Americans and not have the U.S. be able to point the finger back at them.
Don’t think they won’t do it. There are plenty of fools in Gaza who think that because they’re working to help the pals, they’re immune to being hurt or murdered by the palestinians. History has proven them wrong.
They kill Americans? Carpet bomb the place from one end to the other. Let’s see how the Arabs like being on the receiving end of real terror bombing. It’s about time malevolent twits around the world started to fear the USA. Gaza would be an excellent place to stage an example, a place that is completely parasitical on the civilized world and produces nothing, neither material goods, valuable services, nor cultural products or ideas that anyone else would wish to receive. It subtracts from the sum total of human economic and cultural production.
It always amazes me when the Jerusalem Post endorses AP’s bias without correction or clarification.
Under Saddam’s rule Iraq donated $25,000 per household for Jenin residents to rebuild homes destroyed in a 2002 Israeli military offensive there.
This makes it sound like a charitable act on the part of Iraq instead of a deliberate attempt to reinforce what was clearly perceived by Saddam as a key source of terror attacks against Israel. And it utterly fails to put the “2002 Israeli military offensive” in context.
It also fails to mention that at about the same time, Iraq was also donating $25,000 to the family of every suicide bomber. I guess it’s a little harder to put a charitable spin on that.