Monday, May 03, 2004

Why Should We Question Their Motives?

Tali Hatuel is dead. So are her children, Hilah, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7 and Meirav, 2. So is her unborn child. Dead. Destroyed. Eliminated. In one short burst, her husband lost his wife, his children and his future. And who, or what could have done this unbelievably despicable act?

Who else?

Today, outside of the Gush Katif community in the Gaza strip section of Israel, two Palestinian terrorists bumped the car of Tali, got out of their vehicle and opened fire. These roaches of life, shot a beautiful family of five at close range. According to Arutz Sheva, Hamas, Yassir Arafat's Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the murderous attack. Voice of Israel's Avi Yissakharov, reports that “Hamas is boasting that just as they are successfully driving the Jews from Gaza, so will they drive the Jews from other regions in Israel.” In what has become a common scenario following terror attacks, Arab civilians in several locales under Arafat's control celebrated in the streets the murder of the Jewish mother and her children.

What kind of monsters are these people? Ok, you have grudge against a government. But to murder four children and their mother at direct range? I stand corrected. These killers should not be called “people”. Because calling them “people” would humanize them.

Of course, the international media continued to follow the idea of moral equivalence. According to the BBC (whom I will not link, less I give them any additional business) stated that the terrorists (I’m sorry, the BBC doesn’t call them terrorists) I mean, militants killed this family in retaliation for Israel’s assassinating Hamas leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and his successor, Abdel Aziz Rantisi. Of course, nowhere in the report does it mention that Yassin and Rantisi have not only caused the death of a thousand Jews, but have pledged to follow the Hamas charter. This charter clearly states that under no possibility may a Jew live within the land of Palestine (which they consider all of Israel), nor may anyone even compromise with the Jews or anyone else who seeks to compromise.

Supposedly, Israel’s killing of a man who screams that he wants to “die a martyr” while sending others to their early grave, caused a vanload of kids to be murdered. What’s remarkable about the BBC article is this quote, “A bumper sticker on her car said: ‘From here, we will not move’."

Let me try to understand it. A young mother is killed because she doesn’t want to lose her home. She wasn’t bothering anyone. She was just living in a home that she bought and just wanted to live there peacefully. Now remember, Gaza was part of the land that Israel had conquered during the six-day war. It was offered back to Egypt during the Camp David accords in 1979, along with the Sinai. However, the Egyptians wanted no part of it. For 19 years, prior to the six-day war, the people who lived there never called for an independent Palestinian state. Israel, realizing that they would have to control it, began building homes and communities. The Arabs, of course, decried this action because they did not want any Jews in “their” land.

Oh, so suddenly it’s “their” land. So therefore, no one else can live there. Now we know, of course, that many Arabs live in Israel. It is their right accorded them by the democratic country. As I mentioned in an earlier editorial, Israel offered the Arabs citizenship in the new state. The Arabs who accepted are still living free. However, in the Arabs warped sense of morality, it is NOT okay for a Jew to live in Gaza. To me that sounds like Judenrein, meaning “free of Jews”.

For Tali Hatuel and her four beautiful children, it meant death.

Since it's inception, Israel has fought with her neighbors to just stay alive and yet all we hear from the Arab nations is that Israel is an affront to Islam. That the Jews need to be driven into the sea. They tried in 1948, they tried in 1967, and they tried again in 1973. And this doesn’t include all the terror strikes in between. This does not include the Munich Olympics, the Achilles Laurel, the Rome airport killings, the Intifada (both), or even the Oslo War.

That’s right. I said the Oslo War. It was in 1993, that then Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin was fooled by the Israeli left (led by Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin) in inviting terrorist extraordinaire Arafat back into the picture, in the assumption that the PLO was ever just interested in living side by side with Israel.

The PLO received weapons, territory and money. Lot’s of money. Of course, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize what was to happen. In return for all of this, all the PLO had to do was change their charter and renounce terrorism.

They’re two for two. Yes, I know they claimed to recognize Israel, but they haven’t officially changed it. Plus, we know what they say to the western press and what they say to their own people are two different things. Two great organizations that point this out are CAMERA and Honestreporting.com. These organizations reveal, so very well, that not only are the PLO (now given the legitimate name Palestinian Authority) turning their eyes from terror, they are inciting it and carrying it out. All you have to do is to listen to their own words. The leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Tulkarm told USA Today on March 14, 2002: "The truth is, we are Fatah, but we didn't operate under the name of Fatah...We are the armed wing of the organization. We receive our instructions from Fatah. Our commander is Yasser Arafat himself."

And of course, they are helped by an international media that has played right into their hands. On many occasions, it is difficult to find anything positive about Israel in the media. Certainly, the BBC and Reuters are clearly biased. In January, Reuters blamed Israel for "killing" Palestinian suicide bombers, when they reported, “Iraq has paid millions of dollars to families of Palestinians, including those of suicide bombers, killed by Israeli forces since the start of the uprising in September 2000.”

I didn’t realize Israel was capable of murdering someone who had already committed suicide.

Another favorite is this one, also from Reuters (courtesy of honestreporting.com): “When Palestinian terrorist groups announced a hudna with the PA, Israel was not a party in the agreement, and the official road map demanded a full disarming of terror groups ― not a temporary hudna cease-fire. Yet Reuters took the opportunity to vilify Israel with the headline: ‘Israel Pours Scorn on Truce With Militants’.”

What’s shocking is not so much the headline, but that Reuters either didn’t do any research on what exactly the Road Map called for, what exactly a hudna is, or they simply don’t care. On top of that, everyone was overjoyed when the monsters declared this hudna. But what very few understand is what a hudna really is. Again, from Honestreporting.com, "Hudna has a distinct meaning to Islamic fundamentalists, well versed in their history: The prophet Mohammad struck a legendary, ten-year hudna with the Quraysh tribe that controlled Mecca in the seventh century. Over the following two years, Mohammad rearmed and took advantage of a minor Quraysh infraction to break the hudna and launch the full conquest of Mecca, the holiest city in Islam.

When Yassir Arafat infamously invoked Mohammad's hudna in 1994 to describe his own Oslo commitments 'on the road to Jerusalem,' the implication was clear. As Mideast expert Daniel Pipes explained, Arafat was asserting to his Islamic brethren that he will, "when his circumstances change for the better, take advantage of some technicality to tear up existing accords and launch a military assault on Israel." Indeed, this is precisely what occurred in Sept. 2000 when Arafat & Co. launched a terror assault upon Israeli citizens."

Unfortunately for Tali Hatuel and her children, they learned the hard way.

Will everyone else before it’s too late?

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