Commentary;
It’s reported that while Hamas was looting Yassir Arafat’s house in Gaza City, they even swipped Arafat’s precious peace prize. Undoubtedly Blogosphere is having a lot of fun with this one, as witness this recent Little Green footballs post.
It’s a shame that they didn’t come up with a matched pair by swipping Peres’ as well.
Below is the text of an email recently sent to list by author Naomi Ragen which will serve as introduction to Khalid Abu Toameh’s recent piece in the Jerusalem Post. MB
Friends,
I have a few lines in my novel,The Covenant, that go like this: ‘How had the passion for a homeland, turned into a passion for killing? If the Israelis moved out of the Middle East tomorrow, all of these groups would have to find new reasons to go on, because they didn’t know how to do anything else….In the end…they’d have to start blowing themselves up, because that is all that they knew how to do.”
Well, well. Who would have thought it would happen so quickly? After a free election in which the Palestinians cast their votes for Hamas, they are now huddled at Israeli checkpoints begging to get out of Hamas-controlled Gaza. They are on television, crying to reporters that they won’t go back, it isn’t safe. They now expect Israel to give them food and water and take care of them. Israel has allowed some of them into the West Bank, but only those Abu Mazen wants. He doesn’t want these apparently. See any headlines in the New York Times about this?
No, they are busy printing editorials by Marwan Barghouti, that terrorist scum and mass murderer.
Below, read and smile at how the Palestinians are now looting Arafat’s home and the ill-gotten gains of other PLO murderers, all purchased with foreign aid money. Such irony. As the song says: When will they ever learn?
Naomi
Looters Raid Arafat’s Home, Steal His Nobel Peace Prize, by Khalid Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpts;
Enraged Fatah leaders on Saturday accused Hamas militiamen of looting the home of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza City.
“They stole almost everything inside the house, including Arafat’s Nobel Peace Prize medal,” said Ramallah-based Fatah spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman. “Hamas militiamen and gangsters blew up the main entrance to the house before storming it. They stole many of Arafat’s documents and files, gifts he had received from world leaders and even his military outfits.”
Abdel Rahman said the attackers also raided the second floor of the house and stole the personal belongings of his widow, Suha, and daughter, Zahwa. “They stole all the widow’s clothes and shoes,” he added. “They also took Arafat’s pictures with his daughter.”