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The prisoner’s plan exposed

Posted on June 5th, 2006 at 4:05 pm by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Israel, palestinian politics

The so-called “prisoner’s plan” that Mahmoud Abbas has been touting as the latest and greatest scheme is being falsely declared a two-state solution, or implicit recognition of Israel, when it is neither. It is simply the reiteration of the same things we’ve been hearing for decades: “right of return,” UN resolutions, seperation wall, yadda yadda yadda. And Hamas has rejected it, in any case. But what’s so special about this eighteen-point plan?

Let’s look at the first point:

1. The Palestinian people at home and in exile seek to liberate their land and realize their right of freedom, return and independence, and their right to self-determination, including their right to establish an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital on all the land occupied in 1967, guaranteeing the right of return for the refugees, liberating all the prisoners and detainees, drawing upon our people’s historic right in the land of our ancestors, the U.N. charter, international law, and what international legitimacy guarantees.

Same things we’ve been hearing forever. The second point reaffirms the meeting in Cairo in March 2005, wherein the palestinians all agreed to work together for the common cause (the destruction of Israel, unsaid, of course). In point 3, we return to the meat of the matter:

3. The Palestinian people’s right to resistance and upholding the choice of resistance by all means, and concentrating the resistance in territories occupied in 1967, alongside political action and negotiations and diplomatic work, and continuing popular resistance against the occupation in all its forms, places and policies, and giving importance to expanding the participation of all sectors, fronts, groups and public in this popular resistance.

In other words: They’re not going stop the killing. In fact, this is a call to expand terrorist attacks. This is a typical palestinian sleight-of-hand trick. They claim the right to “resistance” (read: Terrorism) in “territories occupied since 1967,” and then when something slips over the border, they say that it’s an attack made by terrorists out of their control, or by a rogue faction, or in retaliation for some IDF operation. Hamas’ fingerprints have now been found on kassam rocket attacks from Gaza. Terrorists lie. They always lie. They’ve been lying since the world decided to pretend that Yasser Arafat wasn’t a murdering, Jew-killing, Jew-hating bastard whose only aim was to destroy Israel. They have no interest in peace with Israel, nor in the two-state solution. They regard all of Israel as occupied territory, and dream of a Jew-free state called “Palestine.”

This is what the prisoner’s document is about: It’s spelled out in plain (translated) English.

4. Devising a Palestinian plan for comprehensive political action, unifying the Palestinian political discourse based on the Palestinian national consensus program, Arab legitimacy, international resolutions fair to our people, which are represented by the PLO, the PA _ its chief and government, national and Islamic factions, civil society groups, public figures _ to be able to reactivate and develop and mobilize Arab, Islamic, and international political, financial, economic and humanitarian assistance to our people and national authority and in support of our people’s right to self-determination, freedom, return, independence, and confronting the Israeli plan to impose the Israeli solution on our people, and stand up to the unjust siege on us.

The prisoners are trying to prevent a civil war. They’re trying to stop Hamas and Fateh from clashing. They’re trying to unify the PNA so that it can act against Israel. It’s merely the next step in the war.

Lucky for Israel, they’ll never get the factions to agree. Hamas has already rejected the plan, refusing to bend even a millimeter from their goal of destroying the Jewish state (check their charter again if you’ve forgotten).

So ultimately, what is the prisoner’s plan? It is a plan that will coordinate the war against Israel. It is a plan that will lessen intrafactional fighting, and hopefully prevent a palestinian civil war. It is a plan to bring all the palestinians together for their one aim: The “resistance” against “occupation.”

Hamas cannot accept this plan, because it uses the language “1967 borders.” Hamas will not accept this plan because their intent is to destroy Israel and set up an Islamic state where Israel used to be, not live side by side in peace. The ultimatum was a foolish move by a man who hasn’t got the power to make one. It was stillborn the moment the ink was dry on it.

But it’s a great PR piece. Editors the world over are calling it a “peace plan” and pretending that it would be the next major step towards peace with Israel. It isn’t, and it won’t. (Although such shoddy editorial and reporting practices make me think even less of world media, a feat I thought was impossible.)

The plan is simply another smokescreen that Mahmoud Abbas uses to pretend that he’s a moderate — and the world uses to pretend that the palestinians want peace.

More lies. More distractions. But at least they can’t blame Israel when Hamas rejects the “peace” plan.

Lazy Ramadi

Posted on June 5th, 2006 at 3:17 pm by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Pop Culture

First there was Lazy Sunday. Then there was Lazy Monday. That began Lazy Muncie. And now, say hello to: Lazy Ramadi. Go. Click. View.

Steadfast, religious people

Posted on June 5th, 2006 at 1:05 pm by Laurence Simon.

Filed under: Terrorism

According to the imam of the storefront mosque some of the Canadian Islamist Terrorists frequented, the group never spoke of hurting others:

Several members of a suspected terrorist ring prayed daily at a storefront mosque in a middle-class city west of Toronto but never spoke of hurting others, one of their prayer leaders said.

“I will say that they were steadfast, religious people. There’s no doubt about it. But here we always preach peace and moderation,” Qamrul Khanson, an imam at the one-room Al-Rahman Islamic Center for Islamic Education, said Sunday.

I suppose three tons of ammonium nitrate would be considered moderate compared to, what? Twenty-five tons of the stuff?

I think the imam is heaping another kind of fertilizer on the press. And there’s no mistaking the lack of moderation in how much he’s heaping.

Of course, after the arrests, the Victim Card is played quickly:

Mohamed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, told the AP that he and other Muslim leaders were getting threatening e-mails.

“We hope Canadians will be more rational and consider the facts,” Elmasry said.

Perhaps they are, Mohamed. That’s why they’re making threats instead of, say, lynching anyone, barricading doors of full meeting halls while tossing in Molotovs, or going all Baruch Goldstein on anyone.

Or would you rather they just set off fuel-oil bombs at your places of worship, homes, businesses, and organizations? You know, like the seventeen you’re actively whitewashing as “steadfast, religious people” would have if they hadn’t have been caught?

The palestinians’ major export: Suicide bombings

Posted on June 5th, 2006 at 12:21 pm by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Terrorism

Apparently, our palestinian pals have joined the Sunnis in Iraq and come together to murder, well, anyone who gets in the way of their bombs.

The authoritative Middle East News Line reports that the U.S. military command in Iraq has determined that Palestinians have become senior operatives in the Sunni insurgency in Iraq against U.S. forces.

These officials said an increasing number of Palestinians have joined al-Qaida-aligned groups in Iraq. They said most of the Palestinians, estimated at more than 100, entered Baghdad from Syria and Jordan over the last 18 months and helped plan suicide car bombings.

“They came into Iraq posing as students or those visiting family,” an official said. “We believe some of them were sent by Palestinian groups.”

On May 30, Iraqi and U.S. troops captured three Palestinians identified as leaders of insurgency cells in Baghdad. The Palestinians were said to have recruited students from Baghdad Technical University and ordered them to plant bombs near Iraqi police and army positions.

“This cell is responsible for at least two attacks against Iraqi security and police forces in the Karada area [of Baghdad],” the U.S. military said. “The first attack, in December 2005, resulted in no casualties. The second attack, in January of this year, killed several Iraqi police officers riding in a vehicle.”

Officials said the Palestinians directed two student cells that operated out of the university dormitories. They said the cells assembled bombs and targeted Iraq Army and police forces.

“All three cell leaders are believed to be Palestinians, and they were financed by a local business,” the military said without elaborating.

Once again proving that the palestinians are not just not on our side, they are actively working with America’s enemies. While Israel is an active ally, teaching American troops inner-city fighting techniques and how to spot and disarm IEDs.

Someone want to tell me how the Israeli oppression of the palestinians justifies their attempts to murder American troops? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Nothing like getting your priorities straight

Posted on June 5th, 2006 at 11:03 am by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Politics

Now that’s leadership for you. Canada and the U.K. have just prevented major Islamist terror attacks. The war in Iraq is still going on, and the “insurgents” show no sign of letting up anytime soon. Iran is zooming towards getting a nuclear bomb, and oh, yeah — they just threatened to stop the oil flow in the Persian Gulf if we try to stop them militarily.

So what does President Bush think is the most urgent issue of the day?

Gay marriage.

He wants to reiterate his support for a Constitutional amendment preventing gay marriage. Because really, folks, this is important. Ohmigod, if you let homosexuals marry, the friggin’ world will come to an end! They’re dangerous! OUR ENTIRE WAY OF LIFE IS AT STAKE HERE!!!!

Puh-leeze. Bush wants his pander bear moment, fine. Don’t expect me not to point out what an absolute idiot he is for doing so.

This is George W. Bush’s Sister Souljah moment. Clinton was a fool for that, and Bush is a fool for this.

The Constitution is just fine the way it is. And if gays want to get married, that’s fine, too. It’s none of my business, and it’s none of the government’s business.