Marwan Barghouti is being positioned as the anti-Israel factions’ Mandela. Don’t laugh. The anti-Israel factions don’t give a damn if there’s blood on Barghouti’s hands. That’s utterly beside the point,and besides, blahblahblah, occupation, blahblahblah, indigenous people, blahblahblah, colonialism. In that spirit, the AP whitewashes the reason Barghouti is sitting in an Israeli jail for life:
Barghouti, serving five life terms in an Israeli prison for involvement in deadly attacks,
Let’s take a quick look at those “deadly attacks,” shall we?
The court ruled that Barghouti was directly responsible for a January 2002 terror attack on a gas station in Givat Zeev in which Israeli Yoela Chen was murdered. The attack, the judges said, was carried out at his direct order in revenge for the assassination of Raed Carmi. Barghouti had admitted his responsibility for this attack.
The attack in which a Greek monk was murdered in Ma’aleh Adumim on June of 2001 was also carried out at the instruction of Barghouti, the judges said.
The former Tanzim leader, the court ruled, also approved the March 2002 attack at Tel Aviv’s Seafood Market restaurant in which three people were murdered, as well as a car bomb attack in Jerusalem.
[…] Barghouti, 43, was charged with leading dozens of terror operations against Israeli targets since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, including suicide and shooting attacks that led to the death and injury of hundreds of Israeli citizens and Israel Defense Force soldiers.
And in the latest example of media objectivity, we have this from the AP:
The “old guard” returned from exile with Arafat in the mid-1990s, while many of the young activists were in the West Bank and Gaza through the years, struggling against Israeli occupation.
Yep. That’s media objectivity for you. They won’t call a terrorist a terrorist, but they’ll use the phrase “struggling against Israeli occupation” to describe what the terrorists do.
It seems to me that Barghouti is being positioned as the next great Cause of the anti-Israel left. Wait for the demands to “Free Barghouti!” start coming. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
It’s really a shame that Israel has no capital punishment for scum like that. They get put away for a few years then hundreds are released inexchange for a kidnappped crook or the bodies of some poor soldiers killed years ago. I notice it doesn’t earn Israel any points with the oh-so-moralistic Eurotrash who despise the USA for, among innumerable other offensive things, excuting people like Tookie Williams who manifestly earned it.
Of course, if the bolt of lightning hit, the conspiracy theorists would accuse the stae of Israel of using a lightning bolt machine.
Actually, I would like to see him turned loose, with a predator missile waiting for him at the celebration in Gaza. Or perhaps having him get hit with a stray bullet when the idiots fire in the air would be more appropriate.
Actually, I wonder if they use blanks then, I would have thought that more people would get it when they do that.