Saturday, May 16, 2009
Irony: Library Named After Palestinian Suicide Bomber Wafa Idris Inaugurated at a Yemen Children's Hospital. You've got to love a piece of a children's hospital not only named for a suicide bomber, but dedicated by a child killer:
According to the Yemeni news website www.yemenportal.net, a library and conference hall named after Palestinian suicide bomber Wafa Idris have been inaugurated at a children's hospital in the province of Ibb in southern Yemen. [1] The inauguration ceremony was attended by Yemeni officials, and launched by Samir Al-Kuntar, of the Palestinian Liberation Front, who carried out a deadly attack in Nahariyya in 1974, and was recently released from Israeli prison.
At the ceremony, speakers extolled the resistance and the perpetrators of suicide bombings, and little girls read out texts and poems.
Following are excerpts from the report: [2]
Samir Al-Kuntar: "The Enemy Is Weaker than Cobwebs"
"Freed prisoner Samir Al-Kuntar launched [the inauguration ceremony] of the hall and library named after Palestinian martyr Wafa Idris at the Mother and Child Hospital in Ibb. [The ceremony was] attended by the province's governor, Judge Ahmad Al-Hajri; by Dr. Balqis Abu Isba' of the Kan'an Association for Palestine, which sponsored the event; and by other politicians, prominent figures, and representatives of the health sector. They [all] stood up in honor of the heroine Wafa Idris, a volunteer nurse in the Palestinian Red Crescent, who blew herself up in an act of martyrdom in January 2002, killing one Israeli and wounding some 100 [others]."
Samir Al-Kuntar said at the ceremony: "The Yemenis embody the [ideal] of united resistance, which takes place [everywhere], from Palestine to Yemen, and which emphasizes that the way is long and requires numerous sacrifices like those that have been made in the past. The Yemeni people are expressing their pride in [Wafa Idris] by opening a hall named after her...[snip]
...Dr. Balqis Abu Isba' praised Samir Al-Kuntar and Wafa Idris, calling them "emblems of Arab steadfastness," and said: "It is these emblems of martyrdom and courageous steadfastness who will restore to us our occupied lands. What has been taken by force will be restored only by force. It is this approach that will enable the Arabs to hold their heads up [in pride].
"The Palestinian cause was and continues to be the primary Arab cause. A true and just peace in the Middle East will come only with the disappearance of the oppressive Zionist entity, which has violated the sacred and perpetrated the most heinous crimes, and with the restoration of the stolen Arab lands [to their rightful owners]."
Revealing. Here's some more indoctrination, this time on video (click the picture or link for the video page): Children Indoctrinated with Antisemitism on an Egyptian-Saudi Koran-Memorization Channel [Transcript]
Finally, here's a guy not only telling a revealing truth -- that a two-state solution is really just a step toward the ultimate destruction of the Jewish State -- but he actually has an interesting point. Whether you are religious or not, isn't a Jewish State that can give up Jerusalem itself simply showing that its core is lacking, and that it will just become a state like any other, nothing special, just another place for people to keep their stuff? An interesting issue to explore: Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki: Two-State Solution Will Lead to the Collapse of Israel [Transcript]
