Friday, June 26, 2009
In full, from Palestinian Media Watch:
Fatah boasts about lynch murder of two Israeli soldiers in 2000
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
As PMW reported earlier this week, PA (Fatah) TV marked the second anniversary of the Hamas takeover of Gaza by broadcasting a public Fatah event that focuses on vilifying Hamas. One part of this performance features a graphic video of Hamas members brutally beating a Fatah member in Gaza.
Another part criticizes and mocks Hamas for the decrease in its terror operations against Israel, glorifies Fatah terror, and ends with Fatah boasting that they "arrested two soldiers in Ramallah," a reference to the October 2000 lynching of two Israeli reservists.
In this scene actors portray a Hamas teacher and student supporters of Fatah and Hamas, debating which movement is greater. Significantly, the competition between Fatah and Hamas supporters is based not on who has built more Palestinian infrastructures, nor on who has promoted peace, but rather on who can take credit for more terror.
The debate ends when a Fatah student trumps Hamas's boast of having kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit by mentioning the "arrest of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah" by the PA-Fatah. This alludes to the lynching and gruesome murder of two Israeli reservist soldiers who accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority-controlled city in October 2000. While the picture of a Palestinian celebrating the killing by waving his bloody hands to the mob horrified the world, the murder remains a source of pride for Fatah.
[Note: Seated in the front row at the event are Fatah leaders, including Muhammad Dahlan, former head of PA security; Kadura Faras, head of the PA Prisoners' Association; Nasser Al-Qidwa, former PA Minister of Foreign Affairs; Samir Al-Mashharawi, senior Fatah official; and others.]
The following is a transcript of the act:
Fatah student taunts Hamas: "Since Hamas seized power, we haven't heard of any Martyrdom operation [suicide-bombing]."
Hamas teacher: "It's called 'fighter's rest'."
Fatah student: "A Hamas fighter needs rest, but a Fatah fighter doesn't need rest?!"
Hamas teacher: "Every fighter has the right to rest."
Fatah student: "Why is it that when Fatah stops fighting, you [Hamas] say they're cowards, but when Hamas stops fighting, you say it's 'fighters' rest'?"
Hamas teacher: "I don't know much about resistance [terror] and fighters..."
Fatah student: "The first shot was fired by the PLO; the first Jihad was carried out by the PLO [audience applauds], with all the other factions - but Hamas always opposed.
Hamas student: "What do you say about Hamas having kidnapped the [Israeli] soldier Shalit [still held hostage - Ed.]?"
Hamas teacher: "Ahaaa!"
Student: "By Allah, it's good."
Hamas student: "Did Fatah ever capture a soldier?!"
Fatah student: "It was the [other] brigades who captured him [Shalit] and sold him to you [Hamas]. It's a deal that you [Hamas] made for your own benefit, not for the [Palestinian] people's benefit. [Applause]
Fatah student: Remember, in Ramallah the [PA-Fatah] police arrested two soldiers - have you forgotten, teacher?!" [A reference to the lynching in Ramallah in October 2000- Ed.] [PATV June 17, 2009]
Yossi Avrahami and Vadim Nurzhitz.
Somehow, and in stark contrast to the deceit and blood libel that is al-Dura, not well remembered names. How'd that happen?
Far too many people make excuses for the animals that murdered these men. It wasn't ever a military exercise or operation. And their names are never mentioned unless we bring it up.
Good lord.
This is the moderate camp?
You know what - we all have a lot of work to do. There's just so much pain -
Maybe the process they've been trying in Rwanda, bringing people back together after the genocide, might help?
Nobody can draw a line on a map and say ok over here is this state and over there is that state, here is your house, this is their house - now coexist peacefully, bada bing bada boom.
People are scarred, they have been hurt, there is fear and hate and resentment and rage, bad memories, loss.
We're trying to solve this conflict from the outside, from the top down. There are exceptions of course, business people, artists, activists, people of good will who are trying to talk to each other. The internet helps too. It also hurts by spreading falsehoods, but on balance the ability to link people is good isn't it?
I think there is some progress in Judea and Samaria, and I have read that checkpoints are being dismantled to make things easier.
But who is talking to the people in Lebanon? Or Gaza? Mostly they get either incitement, much from the West or Iran but also a lot from local "leaders", there is incitement to violence then they get a retaliation from Israel or sometimes even the Lebanese - Nahr al Bared was flattened and 30,000 people were rendered homeless (not that this got much press). In the past the Lebanese even bombed the camps.
And, what about the Israelis who have been harmed? There's anger and fear among them too, among us here in the West. I think fear is part of the problem in Lebanon too, part of the reason the Lebanese don't want to assimilate any of the Palestinians who have been living there for generations. There is a lot of bad blood on all sides.
I don't see how conflicts can truly be resolved unless people learn not to hate and fear each other. This has to start on the ground.
Sophia,
Stop dreaming.
there is incitement to violence then they get a retaliation from Israel or sometimes even the Lebanese
Look up and read what the Palestinians did in Lebanon through the 70s right into to the 80s, to the Lebanese, the Christians especially.
Read about the town of Damour in 1976; what Arafat and his PLO did there. Not an isolated act.
As for Rwanda, well there's still a lot of animosity between Tutsi and Hutu.
The Arabs have been dishing out their brand of violence for the past 1400 years and they're not going to stop now.
Sophia:
Yes, this is the 'moderate camp'. And therein lies the problem.
In Israel, the 'hardliners' are now on record supporting the establishment of a Palestinian State. On the Palestinian side, the 'moderates' are terrorists who brag about how many Jews they have killed... and are proud of sending out their children to commit suicide.
The Palestinians could have had everything they claim to want, thirty years ago, had they renounced terror utterly. Heck, even without/i> renouncing terror, first Barak and then Olmert offered them the works on a silver platter. Clearly, that was not good enough.
People expect Israel to negotiate peace. Negotiate with whom?
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline