Doc's Talk: PA celebrates released murderers

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

PA celebrates released murderers

Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

Release of 199 terrorists from Israeli jails:

For Israel: A "goodwill gesture"

For the PA: A precedent for the release of 3,450 additional murderers

Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs:

"The release of 199 prisoners has crushed Israel's conditions [for release]" The release of 199 Palestinian terrorist prisoners, which Israel intended as a goodwill gesture to promote peace with the Palestinian Authority, appears to have had an adverse effect. It's been perceived and portrayed as Israeli weakness, led to the glorification of the released terrorist murders and heightened expectations for the release of more than 3,400 convicted terrorist murderers in Israeli jails.

Following are excerpts from the Palestinian Authority media on four recurring themes:

1. The terrorist release is presented as Israeli weakness and submission, and not as a gesture of goodwill. It has been interpreted as a sign of the breakdown of Israeli demands in any future negotiations.
2. The terrorist murderers have been elevated to the status of Palestinian icons.
3. The release is seen as a precedent for the future release of all Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli jails, including 3,450 terrorists convicted of murder.
4. All the terrorists, including the murderers, have been glorified as heroes.

1. The Prisoner Release Is Presented as Israeli Weakness

Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs, Ashraf al-Ajrami, said, "The release of 199 prisoners today is a landmark that has crushed Israel's conditions [for release]... the most significant development has been the release of several prisoners... whom Israel could have continued to detain under the pretext that they aided the killing of Israelis. This points to a breakthrough precedent and the toppling of Israel's conditions regarding 3,450 other prisoners whom Israel places in the same category [i.e. convicted of murder]. "

[ Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 25, 2008]

"Hajj Mahmoud Issa Amaira, who is nearing 60, said: 'The entire people should welcome al-Utbah and Abu Ali Yatta [released terrorist murderers] today, for they are proof to us that prison walls do not close forever on anyone'... Bethlehem resident al-Uzzah, who was herself released from prison a year ago, said, 'There is no comparison to our celebration today, following the release of Sa'id al-Utbah and Abu Ali Yatta. Israel's so-called red lines are imaginary and a thing of the past.'"

[Al-Ayyam, Aug. 26, 2008]

"Hussein al-Jamal, a board member of the PFLP, came out yesterday with a media statement that the Palestinian people's ongoing struggle has forced the Occupation to fundamentally revise Israel's approach to the Palestinian and Arab prisoners... The release of a group of some of the most senior prisoners serves as proof that Israel's conditions for the release of prisoners have undergone critical changes."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 26, 2008]

Dr. Najat Abu Baker, a Fatah member of Palestinian Parliament: "I am certain that there will be a deal for the release of more than 1,600 prisoners. I hope that this deal will overcome all of Israel's demands and topple the conditions set by Israel. I say that we have grasped this issue, and have reached out to those singled out and to our fighting brethren who have sat in prison for more than 20 years."

[PA TV, Aug. 25, 2008]

"Thabet, one of the released prisoners and a Fatah leader, said... 'The release of his fellows from prison... constitutes the breakdown of Israeli conditions.'"

Bilal al-Shahsir, chair of the Palestinian National Council: "The Palestinian leadership has managed to secure a Palestinian victory for the Palestinian people by breaking down Israeli conditions and by forcing Israel to abandon the idea it has attempted to entrench according to which some prisoners have blood on their hands [i.e. sentenced to life for murder]."

[PA TV, Aug. 25, 2008]

2. The terrorist murderers have been elevated to the status of Palestinian icons.

Sa'id al-Utbah is responsible for the suicide-bombing attacks in the Petah Tikva market, Shuk HaCarmel Market and buses, in which dozens of Israelis were wounded and Tzilla Galili was murdered.

Dr. Najat Abu Baker, a Fatah member of the Palestinian Parliament: "Today we have added to the Guinness book of records a leader, an icon of freedom, and a guide to all humanity, the released prisoner Sa'id al-Utbah. Welcome back, O brilliant commander and jihad fighter."

[PA TV, Aug. 25, 2008]

"Our brave prisoners... and the man who stands at their head, the most senior fighter sentenced to life in prison, Sa'id al-Utbah."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 25, 2008]

"...Al-Utbah is always compared to other famous political prisoners who have fought to defend their homeland and aspired to free them, such as the Black South African leader, Nelson Mandela, who spent 29 years in prison under the racist regime which has since passed from this world."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 25, 2008]

Mohammed Abu Ali Yatta is a senior member of Fatah who was sentenced to two life-term sentences for murdering an Israeli reserve soldier in Hebron and a fellow Palestinian convict he suspected of aiding Israel.

Mahmoud Abbas announced during the prisoners' welcoming ceremony: "... This is a day when our heart rejoices... to see one of the greatest icons of our struggle, a man who has spent decades in prison - our brother Abu Ali Yatta."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 26, 2008]

3. The release is seen as a precedent for the future release of all Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli jails, including 3,450 terrorists convicted of murder.

Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs, Ashraf al-Ajrami: "... This is only the starting point and we will continue to release all of the prisoners. I commend the Palestinian leadership sitting in prison, and most of all, our brother the combatant Marwan Barghouti [serving more than five life sentences for murders]. I send them a message that we will soon see them among us: our brother Marwan, our brother Ahmed Saadat [PFLP Secretary-General, responsible for the murder of Israeli Minister Rehavam Ze'evi], and our brother Aziz Dweik [Hamas Chair of the Palestinian Parliament]..."

[PA TV, Aug. 25, 2008]

"The Arab Liberation Front... interpreted this move as the breakdown of Zionist conditions; a move that has paved the way to the release of prisoners sentenced for life."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 26, 2008]

Dr. Najat Abu Baker, a Fatah member of the Palestinian Parliament: "...We have 100 to 125 prisoners who have served their sentences for over 25 years. I have a message for these prisoners, many of whom suffer from chronic illnesses: Be patient..."

[PA TV, Aug. 25, 2008]

PA President Mahmoud Abbas: "There will not be peace, unless [the Israeli] prisons are emptied."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 26, 2008]

"Thabet, one of the released prisoners and a Fatah leader, said... this is a good starting point for the release of all the prisoners, male and female, and the emptying out of Israeli prisons."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 26, 2008]

4. All the terrorists, including the murderers, have been glorified as heroes.

Mahmoud Abbas announced during a welcoming ceremony for the released prisoners: "These brave released prisoners ... symbols of steadfastness, symbols of our homeland... are among our nation's heroes."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 26, 2008]

"The Fatah council of the Yattah municipality congratulates... the release from prison of a group of our heroic prisoners and hopes that all of our brave imprisoned fighters will be released in the near future."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 25, 2008]

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

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Religious bias

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On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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