Thursday, October 20, 2011

Indoctrination and Attack Follow Schalit Deal

IPT News

A female would-be suicide bomber, recently released under the prisoner exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, encouraged a crowd of Gaza schoolchildren to follow her violent example. Wafa al-Biss was serving a 12-year sentence for an attempted suicide bombing in 2005, in which she exploited permits allowing her to receive medical care at an Israeli hospital.

"I hope you will walk the same path we took and God willing, we will see some of you as martyrs," al-Biss told a group of children, before mentioning her plans to pursue her educational goal of a degree in psychology. "We will pursue our struggle and (Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu) knows that. Arrests will not deter us from our strong battles and confrontation in the face of Zionist arrogance in the land of Palestine."


Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/3242/indoctrination-and-attack-follow-schalit-deal The children responded by chanting, "We will give souls and blood to redeem the prisoners. We will give souls and blood for you, Palestine."

Meanwhile, the Israeli army prevented a stabbing attack Wednesday by a Palestinian woman in the town of Gush Etzion. The woman pulled the knife as she approached a group of Israeli soldiers and civilians, and shouted "Allahu Akhbar" and "Kill the Jews." She was subdued before anyone was hurt.

She told security forces at the scene that she had waited until after the prisoner exchange deal to carry out her attack, ostensibly to avoid interrupting the release of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for the one kidnapped Israeli soldier.


Comment: As I wrote yesterday there are some unintended consequences to this release of prisoners. The message
I delivered has already begun. What did I suggest? The International community and local political groups will use this trade and communication process to establish a new baseline for negotiation. The message will be something like this: "Now that you have crossed your own red lines never to negotiate with such a terrorist group and now that you have demonstrated the minimal price you are willing to pay, there is no longer any reason for you not to ..." Please note the wonderful "Quartet" of smart ones who yesterday gave us in Israel 3 months to come up with final border decisions. What Bibi needed to do , an hour after greeting Gilad, welcoming him home ,he should have gone back to Jerusalem and spoken to the international community. He should have said: This will not happen again. The terrorist group has extorted a high price from us and our duty to return our soldier drove my decision. The international community was complicit in this extortion and we shall not enable you to do this again to us. Where were the peace groups, the NGO's , human rights groups, where was the UN, Red Cross? In the 5 years of Gilad's captivity he was never allowed a visit to confirm his vialbility or quality of life-you raised not even one shout, a whimper only once or twice. This makes you complicit. Do not talk to us about humanity and human rights given your lack of human behavior. Hamas, Fatah, Hizzbollah and all other groups who have stated their goal is to send us away from our home land, you are hereby on notice. I could have but did not use other measures to bring our soldier home. Do not use the oft repeated "but you can not collectively punish...", this is but a ploy and tactic. You are not the victim so stop acting like one. Your actions are childish, start acting like grown ups. We have multiple possibilities if there is a next time, something within minutes of the exchange your leaders and freed terrorist shouted to the world you would begin again. Dont behave inhumanely, it will not bode well for you.

This is what he should have said!!

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