Veel over Palestijnse gevangenen, maar weinig over waarvoor ze vastzaten in de media

 

Het viel mij eerlijk gezegd nog mee dat er in de Nederlandse media wel aandacht werd besteed aan het feit dat het geen lieve jongens zijn die zomaar door Israel waren opgepakt, maar berichten als onderstaand komen helaas ook voor. En veel vooral zich als progressief beschouwende mensen menen dat de Palestijnen het recht hebben zich met geweld tegen 'de bezetting' te verzetten, en daar vallen ook zelfmoordaanslagen onder. Ze hebben nou eenmaal geen andere middelen, aldus het eeuwige cliché. Dat is natuurlijk niet waar, ieder volk en ieder individu heeft de keuze wat het doet, en zelfs in veel extremere omstandigheden weten sommigen hun waardigheid te behouden en verlagen zich niet tot het niveau van hun vijand. Geen volk overigens dat zoveel hulp, aandacht en steun krijgt als de Palestijnen. Alleen voor hen is er een aparte vluchtelingenorganisatie, en alleen voor hen zijn er een aantal andere speciale VN organisaties. Ze krijgen meer geld van het Westen dan echt arme landen als Soedan of Ethiopië of Somalië of welk willekeuring land in Afrika boven de Sahara.

 

RP

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Media has lots on the prisoners, little on the terror

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/10/media-has-lots-on-prisoners-little-on.html

 

 

From the Washington Post:

A week ago, Yahya Dabassa Ibrahim was on a hunger strike, rotting away in an Israeli prison where he expected to spend the rest of his life.

But the Oct. 18 prisoner swap between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas landed the Bethlehem native in a surreal place: the Gaza Strip's brand-new luxury hotel.

The eight-story Al-Mashtal Hotel, which opened in late July, is an oasis of fluffy white duvets, stunning ocean views, steaks cooked to perfection and sparkling swimming pools. Its splendor is startling in this blockaded territory where dozens of bombed buildings lie in ruin, heaps of garbage dot nearly every street and the Mediterranean shoreline is speckled by evidence of the tons of raw sewage dumped into the ocean every day.

As he sat in the hotel's dimly lighted courtyard on a recent evening, Ibrahim, a convicted bombmaker, struggled to describe how dramatically his luck had changed.

Ibrahim, 50, served roughly 10 years of a life sentence. He was among the prisoners who went on a hunger strike in recent months after Israel took away certain perks, including access to television, and limited visits by relatives.

He was accused of manufacturing explosives that were used in attacks in Israeli cities, according to news reports. Ibrahim said he didn't want to discuss the incidents that led to his incarceration, but he made it clear that he didn't regret participating in militancy.

"We sacrificed part of our lives not to stay in hotels like these, but to liberate Palestine," he said.

This terrorist is Yihya Ibrahim Abd al-Hafez Daamsah, who helped coordinate the Cafe Moment bombing of 2002. He was serving a life sentence. Since the Washington Post doesn't want to delve into the details of exactly why he was in prison, I will.

From Israel's MFA:

11 people were killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a suicide bomber exploded at 22:30 PM Saturday night, March 9, 2002, in a crowded Moment cafe at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets in the Rehavia neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

The bomber walked into the cafe, located at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets about 100 meters from the prime minister's residence, and detonated a powerful explosive charge that completely gutted the restaurant.

The names of the victims:

- Limor Ben-Shoham, 27, of Jerusalem;
- Nir Rahamim Borochov, 22, of Givat Ze'ev;
- Danit Dagan, 25, of Tel-Aviv;
- Livnat Dvash, 28, of Jerusalem;
- Tali Eliyahu, 26, of Jerusalem;
- Uri Felix, 25, of Givat Ze'ev;
- Dan Imani, 23, of Jerusalem;
- Natanel Kochavi, 31, of Kiryat Ata;
- Baruch Lerner-Naor, 28, of Eli;
- Orit Ozarov, 28, of Jerusalem;
- Avraham Haim Rahamim, 29, of Jerusalem

Limor Ben Shoham		Nir Borochov		Danit Dagan		Livnat Dvash
Tali Eliyahu		Uri Felix		Dan Imani		Natanel Kochavi
Baruch Lerner-Naor		Orit Ozerov		Avraham Rahamim

(h/t Allan)