Thanks to Solkhar for emailing us the correction.
A reader in Israel sends the following report, which describes about yet another instance of pressure exerted against the Israeli government to coddle Palestinian terrorists:
Baron,- - - - - - - - -
My name is Semel, and I’m an Israeli student in Jerusalem. I’m updating you on an annoying affair you probably heard about. Last week a new record of hypocrisy in French foreign policy was reached (as if that’s even possible). My information is taken mainly from the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot.
According to the French and Israeli press, President Sarkozy personally addressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him to free a Palestinian prisoner named Salah Hassan Hamouri, as “a gesture of good will”.
A letter from the French minister of foreign affairs was received by Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak as well, following last month’s rejection by an Israeli court of Hamouri’s request for early release.
Hamouri is a Palestinian from northeast Jerusalem holding French citizenship. In addition to that he is a convicted terrorist. In 2005 Hamouri was charged with planning several bombings in Jerusalem. He and his friends were also in the final stages of a plan to assassinate Ovadya Yosef, the leader of an Israeli Hasidic movement (personally, I wouldn’t shed a tear; these guys are almost as crazy as their Muslim equivalents). In court, Hamouri admitted all the charges.
Hamouri is an active member of “The People’s Front” (apparently Palestinians do watch Monty Python), an East Jerusalem organization which was charged with the assassination of Israeli minister Rehavam Zeevi in 2001. After Zeevi’s assassination all leaders of the organization were arrested.
At that time Hamouri had himself been released from Israeli prison after being arrested for terrorist activity a year earlier. He immediately began organizing the remains of the organization, restoring its former activity, taking orders from its imprisoned leaders. Hamouri was in charge of organizing a network of terrorist cells around the city and planning the exact time and location of the planned assassination. Luckily, these networks went far enough in order to lead back to him, and enable his and his comrade’s arrest before the assassination took place.
Today Sarkozy is asking for his release, saying he believes Hamouri has the potential of rehabilitating in the future if released. What made Sarkozy believe such a baseless theory? According to Le Figaro, Hamouri’s mother is well-connected with French pro-Palestinian organizations. Organizations powerful enough to organize a meeting between Sarkozy’s advisers and Hamouri’s mother, apparently powerful enough to press Sarkozy into doing something he probably does not believe in himself.
That’s the story (that’s how it looks from were I stand anyway).
One more thing — a bit more optimistic — from Israel is this: I believe people in Israel are finally coming to understand they have a good friend in Europe who is growing in power. I don’t have the time to translate the responses to Geert’s speeches lately, but they’re changing in the right direction. The leftist media is, of course, still trying to portray him as an extremist, but people are no longer fooled. We are all so sick and tired of hearing how evil we all are; it’s refreshing to hear something else for a change.
Thank you for your support,
Semel
7 comments:
"A gesture of good will" from Sarkozy might be stripping him of his French citizenship.
That would stop the "powerful palestinian lobby" from lobbying in his case and get some points in Israel for both - Sarkozy and Netanyahu.
Nice to read this from inside Israel. Would love a daily column from this perspective, but then I could turn to JP directly...
I have been reading you blog for about half a year now and wanted to tell you my compliments and thanks for your effort.
Here is a story that put a smile on my face, about a French-Israeli private citizen's attempt to put the EU's Byzantine legislation to his own use:
European-Israeli in Sderot Sues EU for Rocket Protection
A precedent-setting court suit has been filed with the European Union’s High Court, demanding that the EU provide protection to its citizens living in Israel.
Just this morning (Sunday), Hamas terrorists in Gaza fired a Kassam rocket at Israel’s Negev region. The rocket landed near Kibbutz Alumim, causing no casualties or damage. It was the second attack of this nature in several weeks.
Eyal Katorza, a resident of the Kassam-beleaguered city of Sderot and a European Union citizen of French nationality, filed the suit, at the initiative of the European Citizens Council in Israel, a nonprofit organization representing Israelis of EU nationalities.
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The suit notes that Article 3.2 of the European Treaty stipulates that the EU shall “offer its citizens an area of freedom, security and justice without internal frontiers, in which the free movement of persons is ensured.” Article 3.5 of the same treaty states that the EU shall uphold and promote its values and interests and contribute to the protection of its citizens.
Today Sarkozy is asking for his release, saying he believes El-Hamuri has the potential of rehabilitating in the future if released. What made Sarkozy believe such a baseless theory? According to Le Figaro, El-Hamuri’s mother is well-connected with French pro-Palestinian organizations. Organizations powerful enough to organize a meeting between Sarkozy’s advisers and El-Hamuri’s mother, apparently powerful enough to press Sarkozy into doing something he probably does not believe in himself.
What is it about the European mind that allows people to ignore the incredibly evil fact of terrorism? Much like acts of rape, terrorist attacks against purely civilian targets simply have no justification.
Their contrived position as underdog being used by the Palestinians is such an obvious artifice that only a mind already well-disposed to anti-Semitism could possibly accept it as legitimate. One would think that Europe had already learned its lesson about genocide.
Yet, one more bloody time, the Palestinians' genocidal ravings are brushed aside out of "humanitarian" concerns over what is most obviously the clearest case of self-inflicted poverty and inhumanity in modern times. Palestinians have caged themselves like so many starving rats and expect our world to take pity upon the expectable outcome.
The Muslim community's complicity in this toxic farce is so reprehensible as to defy appropriate condemnation. That no Arab nation has stepped up and offered to absorb the Palestinian population is a direct indictment of how Muslims are using this entire fiasco as a low-intensity war of genocide against Israel.
After so many consecutive and routine breaches of every single agreement, accord or pact made with Muslims, Israel finally seems to have awoken to the fact that there can be no reconciliation or peaceful coexistence. One can only hope that they will put this realization into action and eject all inhabitants of Gaza and the West Bank from Israel's borders.
Muslim perfidy allows for no other resolution of this crisis. There can be no hope for assimilation or integration. Therefore, a policy of simple isolation would be best.
"El-Hamuri is an active member of “The People’s Front” (apparently Palestinians do watch Monty Python), an East Jerusalem organization which was charged with the assassination of Israeli minister Rehavam Zeevi in 2001. After Zeevi’s assassination all leaders of the organization were arrested."
Or it could be sheer coincidence. After all, muslims and humor seem completely incompatable with each other.
May be we should redifine our sense of humour, give it some theological, ontological, philosophical sauce and
declare it our official religion.
Then we are united in " sense of humour" and can feel non-stop insulted by islamic Monty Python.
"In our comedy book no one dies or gets harmed as a result of our strong religious beliefs."
"Without humour there is no honor!"
These people have no honor!!! Help!!!
It should be scriptural, we can grind them and frie them with our religious quotes.
This world is a projection of universal cosmic sense of humour.
These people deny the whole creation. Blasphemy of alpha-omega dimension!!!!
SRCOZY OFICILY BAND THE BURKA RISENTLY.
SO MAYBE THATS HE'S WAY OF APEASING THE MUSLIMS NOW(SICRETLY FARTING ON THE JEWS).
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