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November 15, 2005

Palestinians Get A Dose Of Their Own Medicine

Topics: Terrorism

Talking about poetic justice, it's great when it goes around and comes around - especially when it's terrorism coming back to bite Palestinians. From Daniel Pipes on the suicide bombing at the Radisson SAS hotel in Amman, Jordan:

A suicide bombing in Hadera, Israel, on October 26 that killed five people inspired the usual Palestinian joy: some 3,000 people took to the streets in celebration, chanting Allahu Akbar, calling for more suicide attacks against Israelis, and congratulating the "martyr's" family on the success of the attack.

But Palestinian Arabs were uncharacteristically morose after three explosions went off on November 9, killing 57 persons and injuring hundreds, in Amman, Jordan. That's because, for the very first time, they found themselves the main victim of those same Islamist "martyrs."

The massacre at a wedding in the Radisson SAS hotel ballroom took the lives of 17 family members attending the nuptials of what the London Times called a Palestinian "golden couple, beloved of their prominent Palestinian families and friends." The bombing also killed four Palestinian Authority officials, notably Bashir Nafeh, head of military intelligence on the West Bank.

And what's astounding is that to hear the Palestinians talk, it's like they never new that Arabs have been killing Arabs and Muslims have been killing Muslims, for years and years and years. It's almost as though they've been living in a news vacuum tucked away from reality!

After two decades of doling out this horror against Israelis, some of whom were also attending festive events (a Passover dinner, a Bar Mitzvah), Palestinians, who form a majority of the Jordanian population, unexpectedly found themselves at the receiving end.

And, guess what: They did not like it. (emphasis added)

The brother of a woman injured in the attack told a reporter, "My sister, I love her. I love her to death, and if something happened to her, I'd be really..." Choked, he stopped speaking and cried. Another relative called the terrorists "vicious criminals." A third cried out, "Oh my God, oh my God. Is it possible that Arabs are killing Arabs, Muslims killing Muslims?"

I can't help but wonder, where have these people been living that they don't know that "More Muslims have been killed by Muslims, more Muslims continue to be victimized by Muslims, and more Muslims are in danger of dying at the hands of Muslims than non-Muslims?"

The deaths of the Palestinians are tragic and their murder just as evil as the deaths of everyone else in the bombing, and there's no basis for taking pleasure in their being killed by Islamic suicide bombers. But perhaps some benefit may come out of this event and others like it, in that maybe, just maybe, Muslims will begin to wake up to the great wave of darkness that they've allowed to overwhelm a religion that they subscribe to as being of peace and tolerance - a premise that at this point, is beyond laughable, it's disgusting.

Posted by Richard at November 15, 2005 12:42 PM



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