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Finding one's humanity in Nablus
Wednesday July 2, 2008
2 ways to make a "terrorist"
1) Demoralization - Palestinian bulldozer attack
2) Trickery - Khawaja trial
1) Demoralization
Next time you hear of how various militant groups claimed responsibility for a "terrorist" attack, think of this (all underlining on this page is mine):
Mayhem and murder by Palestinian bulldozer driver kills 3 (Scotsman)
Shahar
Ayalon, Israel's deputy police commissioner, said it was "definitely a
terrorist attack" while neighbours of the assailant, Hussam Tarysir
Dwayat, in east Jerusalem said they knew of no links between him and
any armed Palestinian factions.
Three Palestinian groups claimed responsibility for the attack, including the armed wing of Fatah, but Dudi Cohen, the Israeli national police chief, said it looked like "a spontaneous act".
This
very likely was a spur of the moment action by a Palestinian driven mad
with grief and rage over the deaths and misery caused by the use of
bulldozers by Israelis. Watch them in action.
On
the one hand, I feel terrible for the people who were traumatised by
this event, but at the same time I think of all the Palestinians who
have been forced to run in terror from bulldozers, and some who didn't
manage to get out of the way in time, and I can see why the man might
see this as justice.
I would like to know if this
Palestinian man was a construction worker who was expected to assist with efforts to push Palestinians out of
east Jerusalem to create more Jews only space. Because that's what's
going on there.
Whatever his motivation, it's long past time to
end the occupation, whether through a Palestinian state or by taking
the one-state route, whatever stands a chance of restoring some
semblance of humanity to that part of the world.
Apparently the
police don't want to think it's possible they may have driven somebody
mad by their own actions. They'd rather believe it was just a criminal
act.
From the New Zealand Herald (underlining mine):
Police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said the man was an Arab from east Jerusalem and had a criminal background.
What?
Like he was a murderer? Somehow I imagine that a Palestinian in
Israel doesn't have to do very much to acquire a "criminal" record.
Read this article
from the Independent for a brief bio of the man, whose name was Hussam
Dwayat. He was only 30, married, with two children. Apparently, he
spent some time in jail because of a domestic dispute involving his
former wife.That suggests, too, that he was losing it.
The Independent reveals also the dubious manner in which militant groups supposedly took credit for the attack:
Relatives
and neighbours said they were not aware of the man having any
connection to an armed faction. The PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat
condemned the attack. But a statement purporting to be from Islamic
Jihad on an Islamic website, seen by some observers as a responsibility claim, said that the killings had been a "normal reaction to the crimes of the Zionist occupation
Hamas also said it was a "natural reaction to the daily aggression and crimes committed against our people".
Back to the New Zealand Herald article which gives a strong hint about what life is like for an Arab living in Jerusalem:
About
two-thirds of Jerusalem's 700,000 residents are Jews, and the rest are
Palestinians who came under Israeli control when Israel captured their
part of the city in 1967.
Jerusalem's Arabs are not Israeli citizens but hold Israeli ID cards that allow them freedom of movement in the city and throughout Israel.
This
is interesting, because it makes no distinction at all between east
Jerusalem which has always been considered part of Palestine should a
state ever be formed, and west Jerusalem which of course is considered
to be Jewish.
Because of the occupation, the man in the
bulldozer had no rights as a citizen of anywhere! And even the
Palestinian character of east Jerusalem is being gradually stripped
away.
Read quotes from Israeli officials (Jerusalem: East Side Story)
that reveal how Arabs in Jerusalem have been treated as "third class
citizens". The plan was to increase the Jewish population and create
construction that would prevent partition should a Palestinian state
occur. But it appears that fewer Jews want to be a party to
this, since the Jewish population is gradually decreasing. This does
not stop the state, however, from finding ways to squeeze the Arabs.
Related: Obama to Palestinians: Bye bye East Jerusalem
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2) Trickery
The Khawaja prosecution seems to be on as weak a footing as all the other "terror" trials:
Would-be jihadis tricked into bomb plot, Khawaja lawyer suggests (CP) "You never discussed the U.K. plot with Momin," he declared. "No," Babar finally conceded.
It
seems almost that the very fact Khawaja is on trial proves he is
nothing more than a scapegoat. How? Because what happens when somebody
really is dangerous is that they're given paid informer jobs! (Although all
Babar's history may have been concocted to indirectly prove that Al
Qaeda really does exist, and what bad guys these Middle Eastern types
can be - even if they're New Yawkers on friendly terms with the CIA.)
Babar,
who was born in Pakistan but grew up in New York, faces a potential
70-year sentence in the U.S. after pleading guilty there to changes of
aiding al-Qaida.
He
has also admitted to participating in two failed plots to assassinate
Pakistani President Purvez Musharraf. If he hadn't agreed to turn
informer, Greenspon said, the Americans would have returned him to
Pakistan where he might have faced a death sentence.
Instead,
said Greenspon, under a deal with U.S. prosecutors, Babar could win his
freedom next year after serving just five years in custody.
I find it hilarious that a plan to bomb a nightclub and other city amenities was "uncovered by British police and security officers before any damage could be done". I mean, what was there to "uncover" considering that they had their own moles in there all along, setting the whole thing up?
This trial is the same old story with the same thin plot line starring an agent provocateur and a patsy. But the article does contain a tasty morsel with regard to the London July 2005 transit bombings:
But
Babar has also acknowledged that Khawaja left the camp before Khyam and
others tested a crude fertilizer-based bomb later in the summer of
2003. Among those conducting the test was Mohammed Siddiqui
Khan, the eventual ringleader of London's infamous July 2005 suicide
bombings that killed 52 bus and subway passengers.
I
don't know about you, but this almost screams that the London guys
were patsies as well and that 7/7 was a deliberate false flag attack
blamed on kids who thought they were involved in the simulation exercises that were "coincidentally" going on in London at the same time.
Time to revisit this video: Montreal next terror target?
YYC: London Bombings and Related Issues
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