The Arab terrorist who murdered a mother, her 11-year-old daughter and a soldier last night in the agricultural community of Hamra was granted the equivalent of Palestinian \"sainthood\" by the PLO media. So reports Michael Widlanski of www.themedialine.org . Yasser Arafat\'s Voice of Palestine radio opened its morning newscast by labeling last night\'s attack \"istish-haad\" -- an act of \"heroic martyrdom.\" News anchorman Nizar Al-Ghul said, \"The man carrying out the operation became a heroic martyr after killing two settlers and a soldier and wounding at least four.\" The VOP news editors failed to mention that the murdered \"settlers\" were a 50-year-old woman and her 11-year-old daughter.
During this morning\'s news magazine, the Voice of Palestine played an operatic-like song that repeatedly calls for \"martyrs\" and for acts of \"heroic martyrdom\" inside Jerusalem. The name of the song is \"Al Quds Madinat Al-Salaam\" [Jerusalem, City of Peace].
Last week, Wafa Idris, a 27-year-old Arab woman, entered Jerusalem in an ambulance
belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent and later set off a huge bomb on Jerusalem\'s busiest street, killing one man and wounding 150. The newspapers and broadcast outlets of the Palestinian Authority beautified the woman, running her picture on the front page continuously and proclaiming her a martyr.
None of the Palestinian media outlets mentioned that the 27-year-old woman bomber was apparently in a state of extreme depression after being divorced by her husband when she miscarried her baby in the
seventh month of her pregnancy. The husband refused to take his wife back, Israeli sources said, after it became clear that she would have difficulty conceiving children.
In an interview with MSNBC television, Arafat refused to condemn the woman\'s act. \"Don\'t we have the right to resist occupation,\" he rhetorically asked.
For the last week there has been no mention whatsoever in the PLO media in Arabic of Yasser Arafat\'s op-ed piece in The New York Times where he said he opposed terrorism.
During this morning\'s news magazine, the Voice of Palestine played an operatic-like song that repeatedly calls for \"martyrs\" and for acts of \"heroic martyrdom\" inside Jerusalem. The name of the song is \"Al Quds Madinat Al-Salaam\" [Jerusalem, City of Peace].
Last week, Wafa Idris, a 27-year-old Arab woman, entered Jerusalem in an ambulance
belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent and later set off a huge bomb on Jerusalem\'s busiest street, killing one man and wounding 150. The newspapers and broadcast outlets of the Palestinian Authority beautified the woman, running her picture on the front page continuously and proclaiming her a martyr.
None of the Palestinian media outlets mentioned that the 27-year-old woman bomber was apparently in a state of extreme depression after being divorced by her husband when she miscarried her baby in the
seventh month of her pregnancy. The husband refused to take his wife back, Israeli sources said, after it became clear that she would have difficulty conceiving children.
In an interview with MSNBC television, Arafat refused to condemn the woman\'s act. \"Don\'t we have the right to resist occupation,\" he rhetorically asked.
For the last week there has been no mention whatsoever in the PLO media in Arabic of Yasser Arafat\'s op-ed piece in The New York Times where he said he opposed terrorism.