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 Thursday October 17, 2002 20:43 by Omar OmarSarid at yahoo dot com
 Difference between an Israeli mother and Palestinian mother. Must Read. The Israeli mother talks first, then the Palestinian mother. Check out the difference. I am the Mother of an Israeli Soldier By Francine Robinson I am a mother. I am an Israeli mother. I am an Israeli mother of an Israeli soldier. I came to this country practically nineteen years ago, filled with hope and optimism, carrying my son, my first Israeli born child. I stood at his bris praying that he would grow up in a land I watched his blond curls turn brown and his lean, lank body fill out to a man's. I held him tight when he cried bemoaning the woes of a child and I was filled with ecstasy when his chubby face broke into a smile. I covered him at night when he was cold and wiped his feverish brow when he became sick. I was a mother - filled with the love, the hope, the expectation of all mothers. I dreamed of his future, filled with eternal love, and I did everything to make his present fulfilling and rewarding. "This is my son", I wanted to shout to the world, but the world already knew it. I raised my son with a love of his home, with the ideals of giving and trusting and believing. I taught him the meaning of a country, of a homeland. I instilled the belief of duty and respect. I showed him the miracle of Israel, taking him to the north and the south, to east and west. I walked him through the ancient and modern, telling him of a miracle of creation, of a will and fortitude of a people who had no where else to go. I taught him the Bible and I taught him the stories of the present. I raised him to believe that we belong, that we are here, that this land is ours. I showed him how we turned a malaria infested marshland into a thriving metropolis; how we turned a desert into a I am a mother. And on November 20th I sent my son into the Israeli army. I am proud of my son, but I know that life could be different. Like all mothers in Israel I want to see the children of my son. I want him to live to be an old man and enjoy the love of a woman. I want him to hold his son in his arms and have hopes and aspirations for his offspring. I would never send my son to commit suicide or to kill other innocent children like him. When you see pictures of these soldiers you are seeing my son. Look for the fear in his eyes, look for the shy smile beneath the helmet, and watch the long, lean fingers meant to embrace a young girl. Know that this is my son, a boy who wants to grow old in the only home he knows; the only home that he can be free in; the only country that does not discriminate against him. Understand that he would lay down his gun and pick up the ploughshare if only the other side had sons with mothers who want them to live. Palestinian Mother IDF Spokesperson 23 September 2002 Hamas terrorist Muhammad Farhat murdered 5 students in the Atzmona religious school, on March 3, 2002. Farhat's mother, Um-Nidal, encouraged her son to go on the Muhammad Farhat's mother appealed to other mothers in a published letter that urged them to follow in her footsteps. Following are excerpts from the letter: "Oh my fellow Muslim sisters. I swear by Allah, that you must educate your son to love Allah and obey him. Plant the seed of belief deep in his heart. This letter was published on March 7, 2001, a few days after her son died. This phenomenon of mothers who encourage their sons to commit homocide/suicide bombings is spreading in Palestinian streets. Hamas is working on a project Hamas also built a exhibtion celebrating the Palestinian suicide bombing of a Sbarros pizza restaurant in Israel. The bombing murdered 15 Israeli civilians, including 4 children. The exhibition consisted of a replica of the Sbarro's restaurant complete with replicas of human body parts and pizza slices were strewn. Thousands of Palestinians have visited the exhibit. Click here to see pics of this gruesome exhibit. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5i expect the palistinian mothers do not have the luxury of touring their history with their children and frolicking in the strawberry fields,while living as virtual prisoners under zion's son's army boots.
the difference between sending a son to war in uniform for zion,and out of uniform for allah is the price of the uniform.
i am anti-war.however i have more respect for a guerilla fighting for his home,than a man in uniform killing on orders.......but it's not my fight.
The conflict in the Mideast involves 3 parties. The U.S, Israel and the Palestinians. 2 of those parties wanted a Palestinian state. Barak and Clinton. It was Arafat who doesn't want a Palestinian state. Because that state would have to live in peace next to Israel. Arafat doesn't want that, because he wants Israel in pieces.
17 October 2002 01.21
Israel or the Palestinians? Making the Moral Choice By Wayne Dunn
[CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM] As the Israeli military stomps Palestinian gunmen and levels their lairs, the chorus of voices chanting "restraint!" has unfortunately been joined by the Bush administration, albeit with less gusto than the Europeans.
But its detractors notwithstanding, Israel is doing what a free nation's government is supposed to do when its citizens' lives are threatened with force: it's responding with force.
While Israel's retaliations aren't aimed at non-combatants, Arafat's quasi-governmental Palestinian Authority (PA), by contrast, actually lauds terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians, attacks whose ultimate purpose allegedly is to deliver Palestinians their
"rights."
But while suit-and-tie sporting PA spokesmen appearing on TV and talking up Palestinian "freedom fighters" may woo some Westerners, the fact is that far too many
Palestinians, steeped in religion, scorn the very concept of individual liberty.
It is precisely because of the Arab world's animosity toward individual rights and adherence to religious dogma, that an Arab living in Israel is much freer than he would
be living in an Arab country.
For example, the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel guarantees Arab residents "full and equal citizenship and due representation."[1] Peaceful Arabs living in Israel are free to work, own property, speak their minds, practice any religion, and, as citizens, to join or start a political party and even hold office. In fact, several current Knesset members are or were activists in nonviolent pro-Arab organizations. [2]
Do such winds of freedom blow in neighboring Egypt, whose constitution is shaped by Islamic jurisprudence? Just ask university professor Nasr Abu Zeid, whose 12 books were banned and who, on August 5, 1996, was told by Egypt's highest court that as an "apostate from Islam" he must divorce his wife. [3] (The Zeids chose exile instead.)
Can a Palestinian living in Jordan, say, practice Buddhism or be an atheist? Well, he'd better step gingerly, because Article 2 of Jordan's constitution makes Islam the state
religion. And while Article 15 grants that "every Jordanian shall be free to express his opinion," it ends"provided that such does not violate the law" [4] - which is a loophole big enough for the government to ride a camel through.
But the cultural divide between Israel and its neighbors runs deeper than one or two freedoms. The fundamental difference lies in the Israelis' general respect for man's
life and radical Palestinians' virtual worship of death - a difference that area Muslim leaders loudly proclaim.
Sheik Ikrima Sabri, leading clergyman of the PA, just days before June 2001's Tel-Aviv suicide bombing, said in a televised sermon, "The Muslim loves death and martyrdom,
just as [the Jews] love life. There is a great difference between he who loves the hereafter and he who loves this world. The Muslim loves death [and seeks] Martyrdom." [5]
Similarly glorifying martyrdom was Chief Mufti of the PA's Police Forces: "From the moment the first drop of his blood is spilled, […] he sees his seat in Paradise…."[6]
But praising suicide isn't confined to wild-eyed fundamentalists or PA thugs. The Saudi ambassador to London, Ghazi Al-Qusaibi, published an ode to martyrdom in the April 13 edition of a London-based Arabic newspaper. It ends, appropriately enough, "The Day of Jihad is the Day of Blood." [7]
Imagine a Palestinian press that heralds dying for Allah.
Imagine a Palestinian mother wishing she had a hundred sons to give to martyrdom. [8] Imagine a Palestinian father responding to his son's suicide-bombing death with:
"What can I say? I am very proud of him." [9]
Such is the degree of irrationality and malevolence that Israel is forced to contend with.
But the Arab world despises Israel not for its flaws, but for its merits - not because of its religious elements, but because of its secular ones: for importing into the Middle East the Western values of freedom, reason and science. Israel's technological might and economic prosperity - products of freedom and individual rights - provide a poignant contrast to the Arab nations' oppression and stagnation - products of religious zeal and "otherworldliness." And it's a contrast that stings the Arabs.
Palestinians should stop fighting the Israelis and start imitating them. They should stop exploding themselves and start extolling life. They should stop vying for a martyr's funeral rites and start valuing individual rights. But until then Israel must remain poised to grant
them their death wish.
And the Bush administration, for the sake of squashing terrorism and winning the war, should stop pretending that Israel and the Palestinians are equally "at fault" and declare that a free nation defending its citizens' lives is morally superior to a terror machine "heaven"-bent on ending them.
Now there's a source you can rely on...
This is really awful stuff, israeli mother vs. palestinian mother, Are there any pro-palestinian writers who have done the same thing, because it would be interesting to see how two pieces of propaganda from different sides, but from the same angle would look side by side. Something like arab mother has son in ancestral home, knocked soon after his arrival, and then area settled by young jewish couple from the bronx(have son), wow, I reckon this would make a movie to rival black hawk down............
> Palestinians should stop fighting the Israelis and start imitating them
I'll tell them next time that they should set up Fatah chckpoints in Tel Aviv, take over Israeli towns and plant them with Palestinians, or better, anybody from anywhere in the world who can prove that they have Muslim ancestry.
Is this really the merits of Western values? Creating hundreds of thousands of refugees? Because it looks as if we have done the same in many other parts of the world too.
These people hate those who have dispossessed them, and if these people have beliefs in freedom etc., most of them hate them for it because they see it as the ultimate hypocrisy.