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Honouring the Suicide Bombers

Joe | 22.01.2003 14:27

Soccer tournament named for 'martyr' Palestinians - honours bomber who killed 29 in Passover massacre

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© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

A Palestinian soccer tournament has been named after the suicide bomber who killed 29 people and injured 140 last year during a Passover seder, according to the official Palestinian Authority daily Al Hayat Al Jadida.

Hamas member Abed Al-Basset Odeh walked into the dining room of the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya on March 27 and detonated an explosive device amid 250 guests participating in the holiday meal.

The soccer tournament's seven team also have been named after "shahids," or "martyrs," according to a translation of the newspaper story by Palestinian Media Watch.

The paper reported today that the "Tulkarm Shahids Memorial soccer championship tournament of the Shahid Abed Al-Basset Odeh began with the participation of seven top teams, named after shahids who gave their lives to redeem the homeland."

Odeh was from the West Bank town of Tulkarm.
The report said that Odeh's brother Isam "will distribute the trophies."

Palestinian Media Watch said the article did not specify whether children or adults are participating in the championship event.

One of the teams in the tournament also bears Odeh's name. The other teams are Raed Carmi, named for the slain Tulkarm Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade commander; Wajdi Al Hatab, for the Palestinian youth who requested cake be distributed after his martyrdom; Tarek Abu Safaka, who killed three Israelis in a Feb. 10, 2002 attack; Tarek Alqato, an Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade operative killed in a clash with Israeli troops; Mahmud Marmash, a suicide bomber who killed five Israelis in a May 2001 attack in Netanya; and Husam Al Hamshari, a youth killed in a clash with Israeli troops.

In a report last year, Palestinian Media Watch said that under the Palestinian Authority, numerous schools, summer camps and sports teams are named for terrorists, and symbols of violence continue to be used in education and sports.

PMW said in an August report that U.S. funds, through USAID, helped renovate the Dalal Al- Mughrabi school, named for the female terrorist who participated in the bus hijacking and murder of 36 Israelis and an American, Gail Rubin, in 1978.

A summer camp was named for Ayyat al-Akhras, a woman who blew herself up in a supermarket in Jerusalem, and another camp honored Jihad al-Amarin, commander of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, responsible for the murder of numerous Israelis.

Joe

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what do you expect?

22.01.2003 15:01

When you occupy people's towns, bulldoze their homes and shoot their kids, some of em get cross and do mad things.

QED

victory to the suicide bombers!

22.01.2003 16:02

i support the suicide bombers, because "when you ain't got nothin, you got nothin to lose" (bob dylan), the "moralistic" tone, smug self-rightiousness and virtuousness taken by so many "concerned" self-proclaimed "activists" is sickening.

Only by people actually fighting back using ANY MEANS NECESSARY will we defeat this monster called "society" or "civilsation", or "capitalism" or whatever you want to call it...we should be supporting or brothers and sisters whatever weapons they decide to use against their oppressor

m. atta

don't rise to the bait

22.01.2003 16:53

i think a troll is trying to bait a reaction out of people. Best to ignore it - or better still, remove it.

suicide (/homicide) bombings

22.01.2003 16:56

I was in Tel Aviv when the last suicide bombing occured. I expect that I missed it by about an hour or so. Being so close to such a calculated violent act makes one stop and think, as did being close to the violence which was occuring in the West Bank and Gaza. Violence against anyone - Palestinian, Arab, Israeli, Muslim, Chasid, Sefardi, Druze, Sufi, Shi'a, Sunni, Catholic, Protestant, whoever - is wrong and will never bring an end to this awful situation which has to be endured day-in-day-out by so many peace-loving people on both sides of the fence.

For your information, this past suicide bombing hardly injured any Israelis... Those caught up in it were in fact mainly Asian economic migrants who having nothing to do with the political siutatio. They are only there to work, send money home the leave. And, if they were not there, they would be in any other country. Were they a legitimate target?

I assume that none of you have been close to a suicide bombing like most people within Israel have (i.e. Israeli citizens - Arab and Jewish -, Palestinian works, migrant workers, tourists, pilgrims, etc.) just as you have no experience first hand the violence against the Palestinians. Maybe if you saw life from both sides, you would stop supporting such violent acts as suicide bombings are.

So, who is being self-righteous?

shalom, salaam, peace.

dan

fuck off zionists

22.01.2003 23:59

israel is a fascist state and it speciality is murdering children and women...i'd like to see them fight against a proper army such as france or sweden and am sure within 3 hrs they'd get demolished....but don't worry, they would call in the united states of israel to provide the soldiers, weapons to protect it..already thousands of americans have died for this shitty illegal zionist abomination.

bob`