Here Comes Jonah
Charles Johnson
Thu Jun 19, 2003 at 9:02 am PDT • Views: 173
Uh oh. Colin Powell is going to Israel again, planning to meet with Israeli and Palestinian “officials.”
After a visit to Jerusalem for talks with Israeli officials, Powell said he will travel to “another location,” probably Jericho, to meet with Palestinian officials.
Seems like Powell is worried about something. “Another location,” eh? Why so vague, Colin? After all, it’s just a “few killers,” trying to “destroy the hopes of the Palestinian people,” isn’t it?
Powell condemned the latest suicide bombing in Israel, contending that “such acts of terrorism are committed by people who don’t want to see two sides living side by side in peace.” Powell added that such people “want to destroy the hopes and dreams of the Palestinian people.”
If I keep saying, to anyone who will listen, that my bank account balance has 10 digits before the decimal point, will that make me a billionaire?
Or will it make me a willfully blind fool?
Sworn not only to ousting Israel from occupied Gaza and West Bank terrain but to destroying Israel itself, Hamas and its smaller ally Islamic Jihad together now outstrip the mainstream Fatah faction running the Authority in opinion polls.
Hisham, 13, is one of many young aspiring volunteers for Hamas suicide bombing missions that have killed scores of Israelis since militant groups launched an uprising in 2000.
“Why? Hamas is a fearful name to the Jews,” he said outside a mosque in Jabalya, one of the sprawling, cinder-block refugee camps that house the majority of Gaza’s 1.2 million Palestinians and resonate with bitterness on which Hamas thrives.
“I want to join them and die as a martyr to please my God, my parents and my people,” he told Reuters. “When I become a Hamas martyr, my name will be written on the walls and my picture will be held by others who would hope to follow.”
Frank says: