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A week in Israel
February 12, 2002

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One week after Yasser Arafat used The St. Petersburg Times, The New York Times, and other American newspapers to tell the world that he is opposed to terror, the following actions occurred in Israel.

Palestinian forces in Gaza launched three "Qassam" missiles into southern Israel from Gaza
Palestinian police released prison inmates near the Gaza City complex after Palestinians ran to the compound demanding that suspected Islamic militants held there be released immediately. Reports this afternoon indicate that some 60 prisoners were also released by the PA from a jail in Hebron, after it was stormed by nearly 500 Palestinians demanding their freedom. Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives, including wanted terrorist Muhammad Ayoub Sider, were reportedly among those detainees released today, which took place as PA police stood by and made no effort to prevent the mass jailbreak.
An Arab terror squad shot into a pastry shop in the southern city of Beersheva, killing two young women soldiers and wounding four others.
A 25-year-old woman was stabbed to death by four terrorists while walking with her boy friend in the Jerusalem peace forest.
A 78-year old woman was shot dead on Saturday night while driving on the Trans-Samaria Highway with her son. Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the car in an ambush between Ariel and the Tapuah Junction.

She was hit in the head and her son Victor continued driving to Tapuah, where his mother died as medics tried to administer first aid
In Arabic, Arafat fired up a crowd in Ramallah, by calling for ''a million martyrs marching on Jerusalem." Later that same night, a Palestinian terrorist, wearing an Israeli uniform, infiltrated a small agricultural community and murdered three people - a 33-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, and an unarmed mother and her disabled 11-year-old daughter.
The next morning, Arafat's Voice of Palestine radio jubilantly reported the attack. ''The man carrying out the operation,'' declared senior news anchor Nizar al-Ghul, ''became a heroic martyr.''
That night, Arafat again addressed a rally in Ramallah. ''We will make the lives of the infidels’ Hell,'' he swore. Once more he raised the battle cry, ''Millions of martyrs marching to Jerusalem, ‘' calling on Palestinians of all ages and both genders to die in the supposedly holy act of murdering Jews.
Almost daily since his article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times, Arafat's Palestinian media continued to celebrate the death of Wafa Idris, an Arab woman who had detonated a massive bomb in downtown Jerusalem the week before.

So ended another week in the "Palestinian Vision of Peace."




 

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