Because those of you you who think we’re above increasing our post-count by copying and pasting other people’s work are obviously new here…
Shai: Honestly, these guys should have been nabbed in 2002. The whole deal to keep the prisoners in Jericho was cockeyed to begin with, a crappy compromise made under intense pressure from the international community. It’s good to see a wrong righted.
Meryl: I guess that part about loving death only goes for the brainwashed young men who become suicide bombers. Because Ahmed Saadat is alive, kicking, and on his way to an Israeli jail, where he can no longer run his terrorist operations. Buh-bye.
Allison Kaplan Sommer: This raid of a Palestinian jail on the face of it looks like a stupid move. Wouldn’t it be better to let them go ahead and release these guys and THEN target them?
Laurence Simon: Mahmoud Abbas, who hasn’t honored any agreement with regard to Jericho Prison, is now offering to keep the heads of PFLP jailed. What kind of world-class, shit-for-brains cowardly moron would believe him after all of the overwhelming evidence not to? Yossi Bellin, of course.
Power Line: Of special interest is the Post’s report on British Foreign Minister Jack Straw and his antagonists on the British home front: “Saadat’s London lawyer, Kate Maynard, told the Post that “my fear is that my client will be killed” by the Israelis…. she argued [that] the presence of British monitors at the prison invokes the protections of British Human Rights laws.” If Kate Manyard is representative, I guess the British moonbats are fully capable of going toe to toe with our own moonbats any day of the week.
All Things Beautiful: The deal made with the previous government was clear regarding Saadat & Co. He was to be kept in the Palestinian prison only under the condition that international monitors were present. Abbas was repeatedly warned that the situation in the prison was becoming intolerable, and that if he did not reinstate the rule of law, those countries would be forced to pull their monitors out. Abbas’ answer was to ignore the warnings, and casually announce that Saddat would be released anyway. This brazenly bandit like behavior, not befitting a president of a country, needs to be shown zero tolerance.
Vital Perspective: During the length of their incarceration in Jericho, Saadat and Ghoulmi continued to conduct and direct the PFLP from within the prison walls. Their location in prison became a site of pilgrimage for members of the PFLP and others identifying with the two. These visits provided an opportunity to recruit individuals to the organization, carry out ideological indoctrination, and give out orders for activity in the field.
