Sorry About Killing Your Family... Again
Who says that Islamist terrorists are unapologetic about murder?:
Jerusalem resident George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was shot to death Friday night in the city's French Hill neighborhood by Palestinian terrorists who mistook him for a Jew while he was out jogging, police and his family said...
The Aksa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah movement, quickly claimed responsibility for the murder, but later apologized after the victim was identified Saturday morning as an Arab...
For the Khoury family, it was the second time in a quarter-century that terrorists struck. The victim's grandfather, Daoud, was one of 14 people killed in the July 4, 1975 bombing by Palestinian terrorists in downtown Jerusalem's Kikar Zion when a booby-trapped refrigerator exploded.
OK, when I said "apologetic" I may have been exaggerating - think of it as a nonapology apology:
"Our fighters thought they are dealing with a settler who went out for a jog in his neighborhood," the commander of Fatah's al-Aqsa's Brigades commander said Saturday. "We will consider him a martyr like hundreds of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces," he added.
On Saturday, the group called Khoury's family and offered condolences, saying it considers him "a Palestinian martyr." According to a report, Arafat himself telephoned the family to offer his condolences.
At times like this, it serves us all well to remember what the press obsessively repeats about the Middle East: there are two sides to every story. So while you might look at Khoury's shooting as murder, infidel, others might see it as Arafat's henchmen hooking up a bookish, nerdy student with 70 virgins.
Jerusalem resident George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was shot to death Friday night in the city's French Hill neighborhood by Palestinian terrorists who mistook him for a Jew while he was out jogging, police and his family said...
The Aksa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah movement, quickly claimed responsibility for the murder, but later apologized after the victim was identified Saturday morning as an Arab...
For the Khoury family, it was the second time in a quarter-century that terrorists struck. The victim's grandfather, Daoud, was one of 14 people killed in the July 4, 1975 bombing by Palestinian terrorists in downtown Jerusalem's Kikar Zion when a booby-trapped refrigerator exploded.
OK, when I said "apologetic" I may have been exaggerating - think of it as a nonapology apology:
"Our fighters thought they are dealing with a settler who went out for a jog in his neighborhood," the commander of Fatah's al-Aqsa's Brigades commander said Saturday. "We will consider him a martyr like hundreds of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces," he added.
On Saturday, the group called Khoury's family and offered condolences, saying it considers him "a Palestinian martyr." According to a report, Arafat himself telephoned the family to offer his condolences.
At times like this, it serves us all well to remember what the press obsessively repeats about the Middle East: there are two sides to every story. So while you might look at Khoury's shooting as murder, infidel, others might see it as Arafat's henchmen hooking up a bookish, nerdy student with 70 virgins.
