Friday December 31, 2004

I've Been Thinking:

This is very funny and very troubling at the same time.
The leading candidate for the PA presidency Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) met with arch terrorist Zakariyah Zubeidi, the head of the al Aksa Brigades, yesterday, in Jenin.

Zubeidi is responsible for the deaths of 100's of innocent Israelis and 5 US citizens. The US State Department has the al Aksa Brigades on their list of terror organizations. And yesterday, Zubeidi carried Abu Mazen on his shoulders through the streets of Jenin.

Why did Abu Mazen let this happen? As part of his campaign?
What did he say about it?
Abu Mazen said, "...they are neither criminals nor murderers. Rather, they are fighting for the honorable lives of their Palestinians brothers."

Zubeidi said, on Israel's Channel 10 News, "...we are not talking about the end of the Intifada, not about a cease-fire and not about an end to terror attacks."

In the proper context one can see how dangerous this is.
Zubeidi rides around Jenin in his 4x4 like he owns the town.
He has personalized pistols.
He has admitted to breaking into the PA and Fatah headquarters in Jenin and taking the municipal leaders captive at gunpoint until they agreed to pay his thugs for their terror attacks.

Abu Mazen's meeting with Zubeidi and his follow-up public comments are troubling, very troubling. The shoulder ride was funny.