Tears of Joy
Aussie Dave | Oct 28, 2005 | 5 comments
This from the Jerusalem Post print edition*:
Bomber’s Hometown celebates attackThousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Kabatiya, south of Jenin, Wednesday night to celebrate the suicide bombing in Hadera, which was carried out by local resident Hassan Abu Zeid.Chanting Allahu Akbar (God is great), some 3,000 people, including Fatah and Islamic Jihad gunmen, converged on Abu Zeid’s home to “congratulate” his family on the success of the attack, which killed 5 people and wounded more than 30.
My question is why I can find only one photograph from the mainstream media that shows these scenes of celebration. As I discussed yesterday, there is no dearth of photos showing the “grieving” family of the terrorist.
Yeah – about the grieving – here is more from the same Jerusalem Post article.
Abu Zeid’s mother, Um Hassan, said she was proud of her son for what he did. Her husband, Ahmed, a blacksmith who was later arrested by the IDF, greeted the well-wishers with tears in his eyes.“I’m proud of my son and hope that he will enter heaven,” the mother declared.
In other words, these are tears of joy, not grief.
Of course, I find no mention of this in the mainstream media. Once again, it is up to us bloggers to pick up the slack.
Spread the word.
Update: There seems to be a discrepancy between the mother’s name as cited in the Jerusalem Post (“Um Hassan”) and that cited in the caption to the above picture (“Raqaiah Abu Zeid”). I am guessing that the latter is her actual name, and the former means “Mother of Hassan” (“Em” in Hebrew is “mother”, and I know that Arabic is similar to Hebrew, in some respects).
Update: I found a link to the story
* As of posting this, the story did not seem to be available online
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: General
I told you it was all an act. Sickos…celebrating death.
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Someday someone is going to drop a daisy cutter on one of these celebrations. Hopefully.
These Ishmaelites have taken up the practice of laying their children on the red hot arms of idols. They deserve to be wiped out.
Just a thought, but it’s possible the mother is actually crying for her dead son, but feels the need to say she is happy since there are gun-toting men all around her saying how great it is. Of course this does not make Palestinian society come off any better in the deal, but it might make the pictures easier to parse.
Kibi,
Not sure what you’re getting at mate, but most of the mothers I know would throw these gun totting animals out of their house bedafka, as we say, of being shot on the spot for it. But then again I know a lot of Jewish mothers, and not someone imbued with the spirit of a genocidal deathcult, otherwise know as Islam. It would certainly make Palestinian society look a lot less predictable (for lack of a better word), to see this so called mother call Israeli television and rip that nice sodi & iranian funded mortgage (et cetera) check into filthy pieces on the tele. But the 72 raisins for her proud boy, is not the only thing mum here is couting on is it?
-hezi