Palestinian Arab heroine Dalal Mughrabi
';Firas Press is reporting that part of Israel’s deal with Hezbollah will involve handing over the body of one of the most notorious female terrorists ever, Dalal Mughrabi.
On March 11, 1978, Mughrabi led a band of eleven terrorists who took boats from Lebanon and landed north of Tel Aviv. Upon landing, they met an American photographer, Gail Rubin. Their intended target was Tel Aviv so they asked her where they were. Once she told them, they murdered her.
They then hijacked a bus filled with families going on an outing, seemingly with the intent to take it to Tel Aviv.
An IDF unit chased the bus and finally forced it to stop, and then the shootout began. Mughrabi and her gang started shooting passengers point-blank and then they firebombed the bus itself, trapping the passengers. At least 35 were killed, including 13 children, in what became known as the Coastal Road Massacre.
The Palestinian Authority named a girls’ school in Hebron after Mughrabi. PA summer camps and other special events are named in her honor as well. By any measure, she is regarded by Palestinian Arabs as a role model.
The Fatah-leaning Firas Press article about her as well as all the commenters even today consider this bloodthirsty terrorist as a “martyr.”
Once again, we see the caliber of Palestinian Arab “heroes” - the people who have murdered the most innocent people.
(cross-posted at EoZ)
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They are not that well made anyhow.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Ok,
What she did was really sad. But why not remmeber what many israelis did like Deir Yassin and other palestinian villages. Or what that israeli terrorist did in 1994 shooting down many palestinians at Al Aqsa mosque?
See…terrorism is something tha lives in many societies, doesn’t matter religion or ethnicity. What about Irgun and Stern, the british used to call them terrorists gangs.
May palestinian groups were fighting for their rights during the 70’s and 80’s…but some were crossing the limits of warfare.
July 19th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Yes, i agree with the previous comment.
what you fail to realize is that each side has their own version of what a ‘hero’ is.
like the examples listed above, and there could be many more recent one… where in israel, their soliders are viewed as ‘heroes’ but among arabs, they are viewed as murderers.
the same goes both ways… so open your eyes and stop this hatred-spewing game.
July 19th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
One problem with these first two comments is that they suggest some moral equivalence between incidental, widely condemned atypical acts by Israelis (which is why Israel doesn’t celebrate such occasions) and the relentless, well-indoctrinated, widely praised popularly supported Palestinians terrorism. The contrast of response to terrorist acts could not be more sharp. Palestinians applaud and encourage it, Israel investigates and disassociates from it.