Khader Adnan “No Boy Scout”

Mark Regev, Spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister, explains who hunger-striking terrorist Khader Adnan really is, and explains administrative detention to a clearly biased CNN anchor.

Many on Twitter have voiced support for Adnan, claiming he is just a baker. As I responded to them yesterday, I guess u can consider him a baker since the organization to which he belongs is trying to send Jews to the ovens.

 Update: Dan Shalit had this to say about Adnan’s case:

When it comes to balancing security needs with the law, administrative detention — holding prisoners without trial — is Israel’s Achilles’ heel. There is not one decent person in Israel who feels comfortable with the fact that some 400 Palestinian prisoners are currently held under administrative order. In a terror-stricken world, and in comparison to what is happening in Iran, Syria and Guantanamo, the events in Israel are negligible. Yet if it were possible to do without the administrative orders, or even reduce the number of such prisoners, Israel would jump at the chance.

Ashton and others like her, here and around the world, have demanded that Israel minimize its use of administrative detention. One can understand where she is coming from, and this should be Israel’s objective too. But we must beware of the Islamic Jihad prisoner’s objective: He is trying to force Israel to refrain from one of the integral and essential aspects of the war against terror. If he wins, there will be no more administrative arrests.

Israeli journalists and many others have voiced support for Adnan. The Palestinians and their supporters wonder why world leaders cried out over Gilad Schalit (the Israeli soldier who was held in Hamas captivity for more than five years) but ignored the administrative prisoners. That is a ridiculous argument: Journalists, lawyers and doctors — including Adnan’s own doctors — have frequented his bed at the Rebecca Sieff Hospital in Safed, and he has not been ignored. Furthermore, his conditions are in no way reminiscent of the conditions in which Schalit was held. Hamas did not even allow a representative of the Red Cross to see Schalit.

Israel should make it very clear to the world that three principles will guide its approach toward Adnan and others like him: Israel will use administrative detention as infrequently as it possibly can; it will fight attempts to force it to abandon a key aspect of the war on terror, despite efforts by Adnan, his father and a handful of journalists to undermine the country’s security; and at the same time, Israel will forcibly prevent Adnan from dying.

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher allowed Irish terrorists to kill themselves by hunger strikes in a British prison. Israel does not have an iron lady like Thatcher. As an emergency life-saving measure, Israel must force-feed prisoners who engage in hunger strikes. Nutritients can be inserted through other means than the throat and without the prisoner having to swallow, and that is what needs to be done. For prisoners’ own good. And for the good of Israel.

21 thoughts on “Khader Adnan “No Boy Scout””

  1. Mark Regev did his usual excellent job making Israel’s case under some tough questioning from the international press. But surely, Israeli journalists must be equally tough when questioning their own government officials. I didn’t see bias from CNN so much as frustration in trying to pin down why Israel is just holding this individual without charges and with no trial scheduled to date. We have the same problem having hundreds of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists held for over a decade with no military or civilian trial yet held.

    1. “Regev has alot of patience.”

      Too much, actually. If he (and the entire government he represents) had more sense instead of undeserved patience, he’d tell that CNN anchor that her “news” network’s bringing of aid and comfort to Israel’s enemies is an act of war that would carry consequences (like a total ban of CNN from receiving any information on what’s going on in Israel including Arab-colonized Judea and Samaria).

      1. Agreed, but with the reminder that Arab governments and organizations do that all the time. Just ask former CNN honcho Eason Jordan.

  2. I’m reading “Koba the Dread” by Martin Amiss. The mystery is not that Stalin slaughtered 10’s of millions, it’s that even AFTER his crimes were known, many on the left in the west continued to burnish his image and sing his praises, not in SPITE of these facts, but BECAUSE of them.

    The point I think you miss is that if you showed them documented evidence of the crimes of these people they’d brush them aside and love them even more.

  3. Why the hell is it Israel’s responsibility to make sure he doesn’t die of starvation? He always has the option of you know…. EATING SOMETHING.

    I see no problem with Regev standing there and saying “if he doesn’t want to eat, he doesn’t have to. I’m sorry that terrorists dying bothers you people so much, but we can’t force him to eat.”

    1. Dan Shalit is a sick feeble-minded Jew. His kind is a danger to every sane and healthy Jew on the planet.

      He wants to keep Jew haters alive, against their will if necessary, for reasons I can’t fathom.

      These Islamic mass-murdering terrorists claim to love death more than life.

      I have no problem with their credo – as long as they and not Jews – are the victims.

  4. Let the worthless scum die.

    Israel’s real problem is it doesn’t have the death penalty for mass murderers of Jews.

    Here they are volunteering to kill themselves and eliminating the parasitical burden they impose on Israeli taxpayers.

    Dead terrorists = Live Jews.

    Its the perfect recidivism solution. Dead terrorists will never murder again.

  5. im against administrative detention

    im against prison

    but im for the gun and big bullets

    shoot them all in the head

    amen

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