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| | As part of the investigation into this shocking affair, one of the Ramallah police officers, Raed Sheikh, was arrested, among others...</blockquote></ref> | | As part of the investigation into this shocking affair, one of the Ramallah police officers, Raed Sheikh, was arrested, among others...</blockquote></ref> |
| | + | It was characteristically: ''bloodlust, savagery, primitive bestiality.''<ref name=anothertrack>Sarah Honig [https://www.jpost.com/opinion/columnists/another-tack-some-truly-hated-truths-370428], JPost, Aug 7, 2014. |
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| | + | This truth, however, is as politically incorrect as it gets. |
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| | + | This truth flies hard in the face of the moral relativism that has been imposed on supposed thinkers in the postmodern realm – parading as pluralism, multiculturalism and under other manipulative monikers. This deceptive equivalence holds the western mindset a prisoner-of-war in the great clash of civilizations between democratic tolerance and Islamic tyranny. |
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| | + | Those who obstinately spurn this truth, invariably hate Jews and/or Jewish national sovereignty more than they love themselves or cherish their own freedoms. |
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| | + | Woe betide anyone who accuses Arabs of bloodlust, of savagery, of primitive bestiality. Yet these are eminently justified accusations. |
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| | + | How otherwise can we characterize the images of Fatah loyalists elatedly glorying in the blood dripping from their hands after they had butchered two Israeli reservists – Vadim Norzhitz and Yossi Avrahami - on October 12, 2000. |
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| | + | The victims’ sole sin was getting lost, taking the wrong turn and blundering into Ramallah. By the jungle rules of Palestinian society that sufficed to mandate a gruesome death sentence. |
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| | + | Although taken into custody by PA policemen, Norzhitz and Avrahami were beaten to a pulp inside the station and then tossed out the window to the eager cannibalistic mob, which proceeded to rip the two to shreds, mutilate the corpses and burn them. |
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| | + | Entrails and bloodied organs were hoisted triumphantly in feral brutality. The unrecognizable remains were dragged, with the avid help of the cops, to al-Manara Square where a maniacal impromptu celebration broke out. |
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| | + | None of this would have been acknowledged had an Italian film crew (later identified as working for Mediaset) not filmed isolated segments of the slaughter surreptitiously. |
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| | + | British photographer Mark Seager was assaulted when he attempted to snap shots. He afterwards testified that the lynching “was the most horrible thing that I have ever seen and I have reported from Congo, Kosovo, many bad places... I'm a very forgiving person but I'll never forget this. It was murder of the most barbaric kind. When I think about it, I see that man's head, all smashed. I know that I'll have nightmares for the rest of my life.” |
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| | + | An ABC crew that also sought to do its job was intimidated with knives, clubs and actual beatings. |
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| | + | It got way worse. There were outright threats against outlets who dared broadcast Mediaset’s footage. Four days after the murders, Ricardo Cristiano, deputy head of the Jerusalem bureau of Italy's state television channel RAI, publically dissociated himself and his organization from any connection to the visual chronicling of Ramallah’s horror. |
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| | + | In a letter published in the PA’s official daily al-Hayat al-Jadida, Cristiano unhesitatingly threw Mediaset’s team to the dogs and forced it to pull out of all Palestinian areas for fear of deadly revenge attacks. Long live freedom of the press. |
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| | + | The craven capitulation to Arab diktats didn’t end there. Obsequiously, Cristiano pledged that he and all RAI personnel “always respect (and will continue to respect) the journalistic procedures with the Palestinian Authority for journalistic work in Palestine and we are credible in our precise work... We thank you [the Palestinian Authority] for your trust, and you can be sure that this is not our way of acting. We do not (will not) do such a thing" [expose an atrocity]. |
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| | + | After this, pardon us headstrong Israelis for our jaundiced view of the impartiality of the foreign media. Nothing that may cast the Arabs in a negative light is likely to be resonated. Yet news purveyors overseas do love bodies and blood – as long as they aren’t Jewish. Arab bodies and suffering that can be blamed on Jews sell newspapers and raise ratings. Nothing must, heaven forefend, impart a smidgen of skepticism about the updated gospel of Jewish villainy. |
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| | + | The cowardice and bias so shamefully laid bare on October 2000 hadn’t diminished. If anything, they mushroomed. They earned acceptance and respectability which rule out casting any doubt on what’s dished out to uninitiated news-consumers in other lands. |
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| | + | Nothing must be shown of Hamas’s exploitation of civilians in Gaza while everything must be done to disseminate what Arabs propagandists want shown. The resultant impression is irredeemably skewed and not unintentionally so. |
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| | + | It’s from this ill-will that contentions of “disproportionality” spring forth. For the Jewish state and for it alone a new standard has been set up: there need be as many dead Jews as there are Arab dead. Not enough dead Jews upset the equanimity of judgmental world opinion.</blockquote></ref> |
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| | The horrifying and cannibalistic behaviour by 'ordinary' Arab-Palestinian civilians | | The horrifying and cannibalistic behaviour by 'ordinary' Arab-Palestinian civilians |
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| | Just how much do you have to hate someone you don’t even know to tear them apart.. (after stabbing them, lynching them, and gouging their eyes out)?</blockquote></ref><ref>The Ultimate Act of Barbarism... | | Just how much do you have to hate someone you don’t even know to tear them apart.. (after stabbing them, lynching them, and gouging their eyes out)?</blockquote></ref><ref>The Ultimate Act of Barbarism... |
| | https://arabterrorism.tripod.com/barbarism.html</ref> left an unforgettable<ref name=walla/> mark. | | https://arabterrorism.tripod.com/barbarism.html</ref> left an unforgettable<ref name=walla/> mark. |
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| | + | Photographer was beaten and other media outlets were threatened not to publicize.<ref name=anothertrack/> |
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| | Years later, those chiefly committing the savagery were praised by the official [[Palestinian Authority]] media. | | Years later, those chiefly committing the savagery were praised by the official [[Palestinian Authority]] media. |