On Campus: The Pro-Palestinians' Real Agenda -Khaled Abu Toameh
During a recent visit to several university campuses in the U.S., I was told that Israel's Gaza operation was launched only because Hamas was beginning to show signs that it was interested in making peace and not because of the rockets that the Islamic movement was launching at Israeli communities.
I was also told that top Fatah operative Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life terms in prison for masterminding terror attacks against Israeli civilians, was thrown behind bars simply because he was trying to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Many people I met supported Hamas and believed that it had the right to "resist the occupation," even if that meant blowing up children and women on a bus in Jerusalem.
We should not be surprised if the next generation of jihadists comes not from Gaza or Afghanistan but from university campuses across the U.S.
The writer is an Arab Israeli journalist
(Hudson Institute-New York)
*
During a recent visit to several university campuses in the U.S., I was told that Israel's Gaza operation was launched only because Hamas was beginning to show signs that it was interested in making peace and not because of the rockets that the Islamic movement was launching at Israeli communities.
I was also told that top Fatah operative Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life terms in prison for masterminding terror attacks against Israeli civilians, was thrown behind bars simply because he was trying to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Many people I met supported Hamas and believed that it had the right to "resist the occupation," even if that meant blowing up children and women on a bus in Jerusalem.
We should not be surprised if the next generation of jihadists comes not from Gaza or Afghanistan but from university campuses across the U.S.
The writer is an Arab Israeli journalist
(Hudson Institute-New York)
*
2 comments:
Israel does have a history of kidnapping and assassinating moderate Palestinian leaders. Barghouti is friends with the Israeli left, he has recognized Israel, internationally he's been called the Palestinian Nelson Mandela. It seems perfectly logical that he was kidnapped in order to thwart the "Palestinian peace offensive". And Barghuti never masterminded terrorist attacks against civilians. The same cannot be said of any of Israel's Prime Ministers.
Marwan Barghouti is not a moderate leader. He is a convicted murderer. If that is moderate, the Palestinian movement is in deep trouble.
Barghouti is responsible for a 2001attack in Maale Adumim, in which a Greek monk was murdered, a 2002 terror attack on a gas station in Givat Zeev, a 2002 attack at a Tel Aviv restaurant, in which three people were murdered, and a car bomb attack in Jerusalem.
Post a Comment