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Friday, 15 April 2011

Palestinian 'activist' killed by Palestinian 'terrorists' whilst Palestinian 'Islamists' feel challenged

I think the above title sums up this Sky News article but in more detail it seems that an Italian activist, Vittorio Arrigoni, with a pro-Palestinian group called the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was seized in Gaza by was seized on Thursday morning by a Salafist extremists group, ideologically linked with Al-Qaeda, in an attempt to force the release by the Hamas government of their leader, Sheikh Abu Walid al-Maqdasi, who was arrested last month by Hamas police. 

Very sad for Vittorio Arrigoni and his family but when you link up with supporters of terrorism in a territory run by terrorists and partly populated with people who make Hamas look moderate then I am afraid you run a very large risk.

Sky include an interesting line in their report:
'The killing is a direct challenge to Hamas by a group espousing a more extreme Islamist ideology.'
Nice to see Sky recognising that Hamas do espouse an extremist Islamist ideology, now maybe they could publicise Hamas's real views on the future of Israel, as comprehensively covered on this blog.

Meanwhile the BBC's report on the same story only goes this far:
'They consider Hamas, an Islamist movement itself, too moderate, our correspondent says.'
Do you see the subtle change in emphasis?

1 comment:

prasad said...

I think Palestinian and Israel conflict is a never ending problem. Palestine people should not target Israeli people and Israeli government they should not give support Hamas like terrorist groups. Israel also leave the Palestinian territory and both side have a peace talk in a peaceful manner then only this conflict will end otherwise this problem will continue for a long time and this might be the reason third world war in the future. Only peace talks can change their lives.