"Knud Larsen" <larsen_knud@hotmail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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> Et lille indblik i hvordan det bliver når palæstinenserne får deres egen
> stat? Er det egentlig så slemt at være dhimmi?
>
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> Muslims ransack Christian village
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> KHALED ABU TOAMEH, THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 5, 2005
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> Efforts were under way on Sunday to calm the situation in this
> Christian village east of Ramallah after an attack by hundreds of
> Muslim men from nearby villages left many houses and vehicles torched.
>
> The incident began on Saturday night and lasted until early Sunday,
> when Palestinian Authority security forces interfered to disperse the
> attackers. Residents said several houses were looted and many families
> were forced to flee to Ramallah and other Christian villages, although
> no one was injured.
>
> The attack on the village of 1,500 was triggered by the murder of a
> Muslim woman from the nearby village of Deir Jarir earlier this week.
> The 30-year-old woman, according to PA security sources, was apparently
> murdered by members of her family for having had a romance with a
> Christian man from Taiba.
>
> "When her family discovered that she had been involved in a forbidden
> relationship with a Christian, they apparently forced her to drink
> poison," said one source. "Then they buried her without reporting her
> death to the relevant authorities."
>
> When the PA security forces decided to launch an investigation into the
> woman's death, her family protested for fear that the relationship
> would be exposed. The family was further infuriated by the decision to
> exhume the body for autopsy.
>
> The attack is one of the worst against Christians in the West Bank in
> many years. Residents said it took the PA security forces several hours
> to reach Taiba. Others complained that the IDF, which is in charge of
> overall security in the area, did not answer their desperate calls for
> immediate help.
>
> "More than 500 Muslim men, chanting Allahu akbar [God is great],
> attacked us at night," said a Taiba resident. "They poured kerosene on
> many buildings and set them on fire. Many of the attackers broke into
> houses and stole furniture, jewelry and electrical appliances."
>
> With the exception of large numbers of PA policemen, the streets of
> Taiba were completely deserted on Sunday as the residents remained
> indoors. Many torched cars littered the streets. At least 16 houses had
> been gutted by fire and the assailants also destroyed a statue of the
> Virgin Mary.
>
> "It was like a war, they arrived in groups, and many of them were
> holding clubs," said another resident.
>
> "Some people saw them carrying weapons. They first attacked houses
> belonging to the Khoury family [looking for the man who had the affair
> with the women, not realizing he had already fled the village.] Then
> they went to their relatives. They entered the houses and destroyed
> everything there. Then they tried to enter the local beer factory, but
> were repelled by PA security agents. The fire engine arrived five hours
> later."
>
> Col. Tayseer Mansour, commander of the PA police in the Ramallah area,
> said his men arrived late because of the need to coordinate their
> movements with the IDF. "The delay resulted in the torching of a number
> of houses and cars in the village," he said.
>
> Taiba, the only West Bank village that is completely inhabited by
> Christians, is famous for its Taiba Beer factory, which was established
> by the Khoury family in 1994.
>
> The residents are Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox or Greek Catholic. The
> village was originally called Ephraim, and is thought to be the city to
> which Jesus came with his disciples before his crucifixion: "Jesus
> therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a
> country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim" (John 11:54).
>
> According to some accounts, Salah a-Din, who led the war against the
> Crusaders, was responsible for the name change. He is said to have
> found the villagers there to be nice and kind - in Arabic, taybeen
> - and the name stuck, to become Taiba.
>
>
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125831262546&p=1101615860782
JP har haft en del artikler i forbindelse med nedlæggelsen af
"bosættelserne" i Gaza. Der kunne man bl.a. fortælle om en palæstinenser,
der for 40 år siden var udvandret til USA. Han havde været hjemme for at
besøge sin syge mor, for sidste gang.
Et blik rundt i området havde bragt ham i tvivl om, hvordan man nogen sinde
ville få en stat op at stå, med de ledere de havde, og de holdninger som
folk havde. Hans slutbemærkning var, at med alle de arbejdsløse der var, så
kunne man i det mindste sætte folk til at rydde op.
Hilsen Sten