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drdon326 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 07:05 PM
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Grant me martyrdom but not yet: Hamas leaders go underground
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1061784380113

Top leaders of Hamas were nowhere to be found Monday amid the Green Hamas flags and gunmen marching in black baklavas to commemorate the funeral of the group's military wing leader Ahmed Aishtawi.

Hamas leaders including Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Mahmud Al Zahar, and Ismail Hania were not however ducking the Palestinian Authority's much-anticipated crackdown on terrorist organizations, but the far more terrifying hellfire missiles of Israel's Apache helicopters.

The PA reported on Sunday that it was launching a series of crackdowns on militant activity in the Gaza Strip, that it intended to shutter several Hamas-linked institutions, prevent arms smuggling, and arrest a limited number of militants. But there was little evidence of such anti-terror activity on the ground Monday aside from Sunday's photo-op in which PA police blocked three smugglers tunnels.

Despite declarations to the contrary, PA security chiefs in Gaza on Monday said they had no orders to arrest, subdue or fight Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders who threaten the PA's own authority.

In an effort to deflect criticism that the PA is doing nothing to clamp down on groups like Hamas, one officer in the Preventive Security Apparatus recounted that his forces have worked lately to arrest "several drug dealers, who harm the Palestinian economy."

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bunch of pussy-cats......sure, its ok to send mind-numbed teenagers
to their death but now theyre too scared to show their face.

also note, no arrest orders given.

but they did arrest so drug dealers...bfd.



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rini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 07:18 PM
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1. Typical
cowardly followers of Moloch. They consistantly sacrifice their children while hiding in their rat holes.
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dutchdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 07:38 PM
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3. Funny you mention Moloch
Edited on Mon Aug-25-03 07:42 PM by dutchdemocrat
Because that's what the boys from Bohemian Grove worship “Cremation of Care” ritual, in which the club’s mascot is burned in effigy to an owl god (Moloch)... so aptly named after


THE DARK SECRETS OF BOHEMIAN GROVE

The Bohemian Club has an Annual Summer Encampment, a two-week retreat for the rich and powerful that President Herbert Hoover once called “the greatest party on Earth.” The club’s famed annual gathering has been held for more than 100 years at the 2,700-acre Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, about 70 miles north of San Francisco in Sonoma County.

It draws in notables such as President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff, as well as actors and other notables.

The annual gathering near the Russian River, which was first held in 1879, starts with the “Cremation of Care” ritual, in which the club’s mascot is burned in effigy to an owl god (Moloch), symbolizing a freedom from care. Members also perform several plays, and gourmet food and expensive wine are plentiful. While the club was formed in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists, the male-only club now bars journalists from membership to protect the group’s privacy. Membership is coveted, and people routinely wait 10 or 15 years before gaining admittance. There are currently about 2,700 members.


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Ask Alex at infowars.com, he broke in and filmed the strange worship of 'Moloch' by some of America's most powerful people.

http://www.infowars.com/bg1.html

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Moloch
(Hebrew Molech, king).

A divinity worshipped by the idolatrous Israelites. The Hebrew pointing Molech does not represent the original pronunciation of the name, any more than the Greek vocalization Moloch found in the LXX and in the Acts (vii, 43). The primitive title of this god was very probably Melech, "king", the consonants of which came to be combined through derision with the vowels of the word Bosheth, "shame". As the word Moloch (A.V. Molech) means king, it is difficult in several places of the Old Testament to determine whether it should be considered as the proper name of a deity or as a simple appellative. The passages of the original text in which the name stands probably for that of a god are Lev., xviii, 21; xx, 2-5; III (A. V. I) Kings, xi, 7; IV (II) Kings, xxiii, 10; Is., xxx, 33; lvii, 9; Jer., xxxii, 35. The chief feature of Moloch's worship among the Jews seems to have been the sacrifice of children, and the usual expression for describing that sacrifice was "to pass through the fire", a rite carried out after the victims had been put to death. The special centre of such atrocities was just outside of Jerusalem, at a place called Tophet (probably "place of abomination"), in the valley of Geennom. According to III (I) Kings, xi, 7, Solomon erected "a temple" for Moloch "on the hill over against Jerusalem", and on this account he is at times considered as the monarch who introduced the impious cult into Israel. After the disruption, traces of Moloch worship appear in both Juda and Israel. The custom of causing one's children to pass through the fire seems to have been general in the Northern Kingdom , and it gradually grew in the Southern, encouraged by the royal example of Achaz (IV Kings, xvi, 3) and Manasses till it became prevalent in the time of the prophet Jeremias (Jerem. xxxii, 35), when King Josias suppressed the worship of Moloch and defiled Tophet . It is not improbable that this worship was revived under Joakim and continued until the Babylonian Captivity.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10443b.htm


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rini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 07:55 PM
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4. That is fascinating.
When I lived in Portugal, I was invited to witness a celebration where the father jumps the fire with his child in his arms. Somethings still live on. Luckily, though not (except for Palestinians) child sacrifice.
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StandWatie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 07:22 PM
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2. They took out the last guy because they could find him
He was a political leader, not military so he didn't go underground with the rest.

Your cowardly IDF killed him because they could.
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rini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 07:56 PM
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5. rats
even rats occassinally stick their noses out.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 07:57 PM
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6. A Hamas leader who hides behind the skirts of the
"political" label is still a leader of a terrorist group, and therefore needs killing.

So the IDF, far from being cowardly, did exactly the right thing.

But hey, you knew that.
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drdon326 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 08:01 PM
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7. FNA , JIM
Let these low-life terrorist leaders understand
what it feels like to be afraid to go outside.

Their days are hopefully in the single digits.
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