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| Middle East |
| Israel arrests PFLP chiefs |
| 2002-08-27 |
| Israel nabbed two Palestinian political leaders, pressing ahead with its policy of arrests in the West Bank even as security talks to ease the tension were underway. The army captured three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the West Bank city of Ramallah, two of them senior political leaders, Palestinian security sources said Tuesday. "This means Israel is continuing its policy of assassination and arrests to weaken the PFLP, because it is the second most important faction in the PLO and because it is a faction which will prevent Israel from implementing its vision of a political and security solution," senior PFLP official Kaid al-Ghul told AFP. Wonderful idea! As long as they keep arresting and/or bumping off the head cheeses, the head cheese position becomes a little less desirable each time. Eventually it'll be hard to find anybody willing to be the goat. The organization will fall into disuse (they're never disbanded) and they can start all over again with a new organization under a new name and new leadership... "It is no coincidence that this happened on the anniversary of the assassination of Abu Ali Mustapha," he said, in reference to the then leader of the radical secular movement killed in an Israeli helicopter attack last year. Prob'ly not. Some of us don't care... The PFLP retaliated two months later by assassinating Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi. That's 'cuz dire revenge is a requirement if you want to be a Muslim... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |