Again a reminder why war against terrorists is different from conventional warfare

Dr Ashrawi, award-winning maker of peace, 
with Nobel Prize-winning colleague [Image Source]

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
09 January '13..

For years, apologists for the terrorism-addicted Palestinian Arabs have pretended to become offended at the very suggestion that something might be lacking in the quality of their humanity. Statements of the much-celebrated Dr Hanan Ashrawi, "legislator, activist, and scholar" and "protégé and later colleague and close friend of Edward Said" [Wikipedia] come to mind.

Back in 2003, the rather divisive Ashrawi said of the then-current "intifada" that it would continue "in different shapes, different forms".

"We are not fond of mass suicide, but we want the right to resist occupation and injustice. Then the moment we say 'resist', the Israelis pull out the word 'terrorist' - so a child with a stone becomes the 'legitimate' target for Israeli sniper fire and a high-velocity bullet." [source]

As though to pre-empt another unfair attempt by Israelis to "to pull out the word 'terrorist'", the award-winning Dr Ashrawi famously declared that

"They're telling us we have no feelings for our children. We're not human beings, we're not parents, we're not mothers and fathers... Sometimes I don't want to sink to the level of responding, of proving I'm human. I mean, even animals have feelings for their children."

Dr Ashrawi's much-quoted (and never repudiated) statement first appeared in an interview she gave to Bob Simon of "60 Minutes". It was broadcast as part of an item called “Children on the Front Lines,” on Oct. 24, 2000 and quoted in "The Use of Palestinian Children in the Al-Aqsa Intifada" (Justus Reid Weiner/JCPA), published a week later on November 1, 2000. Though the original source is no longer online, it can be found online in this CBS article published in 2009. The intro says Dr Ashrawi had been "in the forefront of the peace movement for years" and that she considers the Israeli claims about allegations of parental inhumanity in Palestinian Arab society to be "the epitome of racism".

We assume Dr Ashrawi knows much, much more than we about racism. On the other hand, we know how to understand plain-speaking Palestinian Arab mothers when we see and hear them.

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