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August 31, 2004
Palestinians celebrate Beersheba attacks

JERUSALEM POST: Palestinians celebrate Beersheba attacks

While hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets in major cities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to celebrate the double suicide bombings in Beersheba, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat reiterated his call for sacrificing millions of martyrs to liberate Jerusalem.

Women in Nablus ululated in joy as Arab satellite TV stations interrupted their normal programs to break the news of the bombings. Scores of gunmen opened fire into the air, shouting "Allahu Akbar!" or God is Great.

Similar expressions of joy were reported in Tulkarm and Jenin.

In Gaza City, hundreds of Palestinians marched in the streets carrying pictures of slain Hamas leaders Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi. The protesters hailed the suicide bombers as heroes and urged Hamas to launch more attacks inside Israel. Some of the demonstrators handed out sweets to the crowd as a sign of their jubilation.

The attacks in Beersheba took place as Arafat was meeting with hundreds of supporters from the West Bank town of Salfit. Arafat told the crowd that the Palestinians were determined to sacrifice millions of people to liberate Jerusalem.

"We will march towards Jerusalem, we will sacrifice millions of martyrs," Arafat said in his famous battle cry. "Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Palestine."

Posted by Laurence Simon at August 31, 2004 06:30 PM | TrackBack
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I'm sorry, but MILLIONS? Get in the front and lead them Yassir!! ha ha ha How does one 'ululate' in joy? I think I did that after an all nighter one time and my back is still screwed up. Those terrorists got across where the wall is not yet built....Build the wall and keep the bastards out. Keep out the ones who have jobs in Israel and let them fend for themselves...they want their own country anyway..right? They are not a self sufficient people....they remain in poverty for a reason...and they refuse to join the modern world. I believe Israel should take revenge upon them and end this....they can now begin again with the systematic program of taking out the Hamas leadership. If it comes to all out war, I'm sorry but if those people want extermiantion and martrydom it can be accomplished.

Posted by: dickmr [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 1, 2004 02:19 AM

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