Don't you think it's time for you, Judeofascists, to take a leaf out of Northern Ireland's book??
The Omagh Bomb:
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Yasser Arafat is the Gerry Adams of the Mideast:
September 1, 1997
Profile of Gerry Adams
President of Sinn Féin
The oldest of ten children, Gerry Adams was born on October 6, 1948 in the working class area of West Belfast where he continues to reside with his wife and son.
Upon finishing school in the 1960's, Gerry supported himself as a bartender while becoming increasingly involved in the civil rights movement. Modeled on the civil rights movement in the United States the Irish effort was founded to fight discrimination against northern Catholics by the British government in the areas of housing, employment, education and language.
Internment without trial was introduced in 1971 in response to the growing civil rights movement and community unrest over continued human rights abuses further provoking popular street resistance and campaigns of civil disobedience. The brutal reaction of the Unionist government in the six counties resulted in the ultimate breach of civil rights - murder by the government - of peaceful protesters at what has become known as Bloody Sunday.
For his activities in the ongoing effort to secure equality of treatment for all Irish men and women Gerry was interned in 1972 on the Maidstone, a British prison ship known for its inhumane conditions of overcrowding and brutality. Following this initial internment Gerry participated in peace talks with the British that resulted in a truce which was broken shortly afterwards by the British.
He was again arrested and held without trial from 1973 to 1977.
Over the years Gerry's family has also been targeted by unionist forces. His brother-in-law was killed by the British Army; his brother was shot by the British; several family members have been imprisoned, and his wife and son narrowly escaped injury when a loyalist bomb attack was carried out at their home. To the present day Gerry's health continues to be adversely affected by the years of punishment inflicted during his internment and from his closest call with death, when his body was riddled by automatic rifle-fire in a loyalist death squad attack in downtown Belfast.
Elected as President of Sinn Fein in 1983, Gerry was also elected as a Minister of Parliament from West Belfast during the same year. Refusing to take his seat in Westminster because of the compulsory oath of allegiance to the British Queen, Gerry continued to campaign for the rights of Irish nationalists.
Gerry Adams is widely acclaimed for his crucial role in laying the groundwork for the peace process in Ireland and for his continuing efforts in the building of a stable, democratically negotiated peace settlement.
In September 1993, Gerry Adams along with John Hume, leader of the Socialist Democratic Labour Party, played a pivotal role in reviving the Irish Peace Initiative. This cooperative enterprise lead to major political developments in the peace process including the Downing Street Declaration and the Joint Framework Document, both of which were in direct response to the Irish Peace Initiative.
The strategy adopted by Sinn Fein leadership, headed by Gerry Adams, played a significant part in the Irish Republican Army's courageous announcement on 31 August 1994 of ``a complete cessation of military operations.'' The IRA initiative enhanced the peace process begun by Adams and Hume and was followed six weeks later by a similar announcement on the part of loyalist paramilitary organizations. The work of Mr Adams was crucial in restoring the peace process this year after its collapse in February 1996 following eighteen months of British bad faith and unionist intransigence.
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And now, the flip side....
Gerry Adams and the IRA as they really are
RECENTLY, the bodies of 10 men hanged by the British 80 years ago were disinterred in Dublin's Mountjoy prison and their coffins carried in a cortege that paused at the post office where the 1916 Easter Rising began. They were reburied with military honors after a Mass celebrated by a cardinal and attended by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. They had been executed for conducting guerrilla warfare against the British army in 1920-1921. Ahern delicately, and defensibly, stressed the difference between their "legitimate" violence and that of "other times."
Last week in Belfast, a man of our times, an Irish terrorist who was welcomed at the Bush White House seven months ago, made an overdue and equivocal decision. He essentially "asked" himself to "decommission" his weapons of terror.
Yasser Arafat visited the Clinton White House more frequently - 13 times - than any other foreign official. Gerry Adams, head of the Sinn Fein party, has attended five White House St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
Adams has visited America nine times since 1994, when some of Hollywood's terrorist groupies, including Martin Sheen and Oliver Stone, gave him a 46th birthday party. Simon Jenkins, a British columnist, noted, "For those who make a living out of faking violence, a practitioner of the real thing has magnetism."
From May 1971 to March 1972, the IRA's second battalion murdered three policemen, 19 soldiers and 27 civilians. Adams was its commander. On July 21, 1972, the Provisional IRA's Belfast Brigade detonated 19 bombs in Belfast, killing nine, mutilating 130. Adams was then running the brigade.
In 1978, 12 people were incinerated when a Provisional IRA bomb destroyed Belfast's La Mon restaurant. Adams was then chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.
Sinn Fein has raised millions of dollars from Irish-Americans since President Clinton permitted fund raising because the party promised (cross its heart and hope to die) the money would not buy guns.
Last week, Adams "asked" Sinn Fein's appendage, the IRA, to "decommission" its weapons. Decommissioning means rendering them "beyond use," whatever that means. Lo and behold, the IRA said it would. This charade of Sinn Fein-IRA separateness is being hailed as another "breakthrough" in another "peace process."
But like Arafat's Palestinian Authority regarding its obligations under the Oslo "peace process," Adams' Sinn Fein-IRA never quite does what it promises to do. Only the IRA knows the locations and quantities of the weapons.
And Moammar Khadafy probably will, if asked, replace the weapons, most of which came from Libya in 1986 and '87. They are estimated to include 1,000 assault rifles, a surface-to-air missile, flamethrowers, rocket launchers and three tons of Semtex plastic explosive.
Although the Good Friday Agreement of April 1998 committed all parties to "total disarmament of all paramilitary organizations," the IRA immediately said: "There will be no decommissioning by the IRA." Sept. 11, 2001, complicated life for Irish terrorists.
Money is one reason for the Sinn Fein-IRA's sudden interest in appearing conciliatory. For American contributors to Sinn Fein, concentrated in New York, and for Sinn Fein's supporters in Washington, Sept. 11 has spoiled the fun of funding and justifying violence from a safe distance.
After Sept. 11, Adams' British publisher decided it would not publish the next volume of his memoirs. However the Times of London reports that Random House, his American publisher, will market the memoirs as the story of the man who "persuaded" the IRA to mend its violent ways and "breathed new life into the peace process."
Adams, like Arafat, and with comparable plausibility, denies complicity in terrorism. Both cultivate the fiction of separation from the violent organizations that serve their respective goals - destruction of British rule in Ulster and of Israel. A mural on an Ulster wall proclaims IRA solidarity with Arafat's cause.
Last week, Adams admitted what Sinn Fein had strenuously denied: One of the three IRA men captured in August while collaborating with narco-terrorists in Colombia is Sinn Fein's representative in Cuba. He said Sinn Fein had not known the man was its representative. Ten days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Sinn Fein said Adams would visit Cuba this fall.
But now we are invited to think that everything changed last week. Hope is possible; skepticism is reasonable. Of the 1916 Rising, William Butler Yeats wrote,
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born
Do not yet bet on beautiful change from the IRA, or against Adams - and Arafat, for that matter - soon being welcomed again in Washington, where wishful thinking is never out of season.
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