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The Sun Shines

Usually I have nothing but contempt for the way that the Baltimore Sun covers the Middle East. But this past week correspondent, Peter Herrmann wrote an excellent article about terror in Israel. He included items that often get overlooked elsewhere in the media. When writing about Wafa Idris, Herrman writes:

The first militant group to use a woman was the secular Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, which sent a woman medic into Israel using an ambulance as cover in 2002. Then, the Muslim Islamic Jihad followed suit.

While it would have been nice for Herrman to have emphasized the point a bit more, using an ambulance to perpetrate terror is a war crime. Still his mentioning it supports Israeli claims of necessity when the army doesn't give free passage to Palestinian ambulances as international law requires.
The other important detail that Herrmann included was this:

Israeli intelligence officials said that the 21-year-old woman, a member of a wealthy Palestinian family that ran a battery factory and had business interests in Israel, had been caught in an extramarital affair. The reports said that her husband, a Hamas activist, forced her to carry out the attack as a form of honor killing.

This is a detail about Reem Raiyshi that has been ignored by the American media. She was a murderess true. But she was coldly manipulated into her action by her husband. Her husband and the friend who seduced her are full acocmplices in her murderous act.
Crossposted on Israpundit and Soccer Dad.

Posted by SoccerDad at January 26, 2004 02:31 AM | TrackBack