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Terrorists: Cease-fire means chance to reload
Militants say Israel-Palestinian downtime to be used
for weapons smuggling, training to attack Jewish state
Posted: November 27, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

TEL AVIV – The cease-fire to which Israel and major Palestinian factions agreed yesterday will be used by Palestinian groups to smuggle weapons into Gaza, reinforce and train "fighter units," and produce rockets for a future confrontation with the Jewish state, the leaders of the four most significant Palestinian terror groups in Gaza told WND in a series of exclusive interviews.

The cease-fire offers a period of calm for our fighters to recover and prepare for our final goal of evacuating Palestine," said Abu Abir, spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, a Hamas-allied terror organization in the Gaza Strip responsible for many of the recent rocket attacks against Israeli communities.

"We will keep fighting [Israel], but for the moment we will postpone certain parts of the military struggle," Abu Abir said. (Read the rest of the story here.)

Gaza Truce Holding Despite Early Violations
November 27, 2006 6:57 a.m. EST
Ryan R. Jones - All Headline News Middle East Correspondent

Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - News that Israel and the Palestinian Authority had agreed to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel on Sunday was met by an immediate terrorist missile barrage on the Jewish state.

Despite that early outburst of violence, for which the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization claimed credit, the truce appeared to be holding more than 24 hours after going into effect, thanks in no small part to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's insistence that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) maintain restraint in the face of the Palestinian violations. (Read story here.)

Letting suicide bombers speak for themselves
By TOM TUGEND
The Jerusalem Post

Sixteen-year old Hassan is deeply frustrated because he was caught by Israeli police before he could blow himself up among a crowd of Israeli civilians.

"If I had been killed, my mother would call it a blessing," he says. "My family and 70 relatives would have gone to paradise, and that would be a great honor for me."

Hassan is one of more than a dozen Palestinian suicide bombers captured before they could carry out their missions and interviewed in the documentary Suicide Killers by French-Jewish filmmaker Pierre Rehov.

The movie's subtitle, "Paradise is Hell," is a deliberate allusion and counterpoint to last year's Oscarnominated Palestinian drama Paradise Now, which some critics charged "humanized" and even glorified its two suicide bombers. (Read story here.)

More Quotes from the Palestinian Would Be Suicide Bombers:

"Our goal is to kill all enemies of Islam," says one young woman.

"Those who die for Allah are not dead but live in paradise," a young man proclaims.

"Jews have never obeyed God and are not part of mankind," adds another prisoner.