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This Says it All: “Terrorists Prefer Hillary”
I’ve often wondered why it never occurs to the Dems that they “sound” just like our enemies. From NRO:
Terrorists Prefer Hillary
And they’d rather see Rudy dead than president.
By Deroy MurdockSenator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is gaining fans, even on the West Bank.
“I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq,” said Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Palestinian terror group. “I hope also she will maintain her husband’s policies regarding Palestine and even develop that policy. President Clinton wanted to give the Palestinians 98 percent of the West Bank territories. I hope Hillary will move a step forward and will give the Palestinians all their rights. She has the chance to save the American nation and the Americans’ life.”
Senakreh and other top Islamo-fascists want Hillary in the Oval Office. These mass murders also have “gone negative.” They want GOP contender Rudy Giuliani dead.
“We see Hillary and other candidates are competing on who will withdraw from Iraq and who is guilty of supporting the Iraqi invasion,” said Abu Jihad, an Al Aqsa leader in Nablus. “This is a moment of glory for the revolutionary movements in the Arab world in general and for the Iraqi resistance movement specifically.”
Al Aqsa’s man in the northern West Bank, Nasser Abu Aziz, considered it “very good” that there are “voices like Hillary and others who are now attacking the Iraq invasion.”
Islamic Jihad’s Abu Ayman felt “emboldened” by Clinton’s demands that America retreat from Iraq. He said: “It is clear that it is the resistance operations of the mujahideen that have brought about these calls for withdrawal.”
“All Americans must vote Democrat,” insisted Jihad Jaara, an exiled Al Aqsa agent who commanded 2002’s siege of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity.
Since 1995, these terrorists’ organizations have killed an estimated 162 and wounded 368 others in Israel. Aaron Klein, an Orthodox Jew who is WorldNetDaily.com’s Jerusalem bureau chief, interviewed some three dozen leading Muslim fanatics, including those quoted here. His new book, Schmoozing with Terrorists, details these chilling encounters with violent Islamic extremists in Israel’s Palestinian territories.
Klein boldly goes where few journalists have gone before. For one typical interview, he traverses an Israeli border checkpoint, takes a local Palestinian taxi to central Jenin, then waits for a white Ford Escort without license plates to whisk him to an apartment complex at the end of an alley. He then meets Islamic Jihad’s Abu Ahmed. After several minutes, Klein asks: “So, if after today’s meeting, you saw me in a café in Jerusalem that you were sent to attack, you’d still try to blow it up?”
“I will not hesitate to blow you up,” Ahmed responds. “Meanwhile, and before I drive you to Hell in an operation, enjoy your tea and our hospitality.”
Why do these hardened butchers have a soft spot for Hillary Clinton? Perhaps because the New York Democrat is soft on terrorism.
Clinton has vacillated on robustly interrogating terrorists in “ticking time bomb” scenarios. In a September 26 Democratic debate, she said: “It cannot be American policy, period.” This reversed Clinton’s October 2006 statement to the New York Daily News that, in case of “having to interrogate a detainee with knowledge of an imminent threat to millions of Americans,” a president could “depart from standard international practices.”Clinton opposes the U.S. Terrorist Surveillance Program, calling it “a secret program that spies on Americans.”
Clinton voted against military tribunals for terror suspects, including al-Qaeda detainees.
Clinton has zigzagged on Iraq. In autumn 2002, she voted to authorize Operation Iraqi Freedom. In February 2005, she said, “I don’t think we should be setting a deadline” to leave Iraq. Last January 18, she told PBS: “I think the timetable still remains problematic.” But a month later, on February 17, she stated: “It’s time to say the redeployment should start in 90 days, or we will revoke authorization for this war.”
Clinton has waffled on Iran. Last February, she told the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee that “no option can be taken off the table” when confronting Tehran. This month, she declared she is “opposed to letting President Bush take any military action” against Iran without Congress’ permission.
The fact that Hillary’s foreign-affairs advisers include Bill Clinton’s national-security chief, Sandy Berger — despite his guilty plea for stealing al-Qaeda-related secrets from the National Archives, stuffing these documents down his socks, then shredding them at home with scissors — raises grave doubts about how seriously she takes national security.
Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign has yet to respond to my requests to list her counterterrorist accomplishments.
These terrorists’ love for Hillary mirrors their hatred for her leading GOP rival, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
“If I had the occasion to meet him I would hurt him,” said Ramadan Adassi, a West Bank Al Aqsa leader. “For the sake of the American people, Giuliani shouldn’t be elected. He is a disgusting guy, and I think Americans must think very hard about their future and their soldiers who will be killed when they come to elect their leaders.”
“Giuliani doesn’t deserve to live or even to be mentioned,” said Al Aqsa’s Ala Senakreh. “He hates Palestinians and we hate him.”
Al Aqsa’s Abu Hamed said Giuliani “can hate Arafat and the Palestinians, but he knows that nobody is hated in the world more than his leadership, his party, his president, and his Zionist friends.”
Why the hard feelings? Perhaps because Giuliani has snipped terrorists’ bomb wires for 31 years.
Giuliani’s “On the Issues” website entry identifies “Winning the War on Terror” as his third Top-10 theme. Clinton’s third of 10, coincidentally, is “Ending the War in Iraq.” Her “Issues” page does not even mention “Terror.”
Mayor Giuliani’s NYPD officers in July 1997 arrested two Palestinians with Jordanian passports and five pipe-bombs. They were convicted of immigration fraud and plotting to blast Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue subway station.
Giuliani rode a No. 18 bus in Israel in March 1996, just weeks after terrorists attacked that route. He said, “I want to show that terrorism can’t succeed and that decent people stand up against terrorists.”
In 1995, Giuliani famously expelled Yasser Arafat from an invitation-only United Nations 50th anniversary celebration at Lincoln Center. As Giuliani said then: “Arafat has never been held to answer for the murders that he was implicated in.” Last October 16, Giuliani told the Republican Jewish Coalition why he booted the PLO dictator: “I knew from my own investigations of Arafat that he was a murderer and a terrorist.” Giuliani added: “This whole idea of holding him on a morally equivalent plane to the prime minister of Israel…was a terrible, terrible mistake.”
As New York City’s U.S. attorney, Giuliani attempted in 1988 to close the Palestine Liberation Organization’s U.N. observer mission under the 1987 Anti-Terrorism Act.
In 1986, Giuliani targeted an anti-Castro group responsible for two murders and 25 bombings. Giuliani secured guilty pleas from three Omega 7 members who conspired to kill Cuba’s U.N. ambassador in 1980 and blow up its Manhattan consulate in 1979.
While he was third-in-charge at President Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department, Giuliani encouraged Interpol to improve its global probes of money laundering, international fugitives, and explosives trafficking. He also worked with the FBI to protect the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics from terrorism and other threats.
Giuliani represented the Justice Department on President Gerald Ford’s Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism. It addressed the “increased danger of major terrorist attacks in the US requiring urgent preventive and preparatory action,” according to a declassified June 10, 1976 State Department memo. Among other things, Giuliani foresaw that the regulations that blocked CIA and FBI intelligence sharing “were hampering the U.S. government in keeping track of terrorists.” This very “wall” later kept the September 11 conspiracy’s dots fatally disconnected.
“I don’t believe Americans should base their votes entirely on what the terrorists think,” Aaron Klein says from Jerusalem, “but it’s certainly telling that our enemies are rooting for the Democrats, particularly Hillary.” He adds: “The theme from all those interviewed in the book, about 35, and those I have talked with for my reporting the past few years, which adds many more, is the same: They favor the Democrats and believe the liberal ideology is their road to victory.”
As the War on Terror continues, Americans should study our foes’ political preferences — and then pull the lever the other way.