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A Palestinian man enters the Nibras Print Shop beside a poster showing Hamas militants that were killed in Israel's recent Gaza military offensive in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. The shop prints customized, full-color posters and banners commemorating the dead — a Palestinian tradition for people killed by Israel. In the wake of Israel's 22-day Gaza offensive, which killed nearly 1,300 Palestinians, the shop is one of Gaza's few businesses experiencing a postwar boom.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip-Some were killed when tank shells hit their homes. Others died when bombs erased their offices. Still others met their end battling Israeli troops.Now their faces are rolling off the presses at the Nibras print shop, which produces full-color posters and banners of the dead. In the wake of Israel's 22-day Gaza offensive-which killed nearly 1,300 Palestinians-it's one of the few businesses experiencing a postwar boom.Islamic Jihad fighter Mohammed Bedawi was among the so-called "martyrs" whose demise was commemorated with a custom-made poster-a tradition for anyone killed by Israel."The drone hit him," said his cousin, Abed Bedawi, 21, referring to Israel's unmanned surveillance planes, often seen in Gaza's skies. "He was laying a bomb for a tank when the drone fired a missile at him."Before the war, about 30 percent of the print shop's orders were for martyr posters, co-owner Ahmed al-Hor said; the rest were for things like shop signs and labels for products like tomato sauce, soap and baby food. Now, posters of the dead are 90 percent of his business.A steady stream of customers flowed through the print shop's simple walk-up office on a recent afternoon, all men, most bearded, some wearing military-style pants and jackets. A few admitted affiliation with Gaza's armed groups, and the vast majority of their orders commemorated fallen fighters. Bedawi unfurled his poster to reveal a large photo of his stern-looking 20-year-old cousin, ringed with silhouettes of palm trees and birds in flight. "As a farewell," the text read. In the top corner was an emblem of Islamic Jihad, a militant group Israel says is backed by Iran.Bedawi said he'd give it to his aunt to hang in her house.Others told similar stories. "They were out on a jihad mission, then came back and a missile hit them at the door of their house," said Yusuf Mustapha, who was picking up 1,000 copies of a poster showing 10 Islamic Jihad militants killed in the Zeitoun area south of Gaza City."The families of the martyrs will take them, and we'll hang them all over to decorate the neighborhood," said Mustapha.Asked where he got the $925 for the order, he just smiled and said, "from the good people." When pressed, Mustapha, 25, said that he too was an Islamic Jihad member....
By BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press Writer Ben Hubbard, Associated Press Writer
PS:These people are messed up.These thugs are not HEROES.BUT palestinians will hang their pictures in their living rooms and throw parties in their honour.
It is very difficult to talk to people like that,because they live in an alternate reality.Their culture is a culture of DEATH and MURDER and SUICIDE.They LIVE TO KILL and DIE.
NO NEGOTIATION with HAMAS or JIHADISTS.
They are not normal.Their minds function to a very low level of almost animal instinct.They have been deprived of human dignity and guilt.They are "programmed" since childhood to kill jews and infidels and to get their way no matter what.No hope for them as long as they serve DEATH....
As in the days of Noah....
As in the days of Noah....
