Team of experts to convert terrorists to "normative civilian life"

Israel Matzav.

The United Nations and the Palestinian Authority are launching a placement project to provide professional training for Palestinian terror suspects recently pardoned by Israel, Ynet has learned.

.... The UNDP [United Nations Development Program] is developing the program in conjunction with the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR).

A team of experts is set to meet with each suspect individually as well as with their family members. After the evaluation, an individualized training program will be designed for each suspect.

The aim is to reintegrate the suspects in society and bring them back to normative civilian life, even though a large number of the suspects are members of the PA's various security forces. [So does that mean they're going to have to find real jobs outside the 'security forces'? CiJ]

Initial funding for the program will be provided by the European Union, with other organizations expected to contribute to the effort at a later date.

"I hope this project means that we will finally be able to be family men and professionals and provide for our families with dignity," one Palestinian terror suspect told Ynet.

But first they expect Israel to pardon all the terrorists.

"There cannot be a situation in which one person is pardoned while his fellow cell member continues to be hunted," a Palestinian security official told Ynet.

I love it: "There cannot be a situation in which ..."

I say that to myself sometimes. There cannot be a situation in which adult armed men attack innocent children. There cannot be a situation in which a rabbi is stabbed on a public street. There cannot be a situation in which people detonate themselves in a restaurant. There cannot be a situation in which airplanes fly into buildings. . . .

See also Fatah gunmen disarm under amnesty deal

Dozens of Fatah gunmen on Sunday handed over their arms to the Palestinian security forces as part of a deal with Israel granting amnesty to 180 wanted terror suspects.

Palestinian officials told Ynet that the Palestinian Authority would pay gunmen up to NIS 60,000 for an M-16 rifle and NIS 15,000 for a Kalashnikov. Smaller guns are purchased for up to NIS 24,000.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed the deal on Saturday evening as Israel pushed ahead with efforts to galvanize President Mahmoud Abbas after his Fatah faction's defeat at the hands of Hamas in Gaza last month.

The Prime Minister's Office confirmed Sunday that the head of Fatah's military wing in Jenin, Zakariya Zubeidi, was on the list. Zubeidi was responsible for a series of terror attacks against Israeli targets.

Here is Zubeidi with Abu Mazen:

Dec. 30, 2004 - Zakaria Zubeidi, left, local leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, helps lift Mahmoud Abbas, center, yesterday at the Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank. The militant Zubeidi's support for Abbas, the front-runner in the Jan. 9 election for Palestinian Authority president, concerns Israel, which has been quietly backing Abbas. DAVID SILVERMAN / GETTY IMAGES

And here he is:

Mohammed Ishd, a militant of the al-Aqsa martyrs Brigades wanted by the Israeli authorities points his weapon at the image of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as he and other militants watch the live broadcast of the Israeli-Palestinian Sharm el-Sheik summit on TV in the refugee camp of the West Bank town of Jenin Tuesday Feb. 8, 2005. Exhausted after four years of bloody conflict, Palestinians and Israelis listened with a heavy dose of skepticism to their leaders' pledges Tuesday to bring an end to the fighting. At left is Zakaria Zubeidi, the leader of al-Aqsa in Jenin. The names of others are unavailable. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

And here he is again, this time celebrating a "successful" suicide bombing.

Reuters - Palestinian gunmen march in celebration of Netanya's bombing in the West Bank city of Jenin on December 5, 2005. A Palestinian suicide bomber killed five people outside an Israeli shopping mall and Israel ordered its army to hit militant leaders behind the attack. Witnesses said the bomber smiled before blowing himself up in Netanya, in an attack that threatened to unleash a new spiral of violence which could bury peace hopes stirred by Israel's Gaza withdrawal. REUTERS/Stringer

If the UN "experts" can turn this terrorist into anything even vaguely approaching a normal human being (never mind a grocer or a dentist), I'll eat my blog.

Comments

[israel]

notice the m-16s in the picture. where do u think they got them.......

[Yael]

I don't know. Why don't you tell us? Israel? America? Let me guess. It was a "good will gesture."

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The Panel will meet with each individually as well as alleged members of their families. Following this assessment. Thanks for this one.