For the 43rd anniversary of the Coastal Road Massacre, the independent Ma'an newspaper - as well as the Saudi Arabia based Gulf Eyes - published a loving paean to the leader of the murderous attack, Dalal al-Mughrabi, a terrorist whose stature has remained undiminished by supposed acceptance of peace and rejection of terror by the PLO.
The poetic tribute to a mass murderer is as ugly as it gets. Excerpts:
She reveals herself again the one who made the myth of love ... a brown woman inhabited by nostalgia of the earth ... and tired of living in the confines of asylum ... so she exercised her right to return ... so she rode the sea from there and said what she said in the presence of the night, her curtains pulled down for the last time on the shores of her dream... She decided to embrace her grandmother's stories and make a miracle of returning to the thirsty land .... a representative of all dreams of the elderly whose faces were tanned in the sun of the groves of the Galilee ... she took out her black rifle and prepared and evoked all the stories of the women of Karbala and al-Khansa ... She knew when to cry and how her tears would be sparkling crystals on her cheeks ... She was fluent in the language of her smiles ...She ran in the middle of the rain without being touched by that wetness ... She would sing the love songs formed in her perceptions .... and she would come open her arms to take you and her towards the act of life...the butterflies caught her while flying in the sky of its clouds. ... and the wind caught her while she was rising above the roof of her dreams ... She traveled towards eternity, and she had immortality in the wild olive land ... She inspired all the scribes and poets to write the elegies of the beautiful time for a girl who decided to go and went towards her sun and sea ...It is Dalal who will return after her killer realized that he had not killed her dream of her return, and she stayed here for thirty years against his will ... trying to tear it apart and mulch dirt with her hair, but he did not realize that she decided that this dirt should be henna for her hair ...
Dalal al-Maghribi returns to the bosom of the truth .... they killed her because she had openly expressed her love ... and she had to dance the dance of death ... So death also has a decision ... and you are now returning to us, can we ask again .. ??
38 Israelis including 13 children were murdered in the terror attack.
I have not once seen a single Palestinian article questioning whether Mughrabi is a hero or a role model. On the contrary, she is universally adored by Palestinians.
And as long as that remains true, there is no chance for peace.