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Leaked Video: Palestinian Terrorist Doesn’t Let 3 Life Sentences Prevent Him From Engagement Party…in Prison

Jan. 16, 2013 8:31am Sharona Schwartz

Palestinian Terrorist Celebrates Engagement in Israeli Prison and Heres the Video

Reception line at prisoner engagement party (screen shot from Ynet)

The news website Ynet obtained video captured in a high-security Israeli prison showing the engagement party of a convicted Palestinian terrorist – replete with a large spread of sweets, cigarettes, and juice (devout Muslims abstain from alcohol).

It reports that the party was in honor of Samar Abu Kwick who is serving three life sentences after being convicted of killing two Israeli soldiers in an attack ten years ago.

Ynet reports that the Israeli Prison Service believes a prisoner with a smuggled cellphone made the video inside Eshel Prison and considers the incident to be serious.

A reception line of prisoners is seen in the video, hugging and kissing well-wishers, who are themselves prisoners, as festive music plays the background.

Ynet identified an operative from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Ramzi Aubayd, in the video congratulating the future groom.

Spread of snacks and sweets assembled for the prison party (screen shot from Ynet)

As TheBlaze reported last week, Palestinians imprisoned for security offenses are no longer eligible to take free long-distance university classes while serving time. Three Palestinian prisoners appealed to the High Court of Justice to try to reverse the policy.

Ynet describes some of the conditions of their confinement:

They are however allowed a one-hour break in the prison yard and access to the prison’s canteen. For the rest of their time, prisoners are confined to their cells, and this is presumably when the engagement party video was shot.

Unlike criminal prisoners, security prisoners are denied conjugal visits and the right to marry while serving time. More so, they are denied even the right to meet their bride or fiancé.

Palestinian prisoners hand out juice at engagement party (screen shot from Ynet)

Though they are widely derided by Palestinian critics of Israel, Israeli prisons have earned awards internationally for their design and rehab programs. In September, the Times of Israel ran a feature on the prisons. It described one prison where:

…inmates spend most of the day outside their cells, in possession of cell keys and travelling between “campus” facilities for work, sports, dining, etc. A landscaped inner courtyard maintained by inmates allows visiting families to meet in a peaceful atmosphere, a sharp contrast with Hollywood prison-yard scenes.

MSNBC’s “Lockup: World Tour” visited several Israeli prisons. The Times of Israel described one visit:

As Israel’s only prison for women, Neve Tirza houses just over 200 inmates. Lockup producers were surprised to encounter prison facilities including a petting zoo and meditation room with glow-in-the-dark fish tanks. Inmates are seen teaching each other dance, producing art, and even nursing their babies in the prison’s fully-equipped ward for new mothers.

Palestinian terrorist prisoners also earn money while they are locked up. The Palestinian Authority spends $4.5 million per month on salaries to the convicts, the harsher the crime, the higher the payment. Between that and stipends for suicide bomber families, it adds up to a full six percent of the Palestinian budget.

Here is the video of the engagement celebration from Ynet:

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Comments (18)

mopman64
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:37pm
I understand that The_Jerk is going to be best man.

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bankerpapaw
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:51pm
Just another bunch of murdering thugs.

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- pavepaws
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 6:11pm
  They appear to be a charming couple.
  
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Lion420
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:00pm
Pretty cushy for prison, I’d say. That combined with “The Palestinian Authority” spending millions rewarding murderers, yet people still believe the Israelis are the bad guys somehow.

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HelloWorld
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:20pm
This would appear to be a tad bit too politically correct. However, I would think Palestinians would rather go to an Israeli prison than to their own house. How in the world can the Israeli’s be such terrible, hateful people to treat the Palestinians with such little regard?

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YouMayFireWhenReady
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 10:03am
Could someone point out to me which one of those individuals was the bride?

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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 10:13am
  The goat was not shown due to privacy concerns — for the goat.
  
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kryptonite
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 9:50am
Israelis have turned away from the Lord their God and there you have it, the pathetic consequences of their folly. By contrast, look at how the Palestinians treated Shalit. He could barely walk or talk when he was released.

I wonder whether Israel is being pressured by Hussein to turn their prisons into a bunch of Club Meds. After all, the Muslim-in-Chief turned Gitmo into a little paradise as soon as he occupied the WH.

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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:50pm
  It may be the result of worldwide political pressure but Israel’s leaders refuse to acknowledge the commandments of God regarding the enemy in the midst. Islamic appeasing policies of the Israeli administration are putting God’s Chosen People and the tiny Nation at risk.
  
  Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal reached with Hamas, says Netanyahu
  October 12, 2011
  Israel and the militant Islamist group Hamas announced Tuesday that they had agreed on an exchange that would free about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in return for Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held captive in the Gaza Strip for more than five years.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/gilad-shalit-prisoner-exchange-deal-reached-with-hamas-says-netanyahu/2011/10/12/gIQA0gixfL_story.html
  
  “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds) to the Sea of the Philistines, (Mediterranean) and from the desert to the River . I will hand over to you the people who live in the land and you will drive them out before you. Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. Do not let them live in your land, or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.” (Exodus 23:31-33)
  
  “The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants.” (Leviticus 25:23).
  
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Dushman Kush
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 9:40am
Comrade Kwick is an Esteemed Brother of the Muslim Ummah. He should never have been imprisoned in the first place. Comrade Morsi should secure his immediate release. Allahu Akbar !!!

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- Fubared
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:07am
  Since you seem to be in the know about the goat lovers, is this perhaps a reason why The__Jerk has been somewhat quiet of late? Why do your bros like to hug and kiss on bros so much?
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:37am
  They are getting too good a life…quick get’em outa prison and back into 24HR-JIHAD!!
  
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sandy21957
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 9:36am
Hope they don’t let this man breed. Oh, is he engaged to one of the other guys?

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- gosutag
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:51pm
  @SANDY21957: I hope they don’t let you breed either, your ignorance and immaturity is unbelievable.
  
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demsrtraitors
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 9:33am
another reason why you should execute your murderers and enemies.

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blanco5
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 9:26am
If he feigns having a deadly disease then he’ll get to go home! You know, to show compassion.

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biohazard23
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 8:43am
Let me beat the usual suspects to it this time:

“Those evil Zionists, those wicked Jews, denying these misunderstood gentlemen the right to see their intended bride. They’re out to destroy the world, I tell ya – THE WORLD! They control it all, including the IMF, the Fed, the EU, everything! Now this deplorable prison scene. They’re actually torturing these guys when no one is looking by putting bugs and pork chops in their cells while the prisoners are sleeping. It’s an evil conspiracy to make people think the Jews are harmless when they’re really going to destroy the planet and all who don’t bow to their power!”

Did I miss anything?

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- YouMayFireWhenReady
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 9:58am
  You missed G.W. Bush! I’m pretty sure that he is somehow partly to blame!! Other than that…you hit the nail on the head.
  
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