Do you remember Akbar and Jeff, the cuddly fez-wearing stars of Matt Groening's pre-Simpsons Life in Hell series? You know, as in Akbar and Jeff's Tofu Hut and Akbar and Jeff's Video Hut? These are the guys about whom was raised the speculation: "possibly lovers, possibly brothers, possibly both".
I thought of Akbar and Jeff when I saw the page of photos on the Hamas Al-Qassam Brigade website that celebrates these guys:
Ahmed Ateq(L) and Saleh Kamil(R) became "martyrs" on March 19 after killing Lt. Tal Tzemach while attempting to infiltrate a Jordan Valley army base. They might have thought they were on their way to a paradise with 72 virgins, but may they enjoy an eternal "Life in Hell"
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 25, 2002 05:34 PMHmmm. Eternal punishment by becoming characters in a Matt Groening comic strip.
You may have just started a church, Stefan. ;-)
Posted by: Kevin McGehee on July 27, 2002 01:21 PMOkay, they're idiots. But if they died attacking a military base, I cannot grant them the automatic damnation one would believe for genocide bombers. Let God decide this one. There are enough truly evil actions without getting involved with the theology of the marginal ones.
Posted by: Ken Hahn on July 27, 2002 01:44 PMKen, Are you saying that just because these creeps killed someone on a military base and not outside its perimeter that their act is "marginal" not truly evil? Try telling that to the mother of their victim, a 20 year old conscript who probably would have been in college and not wearing a uniform, if it weren't for the fact that his country has been under constant military threat for the last 54 years.
And would you also say that flying an airplane into the Pentagon is not truly evil because the Pentagon is a "military base"?
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on July 27, 2002 03:25 PMONE SETTLER ONE BULLET!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously an enemy officer on a fort in their territory violence does not get much more morally clear than that .
Posted by: WWD on July 27, 2002 06:09 PM