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| Arab Leaders Silent, Viewing Hamas as Worse Than Israel |
| 2014-07-31 |
| [NY Times] Battling Paleostinian bully boyz in Gazoo two years ago, Israel found itself pressed from all sides by unfriendly Arab neighbors to end the fighting. Not this time. After the military ouster of the Islamist government in Cairo last year, Egypt has led a new coalition of Arab states — including Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the United Arab Emirates and Jordan — that has effectively lined up with Israel in its fight against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamist movement that controls the Gazoo Strip. That, in turn, may have contributed to the failure of the antagonists to reach a negotiated cease-fire even after more than three weeks of bloodshed. "The Arab states' loathing and fear of political Islam is so strong that it outweighs their allergy to Benjamin Netanyahu," the prime minister of Israel, said Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington and a former Middle East negotiator under several presidents. "I have never seen a situation like it, where you have so many Arab states acquiescing in the death and destruction in Gazoo and the pummeling of Hamas. The silence is deafening." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 One senses that were they given the entire Levant to make their home they would turn it bleak and barren. Read Mark Twain's description The Innocents Abroad (1869), Chapter LVI. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-31 18:10 |
| #1 It is not also the case that those same Arab states conduct significant trade with Israel, to include food and consumer goods? Paleos are to Arabs what homies are to American Africans. Jordan expelled them lethally. They are wanted nowhere in the region. Israelis are nicer to them than Arabs. Their "leaders" use them to extort Euro-American nations. They are truly the dispossessed, unwanted. And they stupidly go violent, making themselves even more abhorrent. One senses that were they given the entire Levant to make their home they would turn it bleak and barren. It may be that the only way to civilize Paleos, make them livable, would be to lop off their leader cadre to a man and woman and bring in heavily protected non-Arab gene pools to dilute and re-form theirs under a century-long, or so, Latinate protectorate -- not UN, of course. |
| Posted by: TopRev 2014-07-31 14:21 |