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2003-01-06 Middle East

Commentary: Is indifference to the fate of the Palestinians growing?

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Posted by Mike 2003-01-06 11:35 am|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Palestinians have been seeking justice...perhaps they should start to fear justice.

Posted by Pink & Fluffy 2003-01-06 12:24:16|| 2003-01-06 12:24:16|| Front Page Top

I felt much the same way when I saw the videos of Palestinians celebrating on 9/11. Whatever sympathy I had for the Palestinian cause vanished, never to return.

My feelings precisely. When I saw that vile Palestinian ~~woman~~ wildebeest ululating in front of the camera on 9/11, I only wished for one thing: one shot, one kill. I no longer make any distinction between the Palestinian people and its leaders; to me, they are all equally depraved and deserving of the 'martyrdom' they seek.

Posted by Raj 2003-01-06 12:24:36|| [angrycyclist.blogspot.com/] 2003-01-06 12:24:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry; I didn't think the blockquote tag was going to shrink and trash Mike's quote:

"I felt much the same way when I saw the videos of Palestinians celebrating on 9/11. Whatever sympathy I had for the Palestinian cause vanished, never to return."

Posted by Raj 2003-01-06 12:26:31|| [angrycyclist.blogspot.com/] 2003-01-06 12:26:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah. On 11Sept2001, the PLA made every effort to prevent the filming of the Palestinian celebrations, but that ululating witch still made it out over the satellites.

Arafat's belated blood donation and Peter Jennings' justification did nothing to blunt the impact of that image. It sounds like I'm not the only one who will remember her for the rest of his life.

Posted by JAB 2003-01-06 12:44:20|| 2003-01-06 12:44:20|| Front Page Top

#5 The Palestinians have chosen to make war almost exclusively on civilians. Their calculated gamble is that the more Westernized state of Israel would imitate the lackluster, weak willed European states and cave in to the terror. The Palestinians lack any evidence that terror against civilians has ever worked. It is a case of "If we believe it hard enough, it will come true."

Israel today is reluctant to act to end the Intifada with overwhelming force, since it could appear to be a campaign of "genocide". It also labors under the weighty burden of the memory of the Holocaust, and the vow that it will never happen again.

I suspect that the solution that the Israelis will adopt will involve the total and complete extermination of the Palestinian leadership, all the politicos from Arafat on down. This will reduce the intifada, but only a change in belief systems will end it. The Palestinians must come to know, to believe, that they cannot win it all. The elimination of Israel is not going to happen.

And Europe is not, by any means, the measure of the determination of the Israelis. The Palestinians should understand that a majority of Israelis count their descent from non-European Jewery, most of whom fled generations of living in Arab countries. And they will treat the Palestinians as their brother Arabs have, brutally and without mercy.

Posted by Chuck 2003-01-06 12:46:22|| [www.simmins.org] 2003-01-06 12:46:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Update: similar commentary from the Anti-Idioterian Rottweiler and the Spoons Experience.

Posted by Mike 2003-01-06 13:47:48|| 2003-01-06 13:47:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Sorry to date myself and come off sounding like some long lost 'time lord', but I havent had a whole lotta time for the palestinians since they came on the world stage back at the munich Olympics in 1972. What have they done to make themselves worthy of my support since then? attack Rome airport, blow up airliners to world over, Throw Leon Klinghoffer in his wheelchair off of the achille lauro, turn all of lebanon into a hellish wasteland.

I feel sorry for their children, but Im tired of trying to feel sorry for them. can you imagine what will be the result if Israel ( or the US for that matter) is ever attacked by WMD's? Do they really think that they will be alive for more than the 20 minutes it will take for ICBMS to get there?

Sad. truly Sad.

Posted by Frank Martin 2003-01-06 14:31:44|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2003-01-06 14:31:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Remember what happened to Sodom and Gommorah, you fuckwits...

Posted by mojo 2003-01-06 15:25:24|| 2003-01-06 15:25:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Rhetorical question. If we all woke up tomorrow morning and the Palestinians had disappeared off the face of the earth, would humanity be better off or worse off? Just what do they contribute to the world that would be missed? Anybody?

Posted by tu3031 2003-01-06 15:25:59|| 2003-01-06 15:25:59|| Front Page Top

#10 I think a growing majority of Americans no longer care for the Palestinians one way or another. It will take longer for the Europeans to get to the same karmic reststop. When that happens there will be a lot of Palestinians in Jordan.

Posted by Harry Flashman 2003-01-06 16:30:07|| 2003-01-06 16:30:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Whatever sympathy I had for the Palestinians had been running low long before 9/11. But watching them celebrate that day officially put the idea of a Palestinian state out of its misery. Whatever Israel decides to do in the West Bank and Gaza won't elicit a reaction from me. If Israel decides to empty both, I'll just shrug and pour myself another Haut-Medoc.

Posted by Christopher Johnson 2003-01-06 17:07:21|| [mcj.blogspot.com/] 2003-01-06 17:07:21|| Front Page Top

#12 tu3031 asked, "Just what do they contribute to the world that would be missed?"
Arabs would miss having a proxy and be forced to fight their own battles. They wouldn't like that.

Posted by Arthur Fleischman 2003-01-06 17:22:07|| [www.untoldmillions.com/weblog_page.htm] 2003-01-06 17:22:07|| Front Page Top

#13 "When that happens there will be a lot of Palestinians in Jordan."

After trying to take over Jordan once, Jordan does not want them back. Both Egypt and Jordan were offered the territories back after the 72 war, (with minor changes due to defense considerations) and both said "no". Every Palestinian in Kuwait was kicked out after Desert Storm. No one, not even the Arab states, wants them. Whether they realize it or not, they have become the Jews of the Middle East, and may be subject to the same kind of "dispora" imposed on the Jews by the Romans. Then, in 2000 years, maybe they will get their own state.

Perhaps Palestinian is Arabic for "sucker"

Posted by Ben 2003-01-07 04:21:00|| 2003-01-07 04:21:00|| Front Page Top

#14 tu3031: The world would be definitely better off, provided they disappeared the way you specified.

Alas, this is real life, and "getting there" from "here" in any practical way is going to cost mega-billions in psychic dollars. You can't expect the israelis to not stink when they're done cleaning out this particular barn. The israelis haven't come to the point that they're prepared to pay that cost and smell that way.

Posted by Ptah 2003-01-07 07:03:45|| 2003-01-07 07:03:45|| Front Page Top

#15 Having their own State may be more of a punishment than a reward for the Paleos. The odds of civil war would increase drastically. Israel could cede some arab parts of Israel to ease the late 21st century demographic threat. There are other benefits. Of course, the country could become a haven for terrorists but that is little different from what it is now.

Posted by mhw 2003-01-07 08:07:49|| 2003-01-07 08:07:49|| Front Page Top

#16 At what point do the suicide attacks from individual palestinians become attacks from collective Palestine society?

So at what point does it take for Israel to turn individual attacks into a collective response?

Do we accept that Jews in 1930 Germany had no more direct responsibility for the Holecaust than Americans had for 9/11? But Palestinians as a society are directly responsible for their current action?

The only way to destroy evil is to exorcise it, completely.

Posted by john 2003-01-07 12:40:39|| 2003-01-07 12:40:39|| Front Page Top

#17 They don't care about their own lives, they certainly don't care about the lives of the Jews. There is only one thing the Pals care about.

Sharon should state that if another attack occurs the Al Aquas Mosque will be levelled. The arabs will rant and rave and pull out their hair but they will believe him.

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