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2004-04-27 Israel-Palestine

Why the Palestinians are in such a state

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Posted by tipper 2004-04-27 1:17:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Steyn does it again. What a riot.

Posted by John in Tokyo 2004-04-27 1:38:19 AM|| 2004-04-27 1:38:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#2
Today there is hatred of the Americans like never before

Today there is hatred of Hosni Mubarak like never before.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-04-27 7:36:20 AM|| 2004-04-27 7:36:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 What would happen if the checks to Mubarak suddenly stopped?

Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-27 11:02:37 AM|| 2004-04-27 11:02:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Brahimi is a disaster. My guess is that he's the only one in the UN who is not in fear of being indicted in the Oil for Food scam.

Posted by RWV 2004-04-27 2:07:17 PM|| 2004-04-27 2:07:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Amen! Lets stop ALL cash flow to states that think it is ok to slur us and our policies. Never EVER were there any plan to allow Paleos the 'right to return' and destroy Israel from within. That Arafart has led on the people in the refugee camps this long is a crime unto itself. Bush just told it like it is and sunddenly the Arabs are 'hurt' by the REAL world. Will the Arabs support the right to return of ANY of the MILLIONS of Jews that left their countries? I think not. Withdraw, build a wall, and leave them to kill themselves.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-04-27 3:28:57 PM|| 2004-04-27 3:28:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 One of the truly interesting things about the Palestinians is that the only "Arab" state that ever welcomed them was Saddam's Iraq and that was only as replacements for ethnically cleansed Kurds. (Notice how fast the average Iraqi turned on these leeches after Saddam was gone). Every other Arab country that imported any number as braceros was forced to expel them as troublemakers who were fomenting internal hate and discontent. Ask Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi about the Palestinians. They love them in the abstract, they just don't want to live next door to the hateful little wretches. Being willing cannon fodder for any terrorist group that will pay hasn't done much to raise their social acceptability.

One of the principal reasons that the Arab states are adamant about the Palestinian "right of return" is that none of them want anymore Palestinian citiizens whose only demonstrable skill is removing charred bodies from rocketed cars while jumping up and down in front of a TV camera. Mubarek is scared to death of picking up a few more million useless mouths to feed.

Posted by RWV 2004-04-27 4:24:20 PM|| 2004-04-27 4:24:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 RWV - that about covers it.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-27 6:34:59 PM|| 2004-04-27 6:34:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Cyber Sarge - let's combine your comment #5 with another deceptively brilliant comment that 11A5S offered in another thread:

"I was thinking on the way into work today, what if we did take Peters' advice and level a mosque filled with gunmen? What if we invited Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya to film the whole thing? You and I and others here have speculated that Islam is a hollow log ready to collapse. What if we just took a big sledge hammer to all the magical thinking? What if we showed them that Allah ain't going to protect them?"

In effect, what IF we just treated the Islamofascists, and along with them all of Islam since en masse they have declined to actually DO anything of substance to prevent their religion being hijacked by the so-called "militants", as we would treat any other group that has declared itself our implacable foe?

What a concept, eh? Credit to you and 11A5S for a good forehead slapping "f**kin' duh!" wake-up. Indeed, let's.

Posted by .com 2004-04-27 6:45:51 PM|| 2004-04-27 6:45:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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