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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Civil War Alarm Rings in Palestine
2006-10-04
The formation of a national unity government between the ruling Hamas party and opposition group al-Fatah occupied the agenda this weekend and prompted renewed fears of a civil war in Palestine. Conflicts between Hamas and al-Fatah forces in Gaza began on Saturday and intensified throughout Sunday. Eight people, two of them children, lost their lives in the clashes which broke out after Hamas members interfered in a protest meeting of police officials over unpaid salaries.

More than 70 Palestinians were injured in the clashes. Hundreds of public officers who have not been paid for months took their anger to the streets yesterday, where Internal Ministry forces took action to stop the protestors.
Posted by:Fred

#18  I wonder if they'd be fighting as hard if the "aid" money weren't there as spoils for the victor.
Posted by: James   2006-10-04 21:54  

#17  Zen, do Paleos have any genetic/cultural/social assets which could advance civilization?

Since you ask; Spare Organs.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-10-04 21:50  

#16  I might pee on both only if their hearts are on fire. Otherwise, kick back and enjoy the show as extremists who got the upper hand now tear apart "Palestine."
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden   2006-10-04 21:37  

#15  Zen, do Paleos have any genetic/cultural/social assets which could advance civilization? >:-)
Posted by: RD stringer for al-Reuters   2006-10-04 16:40  

#14  With any luck this will lead to cannibalism.

They've been butchering each other and their own children for ages. Only the threshold of dietary consumption has not yet been crossed. Palestinians rank among the world's premier cannibals. They consume foreign aid to build houses, use those abodes for launching terrorist attacks, get them bulldozed by outraged Israeli forces and then show up on the world's stage weeping and wailing about their homelessness. Round after round, they feed upon the globe's largess only to piss it away at a moment's notice. Their inheritance and instantaneous destruction of the Israeli greenhouses was a penultimate demonstration of this monstrous ingratitude.

The Palestinians have been drinking this world's blood for untold decades. They are engorged parasites whose access to a willing host has finally been cut off for a change. In their constant thirst for more blood, they cheerfully slaughter each other rather than, perish the thought, actually build or construct anything of lasting value that might possibly be construed in some odd way as viable economic infrastructure.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-10-04 16:28  

#13  Like rats in a burlap bag with nowhere to go...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-10-04 15:49  

#12  pequeño syntax edits

Baghdad-service Quds Press

Shiite militias give Palestinians 72 hours to leave Baghdad

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Shiite militias Have given the Palestinian families living in Baghdad 72 hours to leave "or will be subject to burning and killing."

He said a number of residents in the neighborhood of Health session of the "Quds Press" that the publication was distributed to the homes inhabited by Palestinians. Toaadthm death and burning unless they leave Baghdad within 72 hours. They confirmed that those publications distributed in times of curfew, which was imposed on Baghdad since Friday evening until Sunday morning.

He also pointed out that the residents of these militias used for the first time, loudspeakers mounted on cars governmental, the Palestinians and threatens to kill them unless they leave Baghdad. reminding them that their fate would have been the fate of their fellow citizens in the municipalities located east of Baghdad.

According to the official statistics, the number of Palestinians who have been killed in Iraq by a Shiite militia hit about 172 Palestinians, in addition to the tens of abductees and prisoners, both by the American forces or the government or at the death squads and militia elements.

Dozens of families have migrated from the Palestinian Baghdad, Following repeated targeting them by the government forces or death squads of the Shiite parties.
Posted by: RD stringer for al-Reuters   2006-10-04 15:46  

#11  Actually, msgeek, you can find maps that show this mythical country in place of Israel. Generally in Arab countries and radical left universities (I repeat Myself) over here.
Posted by: Jackal   2006-10-04 12:20  

#10  With any luck this will lead to cannibalism.
Posted by: Icerigger   2006-10-04 11:37  

#9  The IDF concrete wall is working. They cannot get to the Jews and cannot escape to Egypt, so now they have turned on one another. This is a good news story.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-10-04 10:25  

#8  Promises, promises.
Posted by: SR-71   2006-10-04 10:01  

#7  Civil War? I thought that was defined as a war between factions of the same COUNTRY. What country is 'palestine'? Never heard of it. Does it show on a map?
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-10-04 09:56  

#6  Ringing, ringing, ringing---will somebody f*cking answer.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-10-04 08:14  

#5  Maybe this'll provide cover for the end of the Iraq war - you know, which will just sort of quietly fade away over a period of time...
Posted by: Bobby   2006-10-04 06:58  

#4  My heart pumps piss.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-10-04 05:36  

#3  I never thought I'd say this, but send them guns. And ammo. Now. :-)
Posted by: gorb   2006-10-04 02:29  

#2  Instead of funding the PA could we just send them cases of scotch? Alternately what if we provided them with corn as their main staple. I think Anonymouse pointed out that pellegra makes one grumpy.
Posted by: Super Hose   2006-10-04 01:34  

#1  He, he, I hope they both win
Posted by: Captain America   2006-10-04 01:22  

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