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2006-01-27 Fifth Column

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-27 03:13|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yes, Israel please leave us alone so we can get on with building a decent army over the next 10 years. An army built on Russian weapons and EU finance. Until then we'll happily have a '2 state solution' where we don't recognise you and you don't recognise us. Abbas can be the front man to keep the EU smily and happy. So lets have a 'truce' so we can get on with building a new military state. Then after 10 years or so we'll be ready to have a war with you.

Posted by Howard 2006-01-27 05:39|| 2006-01-27 05:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Whereas in Iraq parties that opposed the occupation had to downplay or even obscure their views, Palestinian supporters of armed resistance to Israel's expansionist strategies ....

Wow. Just ... wow.

Posted by AzCat 2006-01-27 05:41|| 2006-01-27 05:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Hamas may eventually disarm itself and recognise Israel.

Someone been a taken them black acids agin.

Posted by Howard UK 2006-01-27 06:35|| 2006-01-27 06:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Incredible. That piece of terror-worshiping drivel is just dripping with pure Jew-hate, yet somehow gets presented as journalism? The writer strikes me as evil, in it's purest form.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-01-27 06:48|| 2006-01-27 06:48|| Front Page Top

#5 I always wonder what the quid pro quo for these guys is . At least during the cold war, you could read between the lines and in every pro-communist screed you could see a job application for minister of culture or head of the writers union in the future People's Republic of [fill in the blank]. These kafirs can't possibly hope for a position of influence in the caliphate, can they? Or are they like Galloway. Does a little bit of zakat end up in a bank account in the Caymans after each of these propaganda pieces?

Otherwise, I don't know what to say. Every line in Steele's blather is either a lie, a distortion, or a moral abomination. Fisking it makes about as much sense as debating Baghdad Bob about journalistic ethics.

Before the Internet, I really had no idea that most of the European press (and most Europeans, it seems) see Israel as a colonial enterprise. In a very real way, Israel has become the scapegoat for 450 years of European colonialist atrocities. The high priests of European culture heap their own sins upon Israel and very literally abandon it in the desert to die. And since the colonialist narrative won't work without a colonizing power, the US has been drafted to fill that role, regardless of how illogical that may be (given that the Europeans, then the Arabs, cast the Jews out in the first place).

On days like this, I feel like saying to Hell with the whole continent. May their granddaughters wear abayas and their grandsons sport beards. The only intervention we sould make is to secure their nukes before the fall.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-01-27 08:09|| 2006-01-27 08:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Murdering a Palestinian politician by a long-range attack that is bound also to kill innocent civilians is morally and legally no better than a suicide bomb on a bus.

Bus bombing was invented by the Paleos decades ago. To equate such with the standard retaliation, long range beheading, is logically off the reservation. Sometimes, morally and legally depends on who started it. Morally, the retaliators have a free move. Legally, bus bombing is only legal in Islam.

Posted by wxjames 2006-01-27 10:05|| 2006-01-27 10:05|| Front Page Top

#7 I always wonder what the quid pro quo for these guys is .

They expect to be beheaded with sharp knives, not the dull ones the rest of us kaffir will get.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-01-27 12:08|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-01-27 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Bus bombing was invented by the Paleos decades ago.

Suicide Bombers are much older than that, I have a very old black-and-white Popeye cartoon fron the 20's where the "Suicide Squad" (a very short muslim with an artillery shell strapped to his head) is sitting on a sideline bench like in a football game, cheering on the fighters and waiting for the "Coach" to call on him.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-01-27 14:40|| 2006-01-27 14:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Popeye cartoon/Suicide Squad

Damn Redneck...that is one helluva obscure reference...but it works for me.

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-01-27 17:14|| 2006-01-27 17:14|| Front Page Top

#10 I vaguely remembe the cartoon, but you sure it wasn't a FILTHLY, UNWAASHED, UNSHAEN COMMIE BASTARD?

Seriously, it was a Trotskyite substitute.

Posted by 6 2006-01-27 17:28|| 2006-01-27 17:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Whereas in Iraq parties that opposed the occupation had to downplay or even obscure their views, Palestinian supporters of armed resistance to Israel's expansionist strategies were able to run openly.

I'd comment, but 115AS is right, it's like fisking Baghdad Bob.

Posted by 2b 2006-01-27 18:07|| 2006-01-27 18:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Great post, 11A5S. Works for me.

Posted by .com 2006-01-27 20:24|| 2006-01-27 20:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Murdering a Palestinian politician by a long-range attack that is bound also to kill innocent civilians is morally and legally no better than a suicide bomb on a bus.

It is is the Palestinian is a MURDERER and TERRORIST who TARGETS INNOCENT CIVILIANS. In that case it is targetting a MURDERER who is deliberately hiding among 'innocent' civilians.

So now if Hamas sponsors or engages in suicide bombing it is an act of war. And should be treated as such.

I dont think Ham-Ass can restrain itself -- the leadership is addicted to murdering innocents, ordering murder, and bloodshed as tightly as any crack-addict.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-01-27 20:58|| 2006-01-27 20:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Among several Hamas leaders I met in Gaza last summer, Mahmoud Zahar, one of its last surviving founders.

Israel's due diligence has always been rather impressive. Don't stop now.

Posted by Zenster 2006-01-27 21:34|| 2006-01-27 21:34|| Front Page Top

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