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2005-01-02 Israel-Palestine

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-02 11:47:21 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wow, Sea! Erakat will have to buy a dozen Saville Row suits to assuage his injured feelings after this! And a dozen pair of Italian loafers, just for good measure!

As for Abbas's safety, I gotta admit it's kept me up nights, too. I heard Holocaust Denier's Anonymous sent out a bulletin about it and ever since then, well, I've been Sleepless in Sin City. Glorious Golden Gloria had nothing to do with it, whatsoever, I swear, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-01-02 1:33:15 AM|| 2005-01-02 1:33:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Palestinian officials claim Israeli authorities have done little to ensure a smooth election process.

What on earth could Israel do that would not be held against them? This is the ultimate no-win situation. Any Israeli assistance would be called meddling and a complete withdrawal during the election will be labeled a lack of support for Palestinian democracy.

The election will be viewed as an important litmus test for the upcoming Palestinian legislative assembly elections

D@mn right it will be. From my own point of view, if over half the seated assembly favors terrorism, it means that a majority of Palestinians support terror attacks. Any culture that extolls terrorism must be denied all vestiges of credibility or respectability.

... there are growing concerns on both Palestinian and Israeli sides that deemed frontrunner and Fatah candidate Abbas is under risk of assassination from militants.

Palestine's own factionalism poses a threat to even the most popular candidate. Though the lessons here are manifold, most of them will undoubtedly elude the Palestinians. Abbas is not a true moderate. He, too, still uses the classic weasle-words and argot to rationalize terrorism. However wisely he realizes that it will never work, he's still pandering to the more psychotic elements within the Palestinian culture.

The Israelis are not fooled one bit by this thin disguise. Evermore ironic, the hatred coming from his own side is so blind that even the most remote concession to the Israelis, claiming terrorism is a blind alley, is enough to earn Abbas a death warrant.

Abbas attended a rally in Jenin where he was greeted by a group of some 20 Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade gunmen who let off dozens of rounds of bullets.

REAL MESSAGE: One of these bullets could just as easily have hit you.

"The only thing free about this election will be the freedom of armed men to dictate the outcome."

Of any sentence in the entire article, this is the keystone. Palestine and its embrace of terrorist violence has reached a logical extension. By adopting a "guns only" mentality, it is "guns only" that will determine this election. A "guns only" election may as well be a shotgun wedding for all concerned. More than likely, guns alone will play the final determining role in this sordid little vignette.

I still maintain that, similar to the unfortunately necessary biological (AIDS) meltdown in Africa and almost unavoidable economic (civil war) meltdown in China, the Palestinian people's philosophical meltdown is an equally vital component for their rebirth as a functional culture.

What they have now is merely the penultimate of death cults.

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-02 2:23:55 AM|| 2005-01-02 2:23:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The terror monster created by the Arafish will now haunt the stupid paleo's for a long, long time.
Abbas, is indeed walking a tight rope. He cant be too cooperative with Israel for fear of being tarred and feathered by the Hamas, and he cant be too venomously anti-israely because that losses him any international support.
The only way for him to survive is to take the old trustworthy Mooslimb/Paleo methods of whining and crying and throwing the blame at others.

Until the West does not completely severe the ties between the Paleo's and the terror supporting regimes in Iran, Syria and the damn Saudi's there is going to be no peace in the region and the fucker's are going to continue suffering because of their "Dear leaders"'s duplicity, lying and impotence.
P.S. Saeb Erakat is a pathological hypocrite.

Posted by EoZ 2005-01-02 2:30:06 AM|| 2005-01-02 2:30:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Abbas' death would be a HEAVY blow to chances for Peace.

Posted by gromgorru 2005-01-02 3:53:09 AM|| 2005-01-02 3:53:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Typical isn't it - blaming the Isrealis for any perceived problems with the 'election process' (see, I can use scare quotes too).

I disagree gromgorru - once Abbas has been killed (by his own side, and I imagine the circumstances will be very similar to those that Zenster has mentioned), they'll wheel up another one to replace him. The Israelis can sit back and wait until a real moderate is 'elected'.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-01-02 5:22:55 AM|| 2005-01-02 5:22:55 AM|| Front Page Top

The Israelis can sit back and wait until a real moderate is 'elected'.

Nice thought, Tony (UK), but I doubt the paleos have one.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-01-02 11:18:09 AM|| 2005-01-02 11:18:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 This is why the Wall MUST BE COMPLETED as rapidly as possible. Build it HIGH, DEEP and STRONG. Cut off ALL CONTACT with Palestine PERMANENTLY. Let that insane society kill itself off if they choose to do so! If there are any survivors, they will have to cut out their own Islamist cancer. Then SOMEDAY, perhaps in 25 to 50 years, the barbarian Palestinians can be very cautiously allowed to rejoin the civilized world.

Posted by leaddog2 2005-01-02 1:26:33 PM|| 2005-01-02 1:26:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 once Abbas has been killed (by his own side, and I imagine the circumstances will be very similar to those that Zenster has mentioned), they'll wheel up another one to replace him. The Israelis can sit back and wait until a real moderate is 'elected'.

Bingo, Tony. Although I doubt that Israel will play quite the passive role you mention. Between the terrorist thugs and Israel's IDF, there is going to be a ~~revolving door~~ rapid succession of Palestinian leaders in the near future.

Only after a complete meltdown of Palestinian self-government will there be any chance for true progress. Right now, what we are witnessing is the gruesome spectacle of a cannibalistic society sorting through all the available warm bodies for its next rhetorical feast.

Palestine's incurable bloodlust requires that they first reach the logical conclusion of their hatred. Self-decimation is that process and they richly deserve it. The only substantial benefit it represents to the outside world is a vivid object lesson in Islamist politics and what awaits any other countries that contain substantial Muslim minorities.

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-02 4:42:02 PM|| 2005-01-02 4:42:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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