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2012-02-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Fundamentally Freund: The end of Palestine

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Posted by trailing wife 2012-02-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 In an Era when Arab pseudo-states are collapsing in droves (the misnamed "Arab Spring"), anything Paleos do or not do is largely superfluous.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-02-16 07:08|| 2012-02-16 07:08|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not so sure about that. When the Arab pseudo stakes recover from the Arab spring many will be looking for ways to distract their people from the starvation, death, and poverty, with an outward enemy. Israel shames them by her success and will always be the top of the list.

Posted by rjschwarz 2012-02-16 08:08|| 2012-02-16 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 They may have one big war in them yet. Regardless, they're not going to recover. They overbreed the carrying capacity of their habitat.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-02-16 08:44|| 2012-02-16 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Israel really missed a bet with the collapse of the Mubarak regime by not expelling as many Gazans as possible into Egypt, permanently.

Since Israel could again assert control over the border crossing, make it a one-way arrangement.

It would be worth it to *pay* any Gazan willing to leave for good.

For just $20b, 1/10th of the Israeli annual GDP, they could pay every Gazan man, woman, and child the equivalent of three years of the average pay of an Egyptian. A family of five would get 15 years full pay, instantly making them middle class by Egyptian standards. And the money would be paid directly to them, not their corrupt leaders.

Egypt would benefit from the big influx of wealth, even if it meant they got Paleos with it.

And then empty Gaza could be bulldozed.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-02-16 09:27|| 2012-02-16 09:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Remember the difference between an extreme and a moderate Palestinian:

An extremist wants all the Joooz dead or expelled and the state of Israel destroyed, all in one step.

A moderate wants all the Joooz dead or expelled and the state of Israel destroyed; if it takes two steps, In'shallah.

Posted by Steve White 2012-02-16 09:55|| 2012-02-16 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 The truly moderate Palestinians either inform to the Israelis or move as far away as they can get.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-02-16 11:33|| 2012-02-16 11:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Does anybody recognize the language of the above comment? Because I can't make heads or tails of it.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2012-02-16 14:15|| 2012-02-16 14:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Mizzou Mafia, the above nonsense has been evaporated on the grounds that it's too stupid to take up our space. It comes from Canada.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-02-16 14:30|| 2012-02-16 14:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Heh, I thought he was referring to the phrase 'truly moderate Palestinian' in tw's #6. I guess something got deleted in between.

Posted by SteveS 2012-02-16 14:36|| 2012-02-16 14:36|| Front Page Top

#10 You can see it in the Sinktrap, if you feel the need, SteveS. We left one for the amusement of our sane readers.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-02-16 14:42|| 2012-02-16 14:42|| Front Page Top

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