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2009-03-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2009-03-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "undermining the Palestinian Authority's credibility"

"PA" and "credibility" don't belong in the same sentence - unless "complete lack of" is also involved.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-07 00:12|| 2009-03-07 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 so?

Posted by 3dc 2009-03-07 00:18|| 2009-03-07 00:18|| Front Page Top

#3 We traded it to Muslims for London.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-07 01:20|| 2009-03-07 01:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe the "miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" quote was Abba Eban, no? Just a fading memory (I WAS a kid at the time ... honest).

As to the rest of the piece, very well annotated. I don't believe we mark down for degree-of-difficulty in snarking the Paleos or the EU around here - heck, if we did, there'd hardly be any fun to be had.

Lessee. Bolivia once had a Pacific coastline. Whole lots of Germans lived in parts of eastern Europe. Okinawans could hike across the breadth of their island without hitting barbed-wire fences and US bases.

Wars have consequences. Repeated, aggressive, terroristic, perfidious wars of extermination have, uh, even more serious potential consequences - esp. when ya lose 'em. The Palestinians have gotten off easy, if one considers self-inflicted squalor - moral, physical, and financial - easy.

If I weren't tired, I'da post that Sympathy Meter thinggy, one of my favorites .....

Posted by Verlaine 2009-03-07 03:15|| 2009-03-07 03:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I wish the Israelis hadn't screwed around all these years and just annexed and integrated East Jerusalem, and been done with it. It is just another of the open sores of the region, and had they done so, it would no longer be on the table.

Next up, Israel should make it crystal clear that ALL holy sites are OWNED by Israel, who permits others to use them only as they behave themselves.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-03-07 09:06|| 2009-03-07 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 According to scripture, when Israel returns from exile to the land of "Zion" and takes control of all Jerusalem, the age of the Gentile has ended setting the stage for a series of major Biblical events.

Posted by Crolulet Darling 2009-03-07 11:37|| 2009-03-07 11:37|| Front Page Top

#7 setting the stage for a series of major Biblical events.

G*d has arranged credit crisis?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-07 13:12|| 2009-03-07 13:12|| Front Page Top

#8 We traded it to Muslims for London.

You win my "Snark 'o the Day" award.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-03-07 16:56|| 2009-03-07 16:56|| Front Page Top

#9 bet on the Chargers for Super Bowl!

Posted by Frank G 2009-03-07 17:27|| 2009-03-07 17:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Hell, Frank G, bet on the Padres in the Series, if'n ya REALLY want to get biblical. (Oh - they DID lower beer prices from something like $8 to $7.50 down at Petco Park for the coming season. Nimble customer sensibilities right there. I only go when tickets are freebies, parking the same, and I don't eat or drink a thing there)

Posted by Verlaine 2009-03-07 20:42|| 2009-03-07 20:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Verlaine - I have a project building the $26 Million Ped bridge across Harbor Dr. and the RR tracks )from the convention ctr to Petco) . Let me know if you need the padlock code to the ofice yd ;-)

btw - cheaper to load up in the Gaslamp at Dick's Last Resort

Posted by Frank G 2009-03-07 21:19|| 2009-03-07 21:19|| Front Page Top

#12 jeebus, PIMF

Posted by Frank G 2009-03-07 21:19|| 2009-03-07 21:19|| Front Page Top

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