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2007-06-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

'Palestinians are on verge of civil war'

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Posted by Fred 2007-06-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Abbas warned that factional fighting had harmed the Palestinians' standing in the world.

Too late!

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-06 06:42|| 2007-06-06 06:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Wish they'd quite the posing and get on with it, damn slackers

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-06-06 08:36|| 2007-06-06 08:36|| Front Page Top

#3 So when will the press admit hit has gone over the line to civil war?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-06 09:36|| 2007-06-06 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 So when will the press admit hit has gone over the line to civil war?

They won't because even if Israel disappeared tomorrow this is how these people would still act. MSM can't acknowledge in their bigotry and hatred, that it is not the Israelis who are the problem but the innate nature of Paleos and their enablers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-06-06 10:04|| 2007-06-06 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 But they're victims Pro, they're victims.
They've been... well....victimized!

Now they need $$$$ to make it all better.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-06 10:25|| 2007-06-06 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 from the book review:
"The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain (1869).

Commissioned by two U.S. newspapers to report on the voyage of the steamship Quaker City in 1867, the relatively unknown humorist Samuel Clemens sailed for the Middle East. The realities he encountered there bore little resemblance to the romantic fantasies that he and millions of Americans had imbibed in "A Thousand and One Arabian Nights." Middle Eastern men, Clemens concluded, were "filthy, brutish, ignorant, unprogressive, and superstitious," and the women so ugly that "they couldn't smile after ten o'clock Saturday night without breaking the Sabbath." These caustic observations and a wealth of others were published in a single volume under Clemens's new pen name, Mark Twain. The Middle East made him: "The Innocents Abroad" earned $300,000, a fortune for the time. Yet pre-"Innocents" myths about the Middle East remained deeply ingrained in the American imagination, later inspiring a cavalcade of fanciful movies, from "The Sheik of Araby" to "Aladdin," from "The Wind and the Lion" to "Indiana Jones." America's romance with the region continued until 9/11, the day the fantasy died.

Posted by 3dc 2007-06-06 10:36|| 2007-06-06 10:36|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 another point from the same book: Twain & co traveled for three days from Yaffo to Jerusalem without meeting a living soul on the way.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-06-06 11:36|| 2007-06-06 11:36|| Front Page Top

#8 You have to give credit to the Arabs. They had genocidal intent and made no bones about it. They lost and have turned things around so that many think of them as the good guys. It's amazingly adept manipulation of the (willingly led) media and usual suspects.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-06-06 14:06|| 2007-06-06 14:06|| Front Page Top

#9 ...the [Paleo] infighting was worse than living under Israeli military rule.

Hey, Paleos living in Israel and are citizens of Israel have represention in the Kneset.

What a dumb bunch of SOBs living in Palestine. If they were any dumber, they would have to be friggin dead.

Get on with the civil war. Purge the gene pool.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-06-06 18:12|| 2007-06-06 18:12|| Front Page Top

#10 I am not sure it can be called a civil war. That would require some modicum of civility somewhere there.

OTOH, matters not what's it called, as long as they will go progress on with it.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-06 18:18|| 2007-06-06 18:18|| Front Page Top

#11 If they were any dumber, they would have to be friggin dead.

Well all-righty then, let's reduce their collective IQ a few more points, emkay?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-06 19:05|| 2007-06-06 19:05|| Front Page Top

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