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2005-06-24 Israel-Palestine

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Posted by Fred 2005-06-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Love the pic!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2005-06-24 01:43|| 2005-06-24 01:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Old terrs forced to share the moola with young terrs.

Posted by gromgoru 2005-06-24 04:57|| 2005-06-24 04:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Palestinian gunmen kill Palestinian policeman
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian gunman shot dead a Palestinian policeman in the West Bank on Thursday, only hours after the Palestinian Authority agreed to give jobs to hundreds of militants in a bid to end growing lawlessness.

Posted by gromgoru 2005-06-24 05:30|| 2005-06-24 05:30|| Front Page Top

#4 See? There's another vacancy now...

Posted by Fred 2005-06-24 06:30|| 2005-06-24 06:30|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm tellin ya, I hate cops! I hate cops so much I might even...turn in my badge!

Posted by Mahmoud Al-Jihadi 2005-06-24 08:42|| 2005-06-24 08:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Is that Les Nessman? He's not around much anymore.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-24 08:50|| 2005-06-24 08:50|| Front Page Top

#7 yup, looks somethings up in Jenin, not clear what exactly

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-06-24 10:02|| 2005-06-24 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Nablus is a center of terrorism but also a center of commerce. The palestinian stock exchange is located there and a lot of the merchant class are desperate for calm and order.

Yes this might fail. It might not though.

Posted by mhw 2005-06-24 10:48|| 2005-06-24 10:48|| Front Page Top

#9 I hate to say this, and I hope that I am wrong. But I'm afraid that these people will have to have a civil war and fight it out until they are tired of fighting. For so long they have blamed the Jews. But the Jews were never their problem.

I'd like to think that offering them jobs, just like is proposed here could work. It's certainly worth a try.

An optimistic part of me thinks that this could work. But life has taught me not to bet on Pollyanna. More likely that they will just have to fight each other until they get too tired to fight any more.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-24 11:12|| 2005-06-24 11:12|| Front Page Top

#10 2b

in a sense a civil war has been going on since Oslo -- it just doesn't look like a civil war since fighting is mostly in the shadows and, in any case, isn't a large scale thing

people are killed every week-- PA officials, Fatah officials, Hamas officials, policemen, members of one faction or one tribe or another faction or another tribe

sometimes it is picked up by the media but mostly not --- oddly enough, post separation, Gaza may actually become more stable than parts of the west bank

Posted by mhw 2005-06-24 12:52|| 2005-06-24 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11 mhw - good point.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-24 14:06|| 2005-06-24 14:06|| Front Page Top

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