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2003-05-10 Iraq

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Posted by Bulldog 2003-05-10 04:48 am|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When you said,"stand on your own two feet". These people have been evicted from their homeland. What would you do? What would you suggest they do? Where do you suggest they go?

I support Israel and their right to their ancestral homeland, but they were not given the right, by Balfour or modern convention to displace these people. The pals are stuck. Early last century and esp. after WWII, the Jews had a problem. The world created a solution. What? So what if we break a few eggs? Damn the palestinians? Those people should, at the very least, have been compensated and a client country (prob. Jordan) been incentivized to home them.

How much has not doing that cost Israel? How much is it gonna cost us now? Instead, we poke fun at their being displaced again? That's b.s. Bull, and you know it. They are people. Trodden down and unwanted. Americans should understand that. But even Fred and Den Beste (partly) join the dance. WTF? I guess my old prof was right.
"Make sure all your idols have clay feet."

Posted by Scott 5/11/2003 5:02:10 PM|| 5/11/2003 5:02:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Saddam has supported the Palestinians for quite a while. The Palestinians helped him for years politically and also in Kuwait.

Its quite clear that now he is gone many of them will pay the consequenses for their folly.

Posted by Bernardz 2003-05-10 06:23:58|| 2003-05-10 06:23:58|| Front Page Top

#3 A lot of them already have. I gather that quite a few of the enemy combatants we killed in the war were actually Palestinians. Especially in Baghdad, a lot of those who were doing the fighting were non-Iraqi Arabs, and a good percentage of those were Palestinians.

Posted by Steven Den Beste 2003-05-10 07:14:26|| [denbeste.nu] 2003-05-10 07:14:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Guess that's what happens when you side with a loser.

Posted by Raptor 2003-05-10 09:08:27|| 2003-05-10 09:08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Jeez, no more boomer subsidies, no more rent subsidies, the neighbors are pissed at us. Things are tough all over. Payback sucks, don't it?
Oh well, the UN will take care of us. Why should we have to take care of ourselves?

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-10 10:21:56|| 2003-05-10 10:21:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Good riddence to bad rubbish! Maybe their buddies in Syria or Soddi-land will take them in.

Payback's a bitch, ain't it?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-05-10 14:29:17|| 2003-05-10 14:29:17|| Front Page Top

#7 *taps sympathy meter* Nope. -5 DB and dropping...

Posted by Ptah 2003-05-10 16:24:29|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-05-10 16:24:29|| Front Page Top

#8 "stop acting like footballs and stand on their own two feet"

Bull, are you suggesting they become boomers?
Have you ever SEEN a refugee camp? Probably three fifths female, the majority very old or very young, those able to support are out trying to do it and those that can't are left in squalor.
Maybe they should just be incinerated, huh?

Posted by Scott 2003-05-10 17:47:21|| 2003-05-10 17:47:21|| Front Page Top

#9 If they've been "refugees" since '48, it's long past time they faced reality, lost the stupid head-towel and started being Iraqis in stead of Palestinians.

Since they couldn't or wouldn't do that, for whatever reason, they remain strangers in a strange land.

Posted by mojo 2003-05-10 19:05:50|| 2003-05-10 19:05:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Interesting though. Iraq is evicting refugee Paleos. Now if Israel did that....

Posted by john 2003-05-10 20:12:12|| 2003-05-10 20:12:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Scott, there's quite a difference between suggesting a people start behaving a bit more responsibly and putting them into incinerators. I've seen poverty, and I see the consequences of self-induced poverty every time Palestinians are on TV. Apologise on others' behalf all you like; it's time they started looking after themselves (and why on earth do you suppose that, by that I mean they should murder more Israeli civilians?).

Posted by Bulldog 2003-05-11 04:19:32|| 2003-05-11 04:19:32|| Front Page Top

#12 When you said,"stand on your own two feet". These people have been evicted from their homeland. What would you do? What would you suggest they do? Where do you suggest they go?

I support Israel and their right to their ancestral homeland, but they were not given the right, by Balfour or modern convention to displace these people. The pals are stuck. Early last century and esp. after WWII, the Jews had a problem. The world created a solution. What? So what if we break a few eggs? Damn the palestinians? Those people should, at the very least, have been compensated and a client country (prob. Jordan) been incentivized to home them.

How much has not doing that cost Israel? How much is it gonna cost us now? Instead, we poke fun at their being displaced again? That's b.s. Bull, and you know it. They are people. Trodden down and unwanted. Americans should understand that. But even Fred and Den Beste (partly) join the dance. WTF? I guess my old prof was right.
"Make sure all your idols have clay feet."

Posted by Scott 2003-05-11 17:02:10|| 2003-05-11 17:02:10|| Front Page Top

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