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2006-02-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by lotp 2006-02-05 10:20|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Olmert, you ass, why give them any money ?
What is your problem ?

Posted by wxjames 2006-02-05 10:35|| 2006-02-05 10:35|| Front Page Top

#2 From bbc, on the minibus attack:

"Reports say the victims were mainly elderly."

Posted by Jules 2006-02-05 10:42|| 2006-02-05 10:42|| Front Page Top

#3 "Reports say the victims were mainly elderly."

Yeah, they go after people that are the least likely to be armed.

Posted by Spoper Phetch6565 2006-02-05 10:50|| 2006-02-05 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope it was the elderly Joooos that overcame him.

Posted by 6 2006-02-05 10:53|| 2006-02-05 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 We are witnessing a transition that illustrates the west has lost the war of ideas for the hearts and minds of the Muslim public. A thousand year inferiority complex drives an insatiable hunger for standing up to, dominating or humiliating the west. The masked killers who can't be stopped from blowing up innocents - they are Islam's manhood. Iran's president defies the west with logic the west cannot answer - the Hitler didn't kill Jews, but the Jews should be wiped from the map, and Iran will have nukes. What heros - they standup for Islam and they intimidate the west. Now we see the Muslim "street" tell us where they stand. They elect the terrorists Hamas to lead them to peace. Because of cartoons, they threaten to kill, to massacre, for the glory of Allah, not just in Islamic countries, but everywhere there are Muslims.

At times like this, we must remember and fall back on our lessons. All cultures are equally valauble in our human quilt of many colors, they just are different. We are not better or more civilzed, after all, remember we stole land from the Indians and gave them smallpox. If you show different cultures respect, they will reciprocate. Only then will we be able to join global hands and sing Kumbaya in different languages.

Posted by Jake 2006-02-05 11:02|| 2006-02-05 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 If I die before I wake.
Feed Jake...

Posted by badanov 2006-02-05 11:15|| http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl]">[http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl] 2006-02-05 11:15|| Front Page Top

#7 As a practical matter, even if it is Hamas that gets control over the Paleos, at least *someone* will be in control. From the Israelis point of view, dealing with even their hated enemy is preferable to not being able to deal at all.

Of course, if Hamas and Fatah decide to slaughter each other, well, meh...

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-05 12:22|| 2006-02-05 12:22|| Front Page Top

#8 A new wave of Palestinian terror is cresting with 12 suicide bombers intercepted in last few days and number of terror alerts rising to 50 a week. Shin Beit director Yuval Diskin released these figures to the government at its weekly Sunday session in Jerusalem.

Acting PM Olmert announced his decision to release tax revenues totaling quarter of a million shekels ($50m) to the Palestinian Authority despite the Hamas election victory.

52 days.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-02-05 14:23|| 2006-02-05 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 so the money went to Abbas? Or Hamas? Regardless, I'd expect the ~~booty~~ money will not be distributed properly in one or the other's eyes. Civil war in 5...4...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-02-05 14:28|| 2006-02-05 14:28|| Front Page Top

#10 IIRC, knifing attacks out of the blue on civilians chosen for their vulnerability (children, women,...) were a staple of the mainstream terror attacks in Israel before the suicide belt; this even led to the popularity of krav maga teaching outside of military institution, and its emphasis on counterweapons techniques.

A rambling slasher attacking elderly people, while setting himself in a trance by reciting the ultimate mantra, the learned-by-heart coran ("the recitation" aka the True Words Of God, who speaks 7th century arabic, of course)... islam is just a cult, a gigantic cult, but every element of cultist behavior is there. What a crooked "religion".

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-02-05 14:28|| 2006-02-05 14:28|| Front Page Top

#11 #5 Jake: Did you forget the "/multicultis" tag at the end of your post?

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2006-02-05 15:18|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-02-05 15:18|| Front Page Top

#12 islam is just a cult, a gigantic cult, but every element of cultist behavior is there. What a crooked "religion".

Welcome to the club, A5089. I've been saying this for several years now. Also, if you truly read the tenets of Islam, you'll find that quite a few of them are diametrically opposed to what the Jews and most Christians believe. The Ten Commandments have no meaning to Islam, because muhammed (MHBCWARS)says it's all right to lie, cheat, steal, kill, and anything else, if you do it to infidels. The God of Abraham is a loving God, the god of muhammed is a god of hate. It seems the Arabs made up a religion not only to allow them to do all the things they were doing previously, but to COMPEL them to do it, in defiance of the teachings of the Jews and Christians. I can think of no better description of the anti-Christ.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-02-05 15:28|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-02-05 15:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Old Patriot : there was an ebook at answering-islam.com, at this url which covered the relationship between the islamic apocalypse and the christian one... it was very troubling, as there was an exact concordance between the two, only mirrored.

Even though I do believe in God, I'm not a good catholic (which is a serious sin, bad for my afterlife perspective, so I'll screw it as I've screwed my earthly life, damn), to say the least, and I do not have the scholarly skills to determine if this was exact or not, but there was a mirror-effect between the mahdi/the antichrist (who are to do the same things), the islamic Jesus/the false prophet, and the dajjal (islamic antichrist)/Jesus.

Check the webpage later to see if it's available again, or if you are interested, (remember, I can't vouch for this, I've only read the summary, browsed through the book, and simply do not have the christian education, much less the muslim one, to decide if this is theologically valid or not), you might want to contact the author at the link given there, or at his blog.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-02-05 18:07|| 2006-02-05 18:07|| Front Page Top

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