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2006-04-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2006-04-16 00:08|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Adib, like many non-Hamas supporters, also blames the West. 'They ask for democracy and then they do not like the result,' he said.

More precisely, Adib, it is you who do not like the result.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2006-04-16 01:33|| 2006-04-16 01:33|| Front Page Top

#2 The Digital Sympathy Meter appears!

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-16 01:39|| 2006-04-16 01:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Great and realistic meter! The readings can be bottomless unlike an analog one.

Posted by Duh! 2006-04-16 01:46|| 2006-04-16 01:46|| Front Page Top

#4 we shouldn't shame them with aid

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-16 01:47|| 2006-04-16 01:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Gosh, that terrible, just...

Say, are those mallomars?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-04-16 03:02|| 2006-04-16 03:02|| Front Page Top

#6 A little physics education would have gone a long long way. Cause and effect is 'such' an effective teacher...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-04-16 06:01|| 2006-04-16 06:01|| Front Page Top

#7 'Tis the problem, Tony (UK). Apparently the science classes only cover "things that go boom".

You gotta put it in ways they understand. So, Adid and Ahab, think of it this way...

Your daughter, who has never held a job and had been supported her entire life, marries a guy with no job and no possibility of one. Would you continue to support her? That's right. No.

Hey, wait a minute.....that second part of your answer, "tell my oldest son to go kill her for the family's honor", isn't what we're looking for. Bad analogy, ok. I'll come up with something better.

Ok, little Hamid likes to build explosives at home. But little Hamid decides to ignore warnings that tell him if he does x, then there will be a bad reaction. He proceeds to have a "work accident" that blows off both of his hands and leaves him in a wheelchair. Who is to blame for this?

Uh, no, guys, that is an interesting answer, but it's not the Israelis, and the way to deal with it is not by having Hamid's buddies rig up his chair so that he can blow up a Jewish hospital when he goes there for treatment, since the Palestinian ones suck.

Fug it, they'll never get it.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-04-16 07:29|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-04-16 07:29|| Front Page Top

#8 The only traffic is a pregnant bitch and a mule and cart. This is Gaza's economic lifeline
ROFLMAO

/Dowdism

Posted by 6 2006-04-16 09:22|| 2006-04-16 09:22|| Front Page Top

#9 To add further misery, in retaliation for militants firing home-made Qassam rockets at Israel, the Israel Defence Force has bombarded the north of Gaza with thousands of artillery shells.

YJCMTSU. Cause and effect in the same sentence clear as a bell and the writer still cant see it. to add further misery fer gawds sake try stopping the rockets that lead to the retaliatory shells.

How can anyone be so stupid and so collectively stupid at that?

At the root of Gaza's problems is Israel's determination to force Hamas to recognise the state of Israel and renounce violence. Yaaas. Thats such an unreasonable demand to make of a democratic government. How dare they!

'They ask for democracy and then they do not like the result,' he said.

Democracy is meant to result in responsible government. The government you elect is responsible for its behaviour and you are responsible for having elected it. What you are experiencing is democratic countries response to your selection.

For those families who do not have a wage to rely on, the UN relief agency is their life support system. The agency, which was set up in 1948 to cater for the needs of Palestinian refugees, is responsible for 962,000 registered refugees in Gaza and 735,000 of them receive food aid. 'We are living with the consequences of an unprecedented period of closure. We have contingency plans for this event but they have been exhausted,' he said.

Sucking on the charity tit since 48. Money from the people they want to kill. You bet your butt were exhausted.

'We have run out of reserves, there is a pressure pot of frustration compounded by the intensity of shelling, and in the midst of all this we have had avian flu and not a shekel has been offered in compensation to the farmers who have lost their livestock,' he said.

Sympathy meter hasnt twitched in so long, Ive sent it out for maintenance.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-16 09:43|| 2006-04-16 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 The only traffic is a pregnant bitch and a mule and cart.

Jeesh, that's not very nice. Wonder what she did, flip him off and call him an infidel?

Posted by 2b 2006-04-16 12:42|| 2006-04-16 12:42|| Front Page Top

#11 "Gaza on brink of implosion"

Oh, my.

How can we help?

A slight push, perhaps? :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut 2006-04-16 12:51|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-04-16 12:51|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm afraid I'll be redundant, but... I feel strangely unmoved by that tragedy.
And yet, God know how much I love them, theses nice bloodthirsty, jew-hating, welfare-addicted drama queens primitives living in beautiful Gaza.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-04-16 12:55|| 2006-04-16 12:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Swell graphic, by the way!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-04-16 12:56|| 2006-04-16 12:56|| Front Page Top

#14 It's a very rare 128 bit digital meter. It's so sensitive it requires a super computer front end to detect the sympathy levels from the ambient apathy.

Posted by ed 2006-04-16 13:29|| 2006-04-16 13:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Now THAT'S a sensitive meter - it can measure individual sympathon particles!

Posted by DMFD 2006-04-16 13:57|| 2006-04-16 13:57|| Front Page Top

#16 DMFD it can measure individual sympathon particles!

waves DMFD, waves be less filling!

Posted by RD 2006-04-16 14:56|| 2006-04-16 14:56|| Front Page Top

#17 That's a good one Desert Blondie ;)

It's a surreal piece isn't it? Thinemp points out in no uncertain terms *exactly why* the Paleos aren't getting any aid, and yet the Grauniad reporter *still* can't get it.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-04-16 15:07|| 2006-04-16 15:07|| Front Page Top

#18 Wish the meter was about 10% larger - having trouble reading the ~~hilarious~~ all important small print.

Posted by 6 2006-04-16 19:51|| 2006-04-16 19:51|| Front Page Top

#19 Hmmm...seems to me they must have some kind of money with which to buy the fuel and explosives and construction of those missiles.

Maybe they should try eating that high explosive they're using so much of.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-04-16 20:32|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-04-16 20:32|| Front Page Top

#20 The UN's Bantustan is about ready to be flushed down the toilet. May we please have a moment of silence.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-04-16 22:56|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2006-04-16 22:56|| Front Page Top

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