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2006-12-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

JPost: Israel lets Egypt ship arms to Fatah

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Posted by .com 2006-12-28 04:32|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As long as they're killing Hamas scum, this is a good idea. Should they agree to once again concentrate on killing joooos rather than each other, not so good.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-12-28 08:45|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-12-28 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 basically this illuminates the split within Israel wrt to the Pal Civil War - the big question to them is "Do we have a dog in this fight?" Olmert, Kadima, and Labour, say "yes we do" while Likud says "No we do not".

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-12-28 10:39|| 2006-12-28 10:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I really don't like shipping weapons to the Paleos, no matter what the political machinations are. Fatah is fighting Hamas today but they'll be happy to kill Jews with the same weapons tomorrow.

Sun Tzu reminds us that we should never interfere when our enemy is in the midst of destroying himself. The Hamas-Fatah fight is a cage match best watched on cable TV. Israel shouldn't interfere and shouldn't encourage, directly or indirectly, one over the other.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-12-28 10:48|| 2006-12-28 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I see Fatah is enjoying Most Favored Faction status this week.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-12-28 10:57|| 2006-12-28 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 The Hamas-Fatah fight is a cage match best watched on cable TV. Israel shouldn't interfere and shouldn't encourage, directly or indirectly, one over the other.

Unless one side gets an edge.

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-28 14:14|| 2006-12-28 14:14|| Front Page Top

#6 "Sun Tzu reminds us that we should never interfere when our enemy is in the midst of destroying himself."

Olmert, Peretz and the rest of Israels center and left dont identify Abbas as necessarily an enemy - or if he is, hes an enemy you can make peace with.

Ever since Arafat went to hell, the rap on Abbas has been that he talks a good game, but he wont actually take the stick to Hamas. Well, damn, if his b'hoys actually ARE taking a stick to Hamas, what the hell is the basis for saying hes not a partner for peace?

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-12-28 15:32|| 2006-12-28 15:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Partner for peace? Boggle.

I kinda think the Fatah - Hamas thingy is about money. Period. Full stop.

Peace. Sheesh.

Posted by .com 2006-12-28 15:36|| 2006-12-28 15:36|| Front Page Top

#8 I see Fatah is enjoying Most Favored Faction status this week.

this Israeli gubmint thinks and acts like our State Dept.

Posted by Spembolov 2006-12-28 16:09|| 2006-12-28 16:09|| Front Page Top

#9 The enemy of my enemy is my enemy of the enemy of ...

Posted by xbalanke 2006-12-28 18:51|| 2006-12-28 18:51|| Front Page Top

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