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2007-06-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

UN envoy: anti-Hamas rhetoric undermines democracy

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Posted by Steve White 2007-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Alvaro de Soto, the just-retired UN coordinator for the Middle East, has warned that international hostility to the Palestinian Hamas movement..could have grave consequences by persuading millions of Muslims that democratic methods do not work.

I have thisn uncontrollable URGE to beat this POS too.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-06-14 00:55|| 2007-06-14 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Soto could have been a rising star, if it was the 1930s.

Posted by ed 2007-06-14 00:57|| 2007-06-14 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 YOU cannot be a state as you did not vote in your rulers to make you a state but rather to try to destroy another state. At least thats what they did. Good night, and good luck!

You need that as you have NO GOD.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-06-14 01:39|| 2007-06-14 01:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Tranzis: enemies general of the human kind---to be delt with as wolves are. (Hat tip H. Beam Piper).

Posted by gromgoru 2007-06-14 05:42|| 2007-06-14 05:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Sickening but not surprising. So long as we all understand that no matter the situation and no matter who pulls the trigger that it is always the Jews, the Americans and the British who are to blame.

There will come a point when good men will no longer stand for it. We need to become as violent in defense of our honor as they are in defense of their Orc god. We are all Jacksonians now.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-06-14 10:47|| 2007-06-14 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Alvaro de Soto?

When I saw the headline on the menu, I thought Jimmuh Cahta had gone to work for the UN in some official capacity....

Posted by BigEd 2007-06-14 12:14|| 2007-06-14 12:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I can't think of a better man to be Peru's first ambassador to Gaza.
Enjoy the trip, Al...

Posted by tu3031 2007-06-14 14:15|| 2007-06-14 14:15|| Front Page Top

#8 There will come a point when good men will no longer stand for it. We need to become as violent in defense of our honor as they are in defense of their Orc god.

This is the repayment in kind that will prove so crucial in fighting Islam. Violence is the Muslim's only legal tender and they must be paid in their own coin. One of the first scruples we must put to the stake is any resistance to using collective punishment. Dhimmitude is the plu perfect example of collective punishment and the Koran abounds with other examples.

Even relatively benign Muslims, like the Kurds, still subscribe to the Koran and thereby become our enemy. There is no way to "sanitize" Islam. It adamantly refuses to reform itself and equally resists all external compulsion towards the same end. The Koran's dictates make it utterly inimical to Western culture. Containment is a marginal solution at best. The crushing of Islam is our duty to the remaining free world.

As to the author's particular brand of psychobabble. Steve noted early and often just how disconnected from reality this lunatic is.

Alvaro de Soto, the just-retired UN coordinator for the Middle East, has warned that international hostility to the Palestinian Hamas movement, now fighting in the bitterly escalating civil conflict in Gaza, could have grave consequences by persuading millions of Muslims that democratic methods do not work.

First off, who gives a fucking damn with respect to persuading Muslims about the joys of democracy? ALL of them, not just a few, but ALL of them subscribe to the notion that their gods word supercedes that of even the wisest humans. For civilization to progress, it is of the utmost importance that those who promote theocratic rule find out just how futile and fatal their quest is.

The US and Israel had both erred in seeing Hamas as a passing phenomenon, the envoy argued. "Hamas is deep-rooted, has struck many chords, including its contempt for the Oslo process, and is not likely to disappear," he wrote.

Those who view Hamas as anything but a passing phenomenon are the most erroneous of all. Terrorism will and must die. It is toxic to all life and deserves nothing more that the back of civilizations collective hand. The deep-rooted societal chords which Hamas has struck with respect to the Oslo process and all else that has to do with peace of any sort is as dissonant as their intellectual cognition. They are more than likely to disappear, be it in a hail of bullets or nuclear plasma.

Nearly every single sentance of this writer's spewing could generate a paragraph of rebuttal, so I'm going to quit here.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-14 19:53|| 2007-06-14 19:53|| Front Page Top

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