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2014-08-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Obama: No Sympathy For Hamas, But Gaza Cannot Remain Closed Off
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Posted by trailing wife 2014-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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#1 They voted for Hamas, they can join their fate.
Posted by DarthVader 2014-08-07 00:02||   2014-08-07 00:02|| Front Page Top

#2 The best hope of the people of Gaza is the complete and utter destruction of Hamas, Fatah, and Hezbollah. They are the ones who are guaranteeing that they are locked in some sort of 'refugee' status.

It's been what? 50 years now?

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-08-07 01:12||   2014-08-07 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 "I'm gonna do it. But I feel really bad about it---so, it's OK."
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-08-07 03:32||   2014-08-07 03:32|| Front Page Top

#4 In eons to come - if status quo holds - they will by evolutionary means develop gills and webbed hands/feet. The Gazans can then take to the sea as their outlet from closed land borders. (This has happened once before in history at the seaport of Innsmouth Mass. The religion of the Innsmouth people had much in common with Islam.
Posted by borgboy 2014-08-07 04:08||   2014-08-07 04:08|| Front Page Top

#5 "I have no sympathy for Hamas,

Obviously, he reserves all sympathy for himself.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-07 05:04||   2014-08-07 05:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Big Dig comes to Gaza again.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-08-07 11:07||   2014-08-07 11:07|| Front Page Top

#7 May I suggest the Bay of Gaza then?
Posted by swksvolFF 2014-08-07 12:52||   2014-08-07 12:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Question for those who know the region better than I do. If you were born in Palestine and hated Hamas, could you get to the West Bank?

I'm thinking before the war. Are we sure everyone there supports Hamas or just the vast majority.
Posted by rjschwarz 2014-08-07 14:23||   2014-08-07 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Not even half the people there support Hamas - they just gangstered their way in (fraud in the elections) under US State Dept observation and acquiescence, and have continued to strong-arm the area ever since.

As far as closed off - what about Egypt? Seems the Egyptians are not letting them across either.
Posted by OldSpook 2014-08-07 15:19||   2014-08-07 15:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Why would Hamas, Fatah, and all the others want a truly free palestenian state? They'd lose all their UN boodle and political power as champions of permanent refugees.
Posted by OldSpook 2014-08-07 15:20||   2014-08-07 15:20|| Front Page Top

#11 That's pretty much what I said earlier - they have managed to keep the people there as 'refugees' for about 50 years now.

They have not interest in a 'state'.

They just have to start a war with Israel every few year, hunkerdown and produce pallywood videos until the 'World' stops the war, and then there's all sort of 'rebuilding funding' coming their way for years.

Who cares if some civilians get killed? In fact the more civilians get killed the more the U.N. boodle afterwards! What a bargain!
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-08-07 16:57||   2014-08-07 16:57|| Front Page Top

#12 
This has happened once before in history at the seaport of Innsmouth Mass. The religion of the Innsmouth people had much in common with Islam.


Yes, and what happened at Innsmouth? The Navy shelled the harbor and depth-charged the reef.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-08-07 23:16||   2014-08-07 23:16|| Front Page Top

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