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| Mubarak says Gaza a "trap" |
| 2004-03-08 |
| PARIS: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has rejected the idea of an Egyptian security role in the Gaza strip, describing it as a trap that would lead to conflict with the Palestinians and possibly the Israelis. "It’s a trap set for us because we would find ourselves in a situation of confrontation with the Palestinians," he told the Paris newspaper Le Figaro in an interview published today. Curses, he figured it out! "And, if there is a problem, we could even find ourselves in conflict with the Israelis," he added. "If we try to stop the paleos from smuggling arms, we’d be in conflict with them. If we don’t stop them, the IDF would kick our butts all the way to the Suez. Been there, done that, still got the T-shirt. Don’t need another one, thanks." |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #13 Mubarak is right. It is a trap, but not for him. No body expects Egypt to enter that meatgrinder, because they are cowards and have no intension of taking any action towards removing the bugaboo of the evil jews. I think the scenario will play out the following way: Offer it to the Arab League, they refuse, offer the job up to the other members of the quartet, they explain that they have other important projects that they must see to, volunteer to go fix the problem ourselves if nobody else minds, go in, get attacked, kill a bunch of militants, get cited for human rights violations, tell Syrians to pull back North of Bekka, allow the Syrians to withdraw, weather the international tempest .... |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-9 12:20:11 AM |
| #12 Gaza strip which is little more then a poor overcrowded region. Unlike Israel which is a rich overcrowded region. I wonder why that is? |
| Posted by: Phil B 2004-3-8 5:44:28 PM |
| #11 ITS A TRAP!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2004-3-8 5:02:10 PM |
| #10 Hey Egypt, you sure bitched and whined in 1967, after the Israelis first took the Gaza Strip. Yeah, but now it's all icky and ruined. Kind of like Haiti without the voodoo. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-3-8 3:42:19 PM |
| #9 I can see the next big Paleo technical achievement: gene splicing and recombinant DNA to allow their children to just explode in close proximity to Jooooos without need for boomer belts or such. Genius! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-3-8 3:24:50 PM |
| #8 Hey Egypt, you sure bitched and whined in 1967, after the Israelis first took the Gaza Strip. What's the matter with it now - did you smuggle too many arms into it through all those tunnels? |
| Posted by: Dripping sarcasm 2004-3-8 3:09:06 PM |
| #7 Hee...Hee... this just occured to me. Let's start a trend like calling Arafat "Arafish" . From now on we'll call the leader of Egypt, "Mubarakbar" "It's a trap!" |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-3-8 2:56:31 PM |
| #6 I can't believe that nobody made this association yet! http://www.parnasas.com/PopArena/Articles/akbar.html Scroll down just a bit. The resemblance between this guy and Arafat is uncanny! I'd like to express my regrets to the great admiral for the cruel fate that cursed his species to looking like arafish. Maybe Lucas caught a subliminal inspiration during all that filming in Tunisia. |
| Posted by: Dripping sarcasm 2004-3-8 2:52:13 PM |
| #5 I think that Mubarak is right. No one wants the Gaza strip which is little more then a poor overcrowded region. The locals are a lot of trouble too. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-3-8 10:59:11 AM |
| #4 Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble! "Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake: eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, for a charm of pow'rful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." -Second Witch, "Macbeth," IV: 1 Sheesh, poor Paleos. They've made such a mess of things. They've crafted for themselves a pressure cooker of lost opportunity, pseudo-state terrorism, greed, graft, murder, and the purest unmitigated hate machine ever seen. They eat, drink, sleep, dream, breathe, shit, and piss hate... they tuck it in with their children every night and wake them with it each morning. They are very very busy with hate - when they're not stealing the dwindling aid doled out to them by those who, as lesser stars in the hateful heavens, use them as political stooges or murderous proxies. They are busily inventing new reasons to hate and methods to deliver it - when not otherwise engaged hanging each other as "collaborators" or making videos of fatally-deluded fools, deceptively crafted tools who only resemble humans, strapping on an explosives belt. So much to hate, so little time. Deprived of their daily dose of innocents, they now begin to turn on each other and descend even further into insanity and incivil war. So utterly steeped in this witches brew are they, that even their brethren and ardent supporters fear being infected... Hmmm. I guess there's no escaping it, you guys are fucked. Knock yourselves out. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-8 10:47:22 AM |
| #3 Gee, I thought you Muslims were all brudders?? Ya could all sing Kum Bah YA by the campfire and rail at the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS? |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-3-8 10:15:18 AM |
| #2 Mubarak, you chicken! Don't let the fact that Egypt hasn't won a war in like four thousand years scare ye. This time it'll work... |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2004-3-8 9:02:48 AM |
| #1 Consider it an opportunity, Hosni ... and good luck .... |
| Posted by: anon 2004-3-8 8:59:49 AM |