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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Escape From Gaza
2007-06-15
Posted by:Ebbaiger Spoluter2275

#10  "Israel is already ordering massive quantities of pop-corn. What could she do more?"

Butter

Salt

Ice tea
Posted by: kelly   2007-06-15 13:28  

#9  I wonder if they've eaten Alan Johnston for dinner yet...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-06-15 13:16  

#8  The Palestinians have created the mess in Gaza, and they must fix the problem themselves. Giving them a way out that avoids them having to take responsibility for their own mess will only exascerbate the situation.

Word.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble   2007-06-15 12:28  

#7  the EU was not asking Israel at this time to do anything specific regarding the fighting.

Israel is already ordering massive quantities of pop-corn. What could she do more?
Posted by: JFM   2007-06-15 12:22  

#6  PS: I doubt that even ingesting an entire case of Ex-Lax could make me give a shit about these terrorist thugs. Rot in everlasting Hell, Palestinians. You've been hard at work on this for decades.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-06-15 05:31  

#5  If Israel did even a fraction of what Hamas and Fatah have done in the past few days, there would be UN resolutions submitted faster than the speed of light, human rights groups would demand Israel hand over key officials for trial in an international criminal court, and groups would not only demand boycotts and embargoes, but would make such a stink that it would force Israel to back down from its right to defend itself against attacks. Of course, as Meryl loves to point out, this is yet another example of Israeli double standard time. When Hamas and Fatah actually engage in war crimes and crimes against humanity, no one so much as blinks.

How much more clear does this need to be made? Only the most blithering sort of idiot can still maintain that the Palestinians are capable of governing themselves. It is time to dismantle Gaza and the West Bank. The entire idea of a "two state" solution is a failed concept. The Palestinians have proven that once and for all time.

If Israel did this, the usual suspects would be screaming bloody murder, but when Hamas does it to Fatah, not so much.

Much as with FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), it is almost as if the world assumes atrocities to be an accepted and acceptable part and parcel of Islamic culture.

Mark Steyn points out that this episode should end the whole notion of Palestinian nationalism once and for all, but it wont. The diplomats have too much vested in the concept to consider any other alternative.

A final upshot of all this is that every politician who blindly thrust these Palestinian gangsters upon our world and propped them up as credible leaders should be permanently discredited. This has been one of the most preposterous excercises in futility since the first pig was given singing lessons.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-06-15 05:28  

#4  Filter wins.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-06-15 04:08  

#3  Comment tester.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-06-15 04:05  

#2  An update.
Hamas member killed in the West Bank
A Hamas militant was killed by Fatah gunmen in the West Bank ... the first such killing in the West Bank after weeks of violence in Gaza.
Hospital officials said the Hamas militant's body was riddled with bullets.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-06-15 03:46  

#1  Wow, that is a great article. Some snippets;


Marc Otte, the EU's special Middle East envoy, told The Jerusalem Post that the EU was not asking Israel at this time to do anything specific regarding the fighting. He said that it would obviously "not be productive" for Israel to take sides in this conflict.

....
Otte said that the Palestinians "need to decide that enough is enough and turn their energies elsewhere." But, he added, this presently was "not the mood."


You think Mr Otte?

Meanwhile top Fatah commanders tries to leg it disguised as a woman, but is ... unsuccessful.


Jamal Abu Jadian, a top Fatah commander, fled his home in the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening dressed as a woman to avoid dozens of Hamas militiamen who had attacked it. He and several members of his family and bodyguards were lightly wounded.

But when Abu Jadian arrived at a hospital a few hundred meters away from his house, he was discovered by a group of Hamas gunmen, who took turns shooting him in the head with automatic rifles.

"They literally blew his head off with more than 40 bullets," said a doctor at Kamal Udwan Hospital.


And as for the wonderful opportunity the paleos had when Israel pulled out in 2005?, well...


Israel's policy was to give Gaza to the Palestinians, complete with infrastructure, utilities, and an economic base. That happened in 2005. The Palestinians promptly destroyed the economic tools - greenhouses; plundered the infrastructure - taking pipes for sewage and turning them into rockets; and ignored the social fabric - all to wage war. That's not on Israel, but on the Palestinian terrorists running Gaza. That would be Hamas and Fatah.


Such a waste. And yet, and yet, I still can't get this sympathy meter to budge.

Really, this article is very definitely RTWT...
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2007-06-15 02:13  

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