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2003-09-06 Middle East

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Posted by Rafael 2003-09-06 7:27:08 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Since Israel's made it loudly clear they will not deal with Arafat I'd put the odds at 75% Yasshole's gone to Soddy or whatever country will hold his grimy hand. The Paleos never miss an opportunity...

Crush.Them.Now

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-6 9:11:51 AM|| 2003-9-6 9:11:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmmmm? Israel responds - Fox breaking news Yassin injured - 2 explosions from F16s in Gaza City. Developing, as they say

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-6 9:22:11 AM|| 2003-9-6 9:22:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Jpost:
Two loud explosions have been heard in Gaza City Saturday afternoon. Initial reports indicate that IAF attack helicopters were spotted in the area at the time. Israel Radio reported that IAF helicopters attacked a building in Gaza City housing a Hamas leader, possibly the movement's spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, according to the radio. Witnesses told Israel Radio that Yassin was seen leaving the building shortly before the explosions were heard.

damn...I hope not. regardless, he knows he's not off limits....now Yasser, and as a personal favor? Saeb Erekat...I just can't stand the lying asshole

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-6 9:25:47 AM|| 2003-9-6 9:25:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Winds of Change posted this article by Tarek Heggy that explains that Arabs are unable to compromise because there is no word for compromise in Arabic. The closest approximation is the Arabic word for capitulate. In game theory that makes Arabs sucectable to "zero sum" thinking. One of my best friends and coworkers at another place I worked was Jordanian. I watched him negotiate concessions from vendors that really hurt them. Unsucessfully tried to convince him that screwing vendors was a bad long-term strategy. Maybe language was the reason.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-6 12:45:31 PM|| 2003-9-6 12:45:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 When Yassholes dead there might, might, be a chance at peace. Until then, forget the roadmap or anything else you want to call it.

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-6 1:16:13 PM|| 2003-9-6 1:16:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Please. This wasn't a "power struggle". A real one would have factions fighting it out, and there have been no such incidents because Mazen wasn't willing to do his thing without the old terrorist-in-charge's blessing.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-6 4:42:19 PM|| 2003-9-6 4:42:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Give it a week. Abbas will be back, along with 'incentive-concessions' from Washington

Posted by Pappy 2003-9-6 7:44:14 PM|| 2003-9-6 7:44:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 There might be quite a few dead Hamas leaders by the end of the week. It might be easier for Abbas to crackdown on a bunch of corpses. Maybe only the Hamas bowling team will be left.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-6 8:22:53 PM|| 2003-9-6 8:22:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Somebody remind IDF to put nitrogliceron in the bowling balls.

Posted by Charles 2003-9-6 9:06:47 PM|| 2003-9-6 9:06:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Why spare the bowling team?

Posted by Rafael 2003-9-6 9:12:27 PM|| 2003-9-6 9:12:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Thank you, Rafael

Unbelievable. I try to come up with as bizarre a scenario as possible, but Hamas is stranger than even I can conceive. If the football team is a bunch of assassins, exactly what element of Hamas were the French saying, wasn't terrorist?

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-6 10:46:58 PM|| 2003-9-6 10:46:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The ones that give them bribes.

Posted by Charles 2003-9-6 11:21:35 PM|| 2003-9-6 11:21:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Abbas told a closed-door session of parliament that he would not change his mind. Reading from a prepared statement, he explained why he quit. Israel, he said, had not carried out its obligations under the road map, the United States had not enforced Israeli compliance and his detractors at home had constantly undermined him with "harsh and dangerous" incitement.

Uh huh. No mention of Mazen's unwillingness (or failure, if you will) to live up to HIS end of the deal, which was to dismantle Hamas and all the other sundry terrorist organizations within his borders. Israel is expected to live up to its part of the agreements, and the U.S. is expected to force Israel to live up to its part of the agreements, but Mazen won't live up to his obligations and that just isn't the problem. EVERYBODY ELSE is at fault but him.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-7 4:00:26 AM|| 2003-9-7 4:00:26 AM|| Front Page Top

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