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2007-05-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2007-05-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 ASIA TIMES > THE SECOND COMING OF SALADIN. Conditions are about right for a Hero = Messiah. Not a rich-boy or oil scion either, but a cross between MOHAMMED BUNDY + GENGHIS KHAN, ETAL.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-05-21 00:43|| 2007-05-21 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 ISRAEL is guilty yet again.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-05-21 06:11|| 2007-05-21 06:11|| Front Page Top

#3 *I* think all the smart wackos have gone off to fight the infidel Crusaders in The Land Between Two Rivers, leaving the less-than-the-sharpest-knife-in-the-drawer types to fend for themselves in Lebanon and Gaza.

Posted by Bobby 2007-05-21 06:34|| 2007-05-21 06:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Inbreeding

Posted by john">john 2007-05-21 06:58|| 2007-05-21 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Keeps the Leb Army in target practice. Heavy on the shelling please.

Posted by Howard UK 2007-05-21 06:58|| 2007-05-21 06:58|| Front Page Top

#6 actually the Pals have been pretty well behaved in Jordan SINCE 1970, when the Jordanian Army dealt with the "militants" in fact Jordan has shown you dont need to keep them in camps as "refugees" Places like ein hell hole exist because countries like Lebanon dont want to absorb the Pals (given Lebs precarious ethnic balnace, understandable, maybe, but still)

Theres no justification whatsoever for deliberately killing all members of any ethnic group to the last man, woman and child. You kill the killers, maybe you kill the individuals who support them. And thats it.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-05-21 09:57|| 2007-05-21 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 The camps are off limits to the Lebanese Army and Government as I understand it. So you end up with a ~~terrorist training~~ refugee camp. Let's see, the bank robberies were merely alms for the poor. Damn, they have a Chinese menu of terrorists groups in Lebanon.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-21 11:06|| 2007-05-21 11:06|| Front Page Top

#8 To be fair, first they were refugees fleeing the fighting, and hoping to profit from following the triumphant Arab armies back in 1948. They were locked up in the camps by their loving Arab brothers, who then -- with the help and financial aid from the U.N. -- proceeded to indoctrinate them with hatred and the idea of self sacrifice in order to make them the shock troops of the upcoming conquest... so successfully that they quickly became a danger to all around them. Yes, the Palestinian "refugee camps" are now a poison in the body of any nation hosting them, but then those nations have worked awfully hard over the decades to create that. Had they allowed the Palestinians to live and work like everyone else -- remembering that most fled back to the villages they'd left only a few years before (if I recall correctly, to be able to claim oneself as Palestinian, the relevant ancestor had only to have arrived there by 1945).

Posted by Thrurt Lumumba1706 2007-05-21 13:11|| 2007-05-21 13:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Whoops! Lost cookie alert! 'Tis I, Thrurt Lumumba1706.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-21 13:17|| 2007-05-21 13:17|| Front Page Top

#10 "We warn the Lebanese army of the consequences of continuing the provocative acts against our mujahideen who will open the gates of fire ... against (the army) and against the whole of Lebanon," it said in a statement.

Okay...let's just remind these dumbfucks whose country it is - hopefuly by the unrestricted usage of heavy artillery barrages and bulldozers to explain just exactly the consequences of someone coming to believe they are the ones in charge when in fact they should be grateful for the refuge, less than acceptable (to the Paleostinians nd the leftists) though it be, that they have received and the enormous sums of money that have been channeled their way by countries around the planet.

Has anyone ever done an accounting of the enormous sums that these sonsofbitches have received over the last 60 years and still managed to remain "refugees"?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-05-21 18:09|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-05-21 18:09|| Front Page Top

#11 To be fair, first they were refugees fleeing the fighting, and hoping to profit from following the triumphant Arab armies back in 1948.

I think that may be a little too fair, tw. The only reason they left was due to promises that they would then return in triumph to reclaim land from all the dead Jews that the Arabs were supposedly going to wipe out. It was largely a voluntary abandonment of their own property. This is one major reason why "right of return" sucketh such a mighty wind.

As to the dustup in Lebanon; Leave it to the Palestinians to achieve a tipping point with their own facilitators. These ingates know no bounds. I can only hope that the Palestinians finally cause enough trouble for their hosts where they get themselves killed in large numbers. The sooner this charade of refugee status is ended, the better. The Arab world has bound up this supperating wound with filthy rags to purposefully make it fester. Like some Indian beggar thrusting his sores in your face, they continue to parade imaginary injustice to the Palestinians as some sort of righteous cause. This farce needs to end and end soon. The Arab facilitators of this intolerable psychodrama need to be brought to account for inflicting these savages upon our world.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-21 18:22|| 2007-05-21 18:22|| Front Page Top

#12 There has always been some dink such as Arafat for example to exploit the gullible, stupid and willing. As I recall Arafat became very rich while caring little for his fellow Paleos.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-21 18:29|| 2007-05-21 18:29|| Front Page Top

#13 I think that may be a little too fair, tw.

That's why I qualified it in the rest of the bit you quoted, Zenster. But the rest of your statement is so poetic, I'm glad I triggered it. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-21 22:56|| 2007-05-21 22:56|| Front Page Top

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