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2007-06-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

The democratic experiment in Palestine is over

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Posted by lotp 2007-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 One can well imagine what impact such meddling would have, knowing that Gaza is essentially a huge open-air prison. I was a prisoner there until the age of 21.

'Nuff said. No reason to read any further as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-06-27 01:23|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-06-27 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 I've toured many cities in many countries taking on Palestinian division, worried that Palestinians will reach a point where they no longer identify themselves as such, but as ideological and tribal extensions of factions and sub-factions.

Cart before horse. Palestinians have never moved far enough beyond being "ideological and tribal extensions of factions and sub-factions" to even assume an actual national identity. This is why Palestinian society was so friable in the first place. High context cultures entrench tribal and religious divisions. Islam, as a direct extension of high context reference frames, is inherently doomed to this sort of internecine crapulence.

The devastating embargo imposed on Palestinians after the Hamas landslide victory in January 2006, didn't produce the results publicly projected. To the contrary, it greatly hampered the American "democratic" experiment in the Middle East.

Not at all. In fact, it was a solid demonstration of how important the unalienable rights of constitutional law are for democracy to have any real worth. Mouthing democratic platitudes while you then elect a terrorist government is just so much lip service. Gaza's smoking ruins are bleak testimony to this fact.

I remember how people picked fights for no convincing reason -- isolation, hunger and hopelessness lead to self-destruction.

Somehow, I sincerely doubt that the author is willing to include fighting with the Jews in his litany of woe.

Israel's bombardment never ceased, not even for one day. Hundreds of besieged Palestinians have been blown to shreds by Israeli bombs. Their only mechanism of defence has been makeshift Qassam "missiles" that have killed no more than a dozen Israelis in six years.

This guy is real good at that "cart before horse" thingy. Not once can this wretched git ever bring himself to admit that the Palestinians have never taken responsibility for diddly-squat when it comes to making peace. I wonder how he explains away the sewage flood.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-27 04:24|| 2007-06-27 04:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, if the Jooos accidentally killed a few innocents, why, the Paleos only possible response is to try to kill only Israeli innocents. Oh, and snatch the occasional soldier for sport. It's just self-defense. And self-delusion.

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-27 06:24|| 2007-06-27 06:24|| Front Page Top

#4 the author is demented and the publication he writes for is crap; however, its amusing to feel his pain

Posted by mhw 2007-06-27 08:15|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-06-27 08:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, wass there a democratic experiment in Palestine? I don't think there ever was truly a democratic experiment in Palestine. The only democratic experiment is in Israel and it drives the islamos nuts.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-06-27 11:27|| 2007-06-27 11:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Another line on Jimmy Carter's resume, just after midwife for the Islamic Fascist movement.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-06-27 18:21|| 2007-06-27 18:21|| Front Page Top

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