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| GAZA IS DARWIN CITY |
| 2006-06-04 |
| You've heard of the Darwin Awards, right? They're awarded to idiots who kill themselves doing something astoundingly dumb, thereby contributing to human evolution by removing themselves from the gene pool. Awardees are individuals, but I am nominating an entire inhabited region of the world: Palestinian Gaza. Gaza should, in fact, be re-named Darwin City. Consider this news bulletin from Gulf Daily News of Bahrain, dated May 27, 2006: GAZA CITY: Four Palestinians were killed in northern Gaza yesterday as Israel fired dozens of artillery shells into the territory. Three men died and five other were wounded in a house when a family member brought in and accidentally set off an unexploded Israeli shell that landed near the area, Palestinian security sources said. An investigation by the Jerusalem Post found out that a bunch of Palestinian 20-somethings took home an unexploded artillery shell, invited a bunch of friends over - apparently with the approval of their parents - and then tried to take it apart with everybody in a crowed room watching. The shell exploded, killing three and wounding a dozen more. The Palestinian authorities tried to cover it up, but the hospital officials admitted the truth and the family verified it. There were even photos of the house in the article. Darwin City. Over two years ago (February 2004) I predicted The Coming Palestinian Civil War. I updated this last September with Credence in Gaza. The Palestinian Civil War was accelerated by the election of Hamas this January, which is why I wrote Celebrating Hamas. Now Fatah and Hamas could be productively engaged in killing each other off, distracting them from slaughtering Israelis. The violence between Hamas and Fatah has gotten so bad that the popular website Little Green Footballs carries a regular feature, "Palestinian Civil War Watch." Thanks to the Palestinian Civil War (funny how our media doesn't celebrate this like it does civil war in Iraq), suicide bombings in Israel have dropped 90%. And it's going to get worse (or better?) in Gaza, more Palestinians going after each others' throats. That's the price of maniacal hatred and rage. At some point, it turns in on itself. Hatred and rage also make you stupid. Stupid enough for a Darwin Award. Thus expect to see Palestinians continue improving the human gene pool by removing themselves from it. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #1 shhsss. Don't remind them. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2006-06-04 20:05 |