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2003-05-05 Syria-Lebanon

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Posted by Steve 2003-05-05 10:16 am|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As grampaw usta say when whacking a bull between the ears with a 2-by-4 - "First you have to get it's attention."

Posted by mojo 2003-05-05 10:45:19|| 2003-05-05 10:45:19|| Front Page Top

#2 'Course, they probably counted the number of "last warnings" Sammy got...

Posted by Fred 2003-05-05 11:57:14|| 2003-05-05 11:57:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Syria had better remember that it is the US and not the UN that is laying down the warnings. We are talking about low single digits here.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-05-05 12:35:17|| 2003-05-05 12:35:17|| Front Page Top

#4 When they quit being a football for other groups' religious terror campaigns and greater nationalistic aspirations, -700,000 displaced paleos have a legitimate problem to be addressed.

Hopefully, when the jihadis are squelched and Syria is reorganized, reasonable people will take an unbiased look.

Posted by Scott 2003-05-05 15:32:56|| 2003-05-05 15:32:56|| Front Page Top

#5 It was 700,000 in 1948. The total is now around 4 million, what with the kiddies and all. And THAT'S why Israel won't give in on the Paleo demand for a "Right of Return", they'd be swamped and ousted inside of 50 years.

Posted by mojo 2003-05-05 16:47:16|| 2003-05-05 16:47:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Your figures may very well be right, mojo. Where do these people go? Who speaks for them? Arafat? I don't think so. At least not anymore. Does Israel even have a conscience towards those displaced? (and are continuing to) Do we? Or do we write them all off as terrorists?

When the bombing stops, will the bulldozers?

Posted by Scott 2003-05-05 17:40:37|| 2003-05-05 17:40:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Syria still a member of the current UN Security Council? Just goes to show how irrelevant that outfit has become.

Posted by john 2003-05-05 20:06:49|| 2003-05-05 20:06:49|| Front Page Top

#8 The majority of those that left in '48 left willingly, by that I mean of their own accord. They felt sure that the Arabs would win the war and they would then be allowed to return to claim the spoils. They made a mistake, and thus, should be forced to live with their actions....the ones that remained became Israeli citizens and enjoy rights other Arabs could only imagine in their own countries....

Posted by Porps 2003-05-05 20:47:11|| 2003-05-05 20:47:11|| Front Page Top

#9 A lot of the so-called Palestinians are migrants from other Arab countries. If I recall correctly, Arafat was originally Eqyptian. Let's face it - the whole Palestinian scheme is an Arab project to annihilate Israel.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-05-05 21:37:15|| 2003-05-05 21:37:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Now lemme see if I got this straight: 700k left because they wanted to go to filthy refugee camps to stand aside and watch their arab brothers wipe out the Jewish people occupying their homeland and it was so much fun that other arabs decided to join them.

Oh yeah, and no take backs. Except for the ones that stayed. They're enjoying themselves. Unless one of their country cousins blows himself up at the bus station, in which case they join the party of the first part, being members of the vast (which wing is it?) conspiracy that wants to annihilate Israel. Did I miss anything?

Posted by Scott 2003-05-05 23:46:32|| 2003-05-05 23:46:32|| Front Page Top

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