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2006-09-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Across Palestinian territories, support for Hamas erodes

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Posted by Steve White 2006-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 On the first day of the Palestinian school year Saturday, Ali Abu Dayeh had abandoned his high school classroom for a falafel stand in central Ramallah.

The smell was getting to him.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-05 00:53|| 2006-09-05 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Just as you have done to one of these little ones, it is as if you have done to me.

Passover is coming soon. will your firstborn survive?

Posted by newc">newc 2006-09-05 01:34|| 2006-09-05 01:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

Posted by gorb 2006-09-05 03:03|| 2006-09-05 03:03|| Front Page Top

#4 "a US and European aid boycott of the Islamic militant-led government is sowing widespread disillusionment with Hamas."

Showing once again, how helpful it is to work with our European allies.

As for the proposed coalition govt, it depends. The boycott is because the PA govt doesnt accept the Oslo accords, and thus Israels existence. If the coalition does so, and no Hamas minister is in security focused ministry, how different is it from Lebanon where SOME ministries are held by Hezbollah?

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-09-05 13:28|| 2006-09-05 13:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Showing once again, how helpful it is to work with our European allies.

When they aren't too busy stabbing US in the back.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-05 15:35|| 2006-09-05 15:35|| Front Page Top

#6 well, yeah, you, trust but verify as a great man once said.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-09-05 16:35|| 2006-09-05 16:35|| Front Page Top

#7 LH-That's giving the EU more credit than they deserve. The US is the moral leader here-it was the US that pushed for disallowing aid to a Hamas-led government. The EU are busy devising ways of diverting water around that dam.

I don't know why the EU agreed to the boycott, but it surely has nothing to do with doing it for the right principles. I would bet its motivation and end goal both have something to do weakening America in some way.

Posted by Jules in the Hinterlands 2006-09-05 17:37|| 2006-09-05 17:37|| Front Page Top

#8 The proposed coalition government has two goals, from the Fatah side: to ease some power from Hamas's hands, and to provide an excuse for funds to start flowing again. However, Hamas will never in any way accept Israel's right to exist, nor accept any of the agreements the PLO (Golly, she asked wide-eyed, why do they call themselves Fatah now?) made with Israel along the way, so ultimately this is simply an exercise in taqiyyah, completely in accordance with the desire of the vast majority of the Palestinian population

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-05 17:43|| 2006-09-05 17:43|| Front Page Top

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