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2008-01-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The world hasn't seen a good old fashion siege since Leningrad.. About time to see one now.
Enjoy eating your briefcases Gazians.

Posted by 3dc 2008-01-21 00:12|| 2008-01-21 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 since Israel cut off Gaza neither the Saudis nor the Egyptians nor even Iran has offered to help Hamas

eventually they will do so (the legacy of their internal anti Israel propaganda to their own population) but the longer they hold off they better the message sent

Posted by mhw">mhw 2008-01-21 03:52|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-21 03:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd start my response with "Eat me!"

You just don't tell things like this to Paleos---unless you've, very, weird sexual fantasies.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-01-21 04:57|| 2008-01-21 04:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Gaza is used as a base of operations for multiple groups carrying out warfare against Israel. Gaza is governed by a democratically elected administration that openly and repeatedly calls for Israel to be destroyed and whose founding charter relies on the Protocols of Zion.

It is insane that Israel should provide any food, water or medical assistance to the enemy under any circumstances. Much as the rest of the West pays for the jihad against us through a ludicrous oil giveaway to the "House" of Saud, Israel pays for the enemies on its own doorstep.

The proper response to war is war. Instead we have hand-wringing and appeasement. I love Israel but until they learn the lessons of their own Prophets they deserve exactly what they get. So do the rest of us.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-21 08:54|| 2008-01-21 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 "Darkness falls on Gaza"

How could they tell?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-21 10:10|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-01-21 10:10|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess "cause and effect" isn't a concept taught in those UNRWA schoools.
Why upset the locals. Let them continue to think that this happens for absolutely no reason...

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-21 10:48|| 2008-01-21 10:48|| Front Page Top

#7 If you act like Neanderthals, eventually you will live like Neanderthals.

Posted by Iblis 2008-01-21 12:21|| 2008-01-21 12:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Violent, squalid, senseless, brutal and... dark. Riddick would thrives in that environment.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-01-21 12:30|| 2008-01-21 12:30|| Front Page Top

#9 or Snake Plisskin

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-01-21 12:40|| 2008-01-21 12:40|| Front Page Top

#10 In case you were worried my people, I am having no electricity problems here in Damascus. Just figured I'd pass that on...

Posted by Khaled Mashal 2008-01-21 13:11|| 2008-01-21 13:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Gaza at Night

Posted by RD">RD 2008-01-21 13:22|| 2008-01-21 13:22|| Front Page Top

#12 And it's different in the day how, exactly, #11 RD?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-21 13:24|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-01-21 13:24|| Front Page Top

#13 the Gazan's blackness is a little less colorful in the daytime Barbara!

:)

Posted by RD">RD 2008-01-21 14:21|| 2008-01-21 14:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Can we expect (hope for?) the lack of power to cause the Dreaded Sewage Tsunami??
("Watch where you step Abdul, that ain't necessarily a mud puddle.")

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-01-21 14:33|| 2008-01-21 14:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Actually only some of the power is off in Gaza.

It's true that they have only 1 electricity plant but they still import electricity from Israel (which is generated at the Ashkalon plant that the long range Gaza rockets have come close to hitting).

I think the company temporarily closed all the circuits to rebalance the load.

Posted by mhw 2008-01-21 15:36|| 2008-01-21 15:36|| Front Page Top

#16 #7: If you act like Neanderthals, eventually you will live like Neanderthals.

And star in insurance commercials.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-21 16:00|| 2008-01-21 16:00|| Front Page Top

#17 Gaza should get no support of any type from Israel; no water, no food, no fuel, no electricity. The crossings should be permanently closed. Let Gaza deal strictly with Egypt, and use a rolling barrage of artillery to pulverize any area that is either overtly or covertly complicit in the rocket attacks. Kill enough of the bastards and they'll eventually get the message. However, if it takes killing all of them to drive the message completely home, so be it. Gaza can be an object lesson for southern Lebanon and Syria.

Posted by Jomosing Bluetooth8431 2008-01-21 17:42|| 2008-01-21 17:42|| Front Page Top

#18 I don't get it. If I were a hard-core jew-hating jihadi, I wouldn't want Israeli electricity. Turn it off, I'd say! Don't want no Zionist electrons in *my* Islamic household wiring. Damn electric joo cooties coming in thru the empty outlets. That's why you gotta keep plugs in them at all times.

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-21 20:34|| 2008-01-21 20:34|| Front Page Top

#19 That's the night the lights went out in Gaza
That's the night that they shot an innocent man
Don't trust your soul to no terrorist Gaza lawyer
Cause the judge in the towns got bloodstains on his hand...

Posted by Reba Mcentire 2008-01-21 20:37|| 2008-01-21 20:37|| Front Page Top

#20 I don't get it. If I were a hard-core jew-hating jihadi, I wouldn't want Israeli electricity. Turn it off, I'd say! Don't want no Zionist electrons in *my* Islamic household wiring.

It's the Israelis' jizya.

Posted by lotp 2008-01-21 21:04|| 2008-01-21 21:04|| Front Page Top

#21 Damn electric joo cooties

Eeewwwwwwooo! how icky!
electric joo cooties that's hilarious SteveS LOL.. hard to top that one.. :)

Posted by RD">RD 2008-01-21 22:05|| 2008-01-21 22:05|| Front Page Top

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