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I have a good test to see if Hamas can do it....have an Israeli paper publish some of those stupid cartoons of Mohammad and wave it in front of their faces. |
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There’s nothing ’democratic’ about it. To be democratic means to advance or advocate democracy - something they don’t believe in. Just because they won a popular vote doesn’t mean democracy is slowly seething in.
Quite the opposite actually. |
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In short, all the Palastinian election did, was to force us to acknoledge what we’ve known all along... that peace isn’t what these people are about.... that the "peace process" was an expensive, bloody, and fruitless sham, and always has been.
That the Beltway seem bent on ducking what everyone knows is exactly the wrong move. |
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In short, all the Palastinian election did, was to force us to acknoledge what we’ve known all along... that peace isn’t what these people are about.... that the "peace process" was an expensive, bloody, and fruitless sham, and always has been. Most of us would agree...but there are others who argue that this is a stepping stone towards a democratic government - one that somehow involves peace.
Ask Mr.Carter what he thinks. |
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Derek
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Israel is more segregated than the American South of the 1950s.
In America during the 1960s, violent groups like the Black Panthers, the Simbianeze Liberation Army, the Weather Undergound and the Students for a Democratic Society "fought for justice," against segregation, engaging in murder, arson, rape, and assault.
Wouldn’t the equivelent of the Black Panthers, etc., be organizations like Hamas? |
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Jill Henry
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I don’t know Jill ... how many Jews are living among the Palestinians?
We know there are Arabs (and Palestinians) living among the Israelis (and, in fact, even hold seats in the Kineset). I don’t see how you can make the claim that Israel is more segregated than the Palestinians. Furthermore, I see no particular relevance to the point. |
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No Jill Hamas...No you’re RIGHT Jill, Hamas DOES = those groups you’ve mentioned. Violent losers, dedicated to over-throwing a fairly decent system. So I agree Hamas IS the SLA and the The Weather Underground (WeatherMEN for the purists). Our difference is that you may LIKE the SLA and I don’t so whereas you see your comparison as a compliment to Hamas I don’t. |
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Israel is more segregated than the American South of the 1950s
Yeah, those "Palestinians only" water fountains sure are a drag. And making them have to sit at the back of the bus (assuming some other palestinian doesn’t blow it up) is just awful.
At any rate, your point........it just isn’t there. At what point did the Black Panthers gain their own independent state and vow to drive whitey into the sea?
"I’m sorry to spoil your black panther party" -Forrest Gump |
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McQ, you answer your own question (paritally):Arafat ran that game for literally decades ... saying just enough to keep the money flowing but not enough to be rejected outright by the Palestinian people (thereby maintaining his power) for giving too much. Arafat is the template that all future leaders in the area will follow. THink of Hamas as being PLO circa 1975: fresh off a terrorism binge that has made them a force to be reckoned with (in that case, the de-facto annexation of southern Lebanon) they are now being encouraged by the West to "negotiate a peace" with the promise of "substantial assistance". The West, then as now, is all-too-willing to foot the bill. The only question remaining, IMHO, is will Hamas take 20 years to get with the program or will it come sooner? |
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As they say, power corrupts.
I wonder how it feels to know that if you just moderated your beleifs you could get your hands on millions of Euros? |
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"former president Bill Clinton, often an opinion bellwether, has just urged the Bush administration to consider dealing with Hamas."
Yes because dealing with Arafat in 90’s turned out so well. |
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I note an interesting parallel... the consiquences of which I freely admit I’ve not fully mapped yet. But it’s an interesting offshoot, anyway;
I gave some folks here some serious hell for suggesting that electing Democrats because Republicans weren’t right-wing enough was perhaps the way to go. I suggested at the time that they’d get the whole Democrat package.. which clearly (On spending, for examlpe) is the wrong direction to go. Further, their vote for Democrats would be read and touted as SUPPORT for Democrats.
The parallel I note here is that the Palastinian people...(Do such exist?) elected Hamas.
The stated reason may give is Fatah was corrupted and not getting the job done, which is a fair enough statement. So, they elect Hamas... in spite of their war- like anti-israel stand.
Or is it BECAUSE of that stand they were elected?
More than granted they’re not exact equals. But it seems to me the foundations of each pairing are fairly similar... enough to cause one to go "hmmm"
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"[An elected representative] would be ostrisized (sic) and isolated until he renounced his disgusting philosophy and recognized ..."
* all races are equal
* abortion is murder
* war is no solution for anything
* religion belongs in school
* secondhand smoke kills
* your hot button issue
"And he’d be given no support whatsoever until he did so."
The First Amendment would probably be too incendiary for enactment today.
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The Owner’s Manual
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Forbes magazine put Arafat’s personal fortune at somewhere around $330 Million. It also suggests that every dollar that the PA spent was personally authorized by him. I know this suggestion is totally off the wall, but what if, Fatah was a corrupt organization that was really more interested in lining its own pockets than it was making peace, building a country, or making life better for its people.
As republicans I realize you may have trouble believing that politicians could possibly be interested in what best for them first and foremost, the country be d*mned. In countries where they have no republicans, its common.
Anyway, its just possible the Palestinians didn’t vote for war. Its possible they just voted the corrupt rascals out thinking "how much worse can they be than Fatah?"
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Its possible they just voted the corrupt rascals out thinking "how much worse can they be than Fatah?" ...It’s also very possible that you have a kool-aid ring around your mouth. |
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Cindy:
I think Krauthammer pretty well answered your point: The Palestinian people have spoken. According to their apologists, sure, Hamas wants to destroy Israel, wage permanent war and send suicide bombers into discotheques to drive nails into the skulls of young Israelis, but what the Palestinians were really voting for was efficient garbage collection.
It is time to stop infantilizing the Palestinians. As Hamas leader Khaled Meshal said in a news conference four days after the election, ``The Palestinian people have chosen Hamas with its known stances.’’ By a landslide, the Palestinian people have chosen these known stances: rejectionism, Islamism, terrorism, rank anti-Semitism, and the destruction of Israel in a romance of blood, death and revolution. Garbage collection on Wednesdays. |
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McQ
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We know there are Arabs (and Palestinians) living among the Israelis (and, in fact, even hold seats in the Kineset). I don’t see how you can make the claim that Israel is more segregated than the Palestinians. Furthermore, I see no particular relevance to the point. Written By: McQ McQ is so biased in favor of Israel that his denial is absurd. |
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McQ is so biased in favor of Israel that his denial is absurd. Ah, I see my favorite anti-semite has a new ID and new IP. It won’t take long for him to overstay his welcome (Hint: you can always tell by certain characteristics of his posts. One, for instance, is the link which does nothing to make his point, and in most cases, damages it). |
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McQ
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My favorite Zionist-tool McQ still flogging the poor innocent Palestinians? How ’bout we move Israel to Westphalia instead...for world peace. Either that or we arm them with their own nukes to make the fight fair. After they won the election fair-and-square the USA cuts off their money? Starve ’em into letting the Jews steal their land? Nah... |
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