Goodbye Gaza - a game of give and take...
Read this in a recent article about Al-Qaida infiltrating the Gaza strip
"Palestinians said any decision to move Gaza settlers to Maskiyot would ruin the positive atmosphere created by the Gaza withdrawal. "It seems that the Israelis give with one hand and take away with the other," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said.
Celebrations at the evacuated West Bank settlements continued Wednesday. Dozens of gunmen from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent group with ties to Abbas' Fatah movement, fired in the air.
"This is our victory ... the victory of your weapons," Zakariye Zubeydi, a leader of the gunmen, told several hundred supporters. "We will continue to expel them (Israelis) from every centimeter of Palestine." "
So - let me get this straight – the Palestinians are upset because the Israeli’s aren’t completely living up to their obligations under the “road map”, and yet, to listen to the rhetoric coming from their side, they have no intention of even glancing at the map as they career happily down the road in their suicide car bombs. The line about expelling “them” from every centimeter of Palestine certainly doesn’t sound like words of encouragement for those deluded souls who actually believe that a “two state” solution is possible. Rather, it sounds like the Islamoid death-cult is taking the Israeli pull out from Gaza as a grand victory, and even more as encouragement to continue and expand their efforts to blow Israel from the map piece by piece and body by body.
But of course, rather than seeing any criticism of this, what we’ll probably see is more wailing that the Israeli security wall is illegal, a violation of human rights, a violation of international & humanitarian law, and the worst thing ever in the history of the world. Seems that if anything is going to change, then the world has to stop giving a free pass to the Palestinians on issues like this – no more of this attitude like “oh, listen to those quaint oppressed Palestinians talking about blowing up all the jews….oh the poor souls...so cruelly oppressed – what do you expect?”…well, I’d expect that the rest of the civilized world needs to raise the bar for the Palestinians a wee bit higher – as in, get your shit together, stop preaching & teaching virulent hatred as if there was nothing more important in all the world than hating & killing jews, and start focusing your energies on building a functioning society – in other words, stop looking back like 50 years of Israeli history is going to disappear and you are going to return to the homes 99% of you have never seen, and get on with building a functioning state – OR we close the taps and all your Western aid funding dries up…
Now I understand its really easy for someone sitting comfy here in the Great white north to pontificate about this, but really, is there any other way? Coddling these people, accepting their every whine as Truth (Arafat and his gangs were masters at manipulating world public opinion) has ultimately been the worse thing for the Palestinians. Rather than forcing them to accept the hard truths, we’ve merely given them the encouragement to indulge in this collective 50 year old fantasy that if they cry hard enough, if they blow up enough stuff , then “turn back the clock” day is right around the corner and they will be able to scratch out Israel from their maps and pencil in “Palestine”.
"Palestinians said any decision to move Gaza settlers to Maskiyot would ruin the positive atmosphere created by the Gaza withdrawal. "It seems that the Israelis give with one hand and take away with the other," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said.
Celebrations at the evacuated West Bank settlements continued Wednesday. Dozens of gunmen from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent group with ties to Abbas' Fatah movement, fired in the air.
"This is our victory ... the victory of your weapons," Zakariye Zubeydi, a leader of the gunmen, told several hundred supporters. "We will continue to expel them (Israelis) from every centimeter of Palestine." "
So - let me get this straight – the Palestinians are upset because the Israeli’s aren’t completely living up to their obligations under the “road map”, and yet, to listen to the rhetoric coming from their side, they have no intention of even glancing at the map as they career happily down the road in their suicide car bombs. The line about expelling “them” from every centimeter of Palestine certainly doesn’t sound like words of encouragement for those deluded souls who actually believe that a “two state” solution is possible. Rather, it sounds like the Islamoid death-cult is taking the Israeli pull out from Gaza as a grand victory, and even more as encouragement to continue and expand their efforts to blow Israel from the map piece by piece and body by body.
But of course, rather than seeing any criticism of this, what we’ll probably see is more wailing that the Israeli security wall is illegal, a violation of human rights, a violation of international & humanitarian law, and the worst thing ever in the history of the world. Seems that if anything is going to change, then the world has to stop giving a free pass to the Palestinians on issues like this – no more of this attitude like “oh, listen to those quaint oppressed Palestinians talking about blowing up all the jews….oh the poor souls...so cruelly oppressed – what do you expect?”…well, I’d expect that the rest of the civilized world needs to raise the bar for the Palestinians a wee bit higher – as in, get your shit together, stop preaching & teaching virulent hatred as if there was nothing more important in all the world than hating & killing jews, and start focusing your energies on building a functioning society – in other words, stop looking back like 50 years of Israeli history is going to disappear and you are going to return to the homes 99% of you have never seen, and get on with building a functioning state – OR we close the taps and all your Western aid funding dries up…
Now I understand its really easy for someone sitting comfy here in the Great white north to pontificate about this, but really, is there any other way? Coddling these people, accepting their every whine as Truth (Arafat and his gangs were masters at manipulating world public opinion) has ultimately been the worse thing for the Palestinians. Rather than forcing them to accept the hard truths, we’ve merely given them the encouragement to indulge in this collective 50 year old fantasy that if they cry hard enough, if they blow up enough stuff , then “turn back the clock” day is right around the corner and they will be able to scratch out Israel from their maps and pencil in “Palestine”.
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