Hamas, your good neighbor
From the NY Daily News:
"The Palestinians voted for terror, nothing less than the destruction of Israel, in a clear voice and by a landslide. Hamas made no bones about it, this was its campaign, complete with the burning of the Star of David to the tune of machine guns riffing in the desert air.
This should go without saying, but no sooner were the returns in than the usual suspects here and in Europe were opining that the Palestinians had really voted for free lunches and against corruption. Not for bullets, for butter; not for terror but for clean government.
Of course, if that were the case, the Palestinian people would have long ago run Yasser Arafat out of town without a camel and maybe - maybe - a pail of water. It was Arafat who looted his people out of billions, who ran the PLO and later the Palestinian Authority with an iron hand that kept them living in refugee camps and otherwise in squalor."
Sort of sounds like our European allies and some "useful idiots" from the People's Republic visiting mosques immediately after 9/11, doesn't it? Of course the Daily News (as always) makes things a bit simpler than they are, but in the vast majority of minds .. were the Palestinians voting for better administration of their lives ... or evidencing a wish to wipe Israel of the face of the map and getting tired of waiting for Fatah to do it? For their part, Fatah supporters are trashing things to show their displeasure at being voted out of office. Sort of like what the Clinton Whitehouse staffers did to the printers and typrewriters when they left, but using gasoline bombs instead. The party voted out of office seldom accepts defeat in good humor.... Actually that reminds me, it is day 700 or so on the "Waiting for Barbra and Alec to Piss Off" watch. When are they going to go? Get it on already!!! Heck I am ready to go!
Back to Hamas.... We all know that Palestine is essentially a global housing project: the US alone supports it to the tune of over $400 million per year, and even Israel used to collect customs duties on its behalf, forwarding over $40 million a month. The largest employer of Palestinians was Israel, followed by the Authority -- some 140,000 odd employees. Who is seriously going to send these jokers any cash -- at least until they agree to renounce terrorism? Hmmm? No doubt the Saudis will hold a telethon for them, but this won't cover. So, without a renunciation of the platform that got them elected, we can expect a financial default in short order. That, in turn, will forment some serious unrest. What then?
This is going to be an exciting "Springtime for Hamas ... and Tel Aviv ...."
"The Palestinians voted for terror, nothing less than the destruction of Israel, in a clear voice and by a landslide. Hamas made no bones about it, this was its campaign, complete with the burning of the Star of David to the tune of machine guns riffing in the desert air.
This should go without saying, but no sooner were the returns in than the usual suspects here and in Europe were opining that the Palestinians had really voted for free lunches and against corruption. Not for bullets, for butter; not for terror but for clean government.
Of course, if that were the case, the Palestinian people would have long ago run Yasser Arafat out of town without a camel and maybe - maybe - a pail of water. It was Arafat who looted his people out of billions, who ran the PLO and later the Palestinian Authority with an iron hand that kept them living in refugee camps and otherwise in squalor."
Sort of sounds like our European allies and some "useful idiots" from the People's Republic visiting mosques immediately after 9/11, doesn't it? Of course the Daily News (as always) makes things a bit simpler than they are, but in the vast majority of minds .. were the Palestinians voting for better administration of their lives ... or evidencing a wish to wipe Israel of the face of the map and getting tired of waiting for Fatah to do it? For their part, Fatah supporters are trashing things to show their displeasure at being voted out of office. Sort of like what the Clinton Whitehouse staffers did to the printers and typrewriters when they left, but using gasoline bombs instead. The party voted out of office seldom accepts defeat in good humor.... Actually that reminds me, it is day 700 or so on the "Waiting for Barbra and Alec to Piss Off" watch. When are they going to go? Get it on already!!! Heck I am ready to go!
Back to Hamas.... We all know that Palestine is essentially a global housing project: the US alone supports it to the tune of over $400 million per year, and even Israel used to collect customs duties on its behalf, forwarding over $40 million a month. The largest employer of Palestinians was Israel, followed by the Authority -- some 140,000 odd employees. Who is seriously going to send these jokers any cash -- at least until they agree to renounce terrorism? Hmmm? No doubt the Saudis will hold a telethon for them, but this won't cover. So, without a renunciation of the platform that got them elected, we can expect a financial default in short order. That, in turn, will forment some serious unrest. What then?
This is going to be an exciting "Springtime for Hamas ... and Tel Aviv ...."
posted by Zaphod at Friday, January 27, 2006
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