XPost: uk.politics.misc, soc.culture.palestine, soc.culture.egyptian   
   XPost: soc.culture.israel, alt.conspiracy   
   From: oO@oO.com   
      
   Spoken like a Nazi. How ironic.   
      
   "Spaz"  wrote in message   
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   >> Aggression Under False Pretenses   
   >>   
   >> By Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh   
   >>   
   >> 07/11/06 "Washington Post" -- -- GAZA, Palestine -- As Americans   
   >> commemorated their annual celebration of independence from colonial   
   >> occupation, rejoicing in their democratic institutions, we Palestinians   
   >> were yet again besieged by our occupiers, who destroy our roads and   
   >> buildings, our power stations and water plants, and who attack our very   
   >> means of civil administration. Our homes and government offices are   
   >> shelled, our parliamentarians taken prisoner and threatened with   
   >> prosecution.   
   >   
   > Because you won't reign in the terrorists, because you elect terrorists to   
   > your government, and because you continue to support terrorists.   
   >   
   >> The current Gaza invasion is only the latest effort to destroy the   
   >> results of fair and free elections held early this year. It is the   
   >> explosive follow-up to a five-month campaign of economic and diplomatic   
   >> warfare directed by the United States and Israel. The stated intention of   
   >> that strategy was to force the average Palestinian to "reconsider" her   
   >> vote when faced with deepening hardship; its failure was predictable, and   
   >> the new overt military aggression and collective punishment are its   
   >> logical fulfillment. The "kidnapped" Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit is only a   
   >> pretext for a job scheduled months ago.   
   >   
   > Just because you don't care about the lives of your terrorists doesn't   
   > mean we don't care the lives of our soldiers, dumbass.  If you can't see   
   > that, that's your stupid problem.   
   >   
   >> In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel   
   >> wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a   
   >> serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion   
   >> definitively. The Palestinian leadership is firmly embedded in the   
   >> concept of Islamic shura , or mutual consultation; suffice it to say that   
   >> while we may have differing opinions, we are united in mutual respect and   
   >> focused on the goal of serving our people. Furthermore, the invasion of   
   >> Gaza and the kidnapping of our leaders and government officials are meant   
   >> to undermine the recent accords reached between the government party and   
   >> our brothers and sisters in Fatah and other factions, on achieving   
   >> consensus for resolving the conflict. Yet Israeli collective punishment   
   >> only strengthens our collective resolve to work together.   
   >   
   > and achieve nothing but one self-defeat after another...  SMART!  REAL   
   > SMART!   
   >   
   >> As I inspect the ruins of our infrastructure -- the largess of donor   
   >> nations and international efforts all turned to rubble once more by F-16s   
   >> and American-made missiles -- my thoughts again turn to the minds of   
   >> Americans. What do they think of this?   
   >   
   > You're the enemy.  You're scum.   You will be defeated, humiliated, and   
   > driven from the land of Israel so the land can be returned to it's   
   > rightful owners.   
   >   
   >> of the pluck and "toughness" of Israel, "standing up" to "terrorists."   
   >> Yet a nuclear Israel possesses the   
   >> 13th-largest military force on the planet, one that is used to rule an   
   >> area about the size of New Jersey and whose adversaries there have no   
   >> conventional armed forces. Who is the underdog, supposedly America's   
   >> traditional favorite, in this case?   
   >   
   > YOU are the underdog.  It's about time you started acting like one, but   
   > you just don't seem to get it, so Israel will have to continue to spank   
   > you until you learn to behave.   
   >   
   >> I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root   
   >> causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question   
   >> why a supposedly "legitimate" state such as Israel has had to conduct   
   >> decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever   
   >> achieving its goals.   
   >   
   > Um, you have it TOTALLY backwards, as is typical for pallie terrorists.   
   >   
   >> Israel's unilateral movements of the past year will not lead to peace.   
   >   
   > pallie terrorism and pallie support of the terrorists will not lead to   
   > peace.   
   >   
   >> acts -- the temporary withdrawal of forces from Gaza, the walling off of   
   >> the West Bank -- are not strides toward resolution but empty, symbolic   
   >> acts that fail to address the underlying conflict.   
   >   
   > Wrong.  They directly address the threat of pallie terrorism.   
   >   
   >> Israel's nearly complete control over the lives of Palestinians is never   
   >> in doubt, as confirmed by the humanitarian and economic suffering of the   
   >> Palestinians since the January elections.   
   >   
   > Um, the suffering of the pallies is attributed to pallie corruption,   
   > terrorism, and plain laziness.   
   >   
   >> Israel's ongoing policies of expansion, military control and   
   >> assassination mock any notion of sovereignty or bilateralism. Its   
   >> "separation barrier," running across our land, is hardly a good-faith   
   >> gesture toward future coexistence.   
   >   
   > The separation barrier stops the terrorists, jackass.  Why do you keep   
   > forgetting that?   
   >   
   >> But there is a remedy, and while it is not easy it is consistent with our   
   >> long-held beliefs. Palestinian priorities include recognition of the core   
   >> dispute over the land of historical Palestine and the rights of all its   
   >> people; resolution of the refugee issue from 1948; reclaiming all lands   
   >> occupied in 1967; and stopping Israeli attacks, assassinations and   
   >> military expansion. Contrary to popular depictions of the crisis in the   
   >> American media, the dispute is not only about Gaza and the West Bank; it   
   >> is a wider national conflict that can be resolved only by addressing the   
   >> full dimensions of Palestinian national rights in an integrated manner.   
   >> This means statehood for the West Bank and Gaza, a capital in Arab East   
   >> Jerusalem, and resolving the 1948 Palestinian refugee issue fairly, on   
   >> the basis of international legitimacy and established law. Meaningful   
   >> negotiations with a non-expansionist, law-abiding Israel can proceed only   
   >> after this tremendous labor has begun.   
   >   
   > Keep dreaming, loser.   
   >   
   >> Surely the American people grow weary of this folly, after 50 years and   
   >> $160 billion in taxpayer support for Israel's war-making capacity -- its   
   >> "defense."   
   >   
   > Nope, not weary at all.  In fact, we continue to INCREASE our aid to   
   > Israel.  The only thing that bothers us is our government's reluctance to   
   > approve even larger increases.   
   >   
   >> Some Americans, I believe, must be asking themselves if all this blood   
   >> and treasure could not have bought more tangible results for Palestine if   
      
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