Comments on: Palestinians Pour Across Egypt Border As Border Breached

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:07:56 +0000

Idiosyncrat—U hit the nail right on the head with seething shithole full of rough beasts hiding among a civilian population. The place is a sewer or toxic waste dump & U were too gentle with people like Chris who always blame Israel for everything. Fact is, the Egyptians didn't take over Gaza in '56 when Israel offered it to them. Because the place is one huge garbage midden. Both human & otherwise, the garbage prevails.

I wonder how much time Chris has spent in the Middle East. When the criminals are rocketing the semi-slums of Sderot., their hatred exceeds that of Hitler's SS. The Arabs simply have not adjusted to modernity & remain a bunch of refugees playing the victim card for gullible simpletons, mainly in the EU & Canada, who have no responsibility for anything & love multiculti kumbayeh gibberish.

The Arabs have no one to blame but themselves.

By: Idiosyncrat

Idiosyncrat — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:10:22 +0000

Chris, let me put this as gently as I can: Gaza is a seething, radical shithole beyond your wildest imagination. Kumbaya isn't going to solve this one, buddy. Billions of aids to the Palestinians, buying functioning state-of-the-art Israeli greenhouses upon pullout that were turned over to the Palestinians, and “democracy” have done nothing. The Israelis are damned if they do, damned if they don't with this and you can bet your bippy that as long as she's going to be damned, it won't be doing anything to further endanger itself beyond the barrage of missiles that are already hitting the lower socioeconomic citizens of Sderot around the clock. For all intents and purposes Gaza is an active warring enemy population and many another country would have vanquished it at this point — and i mean turned it into a parking lot. But alas, they have not. It's a catastrophe and a lot of innocent people are caught up and suffering in it. It absolutely sucks and sucks absolutely. But you're laughably naive in your simplicity f you think Israel alone can fix this…

Dave: I wouldn't wish that job on anyone. I don't know if anyone can fix this — surely not the UN.

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:37:33 +0000

I was short-listed for the UNRWWA Chief job in Gaza about ten years ago and thank God every day that I did not go. What a catastrophe, and partly the fault of Condi Rice who naively sought to include the terrorist organization Hamas in the voting two years ago. Read the Jeffrey Goldberg book, PRISONERS, for a good idea of what's going on.

By: Slamfu

Slamfu — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:32:39 +0000

Yes Chris, they do. You see they are only still around because of the widespread popular support they receive. Those “crazy guys” represent the people of palestine pretty well. They in fact got elected by them. And they shoot rockets willy nilly into civilian territory all the time. So yea, the situation has a pretty well defined cause and effect going on here.

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:37:26 +0000

Interesting-as-always reader remarks included

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-34976...

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:31:05 +0000

So everyone in Gaza deserves to starve and live without electrically powered medical facilities, because some crazy guys are shooting rockets into Israel. Where is the sense of proportionality?

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:29:34 +0000

Stop the rocket attacks, immediately and permanently! Start being civilized!

By: Slamfu

Slamfu — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:13:39 +0000

I'd have a lot more sympathy for them if they stopped randomly firing rockets at civilians, and using women and children as shields when the inevitable counterstrike happens.

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:06:05 +0000

This even harsher blockade is a very good example of collective punishment. Where is our government on opposition to this?