In his first visit to the White House on May 23, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told President Bush that Israel will “devote six to nine months to find a Palestinian partner” before it pursues the unilateral “Convergence Plan.” It was an empty promise. Olmert knows that given the reality in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the probability of returning… return to article
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Reader Comments (13)Page 1 of 1 pagesI’m sure they’ll always be enough money for C4 explosives, AK47s, Katyusha rockets and their homemade Kassams, huh? Who needs food when one can have such joys! Maybe, just maybe the Palis will have to change their spending habits. Could that be the diabolical Zionist plot?! I sure hope so! Peace at last without further bloodshed would be nice.
Posted by Hyjinx22 on Jun 15, 2006 at 10:53 AM The arrogant Zionist above is a perfect example of why I work continuously against his selfish, amoral interests. He can’t see any responsibility on Israel’s side for anything. Jews = good, Arabs = bad. And he gets very angry if we don’t all agree with this formula. Haven’t wee all seen Holocaust movies?
The problem for him and his narcissistic ilk is that fewer and fewer of us in America (and almost no one in other, less benighted countries) buy his propaganda any longer. This does not bode well for Israel being able to continue flaunting international law, committing daily war crimes while simultaneously playing the poor-poor-me victim and sucking our government’s tit.
Mr Israel-first also does not want to acknowledge that if US aid were to be cut off, as it should be to this criminal regime, his beloved country (which he probably doesn’t actually want to live in) would collapse over night. Maybe this would encourage the Israelis to change their spending habits. I think it would be well worth a try. And then all the amoral, racist, inhumane supporters of Eretz Israel could send their money to bail them out. I sure he would be happy to make up the missing 3 billion a year.
Posted by opeluboy on Jun 15, 2006 at 4:41 PM opeluboy -
Hey moonbat, what’s up? First off, I’m an American by birth, non-Jewish (Catholic in fact). Actually, the Jews have built themselves quite a sustainable economy, a little too socialistic in some respects for my liking, but not bad non-the-less. We give Israel about $3 bil a year, but their GDP is: $129 bil (CIA fact book). I don’t think us withdrawing our funding would exactly break the bank over there. The Palis are far more dependent on the West (which they loathe, but provide approx. 50% of their income) then the Israelis are or will ever be. So, you never answered my original question before ranting, why is it that the Palis can always find money for weapons even when they are below the poverty line? Why didn’t Arafat accept the two-state solution proposed years ago (which even included half of Jerusalem)? Oh, wait, now I remember....the Palis aren’t interest in co-existence, they’re interested in genocide! Could you imagine a world where:
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah all stopped trying to infiltrate Israel with suicide bombers daily and/or firing rockets at settlements.
Stopped and said, “Shit, this whole circle of violence pride/shame complex thing really sucks, and we need to just make peace with these people.”
In response, Israel said, “Damn, the Palis have stopped trying to randomly kill us, isn’t that a relief.” In follow-up, they lifted all West Bank restrictions to unfetter the Pali economy.
The bottom line is: IF THE PALIS WOULD JUST STOP THEIR SHIT, PEACE WOULD BE THE RESULT! Unfortunately, the rest of the Arab world has a big stake in continued violence, so they will always fan that flame. The Arab regimes need a cause celibre to deflect blame from their own failed states at home. Blame the Jews is always a solution in that part of the world.
Posted by Hyjinx22 on Jun 16, 2006 at 10:57 AM How does one respond to such willful, racist ignorance? Like this:
Posted by opeluboy on Jun 21, 2006 at 6:33 PM Hey opeluboy -
Looks like your buddies in Al Aqsa found enough $$$ for chemical weapons! Duchebag!
Posted by Hyjinx22 on Jun 26, 2006 at 9:10 AM WHERE IS THE PEACE MOVEMENT? WE SHOULD BE OUT IN THE STREETS DEMANDING THAT THE USA STOP FUNDING ISRAEL.
FIGHT THE WARMAKERS
FIGHT FASCISM
Posted by Spinoza750 on Jul 15, 2006 at 2:38 PM WAY TOO MANY JEWS HAVE BECOME FASCISTS
IT MAKES ME EMBARRASSED TO BE A JEW.
Posted by Spinoza750 on Jul 15, 2006 at 2:41 PM THE SCUM POSTING HERE IN FAVOR OF WARMONGERING AND IMPERIALISM ARE VERY VERY SICK.
And rather racist to boot; ---but then again many/most fascists are racist.
Posted by Spinoza750 on Jul 15, 2006 at 2:43 PM Wow, was I right! Props to me! Looks like Hezbollah wanted in on the action too though, left them off my original list (how could I forget the ‘A’ team?!) Anyone still confused about the intentions of Israel’s harmless, powerless (boo-hoo) neighbors? Not anymore! With any luck, Syria and that asshat Ahmadinnerjacket will be next. Go IDF! Free the Lebanese from their Hizbollah hostage situation (too bad Hizbollah won’t let the citizens leave the areas where they stage and store their rockets) and bring the long saught after peace to the Middle East. You see people, you cannot negotiate with terrorist scum, and don’t give me that freedom fighter shit. Israel withdrew from Gaza and South Lebanon (at the behest of the toothless UN) and now they are reaping the rewards of their magnamity. The hopeless Kofi Annan couldn’t enforce the dismantling of Hezbollah, they attack Israel and now the Jews are left with the mess. We in the fantasy land Western world will dulely blame Israel for the disaster we foisted upon them with an unenforceable UN resolution. But I guess as long as the “international community” feels that they did a good thing, everything is okay. No reality, just warm fuzzy feelings, pretty much sums up all you spineless nitwits on this site. So heres to a decidedly DISproportionate response that will absolutely humiliate the Arab fascists (maybe get through their thick pride/shame/suicide skulls) so they can make peace only after a thorough ass kicking as Egypt and Jordan did.
Posted by Hyjinx22 on Jul 20, 2006 at 8:51 PM Is there any moral justification in letting right wingers live? Why should they be allowed to bring misery to so many people? We need leftists with guns.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/cowswithguns.php…
Posted by Spinoza750 on Jul 20, 2006 at 11:02 PM What is wrong with the Muslim world today and why it is very, very hard to have any respect for them:
* Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt. No Muslim outrage.
* A Muslim attacks a missionary children’s school in India. Kills six. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia. Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage.
* Let’s go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim outrage
* Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage.
* Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed. Muslims are outraged.
Posted by Hyjinx22 on Jul 28, 2006 at 9:34 AM Israel is denounced world wide.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14532.htm
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