Comments on: Welcome to Hell (move over, J. P. Sartre)

By: pst314

pst314 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:52:40 +0000

I always figure that Sartre was looking in the mirror when he said that.

By: Ripper

Ripper — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:52:53 +0000

John
A higher fence won’t stop rockets but the fence is designed to stop suicide bombers and in that capacity it has succeeded magnificently.

By: heather

heather — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 06:38:18 +0000

Now, the rational approach to those of us in North America, is to break out the hot buttered popcorn, sit back and ENJOY. Now, if only all of Jimmy Carter’s friends would just stop the money… as to Hamas pounding Israel with bombs… nahhh… their REAL enemy is Fatah!!

By: Mescalero

Mescalero — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:39:23 +0000

Yeah, just remember that the leaders of the Khmer Rouge were Satre’s students in Paris. What a wonderful legacy for the imfamous Jean-Paul!

By: lmg

lmg — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:44:48 +0000

The only way this could be bad for the Palestinians is if Israel, the U.S. and Europe respond to it in a rational manner. In recent memory, that has not been the case. We have all spent BILLIONS to fund the very people who want to kill us. I see no evidence that this will change anytime soon, if at all.

By: Rhod

Rhod — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:45:31 +0000

The place that will be called Palestine will hardly be another Talibani Afhanistan; it will also be temporary. The military challenge for Israel or other “friendly” states will be much easier and the area more compact. Which is not to say that the gathering conflict will be less ugly.

I think the Palestinians have made their last Devil’s Bargain, and have voted for their own extinction. With Hamas they seem to have the confidence, arrogance and certainties of the mob. Inevitably, they’ll find out what organized and determined armies are capable of doing to them.

If anything is true about the Palis, the current lot is the Darwinian result of years and years of Western complicity in the elaborate excuses and pandering by the American Left, and before Bush, the moderate Right. The creative thinkers among them have been gone for years, and what remains is base and primitive. It’s just a matter of time before the fires break out.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:30:52 +0000

They are like very bad, heavily armed children.

John, Fatah is just Hamas Light. I don’t think this proves that there can be no democracy in the ME. It proves the Pals are dysfunctional, no news there. Israel is in the same place it was before.

By: John Moore ( Useful Fools )

John Moore ( Useful Fools ) — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:57:56 +0000

Unfortunately, a higher wall won’t do the job. Hamas will just buy and build bigger and longer range rockets, to rain indiscriminant tragedy down on the Isralis.

Hamas will turn Palestine into a terrorist paradise, threatening the whole world. It will become what Afghanistan had been, but with much better logistics and facilities.

Meanwhile ordinary Palestinians, who were foolish enough to elect this bunch, will suffer as Israela and perhaps other countries respond to the inevitable atttacks by terrorists who will make “Palestine” their new home. And of course, there will be mayhem in the the Palestinian territories.

This process actually brings into the question the whole project of bringing democracy to the middle east. Some people really are not ready for democratic elections – their choices are evil and the process will mean they only get *one* election followed by some sort of mugogracy.

By: ajacksonian

ajacksonian — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:26:17 +0000

In my Note to Hamas congratulating them on their victory, I did note that they should welcome their new shirts that come with heading up the Palestinian State… the ones with day-glo bull’s eyes front and back.

And it seems that their Loyal Opposition, Fatah, is giving Hamas the same sort of treatment that Hamas gave them.

Dear me…

By: Ripper

Ripper — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:04:45 +0000

I think that Israel should:

1. finish that fence and make it higher if possible

2. ban all traffic between the West Bank and Gaza

3. Continue to kill or capture terrorists

4. Cut off all jobs, social services, money and if terror continues – power and water.