Posted on 01/26/2006 11:22:08 AM PST by SJackson
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Indeed, dark times are ahead.
With Prime Minister Sharon in a coma, and Hamas in official control of the Palestinians... Yikes!!!
"The Gathering Storm" revisited..
For Israel, this isn't much worse that Fatah. Fatah's objectives were the same. For the US and EU it's going to be more difficult to portray the terrorists as non-terrorists.
Armageddon -- and so it begins...................
What BS! This is fantastic! Finally the sham peace process has had the final coffin nail put into it.
I agree. The Palestinian factions are all terrorists, and history has demonstrated that the west is happy to pay them off. The more people they blow up and the more intransigeant they are, the more money the west sends to buy them off.
Frankly, that worries me less than my sense that the Israeli people seem to be losing the will to defend themselves. I hope they will pull themselves together, and soon.
Drama queen alert.
I have faith that the Israeli left will deal with Hamas and drag this charade out for the rest of our life times.
I don't share your enthusiasm. What's Israel going to do? Start bombing the Palestinians and occupy their territory? Wait--
Let's say Hamas sponsors a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. What happens next? Carpet bombing Gaza? Like that region could be anymore of a hell-hole than it is now? Like it will make the Palestinians stop attacking Israel? The only other answer is to re-occupy their land - woops! It's no longer disputed territory, it's Palestinian territory. It's an invasion. Now Syria and Iran can claim that Israel has invaded a sovereign territory and start the war in earnest as "allies" of Palestine. Regardless of who was the initial aggressor, Israel is going to be blamed throughout the world and the invading bully. This is a no-win situation for Israel.
The only "good" thing here is that it's probably considerably sped up the timetable for this mess to come to a head.
I understand the thought that this puts Hamas squarely on notice, but so the hell what? They've been "on notice" for a decade now. Anyway we can cut this, it sucks for Israel.
You know, the ones at risk of injury if we simply bomb the [CENSORED] out of them...?
Events in the ME have a way of moving directly and quickly to war.
I wouldn't trivialise the importance of this. Israel is now in deeper trouble than it was before this 'roadmap'. This was no roadmap to 'peace'.
This was a roadmap to Israel's destruction.
Or that monumental oxymoron, "innocent muslims".
But I agree, the blind spot will simply get bigger
Anybody got a match?
"I am not resting until I hear an explanation from the brain-dead liberals about what they mean by "moderate muslims", or more particularly "moderate 'palestinians'"."
I think after this election, any truly moderate Palestinian is leaving the Middle East.
You just can't be more completely wrong! It gives Israel a perfect, justfied reason to stop making any pretense of going through a PHONY/SHAM peace process. THAT IS A BIG WIN!
Some of you are just such defeatist penny hennys! The true is Hamas is in no better or worse position to strike Israel. They could do whatever they wanted with impunity before and NOTHING has changed. Israel can crush any action on their part. REMEMBER YASSAR HELD PRISONER IN HIS COMPOUND FOR YEAR?!
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