Israel enters the rest of West Bank

UPI | 10/20/01

[kattracks]

GAZA CITY, Gaza, Oct 19, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Israeli troops on Saturday entered the West Bank town of Tulkarem An Qalqilya, which had been under control of the Palestinian Authority. Israeli troops now occupy the towns of Jenin, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour, and have seized additional positions once controlled by the PA.

Copyright 2001 by United Press International.

[snodog]

I guess those kids can throw a pretty mean rock, to be able to have them look like gunshot wounds. These are not kids any more than our 18 year olds serving in the military are kids.

Go over to a nice Pro terrorist site where your comments will be appreciated more.

You're either with us or against us. I take it from your comment you support the PLO and HAMAS. So you are aginst us.

Pro~Libertate!

[EricT.]

We have the power and ability to use any damned airspace on this planet buster! We have a coalition with those two-faced SOB's at our convenience. They can bitch and whine and even go tell on us at the UN. They can do nothing to stop us when we have made up our minds.

[PRND21]

You diplomacy upside is limited, while your logic is indetectable.

[Silvertip]

It would be terrible if he were meeting with Peres, Powell, and Anan at the time. Terrible.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Yeah, go get those school kids. They don't have any tanks. Here, we'll send you another billion dollars.

Yeppers, and who do you think puts those little kids in the front? The Israelites, or the kids parents?

[EricT.]

Diplomacy be damned! Diplomacy went out the window when 6000 people were exploded, burned, or pulverized that awful morning. All of those countries have given at least moral support, if not outright financial support to the organizations that attacked us. And please, oh please tell me where my logic is at all deficient? I must need a lesson from annointed elites such as yourself to explain things, as I am a lowly dullard (with a 160+ I.Q.). BTW, Thank you sooooo much for acknowledging my prescence here and setting me straight. ()

[PRND21]

Thank you sooooo much for acknowledging my prescence here and setting me straight.

No problem.

[EricT.]

P.S. People like you are the reason we need to split California just south of Bakersfield and let you A-holes die of thirst.

[Liberal Bob]

"Yeah, go get those school kids. They don't have any tanks. Here, we'll send you another billion dollars."

Yeah you mean the school kids with the C-4 strapped to their bodies?

[d4now]

Yes, that would be just awful! Awful!

[PRND21]

P.S. People like you are the reason we need to split California just south of Bakersfield and let you A-holes die of thirst.

Please keep Bakersfield.

[NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh]

Holy Smokes!!!! Arafat, Powell, Peres, and Annan. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Cheerleaders for CAIR to a man. They would finish what clinton left undone. Doing many mitzvahs for the return of Binyamin....quickly.

[EricT.]

Please keep Bakersfield

No problem, it's full of decent, hard working people. The kind that understand that the world does not operate in the manner portrayed by Hollywood or collegiate theoriticians. Take a trip over to Inglewood or Compton tonight, take a long stroll and see how far diplomacy gets you in the REAL world.

[Crispy]

coalition troops - What are you talking about? It seems to me it has been all us and to a lesser extent Brittain.

bases - That is why be have several aircraft carriers in the area. Plus, we can take any patch of land and buildings and make a base out of it. Who is going to stop us?

intel - Like we can trust them. Just look at the Saudis.

airports - same as what I said about bases.

airspace - This is not really an issue either. They shoot at our planes, we shoot their radar sites. They will not be able to stop us from going anywhere after awhile.

We are just being nice for the time being.

[PRND21]

No problem, it's full of decent, hard working people.

And hookers.
Business owners post "No Streetwalkers" signs in front of their shops.

take a long stroll and see how far diplomacy gets you in the REAL world.

I do every second of every day, you should try it.

[monkeyshine]

It was Arabs who murdered Americans, and yet we attack caucasians in Afghanistan. How's that for diplomacy? People talk about the Israeli lobby.. heck, it's the Arab lobby that controls the USA. The Arabs can fund and support the murder of Americans with impunity and then convince us to attack someone else in response.

I hope when the Afgani war is over we can move on and take care of Iraq, Syria and the gulf states who don't make a 100% effort to end their support of terrorists. The USA should take the same line Israel does. We want a 100% effort to prevent terrorism. Anything less by the Arab states is simply unacceptable.

[PRND21]

Agreed.

[Sabertooth]

"If now is not the right time, when will it be? Who cares about the coalition. They are just holding us back. "

I'm not sure that's the case. My thinking is that President Bush has adopted something of a "rope-a-dope" strategy.

By maintaining a "coalition" with Islamic states, inclucing some like Syria and Iran that sponsor terrorism, even Arafat's little nest of vipers, and then picking off the most immediate threats like bin Laden, the Taliban, and Hussein's Iraq, we are defusing a rapid escalation of the War on Terror (which I think will prove to be World War III) at a pace not of our choosing. That's what we're waiting for.

We just made some very important arrangements with Iran, which, if you read between the lines, allow us some use of their airspace. You think we're doing that just for Afghanistan? Hardly. This is to close off one of Sadaam Hussein's back doors.

Sooner of later, most of these terrorist states will peel off from the coalition, putting their necks in the noose as they do so. And each, in turn, will set itself up as the next target in the war.

Perhaps this is wishful thinking on my part, but I've reached this conclusion after watching the President's methods since taking office. He thrives on being underestimated. He makes "moderate" noises to get his foes to drop their guard enough to give him the edge. Once this happens, he usually returns to a position not too far from that of his base, thus keeping them in line by not allowing them to take him for granted.

The Arab Islamic states will betray us first. We'll hang them as necessary. Then perhaps Pakistan, the Turks, and the ethnic Turks of the Central Asian republics.

Russia and China will abide longer, as the War on Terror affords them the opportunity to put down Isamic zealots in their own territories.

Most of NATO, especially Britain and Italy (Berlusconi is dynamite) will stay firm with us.

At that point, their will be nothing to prevent us from overtly lining up with our natural allies in this, Israel and India.

I think the picture is far larger than we're giving our team credit for.

[PRND21]

Good analysis.