Posted on 04/19/2002 7:01:18 AM PDT by iav2
Oh yeah! What about the Germans that were forced out of their Baltic territories? I don't see them packing bombs for Kaliningrad. Politics will not solve this problem . A total victory by Israel is what is needed. Elimination of the muslims from the West Bank will give Israel a border it can defend.
Agree!
It will be a glorious day when AraFat is dead! The world will be a much nicer place.
It is so amazing to consider the effect the Great British World Carvers had in the period ca 1918-1948. In Ireland, the Balkans, the Middle East, Africa, the sub-continent --- all of those decisions on borders and new countries, some of them incredibly bone-headed, are still plaguing us today. We are still paying the penalty for European colonialism
No, it won't. Eventually, the Palestinians will get weapons that can be fired over any border Israel creates. That's a fact that cannot be ignored.
Fallaci has opened up a hornet's nest with this charge. She is undoubtedly referring to Greek Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem Hilarion Capucci. Even if he has lodgings in the Vatican (it would be strange if he did, but perhaps Rome has some accomodation with the Greek Catholic Church), the Roman Catholic Church can neither "permit" nor deny permission to him for whatever he would like to say or whatever he would like to do. He does not answer to the Roman Catholic Pontiff!
Fallaci must know this, otherwise she wouldn't have cloaked the charge by not naming Capucci. Meanwhile, her accusation has been picked up on Andrew Sullivan's website and other places, and as the tale gets told and retold, it is made to appear that a Roman Catholic Bishop is praising suicide bombers! This is unfair.
Rome has not handled the present crisis well. The statements out of the Vatican have been too credulous of the official Palestinian line. But that doesn't justify a treacherous attempt to make Rome responsible for the words of a clergyman who is not even Roman Catholic.
Yep.
Initially, that was my thought, too.
But, then, I got to thinking. Is the tragic post-colonial history of peoples in Africa and the Middle East simply a function of the way their borders were drawn?
With hindsight, how would one draw them today so that the tribal strife and tyrannical impulse would have been dampened?
I've since concluded that colonialism has precious little to do with the problem.
But some of the difficulties of the present time are directly traceable to the breakup of the British Empire, e.g., as Steyn notes, Churchill's lack of foresight in laying out the specifics of the Balfour Agreement. And there are other examples, most notably, in my view, the herding of the Muslims of the sub-continent into Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The Brits, and others hanging out in the corridors of Versailles, played God. But they lacked His infallibility, I fear. We are still paying the cost of their miscalulations.
You've heard of "straight from the horse's mouth" now you heard it straight from the camel's anus.
Well put. One wonders if they actually sought this role, as opposed to merely accepting it as among the responsibilities that came with empire. My guess is that some among them -- we would call them liberals today -- actually cherished the opportunity.
Which reminds me of a very incisive piece authored by a Northwestern student that appeared yesterday. Liberals Insult The Very People They Try To Help.
"And there are other examples, most notably, in my view, the herding of the Muslims of the sub-continent into Pakistan and Bangladesh."
Was this not a conscious decision on the part of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the so-called Father of Pakistan? My understanding is that Jinnah demanded a separate Muslim state, as opposed to the multi-cultural state that Gandhi and his followers preferred.
Once the partition was agreed to, a massive population transfer followed.
No problem, if the Arabs keep on, they'll get what they keep begging for, along with the Euroninnies:
Gen 15:18 At that time the LORD made a promise to Abram. He said, "I will give this land to your descendants. This is the land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.
They sneak up to their attics and read Mein Kampf, bobbing their heads and chanting "jews are bad" (like those kids in the muslim religious schools), until they have purged all logic from their minds and slip into a mind-numbed torpor.
Its simple really. The Isrealis have obviously killed/kidknapped/incarcerated them all so they can't tell their heart-wrenching stories to the press. [/sarcasm].
LOL
Expelling the muslims is the final solution. Israel will take out any government that poses a threat to its survival. Just ask Sadam Hussein what happened to his nuclear plants! I would expect the USA to do the same thing with any nation that attempted to destroy it. Perhaps Afghanistan is a good example for Israel of how to defeat an enemy. Israel should ignore Colin Powel and do as we do not as we say.
Kamal Anis camel's anus
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