I'm usually the last person that would ever say this, but Derbyshire is an outright racist and so are you if you agree with this drivel. He is wrong on so many levels it would take a post equal in length to his article to point them out. FR and the conservative movement keeps sinking lower over this issue. Thank goodness GWB doesn't listen to these fools.
You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but you're not going to make many friends calling people you don't know, such as myself, racists. If you think you can argue effectively against Derbyshire's position, why not do that, instead? Surely it's important enough for the investment of your time?
I reached Derbyshire's conclusions myself on September 12, 2001, when the videotapes of the celebrations on the West Bank reached me. I think it inevitable that this quarrelsome, hatred-soaked people, outcasts unwelcome even among other Arabs and other Muslims, will be dispersed, probably by force -- and as the old saying goes, it's no kindness to hang a man slowly.
The Israelis will have more of a hand in the decision than we will. Their resolve has ratcheted up quite a way in recent weeks, and they're strong enough to go it alone, if they feel they must. Washington might cut off their foreign aid, true. However, we can't prevent them from doing whatever they decide to do without going to war against Israel, on the Palestinians' behalf -- an event about as likely as a bake sale at the South Pole.
It would be nice if the Palestinians grasped the reality of their condition and sobered up in time to avoid the erasure of their group identity. But this, too, is rather unlikely for a people whose children are taught to hate Jews and encouraged to pledge themselves to the destruction of Israel from the time they first learn to talk.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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