Why Don t I Care About the Palestinians? - GREAT ARTICLE

NRO ^ | 9 may 02 | John Derbyshire

[ppaul]

Just heard about it on Rush.....

Aha!
I knew he was a FR lurker!

[NetValue]

" imagine an alternate universe where the Palestinians had placed their trust in leaders who had a constructive vision instead of a hateful, vengeful vision. "

There will be no progress into the civilized world until they separate their laws, education system, and governance system from their religion - Islam. The cause of their entire problem is that they never separated "church" from "state" the way the western cultures did.

[WyldKard]

Wow.

This is the best article ever written about anything ever....

[texasbluebell]

Collectively, though, as nations, the Arabs are no-hopers.

Just about sums it up...

[Publius6961]

BUMP

[NCDoc]

There! Someone has finally said it. Expel the worthless Palestinians from the land between the River and the Sea.

Question: Who would take them?

[Honorary Serb]

There are plenty of so-called "Palestinians" (that word represents another made-up "nation" like "Kosovars" and "Bosniaks") who are NOT "refugees". They make up at least half of the population of Jordan (and many of those are citizens of that country), and many of them are in the Gulf states, in other places in the islamic word, and in the West. Some of these "expatriate" (?) "Palestinians" are doing well (a few VERY well), others are not, and others of course are terrorists or fifth columnists.

The "Palestinian" "refugee" camps exist because the other muslims want them to, as a propaganda ploy to conquer Israel and wipe out the Christians in Lebanon!!!! (They are also centers of terrorism and subversion against other countries, including our own.) That is why they don't take the "Palestinian refugees" into their own countries, even if these very same "Palestinians' " grandfathers actually migrated from Egypt, Syria, etc.,as many of them did.

It is also why the other Arabs hate them--no one likes a violence-prone welfare bum, after all! However since the other Arabs and muslims created the "Palestinian refugees' " welfare dependence and tendency to violence, this hatred and lack of willingness to help is more than a little hypocritical.

[Salman]

Well, I don't know about the French, Italians, Greeks or Russians, but the Turks gave us Mahir (I kiss you!!!).

You post a link to a review in Salon, but not a link to the glorious Mahir himself.

[TopQuark]

FYI

[Prodigal Son]

Yes!!! Dude, that article rocks. The Arabic/Islamic culture is so radically different than ours it is just the ultimate in futility to even try to solve the problem using our own terms for civility and justice- they're not having it. If they understood why democratic governance and having a rational constitution that respected the rights of man was a good thing- they'd have done it by now! These are alien concepts to them, just as not respecting human rights is alien to our own culture. We cannot apply our own code of ethics which is based upon individual liberty to a group of people who believe that one's biggest duty is to die for the local Imam or Allah. It aint gonna work.

Western Culture is on a journey to the stars, Islamic culture is on a journey to the prehistoric- we are not fellow travellers. Prodigal Son

[RaceBannon]

Sounds pretty racist...but...

[gcallah]

If any of you have doubts that the "war on terror" has led you all to fascism, look back through your posts in this thread. Heil Bush!

[Lent]

A very worthy bump. Thanks!

[glorgau]

Boy, is this guy mis-informed. The Arabs have had a democratic state that is prosperous. It is called Lebanon.

[besieged]

what have the french, italians, greeks, russians, fill in the blank with the country of your choice done lately?

You may have a point... but I can tell you this: I know something these countries have NOT done lately!

a. They have not flown airliners into any buildings in New York lately.
b. They have not shot any 5 year olds in their beds lately.
c. They have not exploded any pool halls, pizzerias, hotels, (feel free to included a gathering place of your choice hee) lately.
d. They have not kidnapped any soldiers, evisceratd them, dismembered them, dipped their hands in their blood and then displayed their hands as evidence of heroism lately.
e. They have not taken their own citizens and shot them and hung them up in public squares for SUSPICIONS of collaborating lately.
f. They have not had a resurrection during a burial lately, where the corpse got into the "coffin" twice before running away for good.

What do you say? does that make them a bit different from the rest of the world, or no?

[besieged]

Thanks for the ping. Sad but true.

[Publius6961]

BUMP

[takenoprisoner]

So is the UNRWA with us, or against us, when they fund terrorists?

[tabsternager]

What this man says about the Palestinians sounds very similar to what Hitler said about non-Aryans when he first wanted them removed from his Third Reich empire, then ordered their extermination: They're "worthless, hopeless, vermin," etc.

It's a very good thing that Jesus didn't feel that way about the sinners or we'd all be doomed.