And notes that terrorism works: "The evacuation shows that what was taken by force would not have been retrieved without resistance." That, of course, means that there will be more to come. From Reuters, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
TEHRAN (Reuters) -- Iran on Thursday welcomed Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip after nearly four decades of occupation, state radio reported.Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said the withdrawal was a victory for "legitimate Palestinian resistance".
"The evacuation shows that what was taken by force would not have been retrieved without resistance," state radio quoted Asefi as saying.
Iran says it would not oppose a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict if the Palestinian people supported it....
But why bother? They are getting what they want without one.
The only "two-state solution" that Tehran is interested in is Jordan and "Palestine". Israel is not really part of the picture.
Well, come on. What did anyone expect that lot to say? "This is a success for Palestinian football skills"? "This shows the validity of Palestinian flower arranging styles"?
I disagree. Unless one is prepared to advocate removing the Arabs from Gaza en tout (i.e. ethnic cleansing, which somewhere during the '90's the dystintellegensia stopped being able to distinguish from actual genocide) this is proably the best option for Israel- unilateral partition with a unified Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The foolish Zionists in their post-'67 euphoria thought they could co-exist with the Arabs and maybe even earn their gratitude once they "uplifted" them in their own New-Socialist-Man images. It took 30 years for them to find out what kind of hell on earth Arabs are capable of creating if they think it'll spite their enemies. Time to disengage from the Arabs, a lesson we could benefit from heeding as well.
It is most interesting that a large number of US conservative politicos are, in effect, siding with Tehran on Gaza. Sad. Truly, truly sad.
How many times does the world have to learn the lessons of appeasement?
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emporer_diocletian said "I disagree."
With whom? About what?
"Unless one is prepared to advocate removing the Arabs from Gaza..."
Hey, what are you, some kind of racist Islamophobe? But hey, advocating removing the Jews from Gaza? E_V_E_R_Y_B_O_D_Y can join in on that fun! It's completely different.
"Time to disengage from the Arabs..."
Disengage, meaning to reward them for a campaign of terror by giving them their own nation from which they will have the freedom to import large quantities of armaments with which to attack Israel from a closer vantage point? Is that the definition of "disengage" that you're referring to?
Bakri says Britain tightens noose on Muslims
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19082005/325/bakri-says-britain-tightens-noose-muslims.html
One does not have to remove people to create the conditions in which they themselves will wish, voluntarily, to leave. A "Palestinian" Arab state is unviable; it can be kept alive on artificial life-support. Who is going to supply that life-support? Will it be the American taxpayers, or other Infidel taxpayers, determined to ignore that $6 billion that by an act of posthumous prestidigitation seems to have been made to disappear by Chairman Arafat, and to shell out still more, in the dreamy belief that there is something called a "Two-State Solution" within the absurdly tiny confines of Western Palestine? Nonsense.
Stop paying the jizya. If the rich Arabs wish to pay for the shock troops of the lesser Jihad (that against Israel) with more than money for the families of suicide-bombers, well let them. It will soak up some of the funds otherwise available for the Greater Jihad, the one that involves spending OPEC revenues on mosques and madrasas, on propaganda and Western hirelings. Soak up whatever amounts of Saudi money you can -- with lawsuits, with Crockford's and Las Vegas gambling losses, with bribes to hush up those blackmailers who might put revealing photos of family members of Al-Saud at play on Internet sites where maddened Muslims back in Saudi might see them, with money to the latest incarnation (in every sense) of Madame Claude.
And if they don't come through? If Gaza is unlivable? Too bad. It cannot sustain the kind of families, the population growth, that the Arabs and Muslims insist upon. That's their problem. It should not be made our problem.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Outspoken Muslim cleric Omar Bakri said on Friday Britain's crackdown following last month's London bombings was forcing Muslims to choose between selling out their religion and leaving the country.
Yes!
Carolyn2
Outspoken Muslim cleric Omar Bakri said on Friday Britain's crackdown following last month's London bombings was forcing Muslims to choose between selling out their religion and leaving the country.
YES!!!! My emotions too. It was also in the yahoo link I posted.
The trouble is that they wont leave no matter what. There is Jihad to do, and this can be done most efficiently by lying low and get on with the demography bit.