Why Gaza? Why Now? ... Mark Steyn

Steyn Online ^ | 22 August 2005 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Steyn ping!

[SiliconValleyGuy]

Steyn's brilliance shows through again!

Thanks for posting.

[Rummyfan]

Ping!

[gitmo]

The Frum thesis sounds right to me. In Britain since July 7th, political figures have twisted themselves into pretzels trying to explain how suicide bombers in London are somehow different from suicide bombers in Tel Aviv – unwilling, even as the double-deckers are exploding across Bloomsbury, to abandon their fetishization of the Palestinian cause, and unable to see that in an ever more Islamified continent the Europeans are the new Jews. Maybe an Islamist statelet on the Mediterranean will concentrate even European minds.

Yup

[sydbas]

Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, and Ann Coulter are my three favorites. I learn so much from them and can only dream of writing like them, so I'll just say thanks.

[Ruth A.]

Ah, well. Even when Ariel Sharon hands them a great “victory”, some Palestinians can’t stop blowing themselves up long enough to celebrate it.

Steyn brings pointing out the obvious into an art form. Bravo.

[zot]

Beautiful! Thanks for posting this.

[Semper911]

Under cover of “stability”, the situation always deteriorates.

Such a true statement, and can be applied to nearly everything.

[xjcsa]

Ping...

[mercy]

Eureka! Finally I see it!

Give the Arabs FRANCE. When they have their own nation in Europe they will stop all terrorism.

[JasonC]

I love Steyn and his heart is in the right place, but he is utterly wrong about this issue. It is not a clever backhanded piece of "be careful what you wish for". It is simply surrender and craven appeasement of implacable murderers, paid by the entire world to kill Jews for a living, rewarded and feted for it, who know no other occupation. Europe has pushed it precisely in the hope that said murderers will kill Jews instead of Londoners. You might as readily describe walking to the gas chambers as a cunning move to put the Nazis in the wrong. It is all utter madness.

[DCPatriot]

As much as I enjoy Ms. Coulter, she doesn't belong in the same sentence as Mark Steyn.

[Teacher317]

Entropy... it's not just for science class anymore.

[Semper911]

Entropy... it's not just for science class anymore.

Good one.

Maybe the Frum thesis is dead on. What a great column Mark Steyn puts out on a regular basis.

[Semper911]

...Ms. Coulter, she doesn't belong in the same sentence as Mark Steyn.

I heartily agree. Nobody writes like Steyn.

[sarasmom]

I can see nothing close to sanity anywhere in the Middle East.
I choose to stand with Israel, despite the fact that Israel is not really an ally of the USA.
Israel is not a bastion of human freedom.
They are just a less obviously violent and virulent strain of a theocratic enemy than the Islamics of that loathesome, barbaric region.
If the numbers were reversed, and if the Jews were the majority population in the middle east...
But even thinking such thoughts is forbidden.

[wildcatf4f3]

true, i don't need gaza handed over to see that the palestians don't want a state. To think that this is neccesary is to attribute innocence or at least naivete to the supporters of a Pal. state. they are neither. They are EVIL and know exactly what they're doing.

[mother22wife21]

ping.

[kassie]

Thanks for posting this.

[Maigrey]

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