Posted on 08/25/2005 8:30:22 AM PDT by Alouette
I asked three Arab Canadians for their reactions to the evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip.
Khaled Mouammar, Richmond Hill. A Palestinian Christian from Nazareth, his family became refugees in 1948. He is a former president of the Canadian Arab Federation.
"Where were these 900 international journalists in the last five years while the entire physical infrastructure of Gaza was being destroyed?
"We see weeping settler girls and women being interviewed. But there were rarely any interviews with the thousands of Palestinian women and girls who've had their houses bulldozed, their family members killed or imprisoned.
"The settlers are being compensated between $200,000 and $300,000 (U.S.) per family. It's not that they don't have a place to go to. They are going back to their country.
"But millions of Palestinian refugees have been in exile for decades. Many are destitute. They have no status. Many are in the Israeli-occupied areas where no one cares about their suffering, humiliation and continued dispossession.
"In Albert Camus's The Plague, the French settlers in Algeria have feelings, emotions and experiences. But the Algerians are always in the background, as shadows. Today, human life and suffering does not matter if you are Arab, Muslim or from a Third World country.
"When will the dispossession and dehumanization of Palestinians get a headline?
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
When the Palestinians long for a civil society instead of pushing all the Joos into the sea, then I'll give a rat's arse about their plight. Until then, they get everything they deserve and then some.
Gaza will be an open sewer within 6 months.
I will shed some of my ..err. personal water for them. I'll gladly sprinkle it upon them, except if the palesites catch fire..
I will shed some of my ..err. personal water for them. I'll gladly sprinkle it upon them, except if the palesites catch fire..
here we go, the excuses begin....dude why dont you build the infrastruture...there a thought..how about you get off yer phat arse and build something....rather then suicide belts..
those dahm joooooooosssss....what would u do without them
What is really remarkable is that the Torornto star actually published this poppycock. This article isn't just one-sided, it's blatantly dishonest, which speaks volumes about this particular rag of a newspaper.
Sorry folks. I'm on another "palaeo" jag.
"But millions of Palestinian refugees have been in exile for decades. Many are destitute. They have no status. Many are in the Israeli-occupied areas where no one cares about their suffering, humiliation and continued dispossession."
That's because Arafat and his gangsters stole all the aid money, and wouldn't let Israel build any infrastructure when she wanted to do so. The PA "leaders" also refuse time and time again to make a settlement agreement, and terror launch wars against Israel instead.
Cry me a river, Haroon.
Yep, I felt like puking my guts out....
Pass the Pepto!
Well stated.
But Justine Raimondo? LOL.......what a fool!
Er.....Justin.
The Red Star strikes again!
"But millions of Palestinian refugees have been in exile for decades. Many are destitute. They have no status. Many are in the Israeli-occupied areas where no one cares about their suffering, humiliation and continued dispossession."
Perhaps they should have stopped blowing s$#t up.
But Justine Raimondo? LOL.......what a fool!
Watch it! He used to be a member of this forum. He may still be.
Isn't it amazing that the "homo haters" have latched onto Justin and wave him like a flag even as they blare headlines about "queer Jews?" But then, after all, these are the "white nationalists" who look to the Arabs to save them from a Mexican invasion by destroying Israel!!!
I can't help but wonder what Joseph de Maistre and Generalissimo Franco would think of the pacifism, populism, and collusion with Leftists these people practice.
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Corel will weep.
But millions of Palestinian refugees have been in exile for decades. Many are destitute. They have no status. Many are in the Israeli-occupied areas where no one cares about their suffering, humiliation and continued dispossession
900,000 just took control of their destiny. Now it's about 650,000, about 175,000 in camps, in the West Bank, out of over 4 million registered "refugees". The rest, over a million in camps, are in Arab-occupied areas where no one cares about their suffering, humiliation and continued dispossession.
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