Posted on 01/04/2006 10:49:20 PM PST by jmc1969
Foreigners have been kidnapped. And every day there are angry anti-government protests. Public buildings are stormed as armed demonstrators demand jobs, or sometimes the release of prisoners.
There have been attacks on police stations, clan feuds and clashes between militia groups.
"There is a disintegration in our situation here," says the independent election candidate, Dr Eyad El Surraj.
"There is a disintegration of the Palestinian Authority and its forces, which is a symptom of the disintegration of Fatah itself. There is no decision-making process. There is no leadership."
Nowhere are the PA's failings more painfully apparent than in the security field.
Fatah is facing its first parliamentary electoral challenge from Hamas in the current campaign. And Hamas clearly believes that some in Fatah fear they will lose out badly and are looking for an excuse to call off the election.
"Everyone now suspects that this is planned chaos," said Dr El Surraj. "This is planned violation of the rule of law - planned to disrupt the elections."
But there is now a growing appreciation of the depth of the malaise in Palestinian society
Hafiz Barghouti, the editor of the newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeed, has written: "It appears we are neither prepared to change, nor admit that we have failed in running our own affairs. Everyone is busy calculating how to make the biggest possible gains at the homeland's expense.
"While most Palestinians find it easy to blame the occupation for all our ills, it is a fact that the occupation was not as bad as the lawlessness and corruption that we are now facing."
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Prayers for Mr. Sharon the bulldozer. On the plus side Sharon's sidelining delays any new surrender of land. Gives the Paleostinians more time to implode into anarchy, to show their true nature to the feckless EUros. Muslim anarchy in Europe also helps Israel. Such as the "disaffected youths" running wild on zee French train last night.
If Israel disappeared tomorrow, the various Arab nations would be at each others' throats by next month.
I think you might have a hard time defining the Palestinians as a "worldwide scourge". Theirs is really a local conflict.
But, to actually site some "scourges" with greater dimensions, you see neither Carthaginians, nor Mongol Hordes anymore. Babylonians and Aztecs are also hard to come by nowadays.
Obviously if the Nazis won, they wouldn't have seen themselves as a "scourge". So the victor writes the history.
Only the Chinese come close to writing an unbroken history as long the Jews. To mention a few others who have tried to beat them over time, you will also have a tough time finding Romans, Phoenicians, or Assyrians. I do agree that the Palis probably don't have much staying power.
Gosh. Who'd have thought that Palis would be unable to behave like civilized people?
Where is Arafat's laundered money? I'm sure 'his' countrymen could use that to build an infrastructure right about now. But I forget - it's not a sincere effort - it's only about destroying Israel.
A completely different mindset is needed for the orderly day to day functioning of a civilized society.
They don't do "orderly" in Gaza.
Sounds serious. Maybe Spielberg can give the profits from 'Munich' to the poor disaffected terrorists in Gaza.
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