Gaza's spiral into anarchy

BBC News ^ | January 5 2006 | Alan Johnston

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[dennisw]

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.

[Redleg Duke]

If Israel disappeared tomorrow, the various Arab nations would be at each others' throats by next month.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

has a worldwide scourge ever been completely obliterated off the face of the Earth,

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.

[r9etb]

Gosh. Who'd have thought that Palis would be unable to behave like civilized people?

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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.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Some people hold to the fiction that the Palestinian Authority is some kind of government. This even though there is no such thing as a nation of Palestine. This stateless group formerly led by the late terrorist chief Arafat is simply a gang endorsed by the West as being the head of the Palestinian people scattered all over the Middle East.

The only country coming close to a Palestinian state is Syria but Syria won't let Arafat's gang in. Lebanon is also populated by large numbers of Palestinians.

Maybe Allah can sort it out.

[marshmallow]

The whole of their culture is geared to conflict, revolution and insurrection. That's their area of expertise. It's their business. Tearing stuff down.

A completely different mindset is needed for the orderly day to day functioning of a civilized society.

They don't do "orderly" in Gaza.

[Lijahsbubbe]

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.

Sounds serious. Maybe Spielberg can give the profits from 'Munich' to the poor disaffected terrorists in Gaza.