[grobdriver]

*SNAP* is the sound of the checkbook being closed!

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

It is going to be interesting when all the funding goes poof and what money they have is depleted. It is hard to keep this sort of attitude when you are eating dirt.

[MNJohnnie]

Because unless you do all that nice American and European money your people rely on will stop comming. God be thanked for stupid enemies!

[funkywbr]

Well for one thing if Hamas now ever attacks Israel they attack Israel as one state against another and last I heard when States are attacked they are lawfully allowed to defend and DEFEAT those who attack it.

Who said Hamas winning the election was a loss for President Bush?

Seems like a win win for US and Israel.

[JZelle]

Apparently they're counting on Hillary winning in '08.

[kevkrom]

Why should we recognize Condoleezza Rice

Because failing to recognize a nation's chief ambassador is tantamount to declaring war on that nation. Unless you really believe that martyr crap, there's no way you want an all-out shooting war with the US.

[MamaTexan]

If at present we cannot bring about a decisive victory, which will restore all our rights - and there is a difference between a peaceful solution of surrender, which is temporary and is referred to as 'settlements,' and a peaceful solution which is based on justice, and means the return of all the land and all the refugees.

These barbarians are delusional.

They remind me of the seagulls in that movie Finding Nemo.

Constantly running around screaming "MINE! MINE!" while $hitting all over the place.

[demkicker]

I say let them eat bullets.

[jackieaxe]

Well then, let the war begin. My money is on Israel!

[rod1]

Clear Hamas is hardly going to attrack new business centers and jobs to the region since it is totally clueless on pro-stability and pro-business policies. In fact it promotes just the opposite by ensuring constant destruction of lives and property. These guys are about to pay the price for their focus on destruction and may well learn just who has been propping up their sorry economy (despite rampant Marc Rich kind of thievery by Arafat and Fatah).

[Echo Talon]

Hmmm threatening Condi isnt to smart.

[Red Badger]

Why Should We Recognize Condoleezza Rice

Because she is the one who is going to destroy your sorry butts..............

[nmh]

Not too original are they?

Like godless liberals they imitate profoundity.

Since we refuse to recognize them. They turn the tables and ask why they should recognize Condi and Israel - what a bunch of lamebrains. Me thinks they have poop for brains and minions of satan.

[madison10]

...because it's a darn good idea, that's why.

[rlmorel]

"...In addition, we will teach them how we can have an industry that is independent of the Israeli enemy. We will gradually get all the laborers back [from Israel], after supplying them with job opportunities in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, where they will work in small and very small factories which will be independent of the Israeli enemy..."

As the Aussies say..."Good on Ya Mate!"

They are going to find out pretty soon why free economies do well, and terrorist/socialist/communist/facist ones generally are composed of picking up small rocks and placing them in piles.

If you are lucky.

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[steve-b]

But when you go to Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, or Egypt, you feel at home.

So go, already.

[CodeToad]

Sounds like a declaration of war.

[CodeToad]

Considering that Isreal has nukes, maybe we might be seeing the end of the PLO problem.

[Racehorse]

In this region we have faced Roman occupation, Persian occupation, Crusader occupation, British occupation - they are all gone. The Israeli enemy does not belong to the region. It does not belong to the region's history, geography, or faith. When you enter the land occupied in 1948, it is like entering an enclave. But when you go to Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, or Egypt, you feel at home. It is your homeland."

A different view of Arab-Israeli history:

As soon as a people called the Arabs makes its appearance in history, it has a connection of some kind with Israel.  The very first Arab known to us by name and date, Gindivu (which means locust), is mentioned as a member of an alliance against an Assyrian invader, in which King Ahab of Israel figures at the head of 10,000 foot-soldiers and 2,000 war chariots, while the Arab sheik heads 1,000 camel riders.  This--the battle of Karkar in Syria--which took place in the year 853 B.C. is not mentioned in the Bible and not, of course, in Arabic sources, because Arab history in the proper sense of the term begins only much later with the founding of the Arab religion, Islam, just as Jewish history really begins only with Moses, the founder of the Jewish creed.

S. D. Goitein, Jews and Arabs:  Their Contacts Through the Ages

Interesting.