Posted on 03/22/2002 4:20:53 AM PST by kattracks
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday at an Israeli army roadblock near the West Bank town of Jenin, wounding at least one person, Israel Radio said.
An army spokesman could not immediately confirm the report.
Copyright © 2002 Reuters Limited.
I seriously doubt we'll take on Iraq any time in the near future. We're still bogged down in Afghanistan and Pakistan trying to prove there's more than a handful of locals who could ever be US friendly.
An attack on Iraq would mean our people in Afghanistan and Pakistan would be instantly slaughtered. Not to mention the troops in Saudi or even Indonesia. We have to pretend that Islam is a religion of peace, so we can build our oil pipelines--no matter how many in the West or Israel are slaughtered.
It won't. it will just transfer the problem. It won't solve it. What will solve it? I don't know. I know in the west, we are taught to respect all cultures and peoples. But there is a faction of fanatics who have hijacked Islam who don't want to co-exist with anyone. They want the death to Isreal, death to capitalism -- death, death, death. It's a pretty anti-humanist message. How do you deal with that? Negotiate with it? Why? They want you dead. Kill it? Can all be killed? -- probably not. Then the situation just festers until someone wiser than me can figure out a permanent answer.
Earth to Israel....end the occupation and end the suicide attacks.
Congrats on your 2nd post, newbie. What occupation? Oh, you mean "from the river to the sea?"
Another Palie propagandist rears its ugly head on FR.
Say, which language is your copy of Mein Kampf? I've heard it's a big seller among you Palies.
It was rejected - which means that ending the occupation unilaterally would be a meaningless gesture.
Isn't the "occupied" land that the "palestinians" claim actually land that Israel took after they were attacked by the Arabs ? And aren't palestinians who claim to be "refugees" those who were told (by the attacking Arabs) to leave these areas, until Israel had been wiped off the map, then they could move back in victory ? An aggressive attacker who loses in a war that they started doesn't get to say "oops--that didn't work, we were only kidding, give us the land back", do they ??
You are absolutely correct. Not only that, but the "occupied" land, and much more, was promised to the Jewish people by the Allies after World War I. The Turkish Empire, which had brutally ruled the mostly barren land for many hundreds of years, was in cahoots with the Kaiser during the war.
Considering that Mein Kampf is a consistent best-seller in the palestinian territories, I have to believe that you are correct.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, the first of this faction was muhammed himself. So, can you really call it a faction? Thats like calling the priesthood a faction of the Catholic Church.
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