Posted on 03/27/2002 9:26:41 AM PST by Roger_W_Isom
AT LEAST 10 people have been killed in a hotel lobby in NETANYA ISRAEL 51 injured for sue... PARK HOTEL was the target........ And people wonderred WHY the ISRAELIS REFUSED TO LET ARAFART GO TO THIS " SUMMITT"?????
The answer is in Popeye the Sailor girlfriend's last name.
Even in Nazi Germany we didn't take all civilians into custody. Yes we did kill a lot of people via bombing missions as part of our efforts to win the war. I don't consider that to be the same as rounding people up and deporting them.
If this wasn't what the poster intended, I'd be willing to revise my comments.
the ENTIRE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED TOP TO BOTTOM!!!! NO EXCEPTION!!!! EVERY PALESTINIAN LEADER NEEDS TO BE OFFED AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT NOT TO DO TO AMERICA!!!!
I think that is the whole point, both to the scheduling of the Arab World Conference in Beruit, and the attack. I expect more attacks as the week goes on, too. Sad, sacreligious and totally by design...
SabraAmerican: He is not weak in the face of terrorism. He is weak in the face of American pressure.
Don't blame America. It's a two-way street. America pressures Israel. Israel pressures America. In the end both countries do what is in their own interests anyway. If you ask me, and despite Sharon's protests to the contrary, I'm not really sure Sharon wants to see Arafat go. Arafat is a brutal, corrupt disaster of a leader who won't or can't control the suicide bombers. And the whole world knows it. No one really expects Sharon to negotiate with him, because any agreement with Arafat doesn't mean anything anyway. The last thing Sharon wants to do is to get into actual negotations where the question of the occupied territories is on the table. Because as soon as that happens, Likud pulls out of Sharon's coalition government and he's out of a job. As long as Arafat's around no one (including the U.S.) really blames Sharon for not wanting to negotiate.
And stop projecting your own fear on to others.
Could the moderators please rein in the antiwar.com posse for a little, while FR still have a reputation? It seems they're a little excited. Must be the blood-fog.
Those who "fight" the hairy dwarf chasing, squinty gargoyles of evil and depravity, also serve.
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Your response is foolish but not unexpected. I'm pretty sure an American citizen cannot join a foreign army. To give an opinion on what side to take in a fight, does not mean one needs to physically join the fight.
I could root for the crew of the Apollo 13 to make it home safely without volunteering to get on a ship to go into space on a rescue mission.
I can pray for our troops as they go into dangerous caves without having to be there. We are allowed to do that.
I used to think you were just foolish after reading a few of your articles. If people actually read what you write and are influenced, you are actually dangerous.
I'll say it again if you need to hear it. Terrorist scum have again killed innocent civilians and defiled their own religion. WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOUR CRAP!
I know what you're saying, mafree. We've been told by several knowledgeable types that the death of Arafat would make things worse, but I wonder how much worse that could be right now. What would things be like without Arafat, if the Israelis, after enormous provocation, took him out? If they leave him alone, they can only expect this to continue and this is intolerable.
Lazarus LLong: For the sake of holding together the ill-advised coalition of us and the Arab-terrorist states. A real principled man, that Dubya.
By the time an issue gets to the desk of the president, it's never a matter of his having to make a great choice or a lousy one. What presidents do is choose between bad options and worse ones. We elected Bush to do what's best for America. And I believe he's trying to do that. If a word from an American president would make a suicide bomber get off the bus, go home and take off his bomb belt I'm sure Bush would do that. If a terrorist thinks that Allah wants him to blow himself up he's not going to forego that ecstasy just to please the U.S. president.
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