Posted on 06/17/2004 6:52:13 PM PDT by blam
Breaking news, off the ESPN sportswire.....The Palestine SAuthority has just announced that they will enter a sychronized swimming team in the 2004 Olympics..
"This is the beginning of turning the Gaza Strip into a big prison," said Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian cabinet minister
That's kind of the point,if your fellow psycotics can't behave,you neeed to be isolated.
This just in,the entire Palestinian Synchronised Swimming team drowned when their suicide explosive belts dragged them underwater after they wandered into the deep end of the moat.
I actually find this quite amusing. Imagine the surprised look of arms smuggling terrorists as their tunnels flood with millions of gallons of seawater.
---"This is the beginning of turning the Gaza Strip into a big prison," said Saeb Erekat---
Of your own making, you murdering SOB.
Oh, I hear it was going to be pole vaulting.
Hey, British newspaper Telegraph...why all the "shock and bemusement?" The moat around England, otherwise known as the English channel, is the only thing that kept Hitler's tanks from driving into London after the "miracle" of Dunkirk -- asshats.
Salt water moats with salt water crocs, sounds like a great idea!
In case you hadn't noticed, in Iraq, the "Poles" are on OUR side..
How about populating the moat with crocodiles and piranhas?
I consider myself a Zionist among Zionists, but I have been advocating the complete Israeli abandonment of Philistia (oops, I mean "Gaza") for as long as I have posted on Free Republic. I'm happy to see that the Israeli government is finally taking my wise advice (grin!).
Philistia (Gaza) is different from Judea and Samaria (the so-called "West Bank"). Philistia is home to only 6,000 Jewish settlers, many of which have lived there for less than one generation (and who may be reasonably compensated for withdrawal) -- but is home to 1.3 million Philistines. Philistia should be cut loose, to sink or swim. By contrast, Judea and Samaria are home to some 200,000 Jews, some of which are into their third generation of residency. The expulsion of these Jews from Judea and Samaria is not an option -- rather, Israel should examine the eventual Annexation and full Incorporation of the so-called "West Bank" (I am not above suggesting that Israel should, for demographic reasons, offer a monetary bonus to those Palestinians who would voluntarily re-locate to Jordan and Syria -- but those Palies who remain should receive full Citizenship and Property Rights upon Israeli Annexation).
Once Philistia is cut loose from Israel, they are certainly not a "prison". They are simply placed in the same circumstance as other densely-populated, resource-poor Micro-States, such as Hong Kong or Singapore -- which have become relative economic Paradises within their regions by inviting Trade and Business via a combination of Free Commerce and the Rule of Law. Free Commerce is not a tradition unknown to the Arabs; indeed, it vastly pre-dates the Soviet-inspired 1950's "frankenstein monster" of "Arab Socialism" (traditional Islamic Law requires only an iron-clad Law of Charity giving 3% of all income to the Poor, not Socialism). If the Philistines embrace Free Commerce and the Rule of Law (even Sharia Law, if applied evenly and without external aggressions -- the domestic Laws of Singapore are also harsh and authoritarian, but at least Singapore does not sponsor terrorism), they have an opportunity to follow in the steps of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Konigsberg -- becoming a regional center of Trade. If the Philistines instead remain committed to Arab Socialism and Wahhabistic terrorism, they will remain a poor, degenerate, violent backwater -- a "Prison" of their own making, fit only for walls and moats and isolation from the civilized world.
Once Israel withdraws -- the choice is theirs.
Crocodiles won't eat Palestinians - crocs don't eat their own.
Erekat's poor command of the English language is showing - the proper term is "an insane asylum", not "a big prison".
Hope it's filled with crocs....CRIKEE!
Get ready for the "Wetback" jokes.
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