Posted on 07/11/2006 8:21:51 AM PDT by Alouette
GAZA, Palestine -- As Americans commemorated their annual celebration of independence from colonial occupation, rejoicing in their democratic institutions, we Palestinians were yet again besieged by our occupiers, who destroy our roads and buildings, our power stations and water plants, and who attack our very means of civil administration. Our homes and government offices are shelled, our parliamentarians taken prisoner and threatened with prosecution.
The current Gaza invasion is only the latest effort to destroy the results of fair and free elections held early this year. It is the explosive follow-up to a five-month campaign of economic and diplomatic warfare directed by the United States and Israel. The stated intention of that strategy was to force the average Palestinian to "reconsider" her vote when faced with deepening hardship; its failure was predictable, and the new overt military aggression and collective punishment are its logical fulfillment. The "kidnapped" Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit is only a pretext for a job scheduled months ago.
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Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
You forgot a very large puke alert.
"Waaaaaaa.... we rocket their cities and they have the gall to return fire!!!"
This author was just discussed on Laura Ingraham's show with a ME terrorism expert or somesuch. He said this Haiyeh fellow is Israel's OBL. Oh, the Compost also pays him an honorarium for penning this anti-Israel pap. Amazing....
This is not something a responsible newspaper would print. I guess that's why it's in the Post.
Stunned at the Post printing this garbage...... Wouldn't bother me a bit if the Israelis leveled everything from their southern border to the Suez Canal.....
Can you imagine what this guy would have written if Karl Rove hadn't censored him first?
The mind reels.
Ok, I stand corrected!
>>Haniya was born in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza. His parents became refugees after they fled their homes in what is now the city of Ashkelon in Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In 1987, he graduated from the Islamic University of Gaza with a degree in Arabic literature. In 1989, he was incarcerated for three years by Israeli authorities, and following his release in 1992, he was deported to Lebanon. A year later, he returned to Gaza and was appointed as Dean of the Islamic University.
After the release from prison in 1997 of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas' spiritual leader, Haniya was appointed to head his office. He was targeted by the Israeli Army for his alleged involvement in attacks against Israeli citizens. Following a suicide bombing in Jerusalem in 2003, he was slightly injured on his hand by an Israeli Air Force bomb attack attempting to eliminate the Hamas leadership. His position within Hamas continued to strengthen during the Al-Aqsa Intifada due to his relationship with Yassin, and because of the elimination of much of the Hamas leadership by the Israeli Security Forces. In December 2005, Haniya was elected to head the Hamas list, which in January 2006 won the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.
On February 16, 2006, Hamas nominated Haniya for Palestinian Prime Minister, and was formally presented as such to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on February 20.<<
All it takes is an intelligent reader to understand it. Mr. Haniyah wants all land captured in '67 returned, Jerusalem re-partitioned, and the 1948 refugees and their descendants returned to their land in Israel (or - perhaps - very handsomely compensated).
Since when is a state which wins a war expected to return its conquests to the losers? Since when do those expelled losers have the right to return and claim "their" lands?
Read the document with reasonable care and Mr. Haniyah is saying that Hamas wants the destruction of Israel as the price of peace. He's also saying that the Palestinians are at war with Israel...so who gives a shit what happens to them?
It's important to remember what Jabotinsky said 75 years ago - there's no right and wrong here, the Jews want a state of their own in their ancient homeland but the Palestinians, who've thought of that land as a home for a thousand years, don't want to let them have it.
Typical garbage from the Washington Compost.
It's important to remember that Arabs did not begin to call themselves "Palestinians" until after 1948. The "Palestine Liberation Organization" was established in 1964--before the so-called occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
It's important to remember that the Paleoswineans always trot out this same old "retreat to the pre-1967 lines and give us a 'Right of Return'" when they are getting their butts whipped.
That's a very critical point, Alouette. There are two issues for the Palestinian arabs: the right to their own state, and the right to live in peace.
The fact is that they never, ever had a state. There never was an arab state of Palestine (or by any other name); it always was under the jurisdiction of someone else. Therefore, Israel's sovereignty is nothing new.
As to the right to live in peace, they have been offered this right repeatedly and have spurned it just as often. Even today, if they said that they wanted to live in peace in Israel and pledged to abandon any efforts to undermine the state of Israel, I have no doubt that the Israeli government would welcome them with open arms.
In my opinion, it is important to recognize that most of these people are officially called "refugees" under international law. Because they are "refugees" it means that they are not living in their permanent homes (how can you be a refugee in your own home?). I'll repeat that: Because they are "refugees" it means that they are not living in their permanent homes (how can you be a refugee in your own home?).
That being the case, I do not believe that Israel will live in peace until the refugees are given a permanent home. I think that it is incument upon arab countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan to open their borders and accept the Palestinian arabs who are refugees. In addition, I believe that they should open their borders to those arabs who currently live west of the Jordan River but would be uncomfortable living under Israeli sovereignty.
Problem solved.
They thought of themselves as Muslims and Arabs and of Palestine as a Muslim land under Ottoman control. Modern Middle-Eastern states are entirely a creation of the French and English.
It's important to remember that the Paleoswineans always trot out this same old "retreat to the pre-1967 lines and give us a 'Right of Return'" when they are getting their butts whipped.
What else do you expect them to say? That's always been their position and they are consistant in asserting it. Do you expect them to change it because the sons of pigs and monkeys demand it?
And I thought of myself as a citizen under the protection of the Roman Empire.
Newsflash for "Palestinians": The Ottoman Empire is no more, it's kaput, finis. Deal with it.
Once again, WaPo gives aid and comfort to our enemies....
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