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Mark Steyn: The UN is running out of blind eyes to turn
The Telegraph (U.K.) ^
| 04/20/2002
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 04/19/2002 5:39:56 PM PDT by Pokey78
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Parts similar to Steyn's National Post column from today.
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posted on
04/19/2002 5:39:59 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Howlin; Riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2...
Ping for the MSPL.
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posted on
04/19/2002 5:42:18 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
yesterday's Telegraph, Terje Roed-Larsen, the "UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process", described the devastation at the refugee camp as "horrific beyond belief".Update: Terje's backpedalling
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posted on
04/19/2002 5:43:49 PM PDT
by
xm177e2
To: Pokey78, grlfrnd
the day before the Red Cross jerks went into Jenin, PBS ran a Frontline special filmed behind terrorist lines in Jenin within the last six weeks. The place was wall-to-wall terrorists, and buildings housed huge chaches of weapons, bins of gunpowder and other explosives, some quite sophisticated. One was added to mortar shells to bring temperature up to 4,000 degrees. If you'd dropped a match in that camp, the whole place would have blown sky high. Apparently the Israelis dropped a match and now the world is complaining about the deaths of the mythical innocents.
To: Pokey78
This is a Steyn gem, plain and simple.
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posted on
04/19/2002 5:59:29 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
To: Pokey78
Jenin surely didn't look like what I thought a refugee camp would look like. There were no tents, no outdoor campfires to stay warm or cook a few beans.
Best I can tell, it wasn't a camp at all. The "refugees" all had apartments just like everyone else on the West Bank.
It looks to me like any other city, except that it's called a "camp" for political purposes.
I wonder if I'm missing something.
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posted on
04/19/2002 5:59:58 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Pokey78
Excellent. I know just the thread to link this to...
To: Pokey78
Great article! The UN sucks weiners.
To: Dog Gone
I wonder if I'm missing something. I have wondered the same thing about the Jenin "refugee camp". Their housing looked better than most of what I've seen on video from Afghanistan. Jenin is a town, period.
BTW, I had also heard someone on Fox last week point out that Clinton's administration had tried to give a lot of money to Arafat and his goons in order to refurbish and update the "refugee camp" of Jenin. Arafat refused the money (according to the source, whose name escapes me at the moment). He and all of the other terrorist goons want to keep this "camp" exactly as is for political purposes.
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To: Pokey78
Excellent piece! Just excellent!
Thanks for the post and the ping, Pokey.
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posted on
04/19/2002 6:34:45 PM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: sciencediet
"This is a Steyn gem, plain and simple" Amen, my friend.
This "Steyn gem" is truth.
To: Pokey78
"That's what's "horrific beyond belief": that the UN is complicit in terrorism."
Can I be the first to call on the use of the Bush Doctrine against the UN?
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posted on
04/19/2002 7:46:57 PM PDT
by
Kermit
To: Pokey78
BRAVO! You have to admit that Mark Steyn is totally brilliant!
To: Pokey78
three generations none of whom had ever lived in the places they're supposed to be refugees fromGreat article, Pokey78! At first I thought it was the same as the National Post one, but I think this one is better.
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04/19/2002 9:51:58 PM PDT
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Amelia
To: LibertarianLiz;PoisedWoman;Abwehr;dennisw;veronica;sabramerican
Jenin "Family Day" in happier times.Just a peaceful wittle town, trying to find its place under the sun, to live in harmony with all the world...
To: Pokey78; JohnHuang2
Bump/Ping
To: Travis McGee
GREAT photo! Thanks.
To: McGavin999
"BRAVO! You have to admit that Mark Steyn is totally brilliant!"
I must agree with you. I have been following Steyn for about 6 months now and he consistantly has the best foriegn policy take in the media. He is a treasure and If someone has a bump list for his columns please put me on it.
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posted on
04/20/2002 6:38:33 AM PDT
by
joebuck
To: LibertarianLiz
I heard Morton Kondrake, during the Fox All-Stars segment of Special Report, say that Martin Indyk (sp?) told him that. Indyk was a US diplomat who was working on the negotiations during the Clinton Administration.
On one hand, its amazing that stuff like that goes on, but on the other....it's Arafat we're talking about here.
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posted on
04/20/2002 7:09:39 AM PDT
by
michaelt
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