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GOP leader: Palestinians should move to unsettled Arab lands
Jerusalem Post ^ | May 2, 2002 | The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff

Posted on 05/02/2002 10:32:01 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl

The US Congress will vote today on a proposal to recognize the West Bank as sovereign territory belonging to the State of Israel.

Rep. Richard Armey, the Republican Congressional leader, said the Palestinians should build their national home within a neighboring Arab country.

Armey noted Arab nations have large tracts of unsettled territory where the Palestinians could build a nation.

In Armey's opinion, there is no reason for Israel to hand territory over to the Palestinians in exchange for peace.

The White House is urging Congress at this time to dramatically tone down the proposal's language, Israel Radio reported.


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To: Cinnamon Girl
True and this also dangerous for the administration the middle east and every American. Whether you agree with this proposal or not Congress shouldn't be intervering with the administration. They either railroad the administration in going along with it at the expense of the larger war at stake here or it looks like the US gov't is in chaos and can't come to any decisive opinion. CONGRESS STAY THE HELL OUT!
41 posted on 05/02/2002 11:09:14 AM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: Cinnamon Girl
I wouldn't have agreed with this suggestion in the past, but it's become abundantly clear that the Palestinians, Hamas and Hesballah aren't going to pursue pease. So let us face this fact and get on with it. Expel the Palestinians. Yasser can then squat on his patch of dessert and congratulate himself on his victory, which is exactly what he deserves for his treachery.
42 posted on 05/02/2002 11:12:32 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Dog Gone
Armey is wrong on this, and not just because of the substance of it. He's wrong because foreign policy initiatives should come out of the Adminsitration. We don't need 535 Secretary of State wannabes on Capitol Hill.

Agreed.

43 posted on 05/02/2002 11:13:17 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: Dog Gone
Armey is wrong on this, and not just because of the substance of it. He's wrong because foreign policy initiatives should come out of the Adminsitration. We don't need 535 Secretary of State wannabes on Capitol Hill.

And if the President's policy is out of step with what America wants, we should sit on our hands and wait four years to do something about it? I disagree. I see nothing wrong with our representatives passing resolutions. If the Admin finds it inconvenient, tough darts.

44 posted on 05/02/2002 11:14:29 AM PDT by Huck
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To: Cinnamon Girl
FOR SURE--AMEN! AMEN! HAVE THOUGHT SUCH FOR YEARS:

So, Mohammed, let me get this straight . . .

You claim the same God as Abraham.

The generous, charitable, kind, merciful, gracious, extremely Loving Father, Almighty God. And you claim Islam is a religion of charity and peace.

So, You have Medina and a 2nd most important religious city ahead of Jerusalem.

You have abundant empty land in many Arab nations in the area.

Your half-brothers have been hounded, villified and almost exterminated time and again the last 2,000 years. . . and yet you want to steal their land and exterminate them once and for all.

And you think I should believe in your moon god that you pretend is God Almighty. What a travesty.

Welllll, this time, you have approached much closer to far too far. You see, your half brothers happen to have THE BOSS'S FAVOR and He can be extremely jealous about them. You may think the desert can be hot. Wait until HE finishes singe-ing your tail feathers to obliteration. . . can you spell Bar-B-Q?

45 posted on 05/02/2002 11:17:19 AM PDT by Quix
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To: Dog Gone
instead we have Colon Bowell as a Secretary of State wannabe in the executive branch. Those guys don't know what they are doing because they can't speak the truth. Arafat is a terrorist. Israel is fighting the terrorists. Therefore we should support Israel just as we are supporting the Philipines in their fight against terror.
46 posted on 05/02/2002 11:22:07 AM PDT by arielb
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To: TLBSHOW; all
Good for him. Good thread and this is what needs to be done. Where is the rest of the voices from the republicans?

Palestinians should move to unsettled Arab lands

So let's send all the African Americans to a country in Africa, since that's where they originally came from and while we are at it, send all the people of Jewish heratege to Israel, Chinese to China, Koreans to Korea etc

Talk about JM Le Pen being a facist. If this bill is fact, and passes, we have not seen terrorism in the world compared to what we will see, as no ethnic nation will know who is next.

I suppose it will end up being a country of WASPS.

47 posted on 05/02/2002 11:26:31 AM PDT by John_11_25
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To: agrace
Good points! If Israel has to give back the land they won in combat then the US should be forced to return California, New Mexico, Arizona to Mexico. These areas were our prize for winning the Mexican-American war.

We could take it a step further and have to give back all of North America to the Indians. It was their land, they lost it in battle, we took it. How could we condemn Israel and not see the parallels.

In summary, the policy of returning conquered land could set a very dangerous precedent for all Americans.

48 posted on 05/02/2002 11:27:09 AM PDT by JDGreen123
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To: hoos30
OK wiseguy....I'll wager there are more Israelis living in the US than US Jews living in Israel.

Not that it matters. Armey is part Maronite isn't he?....that's Lebabnese Arab Christian in case you missed that chapter in your programming. I'm about 1/16th Lebanese Christian myself and I agree fully with Armey.

We conservatives in the "Amen Corner" as you Jew haters always put it, ...we simply see right and wrong and don't wallow in moral equivocation. You should try it. Think "clarity".

49 posted on 05/02/2002 11:32:01 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: Cinnamon Girl
Arab nations have large tracts of unsettled territory where the Palestinians could build a nation.

Yer damn right, Mr. Armey!
Let 'em go there and blow themselves up.
But then, this isn't about a "Palestinian nation."
It's about a ruthless band of murderers, with the chief terrorist at the helm,
who endeavor to establish a Marxist dictatorship and destroy the Jewish state.


50 posted on 05/02/2002 11:34:36 AM PDT by ppaul
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To: hoos30
How about the Israelis move back to Brooklyn, San Franciso, Frankfurt or London where they lived before they came and stole Palestinian land?? How would you feel if someone kicked you out of your home and stole all of your resources? "Conservatives" amuse me; they don't like when immigrants take over their space, but don't seem to mind if they take over someone else's

1. Many jews lived in Arab lands and had to move to Israel because the Arabs kicked them out after Israel became a nation.
2. This never was Palestinian land. Both Arabs and Jews lived in the Land when it was under Turkish control, and later under British control.
3. When Israel was created, the Arabs were offered half the land. The Arabs turned it down because they wanted it all.
4. Arabs living in Israel have more rights and freedoms than Arabs living is Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and any other part of the Arab World.

Israel is far from perfect but if you want to complain about mistreatment of Arabs, then you have to start with the Arab nations.

51 posted on 05/02/2002 11:34:58 AM PDT by Sci Fi Guy
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To: hoos30
Just about every country in the world was at one time settled by a victorious nation, insurgent explorers, or displaced / defeated peoples from other areas. Let's not pretend that the plight of the Palestinians is new and unique to history.

The Middle East doesn't "belong" to the Arabs any more than Brooklyn belongs to the Jews or the Iriquois, or San Fransisco to the Indians (ok maybe the the Indian from the Village People), or Frankfurt to the French or Swedish, or London to the Romans.

53 posted on 05/02/2002 11:43:23 AM PDT by jz638
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To: Cinnamon Girl; shermy; ernest at the beach
Soon, there should be a lot of land available in Iraq, Iran, Syria and maybe Saudi land for these poor PA's.

After we dispose of the thugs who rule these countries, we can give each PA family, about 25 acres, an oil well and part of their new nations oil petro$'s. Then they can hire all of the Islamic thugs who made sure that the PAs were poor and lived in hell to become human bombs. These thug nations could have brought the PA's to their countries and made them citizens to share their petro $'s. They did not want that. Like our Je$$e, they needed a down trodden group to become the champions of. Of course, they never wanted anything positive to happen for/to the PA's. They just wanted them to be miserable.

In 2 to 5 years, the PA's in their new home/country and Israel will become great trading partners and neighbors.

I suggest that we start with Iran and Syria first for the quickest results for the PA new homelands. A little Islamic Terrorist backing thug cleansing this month would enable the PA's to start having a new home this summer. They could pick their land in June!

54 posted on 05/02/2002 11:47:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: hoos30
How about the Israelis move back to Brooklyn, San Francisco, Frankfurt or London where they lived before they came and stole Palestinian land??

San Francisco already has Night-Of-The-Living-Dead homeless degenerates here (in SF). They would make the Palestinians look like royalty.

55 posted on 05/02/2002 11:49:26 AM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness
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To: Cinnamon Girl
I'm with Rep. Armey.

Show me an other example in history, apart from Israel, where a country has gone to war five times to defend itself, won every war, and was then expected to give back all of the land it has taken during those wars.

56 posted on 05/02/2002 11:55:14 AM PDT by NCDoc
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To: hoos30
"How about the Israelis move back to Brooklyn, San Franciso, Frankfurt or London where they lived before they came and stole Palestinian land?? How would you feel if someone kicked you out of your home and stole all of your resources? "Conservatives" amuse me; they don't like when immigrants take over their space, but don't seem to mind if they take over someone else's."

Hey you Horses Arse, fell free to go back to your buddies at DU. I am sure you won't clue anyone in on the fact that what the British referred to as Palistinian Territory is a large part of present-day Jordan, and does not include any part of Israel. The Pali cause is a convienant way for the Arabs to chip away at Israel in hopes that some day she will cease to exist.

57 posted on 05/02/2002 12:01:02 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: Dog Gone
But what must a moral and clear sighted nation do if it's department of State has an infinite number of blind eyes to turn, does not even know the concept of "right and wrong", have shown themselves to be EUnuchs and are willing to sell their only friend in the Middle East for a few barrels of oil?
58 posted on 05/02/2002 12:04:52 PM PDT by besieged
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To: wardaddy
Many Lebanese Christians immigrated to Texas. Armey's family is not the only one I've heard of.
59 posted on 05/02/2002 12:06:25 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: hoos30
How about the Israelis move back to Brooklyn, San Franciso, Frankfurt or London where they lived before they came and stole Palestinian land??

Actually ignoramus, 43% of Jewish Israelis are from the MidEast. Were driven from the various Arab nations!
Where is the stolen land, houses and property of these 800,000 Jews who were expelled?

60 posted on 05/02/2002 12:09:42 PM PDT by dennisw
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