Why Don't I Care About the Palestinians?

National Review ^ | May 9 2002 | John Derbyshire

[fporretto]

I knew there was a reason I liked John Derbyshire, apart from his Americanophilia. This is straight shooting of the first order. It contrasts beautifully with the refusals to confront the evidence that mar the writing of most pundits who comment on the Palestinian mess.

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Francis W. Porretto
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[mmmmmmmm....... donuts]

i was just about to post this. brilliant.

[babble-on]

OK, even I am too politically correct to go for all of this, and I "shower with a Jew" every morning, namely myself. Ladies and gentlemen, the Pallies are not going to be expelled from the West Bank.

[dennisw]

 

Derby has written more articles that are pro Israel and that debunk Palestinian claims and propganda. Just go to his NR archive. Pretty witty fellow getting into Mark Steyn territory!

http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire-archive.asp

 

 

• May 9, 2002: Why Don’t I Care About the Palestinians?
• May 8, 2002: Road Warrior
• May 3, 2002: The Missing Element

• April 30, 2002: April Diary
• April 23, 2002: Dual Citizen
• April 19, 2002: Attitude Adjustment
• April 16, 2002: Take Heart
• April 11, 2002: The Labyrinths of Treason
• April 3, 2002: 102 Years of Small Talk

• March 28, 2002: The Thatcher Giant
• March 26, 2002: March Diary
• March 22, 2002: Kill a Jew for Allah
• March 19, 2002: All eyes to Ireland
• March 15, 2002: Trying Time Machine
• March 8, 2002: A Day in the Life
• March 6, 2002: Three Historians
• March 1, 2002: The Ghoul Impulse

• February 26, 2002: The Hidden Hand of EFTA
• February 22, 2002: More Bloggings
• February 19, 2002: February Bloggings
• February 14, 2002: Kill Two Cops, Write a Book
• February 12, 2002: In the Belly of the Beast
• February 5, 2002: How Much Has Really Changed?

• January 31, 2002: Israel's Future
• January 29, 2002: Minoritarianism
• January 23, 2002: To Blog, or Not to Blog
• January 17, 2002: Less Guns, More Gun Crime
• January 15, 2002: Take Me to Your Leader
• January 11, 2002: Af-Am Nonsense
• January 8, 2002: Nepotism in New York
• January 3, 2002: The Single Talent Well Employ’d

• December 20, 2001: Make Your Yuletide Gay
• December 18, 2001: The Pointe of It All
• December 13, 2001: The Nincompoop Prize
• December 6, 2001: Bloggings
• December 4, 2001: Slim Pickings

• November 30, 2001: Sick Man of Asia
• November 20, 2001: Workin’ at the INS Blues
• November 16, 2001: We Have Ways...
• November 15, 2001: Crusading They Went
• November 13, 2001: O Valiant Hearts
• November 8, 2001: Dreaming for the Whole World
• November 5, 2001: One Man’s Terrorist?

• October 30, 2001: XPect the Worst
• October 24, 2001: Emotional Correctness
• October 19, 2001: “Our Lost Land”
• October 16, 2001: Kinder, Gentler, Warmaking
• October 12, 2001: United States of Islam
• October 9, 2001: Number Games
• October 8, 2001: The Anglosphere Goes to War
• October 5, 2001: At Frist Glance
• October 4, 2001: Draft as Needed
• October 3, 2001: The Other War

• September 28, 2001: Soothing the Barbarians
• September 19, 2001: Into the Realm of Chaos
• September 16, 2001: The Price of Citizenship
• September 14, 2001: Aftermath Afterthoughts
• September 13, 2001: Hesperophobia
• September 12, 2001: The Surrender Option
• September 11, 2001: Steel and Fire and Stone
• September 7, 2001: Attorney General Janet Ashcroft
• September 4, 2001: Deconstructing W.

• August 30, 2001: Anyone for Spotted Richard?
• August 28, 2001: It's a Woman's World
• August 23, 2001: Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
• August 21, 2001: The Iron Triangle
• August 16, 2001: Last Days in China
• August 14, 2001: Derb Does China, Part IX
• August 9, 2001: China Diary, Part VIII
• August 7, 2001: Chinese Lessons

• July 26, 2001: China Diary, Part VI
• July 23, 2001: An Outsider Inside
• July 13, 2001: China Diary, Part IV
• July 12, 2001: China Diary, Part III
• July 11, 2001: Beijing Journal, Part II
• July 10, 2001: Beijing Journal, Part I

EVEN MORE AT HIS ARCHIVE

[dennisw]

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[BikerNYC]

Why Don't I Care About the Palestinians?

I can understand that. I don't care about the whole mess over there. All this talk of religion and ancient rights to land and blood feuds has just turned me off to the entire thing. They can do what they want to each other.

[Alouette]

I like taking showers with Jews.

Reminds me of the old '60's bumper sticker: "Save water, shower with a friend."

[Hunble]

1. An independent state, under Arafat or someone just as thuggish.

2. Military occupation by Israel.

3. Re-incorporation into a Jordanian-Palestinian nation.

4. Some sort of U.N. trusteeship.

5. Expulsion from the West Bank and Gaza, those territories then incorporated into Israel.

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I vote for number 5 above (expulsion) to make things interesting. If the UN or EU starts to bitch, then Israel turns over the territories to Jordan and Egypt and builds a wall to protect itself.

These territories belonged to Jordan and Egypt prior to the 6 day war, so Israel can return those areas to the original countries.

Let Jordan and Egypt deal with their problem and Israel can wash her hands of it.

[pabianice]

>>We now know that it's not the fault of colonialism, or neo-colonialism, or capitalism, or socialism. It's just the way these places are. They can't handle modernity, for some cultural reason we don't understand and can't do anything about.

Brilliantly put. Africa is doomed but the West refuses to admit it publicly.

[kapn kuek]

5. Expulsion from the West Bank and Gaza, those territories then incorporated into Israel.

This is the only solution that will bring peace to Israel!

[crystalk]

Respectfully beg to differ. It may not be next month or next year, it may come only after the next war, but the Pallies WILL be expelled from Eretz Yisroel.

[dagoofyfoot]

"Why Don't I Care About the Palestinians?"
This is not quite how I would describe my feelings toward these homicidal maniacs. It's nice to know how my taxes fund these same creeps that were dancing in the streets and handing how candy in "Celebration" to the 911 attacks. How it just jubilates them to see americans burning and falling to their deaths in New York. I'm tired of pussyfooting around with these terrorist. The only thing I want to be paying for, when it comes to these loser's is bullets and bombs. For thousands of years these Arabs can't get past go, while we became the world's superpower in just 250 years. What's wrong with this picture?

[Ancesthntr]

All of this applies to the Palestinians. I spent some of my formative years in Hong Kong, a barren piece of rock with zero natural resources, under foreign occupation, chock-full of refugees from the Mao tyranny. The people there weren't lounging in UNRWA camps or making suicide runs at the governor's mansion. They were trading, building, speculating, manufacturing, working — with the result that Hong Kong is now a glittering modern city filled with well-dressed, well-educated, well-fed people, proud of what they have accomplished together, and with a higher standard of living than Britain herself.

One thing that Derbyshire forgot to mention is that in addition to all of their positive accomplishments, the Hong Kong Chinese don't go around blowing up themselves and as many innocent people as possible with nail bombs.

The basic problem is that 2 generations of Arabs have had their minds poisoned with racial and religious filth. How else do you get people to willingly kill themselves? This brainwashing is for nothing less than the ultimate purpose of murdering as many Israeli Jews as possible. It is funded by such "moderate" Arab "allies" as Saudi Arabia (home of 15 of the 19 WTC mass murderers), and is "intellectually" aided and abetted by such other "moderate" Arab "allies" of the US as Egypt (whose official government newspaper regularly publishes lurid accounts of Jews using the blood of non-Jews, usually children, to bake into matzoh).

I say that the problem is with the Arab culture - they simply don't seem to "get along well with others." Pretty soon I think that the "Teacher" is going to give them all a failing grade.

[Jason Gade]

bump

[LibertarianLiz]

I knew there was a reason I liked John Derbyshire

Yes, Derbyshire is one of my favorites, too. This column is right up there with one of my very favorites, Make Your Yuletide Gay. You can get a link to that one thru post #5.

[Fabozz]

" I think the following list is exhaustive. 1. An independent state, under Arafat or someone just as thuggish. 2. Military occupation by Israel. 3. Re-incorporation into a Jordanian-Palestinian nation. 4. Some sort of U.N. trusteeship. 5. Expulsion from the West Bank and Gaza, those territories then incorporated into Israel."

I am naive enough to hope for option 6: A constitutional democracy that guarantees freedom, turning Palestine into the Hong Kong of the Middle East. It will never happen on its own, but we can impose it upon them, exactly as we imposed it on Germany and Japan. But to accomplish it we have to unashamedly declare that American-style democracy is just plain superior to secular socialism or Islamic fascism, something that our government as currently constituted cannot or will not do.

[NYC GOP Chick]

I knew there was a reason I liked John Derbyshire, apart from his Americanophilia.

He also responds to his emaill -- and promptly, even early on a Saturday morning. :-D

[ArGee]

1. An independent state, under Arafat or someone just as thuggish. 2. Military occupation by Israel. 3. Re-incorporation into a Jordanian-Palestinian nation. 4. Some sort of U.N. trusteeship. 5. Expulsion from the West Bank and Gaza, those territories then incorporated into Israel.

Couldn't we give them France? The French haven't figured out what to do with a country for hundreds of years. Let's let the Palis have a chance with the land. It'd be far enough from Israel that they would be no threat there and everyone knows how much the EU loves the Palis.

Sure, give 'em France. Will the French object? I doubt it. I've already received a surrender from them.

Shalom.