Comments on: The Times almost gets it http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/06/825 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:03:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/06/825/comment-page-1#comment-2963 Michael Lonie Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:34:35 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/06/825#comment-2963 The Palis elected Hamas. There is no reason why we should do anything to help them. "We respect your choice, now you can learn that choices have consequences. The theory of democracy is that the voters know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard. Don't bother to call us until you have decided you want to get a life." That "good and hard" part was a comment by H. L. Mencken by the way, not a particularly fragrant sort for his enthusiasm for German autocracy and worse, but I've always liked that "good and hard" phrase. Tha Palis should also find out the truth of Robert Heinlein's comment that vox populi, vox dei often translates from Latin as "My G-d how did we get into this mess?" The Palis elected Hamas. There is no reason why we should do anything to help them. “We respect your choice, now you can learn that choices have consequences. The theory of democracy is that the voters know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard. Don’t bother to call us until you have decided you want to get a life.”

That “good and hard” part was a comment by H. L. Mencken by the way, not a particularly fragrant sort for his enthusiasm for German autocracy and worse, but I’ve always liked that “good and hard” phrase. Tha Palis should also find out the truth of Robert Heinlein’s comment that vox populi, vox dei often translates from Latin as “My G-d how did we get into this mess?”

]]> By: David Foster http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/06/825/comment-page-1#comment-2955 David Foster Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:45:59 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/06/825#comment-2955 Would they have suggested that, during WWII, the US give the Nazi government German assets seized in the US? After all, this was "the Germans own money." Would they have suggested that, during WWII, the US give the Nazi government German assets seized in the US? After all, this was “the Germans own money.”

]]> By: Cynic http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/06/825/comment-page-1#comment-2942 Cynic Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:56:17 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/03/06/825#comment-2942 Funny but they have no complaints for the unpaid millions owed by the Palestinians for gasoline, electricity and water. Maybe Israel is using those taxes and custom funds to make up the shortfall suffered by Israeli companies? It's not enough that Israel went and put its workers on the street and moved factories and set them up in industrial zones on the borders (Erez, Karni etc.) to provide the Palestinians with work, only to have Hamas and IJ attack them with bombs and automatic weapons and destroy the infrasructure; but Israel must bankroll that behaviour as well? Why don't they press Washington to give more than the almost half a billion Bush gave to Abbas last year? Funny but they have no complaints for the unpaid millions owed by the Palestinians for gasoline, electricity and water.
Maybe Israel is using those taxes and custom funds to make up the shortfall suffered by Israeli companies?

It’s not enough that Israel went and put its workers on the street and moved factories and set them up in industrial zones on the borders (Erez, Karni etc.) to provide the Palestinians with work, only to have Hamas and IJ attack them with bombs and automatic weapons and destroy the infrasructure; but Israel must bankroll that behaviour as well?

Why don’t they press Washington to give more than the almost half a billion Bush gave to Abbas last year?

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