Comments on: Observers or Hostages? https://www.yourish.com/2006/04/10/1047 Cutting straight to the point Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:33:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2006/04/10/1047/comment-page-1#comment-3918 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:33:47 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=1047#comment-3918 This might be very interesting. If kidnapping them constitutes terrorism, and any of the EU types are French, we may see the inauguration of The Chirac Doctrine (TM). No doubt you remember that not long ago Chirac said that if any state carried out a terrorist attack on France la belle nation would respond with nuclear weapons. Go for it Hamas and Fatah, here is your chance to be real martyrs for Allah! Which Pali town do you suppose Chirac will choose?

Yeah I know we don’t want a use of nukes and that the Frogs would never do something like, you know, decisive (note that Chirac just caved to the violent barbarians in the streets). But it makes an entertaining fantasy.

On the matter of the barbarians, among the damage the rioters did in protesting slight amounts of economic good sense included burning 40 rare manuscripts from the Sorbonne. Chirac, faux king of France as the Fifth Republic’s constitution makes him, ought to have remembered the song Bonnie Dundee:

“To the Lords of Convention ’twas Claverhouse spoke,
“Ere the King’s crown go down there are crowns to be broke.”

The longer the forces of law in France wait before breaking heads the more of them they will have to break before respect for the law is restored.

]]> By: Laurence Simon https://www.yourish.com/2006/04/10/1047/comment-page-1#comment-3911 Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:44:21 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=1047#comment-3911 The difference is the square they occupy in the Palestinian Pizza Bingo card.

I should plug it here.

]]> By: Li'l Mamzer https://www.yourish.com/2006/04/10/1047/comment-page-1#comment-3910 Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:43:21 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=1047#comment-3910 Hamas, Fatah, Abbas, EU, I mean, really, what’s the difference?

]]> By: chsw https://www.yourish.com/2006/04/10/1047/comment-page-1#comment-3907 Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:21:42 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=1047#comment-3907 Correction – what you should have written was “Hamas will have to act fast if they want to grab the EU observers first.” One word makes all the difference.

chsw

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