Comments on: Palestinians: Israeli occupation was better than Hamas rule

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:12:18 +0000

The Pali Arabs are discovering the truth of Heinlein’s comment, that “Vox populi, vox dei” often translates as “My G-d, how did we get into this mess?”

They voted for Hamas primarily because Hamas promised to kill more Jews faster than Fatah. Had they paid attention to how similar groups ruled Afghanistan, Iran, and the Sudan, or to the murderous violence of such groups in Algeria and Iraq, they might have expected Hamas to be just as brutal and intolerant as they have proved themselves to be. But none of the Palis paid attention, they were too anxious for rulers who would intensify the Jew-killing.

They made their own bed, and now they discover it is a bed of nails. It’s what they deserve.

By: chsw

chsw — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:28:39 +0000

IIRC, the Arabs in Suez rioted and taunted the (corrupt) Egyptian police and officials by saying that the Israelis were better than they were.

chsw

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:55:44 +0000

The Independent isn’t part of the Guardian. I prefer the Guardian, a leftist newspaper fairly representative of all strands that comprise “The Left”, to the Independent: a postmodernist rag obsessed with climate change that seems unable to get foreign news right – calling the largely Orthodox-Christian, paleo-Caucasian Abkhaz separatists from Georgia “Turkic Muslims”, for instance – which is hardly surprising when Robert Fisk is its Middle East editor. It’s probably the UK’s major media organ of uncompromising anti-Israelism.