… shut off their fuel nozzles. … bicycles are the new favored form of transportation.

Gee, isn’t that what the anti-global-warming environmentalists want for the rest of us?

The union said the local petrol companies have refused to receive what Israel is sending “in order not to be partners in punishing the Palestinian people because these quantities are insufficient.”

This is a perfect metaphor for the negotiating tactics of the Palestinian Authority. If they don’t get everything they insist on in their maximalist demands, they walk away from negotiations altogether.

“Negotiations” in their lexicon really means: a timetable for acceptance of these demands. It does not include so much as a gesture on their part towards Israel.

Why? Because they don’t want what they demand. They want their demands rejected so they can claim their resistence is justified by Israeli intransigence.

If Israel voted tomorrow to give back all the land taken in 1967, including Jerusalem and the Golan, the Arabs would reject it! The only demand they would accept as fulfilling their requirements would be “the right of return”.

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam! Furthermore, I think, they should all be returned to the sand they drifted in from.

They should all hold their breath as a protest to this Jewish abuse of their very air!

If the outside world really wanted to help the Palis, and not to do down Israel, they would force the Arabs to resettle those who are outside the PA. Within the PA and Gaza they would organize an international government of outsiders, the EU for example since they are supposedly so concerned about the Palis and shovel so much money to them. A substantial military force would be needed to enforce authority there; model it on the French Foreign Legion. All Palis would be disarmed and terrorists put down. Then the rest of the population would be given the opportunity to work, and if they did not want to work they could starve. The financing of this project should come from the Wahhabist Entity and other oil tick Arab states; let them give zakat there instead of to terrorists.

It will not happen of course. The Palis’ only value to anyone else is as a stick to beat Israel with, and aside from that their “Arab Brothers” regard them with contempt and disgust, and treat them worse than the Israelis do. Certainly they have killed more of them than the Israelis have.