National Heroes
There’s an old saying: “Poor is the Nation that has no heroes, but beggared is the Nation that has and forgets them.”
But tell me: what are we to make of a prospective nation that counts among its heroes a suicide bomber and terrorist who committed mass murder – and erects a public monument to them?
I just don’t get it.
Category: WTF?
It’s said that if you give somebody enough time, they will explain themselves to you.
Any questions?
Yet our government is doing everything it can to create a Palestinian state and throw the one stable country in the region under the bus. We are very clearly telling Israel that we can no longer be trusted to support them. Andrea Mitchell’s obvious disdain for Prime Minister Netanyahu during their recent interview was yet another embarassment to our “unbiased” media. We have yet to learn that these countries who hate the U.S. and Israel have no desire for peace with anyone. They can’t even do it among themselves. And here we are snuggling up to another country who refers to us a “The Great Satan” and has promised to pound us into dust and obliterate Israel at the first opportunity. Are our “leaders” truly that ignorant or are they just determined to sacrifice the free world to get a faux Nobel “Peace” Prize?
OldSarge57…Thank you sir. According to my logic, my knowledge of history and lastly, my personal beliefs, if we as a nation withdraw our support from Israel, WE will pay a steep price for it in ways we cannot imagine.
^^^ THIS ^^^
Two state solution my ass. The british mandate for palestine was already divided in two, with Jordan getting 75% of the land, and the 25% left promised to be a jewish state. Then that 25% was divided by the UN to create yet another arab state in 1947. When the arabs refused the deal, they lost their opportunity. And when seven arab armies invaded the new state of israel, diplomacy went out the window.
The west bank paelestinians are jordans. They can move there. The gaza palestinians are egyptians, just like Arafat was born in Egypt. They can move there.
I was once told (by a Palestinian) that Palestinians are more or less considered the whiskey-tango trailer trash of the Arab world, and that the Egyptians, Syrians, Saudis, and Jordananians don’t want them (so much for islamic charity). Of course, it’s no secret that they pretty much all (especially Saudis and Syrians, the Jordanians maybe not as much) like having them as disposable cannon fodder for the never-ending proxy war against Israel. They’ll send lots of AKs and ammo, but how many of the better-off hajjis will lift a finger to help Palestinian orphans? Yeah, jihad is a lot cooler when it’s some illiterate Palestinian teenager with no future anyway who blows himself up, instead of their own kids.
The Palestinians could do a lot better for themselves if they woke up and realized who really keeps them in squalor and poverty (besides themselves). It ain’t us, and it ain’t Israel, either.
The Other Whitey…Thank you. Perhaps this is a flawed comparison on my part. If so, I hope someone, other than Larstain, sets me straight. To me the Palestinians are in the same situation as an Arab people, as blacks are in America. The Palestinians are their own worst enemy in not using what is available to them to rise above their lot in life and the world. They live at the good will of supporters outside their community. They continue to live with their hands out, though there have been offers, solutions and overtures on the table for them to change since 1947 as Yef pointed out. The ones from Jordan and Egypt, if they chose to change their mindsets would probably be welcomed back there. But living and behaving as the lowest of the low in the Arab world, by choice, make them pariahs to even their own nations. The message they proclaim the loudest is also their biggest lie. “We want national identity and self determination.” No they don’t. They want to stay as they are, where they are, to be cried over and pitied by every liberal organization, spokesman, news outlet, pro Arab sympathizers and anti-Israeli voices in the world. They would rather point their finger at someone else for their lot in life, the U.S. and Israel, echoed by their sympathizers, than change and truly “determine their own future”. (I believe if they did and made it known they wanted these changes, the other Arab nations WOULD support them in those efforts.) Plus as you said, the other Arab nations use them for their own very self serving purposes. They are the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of the Arab world. As I began, I will end. I could be very wrong but these are my beliefs about them. YMMV
When they danced in the streets of Gaza City on 9-11 they revoked their own “Human” card with me. Whatever happens to them now is none of my concern.
Looks like a great aiming point for a few B-52 loads of good-old-fashioned iron bombs.
ARC LIGHT!!
Get this, you know what Rabiha Dhiab calls the Palestinian suicide bombers? Self-sacrificing fighters. What the hell would those cowards know about self-sacrifice?
And now Israel must surrender 1/3 of its land area to the Palestinian Authority? I don’t think so. To hell with the Palestinians! They don’t want live peacefully side by side with Israel. Not now. Not ever.
This ain’t nothing.
UC-Berkeley students want to name a building after a convicted cop killer. I’ll attach the link once I get to a real computer, but it was recently reported by Fox.
This gets a passing mention in the San Francisco Chronicle, as one of ten demands by the Black Student Union: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Berkeley-black-students-demand-fixes-to-6139786.php
John S. Thank you for the article. What a load of bull shit from a bunch of self made whiners. I read this from the article.
“Too many students have told us about being excluded from study groups, ignored during class discussions, verbally harassed at parties and social events, and feeling, in a general sense, vulnerable, isolated, and invisible,”
Please GMAF break! I had the occasion to take a class in my old hometown at an originally all black university. North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. These kids at Berkeley think they are experiencing the things they wrote in what I quoted eh. Well I have some real world, grab your ass news for them. That fucking door swings both ways and when it was coming at me and the few other whites in the same course, it was out and out hostile and with spoken threats of violence. Didn’t bother me but the others most who were not veterans were frightened enough to cave to this shit and RUN back and forth to their cars, (it was an evening class) or give in to the most desired and spoken outcome, “Get the fuck off OUR campus you white MF@ckers!” No need to say it is a state school with state and federal funding to keep the doors open like any state university. So to the poor, downtrodden by the man once again, Berkeley black students who are FORCED I guess to go there, I say fuck off. You want to name a building after a murderer, unscrew your heads from your asses and get in the 20th and then the 21st century and make the most of your opportunities while you’re there. Study more, whine less. Find more ways to better your education and career opportunities and less ways to express your “blackness”.
For Lars whenever you show up which I fully expect, I’ll go ahead and say, fuck off Lars.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they named one after Robert Byrd.
UC-Berkeley? Isn’t that where Lars pursues “higher learning”? Someone should point out that that ship sailed from Berkeley long ago.
And sometimes the guys behind the bombings become Prime Minister of their nation after winning independence.
One man’s terrorist madman is another’s independence hero and future leader.
One might argue the Palestinians learned the technique of terrorist bombing from the Jewish movement to be free from the Brits…
I’m not suggesting it’s right, I am however suggesting the winners define who the terrorists are and define their own abhorrent acts of terror as a means to independence.
They hate the Jews and want them dead, anyone who kills Jews consequently appears heroic to them. Nothing surprising there, of course the reality on the ground indicates the stupidity of the monument, but stupidity is strong in the occupied territories.
She is PRETTY ! ! !
Ah, but then, I’m just a lonely old guy, and not able to think with my upper brain.
The Palestinians have never missed an opportunity, to miss an opportunity.
AW1Ed…THAT…was great! May I use it?
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