The obvious spin is in -- the victory of Hamas over the PLO is not an affirmative vote for terrorist violence, but instead is a rejection of the long-standing [?] corruption of Arafat, his cronies in the PLO hierarchy, and the pretty-much stillborn Palestinian Authority. So Israel has less to fear than it would like many of us to believe.
Or does it? A implacable Zionist could argue that this is exactly the type of belief necessary to lull Israel into a false, and inevitably fatal, sense of security. So the electoral outcome is dangerous for Israel, but for a reason not obvious upon first glance.
The other important thing to note is that Hamas gets to rule a PA structure which is broke and has no prospects in sight. Which perhaps makes the leadership even more dangerous than they would be otherwise?
Funny hoe you adhere to the Bush line of rejection of corruption when you know damned well the vidtory of Hamas merely reinforces the trutgh of the matter that the Arabs living in the disputed territories have no desire for peace with Israel, but rather its destruction. And no amount of spin doctoring or verbal fermentation on your part. And by the way, the reason the terrorists are broke is because Arafat and his cronies socked it all away in a Swiss bank account. Everything that wasnt used to pay for bomb supplies to kill Jewish children with. You try so damned hard to convince people you actually have some semblance of understanding of the complex nature of the Middle East but the fact is, you are nothing more than a mere parrot, echoing a combination of anti-Israel rhetoric as espoused via Arab propaganda, and the insidious snide comments you occasionally slip into your diatribes that are so reminiscent of the best of Tom Metzger and David Duke it does become difficult to separate your rhetoric from your ignorance. And you've STILL got mail. If you aint gonna read it, tell me now.
What have I written that is "...so reminiscent of the best of Tom Metzger and David Duke..."?
Please quote me AND the other person[s] in question, on this Board, side by side, and let other members of the Board who might be interested in our Talmudic and Jesuitical arguments decide. Or at least weigh in. If we haven't put them in a coma first.
God, if I followed your example, I could write something like your postings remind me of the worst of Meir Kahane and Vladimir Jabotinsky and Avi Weiss and Guela Cohen and Natan Sharansky and the Kach Party Central Committee leadership at their most bloodthirsty and untruthful flights of rhetorical fancy, but I don't.
Doc, you're obviously an intelligent man, a man deeply committed to his beliefs [which I consider wrong in the main, but, again, maybe I'm the one who is wrong]. But I NEVER EVER get the impression that you have ever once for a nanosecond considered the possibilty that you are wrong. On any question, not just the Near East. No sense of introspection? A lame analogy -- people are deeply committed to belief in Intelligent Design, racial hierarchies, a flat earth, alien abduction, Bruce Willis' acting skills and a slew of other amusing but implausible stuff. But their passion and commitment, no matter how great, doesn't automatically make them right. At your worst moments, that's what you put me in mind of.
OK, humor time:
Q. Why do Palestinians hate Americans?
A. It's safer than hating Israelis.
[Less you misconstrue, the point is that the Israelis practice lex talonis and respond in kind].
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