We’ve had nothing but anarchy in chaos, a legacy of the ruin Yasser Arafat made of any semblance of palestinian civil rule, since the Gaza pullout. In Gaza itself, palestinian elections are near the end stage, and this is what you get:
Thousands of Palestinian security personnel, who voted early, fanned out across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to protect polling stations. More than 1,700 Israeli border police are being deployed to ensure order and the free movement of voters in the Jerusalem area during election day, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.
Violence has marred the period before the elections, with militants taking over government offices and threatening poll workers. Much of the unrest was carried out by gunmen linked to Fatah, apparently fearing losses to Hamas.
Fatah also has been riven by internal divisions, which turned deadly Tuesday. Fatah gunmen shot to death Abu Ahmed Hassouna, 44, a party leader in Nablus after he told them to stop shooting at campaign posters on his house, relatives said. It was the second politically motivated killing of the campaign.
About 1,000 people marched to the main police station in Nablus to protest the shooting, giving the police chief a letter demanding an end to lawlessness. “Enough, enough. We want the police to protect us.” they shouted. Dozens of gunmen later blocked a main road and shopkeepers shut down their stores in protest.
In Tulkarem, about 40 militants from Islamic Jihad – which is boycotting the vote – marched along the West Bank town’s main road to demand the release of prisoners from Palestinian jails and to ask residents to boycott the election. Many wore fake explosive belts and carried wooden sticks.
Police, claiming one of the passing protesters shot at their station, opened fire on the group, scattering the masked men. No one was hurt.
The violence cast doubts on the fragmented militant factions’ promises to maintain calm on election day.
About 25 masked gunmen from various factions held a joint news conference Tuesday in Gaza City to announce they would be unarmed during the balloting.
Congratulations, Yasser Arafat. Your legacy of evil, corruption, graft, and thuggery has left your people centuries behind the rest of the world. Which is not to say that the palestinians themselves don’t deserve some of the blame–they let it happen. As did the rest of the world, who insisted that the PLO was the “sole representative of the palestinian people,” not giving any legitimate leadership who might actually have brought his people into honest and true negotiations with Israel. The world looked aside as one by one, Arafat’s opponents were murdered–by Arafat’s thugs. The world ignored the corruption and the lies, fed into it by giving the head thief billions, and ignored the evidence that showed he was siphoning off much of the money that was supposed to aid his people and redirecting it into his own Swiss bank accounts and terrorist activities.
They are all complicit in the anarchy in Gaza. And I can’t help thinking of this scene from Kipling’s The Jungle Book:
Ever since Akela had been deposed, the Pack had been without a leader, hunting and fighting at their own pleasure. But they answered the call from habit; and some of them were lame from the traps they had fallen into, and some limped from shot wounds, and some were mangy from eating bad food, and many were missing. But they came to the Council Rock, all that were left of them, and saw Shere Khan’s striped hide on the rock, and the huge claws dangling at the end of the empty dangling feet. It was then that Mowgli made up a song that came up into his throat all by itself, and he shouted it aloud, leaping up and down on the rattling skin, and beating time with his heels till he had no more breath left, while Gray Brother and Akela howled between the verses.
“Look well, O Wolves. Have I kept my word?” said Mowgli. And the wolves bayed “Yes,” and one tattered wolf howled:
“Lead us again, O Akela. Lead us again, O Man-cub, for we be sick of this lawlessness, and we would be the Free People once more.”
“Nay,” purred Bagheera, “that may not be. When ye are full-fed, the madness may come upon you again. Not for nothing are ye called the Free People. Ye fought for freedom, and it is yours. Eat it, O Wolves.”
The difference here, of course, is that the world will not blame Arafat and his legacy of corruption and terror. The world blames Israel.
Eat it, O World.
I think that everybody needs to go back and read what happened in the 80s when State along with the Europeans and the Arab League crowned Arafat King.
Remember how JA
(fucktheJews)B lll spoke to Israel’s Prime Minister Shamir and told him that when he got serious he had the phone number?Now with hindsight we can see how arrogant and stupid both State and JAB lll were, how right Shamir was.
But then of course doing the AL’s bidding was the important thing. The ordinary Pally in the street just cannon fodder in the GWoI (Greater War on Israel). The dead and maimed Jews who got run over in the rush for Saudi “pensions”.
Defeat of Terror, Not Roadmap Diplomacy, Will Bring Peace
by Newt Gingrich
Be careful what you ask for, you might get it. That is why we pray, “give us what we need” not “Give us what we want”.
That is why we say that the only freedom is the freedom to choose between life and death, the Torah and any other path. Once the choice is made, the only freedom is between teshuvah and continuing on to death.
The Palis and left have chosen death and refuse to understand that they have been given what they claimed they wanted.