Haha, I lol'd.

/+1 if I could

HOOOOOGAAAAAAN!!!

What's to need help with?

A couple sticks of dynamite per hole should do the trick.

/Just make sure the tunnels are not being used as "orphanages".

Knowing the Germans, they'll probaably just help Hamas start tunnelling INTO Israel.

"Ya, ve haf come vith a final solution to your problem!"

Yeah, How dare those Palestinians resist the brutal occupation of their country.

Robert1966: HOOOOOGAAAAAAN!!!

THIS.

I Know Knothink

Suede head: Yeah, How dare those Palestinians resist the brutal occupation of their country.

Do you mean Gaza or Israel itself?

Suede head: Yeah, How dare those Palestinians resist the brutal occupation of their country.

Well, the fuse is lit.

Yeah, how dare the Israelis protect their citizens by stopping the flow of weapons into their country and into the hands of militants.

Robert1966: HOOOOOGAAAAAAN!!!

Win!

Okay, I'm here. What do you guys want?

Suede head: Yeah, How dare those Palestinians resist the brutal occupation of their country.

Well in that sense, how dare you cry that Israel fights the Palestinians that they're in control of.

Col. Klink is not amused.

....like Charles Bronson in the Great Escape

Worked in Warsaw.

I'll turn my head the other way for a piece of apple strudel. Or, in this case, some potato latkes with marmalade, or a knish.

©

Suede head: Yeah, How dare those Palestinians resist the brutal occupation of their country.

troll

"A couple sticks of dynamite per hole should do the trick."

Wrong,...acetalyne (sp?) gas works much better.

Suede head: Yeah, How dare those Palestinians resist the brutal occupation of their country.

it's not their country.

Robert1966: HOOOOOGAAAAAAN!!!

got it in 2

am I weird in thinking that since they will never get along then going ahead and letting them fight it out would be the best option long term

"it's not their country."

Why was that area called Palestine before the country of Israel was created?

Begs to differ.

Not to derail the hilarious Hogan's Heroes gag, but I would have tried to hire a bunch of really old Japanese guys.

FTFY

"Because if there's anyone who knows about stopping tunnels leading into and out of camps, it's zee Germans."

/Obiligatory Turkish reference

If they've hidden a tunnel entrance in a tree stump or a snowman, I don't think the Germans will be able to help.

Egypt and Germany will do something to actually improve the situation? Inconceivable!


littleray42: Suede head: Yeah, How dare those Palestinians resist the brutal occupation of their country.

troll

I would have gone with idiot.

nunyabidness: am I weird in thinking that since they will never get along then going ahead and letting them fight it out would be the best option long term

I say evacuate everyone (Israeli and Palestinian alike) out of the area and carpetbomb the place until there is no brick atop another brick. People have been fighting over that little plot of land for over 2000 years. No one is interested in a solution. Level the place beyond any usability and be done with it.

kevinboehm: Not to derail the hilarious Hogan's Heroes gag, but I would have tried to hire a bunch of really old Japanese guys.

I would have hired young Mexicans

German experts to help Egypt stop smuggling through tunnels into Gaza


I bet there was a radio hidden in a coffeepot canopic jar.

Suede head: Yeah, How dare those Palestinians brutally resist the brutal occupation of their some country. no one's ever heard of

BuzzBoy: Why was that area called Palestine before the country of Israel was created?

Because 18th-century Europeans were anti-Semitic and would never call it Israel, except in a Biblical reference?

There's also the Philistia connection, but that's more linguistic than ethnic. The OT has two separate, mutually exclusive words for Philistine and Arab, and our English translations (of "Philistine" and "Arab") come straight from the Hebrew. Since the Palestinians are of Arabian extraction, they are not Philistines.

Besides, the Philistines came from further north (around Turkey) before settling in the area north of Israel. Arabs came from the south and east.

Wikipedia goes further than that:

"British writers of the 19th century and very early 20th century sometimes referred to the Arabs of Palestine as "Philistines". This was apparently not due to a belief in a strong connection with the ancient Philistines, but merely reflects the former convention that "Philistine" simply denotes "native of Palestine." The Arabic word for Palestine, فلسطين, transliterated "Falasṭīn," derives from the Latin term Palaestina. After the Bar-Kokhba revolt of the Judeans and the subsequent Roman repression and exile, the Romans renamed the entire district of Judea "Palaestina" as a mark of insult to their defeated enemies. This is because of their knowledge of the region's history and the fact that the Philistines and the Israelites were warring peoples. The Arabic language's lack of the "p" phoneme, and the tendency to arabicize the "t" and "k" of foreign words as the corresponding Semitic emphatic consonants, resulted in this nomenclature after the Muslim conquest brought Arabs to the region in 636 AD, often used interchangeably for the entire greater Syrian district (Arabic: "Shaam")."

None of this addresses the fact the UN and England opened the area up for Jewish emigration without so much as asking anybody locally what they thought about the idea, anybody non Jewish at least.

Anyone looking at how we as Europeans / Americans owes the Jews a homeland always seems to leave out this fundamental fact: The country we handed them had people living in it already who didn't get a say in the matter and who were none too pleased by their new neighbors.

And 60 years later its still this thing.

kevinboehm: Not to derail the hilarious Hogan's Heroes gag, but I would have tried to hire a bunch of really old Japanese guys.

Or north koreans.

Conservationist: convert Mexico into a wildlife sanctuary.


It already is. Amazing place. Especially the Baja.

thalidomide new and improved: it's not their country.

The ones who still have the deeds to their houses say otherwise. Jerusalem wasn't a ghost town in '47.

NeauxFear: BuzzBoy: Why was that area called Palestine before the country of Israel was created?

Because 18th-century Europeans were anti-Semitic and would never call it Israel, except in a Biblical reference?

There's also the Philistia connection, but that's more linguistic than ethnic. The OT has two separate, mutually exclusive words for Philistine and Arab, and our English translations (of "Philistine" and "Arab") come straight from the Hebrew. Since the Palestinians are of Arabian extraction, they are not Philistines.

Besides, the Philistines came from further north (around Turkey) before settling in the area north of Israel. Arabs came from the south and east.

Wikipedia goes further than that:

"British writers of the 19th century and very early 20th century sometimes referred to the Arabs of Palestine as "Philistines". This was apparently not due to a belief in a strong connection with the ancient Philistines, but merely reflects the former convention that "Philistine" simply denotes "native of Palestine." The Arabic word for Palestine, فلسطين, transliterated "Falasṭīn," derives from the Latin term Palaestina. After the Bar-Kokhba revolt of the Judeans and the subsequent Roman repression and exile, the Romans renamed the entire district of Judea "Palaestina" as a mark of insult to their defeated enemies. This is because of their knowledge of the region's history and the fact that the Philistines and the Israelites were warring peoples. The Arabic language's lack of the "p" phoneme, and the tendency to arabicize the "t" and "k" of foreign words as the corresponding Semitic emphatic consonants, resulted in this nomenclature after the Muslim conquest brought Arabs to the region in 636 AD, often used interchangeably for the entire greater Syrian district (Arabic: "Shaam")."

After reading that,"nucular" actually makes since!

/cents?
\\scents?
///I still don't know which way slashies go

"None of this addresses the fact the UN and England opened the area up for Jewish emigration without so much as asking anybody locally what they thought about the idea, anybody non Jewish at least."

After the Brits (and Lawrence) drove out the Turks, Britain was handing out or selling parcels of land. Hell, they gave Syria to the French and they didn't even have anything to do with the conflict in the area. I think a fellow named Rothchild living in Paris at the time handed the Brits some money under the table for a parcel of land where the Jews could settle. The big question is, was the land property of Britain to give away.

BuzzBoy: "it's not their country."

Why was that area called Palestine before the country of Israel was created?

Lamest argument EVAR _{in my humble opinion}

Perhaps a workable analogy would be giving some part of some eastern US state back to certain native American tribes that used to live there - surely some folks who had more recent (but still, deep to them) roots there would protest militarily. I'm not saying your argument is without ANY merit, but it is simplistic beyond belief.

/for the record, I used to be pro-Israel until I started to understand how they treat the Palestinians - the border crossings? that's BS. They are abusing their power and abusing the Palestinians. But I'm not pro-Palestinian because of morans like Hamas, firing from civilian buildings... BOTH sides are assholes in this one.

If neither of you can play together then you cant play at all.
Its time that a proper UN take the ball away and declare the disputed territories an INTERNATIONAL ZONE that doesnt belong to any one country.

Everyone who has an opinion should watch this video. The guest speaker (a Lebanese) starts talking about 3 1/2 minutes into the video. If you watch for 5 minutes, you'll watch it all. It's a gruesome depiction.

http://multimedia.heritage.org/content/wm/Lehrman-092706a.wvx

Swampthing in Korea
Knowing the Germans, they'll probaably just help Hamas start tunnelling INTO Israel.

Beat me to it. That's what I was gonna say.

/funny how you never hear about the 400,000 Palestinians expelled from Kuwait after the first Gulf War... as though only Israel treats them badly.
I'm not saying what Israel does is right, but the the other surrounding countries sure do take advantage of it...

beowulfmpf:
///I still don't know which way slashies go

Think of it this way: you type left-to-right. Think of the slash as a stick man - start with the vertical bar | and watch him fall forward / and now you have a forward slash, or "slash". If he falls backward \ then you have a backslash.

Fark slashies are, in fact "slashies", not "backslashies", therefore they are forward slashes...

John Lee Pettimore: pendant much?

The word you are seeking is "pedant", not "pendant"

Also, I like being smart. I don't understand why some people think being stupid is better, but you can have it.

daychilde: Fark slashies are, in fact "slashies", not "backslashies", therefore they are forward slashes...

Wait a second, there's a rule for Fark Slashies?!? Of course I knew that.

\I'm just a rebel yo!

Grassy Knoll Stains: If neither of you can play together then you cant play at all.
Its time that a proper UN take the ball away and declare the disputed territories an INTERNATIONAL ZONE that doesnt belong to any one country.

Exactly. Go one step further and level the region until it's a worthless sandpit like everything else around it.

CanisNoir: daychilde: Fark slashies are, in fact "slashies", not "backslashies", therefore they are forward slashes...

Wait a second, there's a rule for Fark Slashies?!? Of course I knew that.

\I'm just a rebel yo!

I don't DO slashies!

} they're old and busted.
}} curly brackets are the new hotness.