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(Some Guy)   Syrian government official is frustrated that Arabs want to talk about how incompetent most Middle Eastern governments are, because that makes it really hard to keep blaming everything on Israel   (aawsat.com) divider line
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276 clicks; posted to Politics » on 06 Jul 2006 at 8:56 AM (16 years ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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2006-07-06 9:23:44 AM  
Is it just me, or is that headline absolutely not what the article actually said?
 
2006-07-06 9:27:08 AM  
That's right. And we are not really the sons of apes and pigs although my great-great aunt Rivka looked like a hog.

And we don't eat muslim babies, not anymore anyway.
 
2006-07-06 9:29:53 AM  
Marvelous greenlight.
 
2006-07-06 10:06:01 AM  
mrexcess: Is it just me, or is that headline absolutely not what the article actually said?

From TFA:

"I was getting ready to give a talk at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's conference (ADC), when a young Arab came up to me and said: "I hope you are not here to talk about Palestine!" My surprised answer was that in fact, I was there to talk about Palestine, the Golan Heights, the martyrs, the prisoners and all the tragedies that have beset Arab countries. Instead of talking about general Arab issues, like all other Arab officials, she wanted me to talk in details about my own country's "issues."

Like many others in the audience, the young Arab woman wanted to hear about the failures and faults of Arab countries. That would help justify the crimes committed against Arabs in Iraq and Palestine, by blaming the chaos on them. . . .

We have been plagued with two kinds of infiltration. The conventional one is the likes of Mahmoud Rafe'e and the Southern Lebanon Army [a pro-Israel militia]. The other is intellectual. It is adopting the antagonistic logic of the Israeli government. . . .

As for the young Arab who did not want me to talk about Palestine and her peers, it is important to realize that drowning in the details of individual Arab political ailments is only the means to stop us from talking and thinking about Palestine."
 
2006-07-06 10:51:01 AM  
Yep, all the fault of the Americans and Jews. Everything. We even forced every Arab country the Palestinians went to to kick them out.
 
2006-07-06 11:47:33 AM  
PC LOAD LETTER: It's everyone elses fault for not taking the refugee results of Israel's ethnic cleansing! Marvelous logic to go with the marvelous greenlight.
 
2006-07-06 12:16:16 PM  
mrexcess: t's everyone elses fault for not taking the refugee results of Israel's ethnic cleansing

The arab refugees are the result of the arabs attempt to destroy Israel in 48. Their attempt of genocide.

Your historical revisionism is amusing.

The majority of them were asked to leave and stay out of the way of the invading arab armies, once the war was over they would return in glory to get all the jews' assets.

Too bad for them that Israel kicked their collective asses.

Notice that you never hear about the hundreds of thousands of jewish refugees kicked from all the arab countries at that exact time, losing thier land and houses. They are now israelis.
 
2006-07-06 1:52:47 PM  
Exactly how has blaming Israel for all sorts of crimes, both real and imagined, become "courageous?"
 
2006-07-06 5:06:30 PM  
TappingTheVein
The arab refugees are the result of the arabs attempt to destroy Israel in 48. Their attempt of genocide.

So you're OK with punishing Palestinians for the crimes of their "race"? Greaat.

The majority of them were asked to leave

The majority of who? Palestinians? The majority of Palestinians weren't even born in 1948.

Too bad for them that Israel kicked their collective asses.

One wishes you could stop waving your penis about long enough to realize that you're treading on peoples' lives.

Notice that you never hear about the hundreds of thousands of jewish refugees kicked from all the arab countries at that exact time

Again, nothing to do with a bunch of Palestinians. Particularly when half the population of that country is farking under 18. Bunch of racist garbage.

State_College_Arsonist
Exactly how has blaming Israel for all sorts of crimes, both real and imagined, become "courageous?"

Implication being that there's a not-so-subtle pro-Israel bias to the discourse in most arenas.
 
2006-07-06 5:46:05 PM  
mrexcess: So you're OK with punishing Palestinians for the crimes of their "race"? Greaat.

I am ? really ? i didn't know that. Especially when i never said that. I was correcting your alternate version of history.

The majority of who? Palestinians? The majority of Palestinians weren't even born in 1948.

The majority arabs living in areas of what now is Israel. Most of them like to call themselves palestinians now. Are you playing dumb ?

One wishes you could stop waving your penis about long enough to realize that you're treading on peoples' lives.

One wishes that you drop the "revisionism of history" and for once admit to the actual facts. The arabs farked up, their genocide attempt failed. 3 times. Maybe it's time for the arab countries with palestinian refugees to stop treating them as instruments of anti-israeli propaganda and allow them to become citizens. Same as Israel did with the hundreds of thousands of jewish refugees kicked out from several arab nations.

Again, nothing to do with a bunch of Palestinians. Particularly when half the population of that country is farking under 18. Bunch of racist garbage.

Everything to do with a bunch of palestinians; If Israel could integrate those refugees kicked from their houses and their land taken from them so can the 20+ arab countries. However the palestinian refugees are just too good a propaganda material to let it go. Why don't you go read how they are treated by their arab brothers before hashing out more of your revisionist history ?

Also, the palestinians could improve their lives population wise by not having 9 or so kids in each family. Especially if said family can hardly raise 2. it's called common sense.
 
2006-07-06 5:57:18 PM  
TappingTheVein
I am ? really ? i didn't know that. Especially when i never said that.

"The arab refugees" not referring to the Palestinians, then?

The majority arabs living in areas of what now is Israel. Most of them like to call themselves palestinians now. Are you playing dumb ?

The person who acts as if he doesn't know what a Palestinian is asks me if I'm playing dumb. Are you sticking your tongue out as you type this, perchance?

One wishes that you drop the "revisionism of history" and for once admit to the actual facts my side's propaganda.

Fixed that for you.

Maybe it's time for the arab countries with palestinian refugees to stop treating them as instruments of anti-israeli propaganda and allow them to become citizens.

It's time for Israel to give back the Palestinian peoples' homeland. Long past time, really.

If Israel could integrate those refugees kicked from their houses and their land taken from them so can the 20+ arab countries.

Not while Israel continues to occupy their homeland, take all the valuable parts of it, and harass those culled into the remaining ghettos on a daily basis.

Also, the palestinians could improve their lives population wise by not having 9 or so kids in each family.

Common sense would be worrying about the fact that your "side" is brutalizing and destroying the lives of millions of people, putting at risk their very existence, before you criticize them for their breeding practices.
 
2006-07-06 6:25:41 PM  
mrexcess: "The arab refugees" not referring to the Palestinians, then?


The word "palestinians" is by itself a joke.
The arabs in Israel decided to be known as palestinians about 40 years ago. 100 years ago "palestinians" were the jew living in what is now Israel. If you are insisting at acting like an idiot i'll help you out: the arabs refugees in part are also by their own admission palestinians. Also the israeli arabs living in israel like to call themselves palestinians when it suits them. And if my grandmother wants to call herself palestinian i won't mind. They can call themselves smurfs for all i care.

The person who acts as if he doesn't know what a Palestinian is asks me if I'm playing dumb. Are you sticking your tongue out as you type this, perchance?

As a person who actually lived among your palestinians for 30 years i can actually state that you and your revisionism of history is a big hint for your lack of intelligence.

There are several different definitions of the term "palestinian". Some are actually contradicting.

Fixed that for you.

The arabs didn't try to commit genocide 3 times ? what i posted earlier is not true ? you are beginning to present yourself as a waste of time.

It's time for Israel to give back the Palestinian peoples' homeland. Long past time, really.

Give back ? a Palestinian nation never ever existed. Why didn't they make one when they were under Egypt's rule ? Jordanian ? Ottoman ?
How many time has Israel offered them that chance and they threw it away ? who rejected the partition plan ?

Not while Israel continues to occupy their homeland, take all the valuable parts of it, and harass those culled into the remaining ghettos on a daily basis.

Oh you mean checkpoint, walls and the like ? how about the palestinians not blow up in the middle of coffee shops and piza parlors ? it's a start. But what they do is elect a group of genocidal terrorist zealots to represent time. very smart move. Israel is no longer in gaza so they use the opportunity to get closer to the border so they can fire their rockets on better targets like the school from yesterday. You, naturally, ignored my comment about their own arab brothers cramming the palestinians in ghettos, not allowing them to hold jobs or get proper medical treatment but that's not surprising.

Common sense would be worrying about the fact that your "side" is brutalizing and destroying the lives of millions of people, putting at risk their very existence, before you criticize them for their breeding practices.

Again ignoring my comment. You are defending a side who openly calls for genocide, see Israel itself in its entirely as "the occupation", side who targets civilians as a primary target and refuse to any kind of agreement. We wouldn't be destroying anything if they wouldn't be trying to slaughter us, for the last half a decade.

For your information their breeding practices is the top reason they are in one of the poorest and most over populated regions in the world. I criticize them the same as i will any moron who brings 10 children to the world without the possibility to take care of them.
 
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