From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

John Cuccia wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:38:37 +0200, "Phil Payne"
>  wrote:
>
>> Israel started it, this time as well.  Collective punishment on top of
>> genocide in stages.
>
> Not in Lebanon.  Even the Arab Leage realizes that Hezbollah
> precipitated the recent outbreak of violence.
>
> http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20060716&hn=34825
> Saudi Foreign Minister al-Faisal, who accused Hezbollah of behaving
> “inappropriate and irresponsible,” said, “Those attitudes might take
> the region to the old times.”
>
> Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Palestine, the United Arab Emirates and
> Bahrain delegates supported al-Faisal while Syrian representative
> Velid Muallim criticized Faisal.


Chuckle. The Pro-US bloc which has been completely shafted by the US response.

I'm betting a fair few there are going to use this as a very good example
of why the Arabs shouldn't have democracy coz if they did they'd not be
around much longer.

So dies the Bush democracy doctrine.

I'll bet the Palestine rep was not a Hamas man & Abbas is pissed off
coz the Israelis are still killing Palestinians (gosh some even by missile)
& no one gives a damn coz hey they're also Arabs.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1153291951584&pagename=JPost%2FJPArt
icle%2FShowFull

"Palestinian Authority leaders on Wednesday called on the
international community to exert pressure on Israel to halt its attacks in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip and accused Israel of exploiting the fighting
in the North to step up its military operations against the Palestinians.

The appeal came as 12 Palestinians were killed and more than 50 injured in
different confrontations with the IDF.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who met in Gaza City on Tuesday night with a
United Nations delegation, called for an immediate cease-fire with Israel
and urged its members to work toward ending the Israeli raids.

PA officials said the UN team did not propose anything new to end the violence.

"The only issue that President Abbas focused on was to find a way to
stop this Israeli escalation on the ground," Nabil Abu Rudaineh, a
spokesman for Abbas, said after the meeting. "This is the main topic.
This is what we are looking for, apart from the humanitarian crisis which
we suffer from."

Another PA official expressed deep disappointment with the failure of the
international community to put pressure on Israel to halt its military
attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

"The war in Lebanon has diverted attention from the other war in the
Palestinian territories," he said. "Israel is waging a war
against the Palestinians and their government and no one seems to care.
People are being killed every day in the West Bank and Gaza Strip."

"

Ahhhh a poor little democrat  screwed by those outside he thought might
actually help. How tragic. Maybe Abbas can have his own greek play.

& as for Hamas:

"He also expressed "astonishment" at the failure of the Arab
countries to intervene to stop the Israeli attacks. "The failure to
take action will encourage Israel to escalate its offensive," he
said."

Indeed. Methinks the Arab street will be roiling over their rich soft
dictators being willing to watch other arabs die while they do nothing
which might threaten the supply of rolex watches & caviar.

Adam

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