Originally Posted By: Turnbull
Originally Posted By: IvyLeague
It's why it's hard for me to have any sympathy for the Palestinians, since they voted Hamas into power.

Me, too.

After Arafat died in 2005(leaving his family in Switzerland richer by the >$1 billion he embezzled from his own people), Mahmoud Abbas took over the Palestinian Authority. Israel thought he was interested in peace, so they returned Gaza to the PA--in the process uprooting 9,000 Jewish settlers, some of them forcibly, so the Gazans wouldn't be troubled with any Jews in their midst. Gazans ousted the PA and installed Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization that quotes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in its charter and vows to destroy Israel. Result: >7k rockets rained on Israel, causing scores of deaths and injuries.

If an Islamic terrorist organization like Al Queida, which wants to destroy America because we're a Christian-majority nation, were to win an election in southern Canada or northern Mexico, and start raining down rockets on Michigan or Arizona, how long would it take any of us to demand that our government stop them?


technically, al-qaeda wants to destroy america for a number of reasons chiefly our undying support both militarily and economically for israel, the "occupation of arab lands" eg Saudi Arabia, etc by US troops, and outrage toward the U.S. for being a secular, domineering presence in the Arab world

again in not saying i hate israel or anything like that (i dont, i have lots of close jewish friends) i am just sharing some comments as I see things

Tommy Shots: They want me running the family, don't they know I have a young wife?
Sal Vitale: (laughs) Tommy, jump in, the water's fine.