A Palestinian State: "Lord of the Flies" starring adults instead of kids
A Palestinian State: "Lord of the Flies" starring adults instead of kids
Henry Ford said that world peace consists primarily of men advancing from wearing kerchiefs around their necks (like Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen) to collared shirts while their wives wear hats instead of shawls. What he meant was that industry can produce enough wealth to eliminate the need to rob others through war. The Palestinian culture is, however, so aberrent and dysfunctional that it is incapable of living in peace even when handed productive industries with which to create wealth.
Events in Gaza have proven beyond any doubt that an independent Palestinian state would be William Golding's Lord of the Flies, starring adults instead of kids. It would be, to quote Thomas Hobbes, a place in which life would be brutish, nasty, and short: a war of all against all.
Q: What's a quick way to tell Israelis from Palestinians?
A: Israelis turn deserts into gardens, Palestinians turn gardens into deserts.
As shown by the September 2005 occupation of Gaza by the Palestinians, this is not a joke. The Israeli settlers had built a number of greenhouses in which to raise food and other agricultural products. When the settlers were ordered to leave Gaza, affluent but misguided Americans (mostly Jewish) raised several million dollars to buy the greenhouses and turn them over to the Palestinians. It took but hours for the Palestinians to turn the gardens they were given into barren and sterile deserts.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5275655,00.html
American Jewish donors had bought more than 3,000 greenhouses from Israeli settlers in Gaza for $14 million last month and transferred them to the Palestinian Authority. Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, who brokered the deal, put up $500,000 of his own cash.
Palestinian police stood by helplessly Tuesday as looters carted off materials from greenhouses in several settlements, and commanders complained they did not have enough manpower to protect the prized assets. In some instances, there was no security and in others, police even joined the looters, witnesses said.
Palestinians have an apparent compulsion to destroy anything that has two or more pieces of wood, brick, or other structural elements nailed or mortared together, as shown by their treatment of abandoned synagogues in Gaza. Even the simplest animals (and insects) will readily take advantage of anything that will put a roof, natural or otherwise, over their heads but Palestinians were incapable of grasping the idea that a sturdy and well-built synagogue might be converted into a school, hospital, or even a mosque.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1489529,00050004.htm [no longer online]
Thousands of celebrating Palestinians thronged through Neve Dekalim on early Monday just after Israeli soldiers withdrew, setting fire to a building that just last month served as a rabbinical college for Jewish settlers.
There were similar scenes throughout Gaza as Palestinians headed straight for empty synagogues Israel had decided to leave intact. The fires caused little structural damage in the fortress-like concrete and stone structures, but Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said the buildings would be destroyed.
Even Mahmoud Abbas is, as shown by this article, determined to destroy "fortress-like concrete and stone structures" that might shelter and house his people in spite of their best efforts to burn them down. I am quite confident that the whole lot of them will soon be squealing to the United Nations, European Union, and of course the United States for billions of dollars in aid money because they are starving (having trashed the greenhouses they were given) while living in squalor, probably in makeshift tents with dirt floors: a condition for which they will doubtlessly blame Israel, the Great Satan, and of course the Jews.
Posted by Bill Levinson at November 7, 2005 07:57 PM
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BobW
said:
The Arabs who destroyed the greenhouses and synogogues meet the basic definition of "barbrian". They have not adopted even the basics of civilization.
Besides the buildings destruction, we see the same barbarianism on their treatment of children as weapons systems with the bomb belts. Why spend money on them to reduce infant mortality rates when, to barbarians, - and all in the Gaza population bloc are not - children are a burden.
We can also see the concept to love one's neighbor never being adopted by the barbarians. Some Arabs who were not Jews or Christians did adopt this concept. It relates to the expression "desert hospitality". The barbarians never did adopt this. Reading the 19th century term "Nile River pirates" is but a specific form of barbaranism.
Was former World Bank President James Wolfensohn involved in a conflict of interest when he gave $US half million of his own money? His donation to charity, along with Zuckerman's reminds me of a quote from a colorful sideline personality in modern American history. Sam Giancana said: "You'd think people would catch on.".
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on November 8, 2005 03:24 AM
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dav t
said:
We should be Careful, as misuse of the word "barbarians" when applied to palestinians could be offensive to barbarians per se.
peace.
Posted by: dav t on November 9, 2005 03:36 PM
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A Palestinian State: "Lord of the Flies" starring adults instead of kids
Henry Ford said that world peace consists primarily of men advancing from wearing kerchiefs around their necks (like Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen) to collared shirts while their wives wear hats instead of shawls. What he meant was that industry can produce enough wealth to eliminate the need to rob others through war. The Palestinian culture is, however, so aberrent and dysfunctional that it is incapable of living in peace even when handed productive industries with which to create wealth.
Events in Gaza have proven beyond any doubt that an independent Palestinian state would be William Golding's Lord of the Flies, starring adults instead of kids. It would be, to quote Thomas Hobbes, a place in which life would be brutish, nasty, and short: a war of all against all.
Q: What's a quick way to tell Israelis from Palestinians?
A: Israelis turn deserts into gardens, Palestinians turn gardens into deserts.
As shown by the September 2005 occupation of Gaza by the Palestinians, this is not a joke. The Israeli settlers had built a number of greenhouses in which to raise food and other agricultural products. When the settlers were ordered to leave Gaza, affluent but misguided Americans (mostly Jewish) raised several million dollars to buy the greenhouses and turn them over to the Palestinians. It took but hours for the Palestinians to turn the gardens they were given into barren and sterile deserts.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5275655,00.html
Palestinians have an apparent compulsion to destroy anything that has two or more pieces of wood, brick, or other structural elements nailed or mortared together, as shown by their treatment of abandoned synagogues in Gaza. Even the simplest animals (and insects) will readily take advantage of anything that will put a roof, natural or otherwise, over their heads but Palestinians were incapable of grasping the idea that a sturdy and well-built synagogue might be converted into a school, hospital, or even a mosque.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1489529,00050004.htm [no longer online]
Even Mahmoud Abbas is, as shown by this article, determined to destroy "fortress-like concrete and stone structures" that might shelter and house his people in spite of their best efforts to burn them down. I am quite confident that the whole lot of them will soon be squealing to the United Nations, European Union, and of course the United States for billions of dollars in aid money because they are starving (having trashed the greenhouses they were given) while living in squalor, probably in makeshift tents with dirt floors: a condition for which they will doubtlessly blame Israel, the Great Satan, and of course the Jews.
Posted by Bill Levinson at November 7, 2005 07:57 PM