quote: Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip continued to express their anger and disbelief at the capture of the Iraqi dictator, with many condemning Saddam for his failure to resist the arrest, saying it would have been better for him to die as a martyr.
"Saddam should have learned from the Palestinian fighters, who prefer to fight to the end when the Israelis come to arrest them," said Anwar Shtayeh, a Hamas supporter from Hebron. "Many Palestinians preferred to die under the rubble of their homes than surrender to the Israeli army. Saddam has proved that he's the biggest coward on earth."
In Khan Yunis, some 200 Palestinians demonstrated in support of Saddam, shooting into the air from M-16 rifles and burning American and Israeli flags. The demonstrators carried Iraqi flags and portraits of Saddam Hussein.
"The Americans may have captured you but you captured our hearts," an organizer said through loudspeakers. "We will sacrifice our blood and souls for Saddam," chanted many of the demonstrators.
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Sometimes it is hard to remember that these people do not represent even a tiny fraction of the Palestinian people. They are so loud and offensive. I have met so many wonderful, warm, and completely non-political Palestinians who hate Arafat, hate Hamas, don't really begrudge Israeli jews a place to call their own, and who basically just want peace...
I don't even recognize the people depicted in this article and in the media.
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quote: I have met so many wonderful, warm, and completely non-political Palestinians who hate Arafat, hate Hamas, don't really begrudge Israeli jews a place to call their own, and who basically just want peace...
I have met some of them too, and my relatives who live in Israel have met many -- although not as many recently. It's become bad for one's health to be so identified. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Btw, rivka, your link only leads to the Jerusalem Post registration page...which I tried to sign up for once, but it didn't take. Posts: 5771 | Registered: Nov 2000
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Bob has a point. If I tried, I'm sure I could track down an article or twenty written today that expresses disappointment over our thus-far failure to execute Hussein and carpet-bomb the rest of those damn Arabs. Yet, it wouldn't be reflective of popular opinion.
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This whole issue is just so stupid, fifty people out of a thousand can cause all this trouble. It's amazing.
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They are not just 50 people. They are 50 paid protestors, taking some money, possibly sent from Iraq, to get press attention and make noise.
We are in the information age. Those who best use information will be king. This is how the terrorists use and create false information, in an attempt to make it true.
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quote:Sometimes it is hard to remember that these people do not represent even a tiny fraction of the Palestinian people. They are so loud and offensive. I have met so many wonderful, warm, and completely non-political Palestinians who hate Arafat, hate Hamas, don't really begrudge Israeli jews a place to call their own, and who basically just want peace...
On the other hand, the Palestinians you've met also do not represent even a tiny fraction of the Palestinian people (I'm assuming you don't know more than 50 or so.) What do the Palestinians actually think? Unless we've got some accurate polling, it's hard to say.
BTW, does anyone know if the Jerusalem Post is biased in some way or another? It sounds like it might be the sort of publication that might be inclined to portray the Palestinians in a certain light.
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The American peace movement started out as a tiny minority. But they know how to bleed on the sharks.
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Yes, but my 50 each know 50, who know another 50 each, and so on.
The people in Hamas are necessarily isolated and suspicious of outsiders. They are known to few others and only hang out with each other.
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quote:If I tried, I'm sure I could track down an article or twenty written today that expresses disappointment over our thus-far failure to execute Hussein and carpet-bomb the rest of those damn Arabs.
An article affiliated with even a non-mainstream news source? I'm sure you could find many blogs or opinion pieces or online diaries, but actual news articles on it? The Jerusalem Post may not be a New York Times or Washington Post, but I'd still be mighty surprised if you could find twenty articles printed by a news agency of at least equal standing that states what you claim.
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