israeli militants at the level of palestinian militants.

[drewshin]

looks like israeli militants are starting to sink the the level of the palestinian militants:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030409/wl_afp/mideast_unrest_blast_030409130723

it seems like a lot of the israeli militants come from the settlements, and are hard core against against any palestinian ownership of those lands.

 

[Ornery]

I see a distinct difference in the way it's being handled:

Police arrested four Jewish settlers from the Bethlehem and Hebron areas in the southern West Bank in May on charges of preparing the March attack.

Ya think the Palestinians might rise to that level?

 

[DBL]

The main difference being that you will not see many Israelis supporting these fanatics. They should be taken down just like their Palestinian counterparts. Israel does have a respectable record when it comes to investigating and prosecuting these atrocities. The same could not be said of the Palestinians.

 

[Alistar7]

The US plans for a Palestinian state should be published on Saturday even with the recent delay.

You can read about that here.

One of the reasons the timing is great is because of the reaction of the Arab world, especially Palestinians to what happened yesterday in Baghdad.

Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall

As a side note, someone please tell Syria to STFU.

 

[drewshin]

well im glad that arafat will hopefully be out of the picture soon.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall

In the West Bank city of Nablus, Yousef Mizher, 32, said that at the beginning of the war, he distributed 300 photos of Saddam along with the Palestinian newspapers he delivers daily because "I loved this guy."


"But when I saw the defeat yesterday on TV, I realized how silly I had been. Saddam is just like any Arab leader. He wants to stay in power at the expense of the blood and bones of his people," Mizher said. Saddam, he added, should have gone into exile instead of sacrificing his people in a war with the Americans."

And

"I don't like the idea of having the Americans here, but we asked for it," said Tannous Basil, a cardiologist in Sidon, Lebanon. "Why don't we see the Americans going to Finland, for example? They come here because our area is filled with dictatorships like Saddam's."



But,

Bahraini physician Hassan Fakhro, 62, said he was saddened by the crumbling of the Iraqi resistance in Baghdad.

"Whatever I'm seeing is very painful because although Saddam Hussein was a dictator, he represented some kind of Arab national resistance to the foreign invaders ? the Americans and the British," he said.

Oh...it's ok he was a dictator because he was Arab.

wtf? Perhaps Dr. Fakhro should have a discussion with Dr. Basil.