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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (18415)	12/12/2006 9:14:03 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

this is what they are about; plain and simple, there is no need to debate it as they give us daily reminders of who they are. Murders are another stage in Iraqization of Gaza By Avi Issacharoff A few hours after the funerals of Osama (10), Ahmed (6) and Salah (3) Balousha, who were shot to death in Gaza, a few dozen children, friends of the three, lit candles and sang songs near the place where the murder took place. A few hours earlier, smoke covered the skies of Gaza, as tires were burned in protest of the killing. The feeling yesterday among many Gazans was that the Strip was on the verge of civil war. Five days ago, a few extremists from a group calling itself "Swords of Islam" attacked a young girl who dared to wear jeans and was without a face covering. Later, 12 shops were destroyed that provided Internet services and rented videos. "Next they'll start blowing up cars at the command posts or offices of political rivals, the way it goes in Iraq," an officer of the Preventive Security, identified with Fatah," told Haaretz. Although the officer declined to cast blame for the murder, both Hamas and an extremist group, such as Mumtaz Durmush's Army of Islam, which cooperates with Hamas, are suspected of involvement. Advertisement The officer said Hamas is covering up evidence in the investigation into the murder of an intelligence officer, Jad Tayah, who was assassinated a few months ago. Baha Balousha, the father of the three boys killed yesterday, was in charge of the investigation. A few weeks ago, his temporary commander, Tawfiq Tirawi, found out that Hamas had refused to transfer film from security cameras installed near the house of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, which it was believed documented the assassination. "Haniyeh has made an alliance with the Iranians. He has a new landlord," the officer said. "Not only will he receive a quarter of a billion dollars, he apparently likes their regime, which sees religious leaders as a source of government authority. Every Friday he ascends the pulpit of the mosque and gives the Friday sermon," he said. Meanwhile, yesterday, Haniyeh seemed less worried about the murder of the children, and more enthusiastic about his visit to Tehran, where his hosts were like parents letting their child buy every toy in the toy store. Before his departure for Sudan, he received unprecedented pledges, but they come with a price tag, similar to that Hezbollah in Lebanon has had to pay. From now on, Iran will be involved in decision-making in the Hamas government. The Hamas regime will be able to survive, even without a unity government. The international boycott will not bother it anymore. Like any good parent, Tehran knows not to give Haniyeh everything he wants, or he will become spoiled. He flew to Sudan on a regular commercial flight, since Tehran refused to buy him a jet.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (18415)	12/13/2006 4:07:57 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Re: Likewise, Why aren't white Europeans who would have been successful and rich in America/Australia/New Zealand/Canada moving over there instead of staying and griping in Europe? I suppose because it is their home, why should they leave. But immigrant youths, who rioted in France last year and wreacked havoc to the tune of $240 million, were born in France and educated in French schools.... Keep in mind that we're talking of immigrants of second and third generation, that is of people whose parents or grandparents were immigrants. Anyway, let's follow your line of thought which posits that, no matter how long they have been living in Europe, immigrants of Muslim/nonwhite descent are inherently unfit to adjust to the European way of life... Now, does it mean that a "purified" Europe, a Europe not burdened with Muslim, nonwhite "aliens" would be a social bliss, a model of political harmony impervious to social strife? Of course not, and History has shown that CLASS struggle usually takes up where RACIAL warfare leaves off. Europeans, and whites generally, have not waited for nonwhite immigrants to fight it out... among each other. After all, the bloodiest wars of religion that were waged in Europe involved white Catholics against their fellow white Protestants (the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572, eg). Likewise, the French Revolution (1789) and the Bolshevik one (1917) were both climaxes of a CLASS warfare. Ditto with the Spanish civil war (1936) and, to an extent, the Nazi regime (1933). All these major political crises ended up in bloodshed where white Europeans slaughtered other white Europeans by the million.... Actually that's the little dirty secret --and lesson-- the US ruling class has always heeded: RACIAL warfare is the most potent, the most efficient way, to stave off CLASS warfare between whites.... Somehow, the whole history of the United States is but a never-ending variation/recombination of racial warfare. It's racial warfare that made it impossible for socialist/communist parties to take root in the US, it's racial wedge-politics that turned the GOP into what pundit Michael Lind calls the party of the white majority(), lumping white millionaires together with "white trash".... Gus () Message 22753805

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (18415)	12/13/2006 4:33:20 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Re: OTOH, Muslims are having a problem because they do not try to fit in at all. Y'know, Smith, it reminds me of that wetback friend of mine who used to say the same thing about you gringos: whites are having a problem because they do not try to mix in the barrio.... Now, is it just me or the US's biggest immigration problem is not with Muslims but with CHRISTIAN Hispanics? Clues: Message 22997456 Message 22369141 Message 22402222 Message 23012591 Message 23038995 Message 22305088