Thursday, May 22, 2003
Michael Harty says what the Palestinians need is some tough love. Damn straight.
[...]Consider that the Palestinians joined Saddam in two wars against the United States. They betrayed their Kuwati hosts and openly sided with Saddam during Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in Gulf War I. While their clever talking heads were on TV achieving victim status, their populations cheered every Scud that fell on Israel. They claim a victim’s innocence, yet they send their children to fight a man’s war as rock slingers and suicide bombers, and then praise the acts in elementary school pageants. Palestinians hold rallies where they dress their children as military combatants wearing mock bomb belts strapped to their tiny bodies. Palestinians perpetuate intergenerational hatred, by filling the minds of their young with vile invectives concerning America. They blame the Jews for their poverty and ignorance with racially stereotyped imagery. For years the Palestinians have called for the death of America, and in May when Colin Powell arrived for peace talks, Palestinian mobs were burning American flags. Palestinians were even caught on camera celebrating the fall of our mighty towers on September 11, 2001.
Why are we pursuing their interests for them?
If the Palestinians want a state, let them earn it.[...]