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In news:%%s8h.13202$9v5.9035@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net,
Voracious <null@void.org>spewed forth:
> Bert Hyman wrote:
>> curtis_smallboner@beer.com (Curtis Smallboner) wrote in
>> news:1164034516.733738.154750@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>> Palestinian leaders are hailing this as a moral victory that will
>>> be replicated.
>>
>> A moral victory?
>>
>> Using women and children to shield people who openly admit to
>> indiscriminate rocket attacks against civilians?
>>
>> Apparently these people are counting on the fact that the Israelis
>> will actually avoid killing civilians, while they never will.
>>
> The Palestinians have little other choice. The Zionists in Israel deny
> them basic rights: transit to and from school or work, for starters.
> The Zionists confiscate Arab land willy-nilly and deny the original
> inhabitants any means of redress.
>
> Israel and its Zionist government cause the Palestinian crisis, not
> the innervated and emaciated Palestinians who  merely want to live on
> their ancestral land.
>
> Voracious

ancestral land?
reminds me of an old joke

The Prime Minister of Israel sits down with Arafat at the
beginning of negotiations regarding the resolution of the
conflict.

The Prime Minister requests that he be allowed to begin with
a story. Arafat replies, "Of course."

The Prime Minister begins his story: "Years before the
Israelites came to the Promised Land and settled here,
Moses led them for 40 years through the desert. The
Israelites began complaining that they were thirsty and, lo
and behold, a miracle occurred and a stream appeared
before them. They drank their fill and then decided to take
advantage of the stream to do some bathing--including
Moses. When Moses came out of the water, he found that
all his clothing was missing.

"'Who took my clothes?' Moses asked those around him.

"'It was the Palestinians,' replied the Israelites -- "

"Wait a minute," objected Arafat immediately, "there were
no Palestinians during the time of Moses!"

"All right," replies the Prime Minister, "Now that we've got
that settled, let's begin our negotiations."