Intifada Failing
Israel has managed to terrorize the terrorists. Killing two leaders of the major Palestinian terrorist group Hamas within a month has shaken up the organization. But it’s not just the death of the two leaders. Over the last few months, dozens of Israeli raids have arrested lower ranking leaders and technical experts, and shut down workshops and supply dumps for bomb making. The smuggling of explosives and weapons into the Palestinian territories has been interrupted with greater frequency.
But Hamas faces a larger problem. The Palestinian people are becoming disillusioned with the terror tactics. The main reason for the disillusionment is poverty. Before the current “intifada” (uprising) began in late 2000, some 20 percent of Palestinians lived in poverty. Now that figure is over 80 percent. Per capita income for Palestinians is about a thousand dollars (although 30 percent of that comes from foreign aid). Business investment in the Palestinian territories (and their 3.5 million population) is only about ten percent of what it was before the intifada. The Palestinian economy depends on Israel for jobs and trade. By sending suicide bombers into Israel, the movement of Palestinians and Palestinian goods into Israel was interrupted.
Hamas has cultivated support among Palestinians with their extensive social welfare operations. But this work is supported by charitable donations, and a portion of that money is diverted to terrorist operations. So, in the last few months, Israel has interrupted the flow of money to Hamas. This has resulted in social programs being stalled, or even stopped. Hamas has lost public support because of this. Palestinians are becoming less grateful to Hamas for helping them get through their poverty, and increasingly blaming Hamas for causing all the misfortune. Hamas, and Palestinian, media continue to hammer away with the need to destroy Israel, and repeat allegations that Jews are trying to take over the world, the Nazi extermination campaign against Jews during World War II was a myth and that the Christian world is making war on the Islamic community and Moslems must fight back. But these stories are less often accepted by their audience. Palestinian opinion surveys (conducted by Palestinians) have been tracking this decline in support for the intifada. As a result of that, the Palestinian pollsters have been physically attacked by terrorist groups. This has further turned off Palestinians. While popular support for Palestinian terrorists is declining, the terrorists themselves will not go away. Their inability to launch many suicide bomb attacks has not diminished the dedication of the remaining terrorists. But deprived of their much of their leadership and technical experts, there is greater risk that the terrorism will be more frequently turned against “disloyal” Palestinians. When the terrorists cannot strike out, they tend to look for internal enemies. Given the large number of Israeli informers in the Palestinian territories, and increasing number of Palestinians who do not agree with the terrorism tactics, Hamas and other terrorist groups have lots of potential victims close at hand.One should also note that with Saddam Hussein no longer providing funding and weapons, Hamas has been further hampered.
Hamas and the PLO are both groups which tend to oppress the Palestinian people they're supposed to be helping. Having more Palestinians recognize this is likely a healthy development for the long term.
Another crack in the dam, while the water level gets higher? Sounds like good news to me. So much for the "Arab street" rising up in righteous indignation.
I think caution is in order before predicting an end to the entifada. It would seem you should wait for a drop off in kamakazi volunteers before saying the palasineans are about to quit.
Learn to wage war/politics/business the R-dn--k
way,(R-dn--k is a euphamism for rural white southerner, here after referred to as RWS)
The Parable of the RWS”
RWS are bad people. Not all RWS maybe but a lot. For instance RWS are whiners. They are always complaining about how they have always been historical victims. And the RWS have so much
influence in media you can’t get away from their whining.
Another bad thing is their love of vengeance. If they ever identify you as their enemy they will turn heaven and earth to track you down. They have been known to harrasse people for decades, till finally they track down some old man and haul him into court.
If RWS get a negative comment from and authentic American hero they will start to libel the American Hero as being RWS phobic. I think this is one of their big mistakes. Thirty years ago I didn’t know some of the American Icons were “ RWS phobic”. I think the older generations of RWS realized it would be too dangerous for them to attack these American Icons, so they just covered up any comment the heroes ever made that could be construed as “ RWS phobic”. I think what has now happened is the younger generation of RWS, having grown up in an era where RWS have amassed so much power, have lost all sense of caution. I expect it is this lose of caution that will cause the down fall of RWS influence in America.
Although they are often greedy they pretend to believe in socialism. RWS for instance have historically been about half of the membership on the rolls of the American Communist Party.
Because of their Communist Party affiliation RWS often provided the most important spies the Soviet Union had in America. I would guess close to 50% of “Americans” who were recruited as spies by the Soviets were RWS. One RWS says a lot of RWS have dual citizen ship, mostly in a socialist country.
And if that weren’t enough, RWS continue to pollute American culture. They are big into producing soft and hard phorn. And they hate anybody who supports morality by promoting religion. Next time you hear about someone objecting to a religious display in a court house or prayers in school just check out who is behind the objecting.
The vast majority of the time it will be a RWS.
Despite all America has done for RWS they don’t seem to be willing to fight for it. There seem to be few to no American war heroes of RWS descent. Can you name me one RWS medal of honor winner? I’ve never heard of one that was a RWS.
But they aren’t ashamed to use media to make it look like a lot of them died in America’s wars. I remember watching a war movie on TV three years ago where the main character was standing in a war cemetary. One row behind him, and one row to his left was a different grave marker, a pagan Celtic cross among the rows of Anglican crosses. This was to give young people the impression that a significant number of the WWII dead were RWS. But if you paid attention, and looked down the rows into the distance, you could tell that not one other of the closest 100 or so crosses was a RWS pagan Celtic cross. The producer carefully composed the shot to include a close up what may have been the ONLY pagan RWS Celtic cross in the cemetray. This is the sutelty of RWS media propaganda.
And to top that off, RWS seem to think they should control American Foreign policy. More than one American War was fought at least in part at the request of RWS. Some people seem to think this is still going on in the Mid East.
A lot of them must be greedy too. Did you know that half of the billionaires in the world are RWS? This group characteristic probably also accounts for the fact that the vast majority of white collar crime in the US is perpetrated by RWS. And boy are they the champs. During the recent spate of corporate billion dollar swindles nearly half of the CEO’s involved and more than half of the CFO’s (chief financial officers) were RWS.
One of the earliest recorded instances of this group greed can be seen to this day on your grocery shelves. I think this may have got started by the United Daughters of the Confederacy at a bake sale. I’m sure it stared innocently but they soon got the idea they could charge cookie companies for the privilege of having their UDC logo printed on cookie packages. Over time the C in the UDC logo morphed into a circle that surrounds the U. The D for Daughters is usually beside the now circled U. I suspect the C that became a circle tp symbolize that as long as the Daughters remain United there is no escape from the circle of their power.
Later other RWS organizations, not wanting to be left out of this lucrative racket, started their own demands for kick backs. If the cookie and other grocery manufacturers objected the RWS organizations urge all the RWS to boycott the uppity food distributers who refused to pay kick backs. Or maybe they would just give the company some bad press about their products. One of the later RWS organizations that entered into this racked was the KKK. Their symbol is a K inside a triangle. A triangle has three sides, right? It also has three corners. This is how the RWS communicate in code to each other. Any RWS will instantly recognize that the K in inside a triangle is code for three K’s.
Later the RWS organizations got so greedy they branched out of the original cookie market and went in for other things like detergent, scouring cleansers and I hear tell bottteled water. For some reason by the time they got into detergents they dropped the D from the U circle D logo. If you don’t believe this rip off is wide spread just look closely at all the labels on the detergents, cleansers, cookies and a h—-k of a lot of other stuff on your supper market shelves.
I could go on but you should get the point. RWS seem to hate every thing about America. They so hated all other people that they referred to every one who wasn’t RWS with a slang term that derives from their ancient Celtic word for cattle. They seem to believe the rest of us are cattle. I’m not sure if that means they think we are to be abused worse than slaves or if it means they just think we are stupid as cattle or both. They seem to have some sort of covert left over ancient pagan rituals that pre-date Christianity in Europe. I hear part of their mythology is that Christ is in H—-l in a pit of human feces. These people are worse than Scientologist. In order to displace as many Christians as possible they promoted as much non-Christian immigration into America as they could. This went on for decades. But now the red necks are beginning to realize there are religions that hate them as much as they seem to hate Christians. So now they are beginning to make negative films about ethnic groups they once promoted as replacements for Christian Americans.
We need to give wash out all RWS mouths with soap and then administer them a good dose of Sunday school.
If memory serves me right, it was in about Oct. 2002 that two important RWS politicians were having an argument. Seems the RWS pol thought the fat old RWS pol was pushing the Bush administration too hard to do nice things for RWS. The fat old RWS shot back, and I paraphrase here " We, the RWS run American and America knows it. " I think this was origianally reported in the RWS or some similar sounding name paper.
I think it was also around this time the fat old RWS pol was under investigation for a multiple murder. One non-RWS who was in actuall charge of the dirty work of killing the people (these killings happened a couple of decades ago)was due to testify before a grand jury or something. Any way the non-RWS was mysteriously blown up in his car just a day or two before he was to testify. Case closed.
So you see, you can learn a lot about how to wage political/economic/cultural conflict from RWS