They did not suppress the video because it hurt Israel, but because it would
hurt Palestine.
Are you thus proposing indefinite occupation of the West Bank territories?
(This is feasible.)
Are you supporting ethnic cleansing?
(This is even more feasible.
It is clearly the best option for Israel.
It is in the interest of Western Civilization.
It is also an established crime against humanity and civilization.
But the Israel and the West could get away with it.
This is the best opportunity to expel the Arab population from all of
Palestine that we are likely to see in the next half century.)
I think we should cleanse Israel and the West Bank at this time.
Not because it is really related to the war in question, but because it is in
our Realpolitical interest to do so.
On Saturday 15 September 2001 16:58, you wrote:
> At 07:38 PM 9/15/01 -0400 John D. Giorgis wrote:
> >At 12:39 AM 9/15/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> >>OK, so Arafat's Cabinet secretary is said to have threatened a cameraman.
> >>Bad move. But what does that have to do with whether the Palestinian
> >> people as a whole celebrated, or only a small minority celebrated?
>
> And the evidence keeps pouring in......
>
> "About 1,500 Palestinians, many supporters of the Islamic
> militant group Hamas," who "marched in a Gaza Strip refugee camp on
> Friday, burning Israeli flags and carrying a large poster of Osama bin
> Laden." The AP reports that "After the rally, plainclothes Palestinian
> policemen questioned several journalists, including staffers of foreign
> news agencies, and confiscated videotape and film as well as camera
> equipment. An Associated Press Television News video was among the
> materials taken, and an AP photographer was warned by officials not to
> publish pictures of the bin-Laden poster."
>
> I hope you feel real good, Jeroen, about supporting a terrorist-sponsoring
> and supporting regime that threatens journalists who report basic facts
> against a free democracy like Israel.
>
> JDG
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> "Freedom itself was attacked today, and Freedom will be Defended."
> -U.S. President George W. Bush, 09/11/01
