Only a fool would fail to recognize that the "solution" to Israel's predicament is looming ever greater.

Only a fool would fail to recognize that the implementation of that solution will be exponentially greater than need be.

Only a fool would fail to recognize that the agenda is the extermination of Israel as an entity, as has ALWAYS been the case.

Only collective fools would continue to dance around that incontrovertible fact.

Dance and spin, fools.

At one time I had a fair bit of sympathy for the Palestinians. That was before I read about their history, and noticed that no matter how bad things were for them, their leadership went out of their way to make things even worse.

So - at this point if the PA, Hamas, Hezbollah and the like were wiped off the face of the earth, I'd simply shake my head.

They've had so many opportunities to change their ways and learn to coexist it's pathetic. And they've ignored them at the urgings of their 'neighbors' that won't allow any of THEM to immigrate (and no wonder, looking at how they acted in Jordan) but instead keep up jihad against Israel.

At this point my care-meter is pegging to the left on them. They've created their own hell. I've got sympathy for people who work to break out of their misery, for people who take what they've got and improve the hell out of it. I don't have much sympathy for folks who insist THEY can't improve their lot in life until someone else is destroyed.

"First, as has been proclaimed many times, by both sides, Hamas "loves death" more than their enemies "love life." Their whole focus is on killing their enemies."

Not really. They imagine they love death but have no idea what real love is. They are under satanic hypnotic control.

JLawson, let me offer you a phrase I stumbled over several years ago, and quite pithily sums up what you discovered:

The Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Ain't that a great turn of phrase?

J.

Jay Tea, March 20: But it's been quite a few years since he's (Gdaffy) acted against us, directly or indirectly. Hell, even now, he's not going after any of his neighbors -- the fighting is strictly an internal affair. The US should weigh very carefully getting involved in a matter that does not threaten us, our interests, or our allies. And on that scale, Libya fails.

Short JT respons: give KDaffy a free hand, he is not a threat to our interests! It is not in our interest or all allies to do anything!

Juan Cole today:

While the world has not been paying attention, Qaddafi has been using his oil wealth (and I do mean ‘his’) to peddle influence in Africa, to gain the loyalty of it leaders, and to intervene militarily.

It is so ironic that critics of the UN intervention in Libya keep asking why there was no such humanitarian mission in Darfur in the Sudan, where separatists among the black African Fur people have been massacred by Arabic-speaking black Africans loyal to Khartoum. But it was Qaddafi’s disastrous interventions in Chad and the Sudan that initiated that bloodbath. The contemporary Darfur problem started in 1987 when some Arabic-speaking militiamen from Chad, who had been armed by Qaddafi, established a base over the border in Darfur. They were the precursors of the Janjawid. Qaddafi, ever the regional imperialist and spoiler, had used his oil billions to fill the continent with armed mercenaries and guerrillas, whom he used to widen his control. He spent fruitless years trying to take over his southern neighbor, Chad, the northern part of which his troops brutally occupied for years.

Far away from his own territory, Qaddafi spread terror through his terrorist training camp, the World Revolutionary Center. Out of it came a cadre of coup- and war-makers hungry for blood diamonds, including Charles Taylor of Liberia and Foday Sankoh of Sierra Leone. Qaddafi and Taylor intervened in the Sierra Leone war. Hundreds of thousands were killed in these conflicts provoked in part by Qaddafi’s ambitious attempt to foster a generation of authoritarian, reactionary revolutionaries in his own mold, who would be his clients. Having billions in oil money allowed him to undermine security and to play favorites in West African politics.

Qaddafi pays 15% of the expenses of the African Union and essentially has many African leaders on retainer.

Qaddafi came out strongly against the revolution against Zine El Abedine Ben Ali in Tunisia. It seems certain that if he could get back into power and regain his riches, Qaddafi would try to undermine the outbreak of unwelcome democracy and a rule of law in Tunisia, his neighbor, and he has fingers into Egypt, as well. The terminally naive supporters of this billionaire serial murderer and his billionaire playboy sons who are firing indiscriminately on civilians said that no, Qaddafi would never do anything like that. What do they think he has been up to in Africa for the past 30 years? If he can be gotten out of power and the Benghazi government can establish a parliamentary system, not only Libya but all Africa will have achieved a great step forward.

Palestinian - just another word for LOSER. These people must be born with a sign on their ass that says "Kick me!"

Think I've used that a time or two myself, Jay Tea... and it's, sadly, a true and accurate description of the thought process of their leadership - at least, judging by results.