Friday, August 26, 2005
Not enough weapons...
On Ariel Sharon's recent visit to Paris, leading up to the now-completed disengagement, he was greeted with a demand he supply the Palestinians with more bullets:
Let's look at this from a different angle. We want Abbas to fight terror. But his police don't have enough weapons, for whatever reason. And given all these walls and checkpoints and import inspections Israel keeps onerously imposing, how the heck is he supposed to get his hands on the needed Weapons of Peace? By clamping down so heartlessly on the Palestinians, and making it impossible to get anything through -- medicine, food, gameboys, weapons, whatever -- it's really Israel's fault that there just...
...aren't...
...enough...
...weapons...
...for the...
...poor Palestinians...
No weapons, no peace.
** click for original pictures and captions at Yahoo
If you really, really liked this -- or even really, really hated it -- there's lots more:
And while the Palestinians were given lots of weapons a few years ago, it now seems nobody knows where they went:
But the big surprise came this week in Paris, when Sharon heard Jacques Chirac ask, "Why don't you strengthen President Abbas by giving ammunition -- as the U.S. has been asking you?"
Let's summarize, shall we, and see if we can understand the fullness of the Palestinian Authority's terrible problem. Apparently, they'd love to fight terror, but their decimated police force just doesn't have the ammo for the job. In fact, they don't even have the guns to shoot the ammo anymore. And nobody knows where the guns are, not a clue. So, naturally, we should start rearming the Palestinian Peace Forces now so they'll have a chance to... well, uh... fight... um...
He [Congressman Mark Kirk] explained that during the 1990s, Congress relented to pressure from former envoy Dennis Ross and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to give the rifles directly to the PA. "Under a veto threat, the Congress relented... Now, imagine how we felt a year later when we saw those -- when we saw Palestinian policemen using those M-16s to shoot Israelis.... And General Ward, do we know where all these M-16s are? Have we done an audit of all the guns we've already given the Palestinian Authority?"
Let's look at this from a different angle. We want Abbas to fight terror. But his police don't have enough weapons, for whatever reason. And given all these walls and checkpoints and import inspections Israel keeps onerously imposing, how the heck is he supposed to get his hands on the needed Weapons of Peace? By clamping down so heartlessly on the Palestinians, and making it impossible to get anything through -- medicine, food, gameboys, weapons, whatever -- it's really Israel's fault that there just...
...aren't...
...enough...
...weapons...
...for the...
...poor Palestinians...
No weapons, no peace.
** click for original pictures and captions at Yahoo
