Re: Canadian-Palestinians: 'Apartheid state' an insult
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Posted by Kathryn on 00:37:37 2008/05/09
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Canadian-Palestinians: 'Apartheid state' an insult posted by CP
Using the term "Apartheid state" is an insult to the common intelligence of every human being.
Let them whinge. They could have gotten their own damn state, many times over. And even in their stateless condition now, Palestinians are hardly the wretched of the earth. They enjoy better health care and education, lower infant mortality, and a better standard of living than Arabs in nearly every other country in that region, whether they live in Israel itself or in the Occupied Territories, thanks both to the largesse of Israel and the UN. Their population is now 8 times the size it was when Israel became a nation. The fact that they have no economic development to speak of, despite gadzillions of dollars of aid and a young, healthy, educated (mostly at UN expense) population has much more to do with them choosing to direct their resources into a constant state of warfare with their neighbour than anything else. My compassion for the Palestinians, or at least the Hamas supporters of Gaza, is exhausted. They don't even deserve a state of their own anymore, let alone the right to overrun and destroy the fully functioning, successful, democratic state right next to them, which has been their goal all along.
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