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FATAH AND LAZIAH

Those Fatah boys ain’t real motivated:

Abu Mahmoud is a 38-year-old Palestinian Authority soldier and a proud member of the Fatah party. But if you ask him what he did during the war with Hamas in Gaza last week, he smiles apologetically and waves a hand.

“It wasn’t my shift, so I stayed at home,” he explains ...

Actually, more people in that region could do with Abu’s attitude. Maybe peace would break out if all of them were rostered off.

Posted by Tim B. on 06/23/2007 at 01:41 PM
  1. Yeah.  Suppose they gave a jihad and nobody came….

    Posted by Apostic on 2007 06 23 at 01:52 PM • permalink

  2. Rejoyce! At least he told the truth!

    Posted by ElectronPower on 2007 06 23 at 02:38 PM • permalink

  3. What drive!  What motivation!  What innovation!

    What drive?  What motivation?  What innovation?

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 06 23 at 03:07 PM • permalink

  4. I suppose Islamic Illustrated had it’s yearly goat issue out that week.

    Hubba Hubba.

    Posted by trainer on 2007 06 23 at 04:11 PM • permalink

  5. With motivated fighters like that, no wonder it took only six days for the Israelis to kick arab ass back in 1967.

    Posted by David Crawford on 2007 06 23 at 06:30 PM • permalink

  6. No Jooos to Kill, why the motivation!

    Andrea - my FIRST post and I get a slap - ouch! Meant WARM-ongers on “column goes graphic” thread.
    My mistake. Never been mistaken for a left wing tosser before, twas a frightening experience.

    Posted by WaZoBia on 2007 06 23 at 06:44 PM • permalink

  7. Wa, you made a single typo and changed the meaning of your entire comment? You’ll fit right in. Welcome.

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 23 at 06:49 PM • permalink

  8. All we are saying, is give war a chance.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 23 at 08:48 PM • permalink

  9. The poor sod just didn’t have any spare time to kill.

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 23 at 08:56 PM • permalink

  10. Oh—okay, WaZoBia. Slap withdrawn.

    Let that be a grammar lesson to everyone! Syntax is important!

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 23 at 09:15 PM • permalink

  11. What’s syntax?

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 23 at 09:49 PM • permalink

  12. 1.1 million of the population of 1.4 million are totally dependent on hand-outs of food from us.

    Shouldn’t that say something to people who absolutely don’t get it about Palestinian society?  This argument about who should get aid, Hamas in Gaza, or Fatah anywhere, is moot.  Wouldn’t a better question be “What are we funding when we give money to them”?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 23 at 10:11 PM • permalink

  13. As they say frequently at LGF, yeah, let’s give these people a country.

    Posted by QQQQ on 2007 06 23 at 10:17 PM • permalink

  14. #13, Yeah, give ‘em a country. On Mars.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 06 23 at 10:21 PM • permalink

  15. #11, dean martin:

    What’s syntax?

    That’s the fed’s cut from whore house entrance fees.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 06 23 at 10:25 PM • permalink

  16. This why Islam and Islamists have to be so violent, because unless you have the fear of death hanging over peoples heads they just could’nt be bothered.

    Posted by Howzat on 2007 06 23 at 11:23 PM • permalink

  17. Julia Gilliard will no doubt point out that had Abu Mahmoud signed an Australian workplace agreement, he would not have had any time off from fighting for his cause.

    “Under John Howard’s work choices legislation, Fatah gunman Abu Mahmoud would have been forced to negotiate away his right not to fight for what he believes in for a mere 47c extra an hour,” she will say.
    “Under a Gillard-ACTU government, all Fatah gunmen will be guaranteed the right to run away without any loss of conditions.”

    seriuosly, I think Abu Mahmoud has adequately explained why Hamas won.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 06 24 at 12:40 AM • permalink

  18. Hamas, Fatah and Hezbollah will make sure that there is no progress towards a state for the so-called Palestinians except countries like Jordan, which is Palestinian in everything except name. It, along with Syria and Lebanon, are 20th century constructs from a general area ruled by the Ottomans from Damascus. It is often lost in discussions of displaced Palis that (a) Jews bought a lot of land quite legitimately even before the state of Israel was (after a UN vote) declared, and that they have done the same in the West Bank; and (b) that many “Palestinians” abandoned their homes at the behest of their misguided leadership, who instilled fear of the consequences of the declaration of the Israel and the fighting which was inevitable. Those who stayed did not become refugees. Those who did leave have become pawns, breeding colonies of refugees whose lives are held cheap by all of the powerful state and non-state factions in the region. That they are still being kept in “refugee camps” sixty years later is an indictment of the governments surrounding Israel. Rather than absorb them into their poulations, they are kept festering and suffering for political purposes. It is this sort of torture which has deformed the aspirations of mothers to the grotesque degree that they approve of suicide missions against Israel. But then, suicide missions against fellow muslims have become commonplace too. This endemic derangement of ME minds has no easy cure.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 06 24 at 03:39 AM • permalink

  19. Six years old? These people are sick.
    Innocent sent as Suicide Bomber.
    “Fortunately, the boy did not understand and asked patrolling officers why he had this vest on.”
    From the Guardian, no less!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 06 24 at 06:56 AM • permalink

  20. Not my shift? 

    Just like the French and their working hours. Not much use if Fritz is putting in a little overtime driving a few tanks down the Champs Eleyses.

    Posted by Hump B Bare on 2007 06 24 at 08:24 PM • permalink

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