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Let their people go
By Bradley Burston

In all of the Holy Land, there is no more beautiful area than the Gaza Strip. And none more accursed. It is the Riviera of the damned. The cruel Club Med of the eternally passed over, the pitied, the left to drown.

This week, a number of schoolchildren were caught in the crossfire of a gun battle in which Hamas and Fatah vied for the upper hand. The children lost. Eight were wounded in the exchange of fire.

Later that day, an official of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City noted that at least four people suffering from kidney diseases had died in the Strip in April, after the cash-starved Palestinian Authority Health Ministry cut budgets for dialysis treatments.

Some cancer patients have stopped receiving chemotherapy, the hospital has a dwindling two-week supply of medicines, and cannot afford to repair medical machines when they break.

If that were not enough, the next day, Gazans were told that fuel could run out soon, after the Israeli company that supplies petroleum products to the Strip, citing a succession of unpaid bills, threatened to stop supplying it.

Should we care? We should, and not only because we live on the slopes of Vesuvius, and there's thick black smoke issuing from its summit. Not only out of fearful self-interest, that is, not just because today's misery can be tomorrow's murderous desperation.

We should care because there are people living next door to us whose normal daily life is built of the kind of hardships one sees after a natural disaster. No work, no money, little food, open sewage, disease, depression, hope too scant, shelter too primitive, services too meager, death too soon, the horizon too empty, the future worse than no relief for an unbearable present.

We should care because we will travel to the ends of the earth to help people suffering tragic loss, large-scale traumatic injury, destruction of their homes, their livelihoods, but as far as Gaza's concerned, a few meters from our doorstep, good riddance.

We have left it to the wolves.

We were right to have left it. But we were wrong to have done it the way we did.

We hurt and abandoned our people who lived there and whom we expelled.

We hurt and exploited and ultimately abandoned the Gazans themselves, who lived in a colony we called part of the Land of Israel because we were unwilling and unable to run it as what it was, a colony.

And now we are hurting and abandoning them as what they have become, what we have, in fact, made them, our neighbors.

"Stop right there, you've got it wrong," we console ourselves. "These people want to kill us. These people want to throw us into the sea. They won't even let us help them. Besides, we can't even manage to feed our own people, you want to take care of them, too? And just when we've finally washed our hands of them, after all these years?"

"They brought it upon themselves," we tell ourselves. "Let them stew in their own juice. They elected murderers to lead them. Let them go hungry, let their electricity be cut off, their water."

"Why should we help them," we ask ourselves, "when their own brothers screw them, and have done so systematically for decades - the Egyptians, the Lebanese, the Jordanians, the Syrians, the Kuwaitis - the Arab world as a whole has let them rot - forced them to rot - evolved and adhered to an entire ideology explaining why the Gazans must be kept as a symbol of Zionist induced suffering. For their own sake."

"Why should we feel responsible when the Saudis, the Emirates, could have used a sliver of a fraction of their stratospheric oil revenues to solve Gaza's problems, when the expenses of one week of the fruitless, decision-less 10-year Iran-Iraq war could have helped turn Gaza around. Their own brothers won't lift a finger, why should we?"

Forget, for the moment, what the right says. Consider the limousine left. There are a number of reasons why the disengagement from Gaza was and remains so popular in the svelte sections of Tel Aviv, Herzliya, and, for that matter, the Upper West Side. One of them is surely this:

We don't want to think about those people anymore, and now we think we no longer have to.

"Mah li u'lezeh?" What does this have to do with me?

The most unpleasant answer is this: Because we are still occupying them.

There is more than one way to occupy a people. We, having evolved, have chosen remote control.

Our drones occupy the Gazans, morning and night, directing the artillery that occupies them, shell after shell after hour and hour, directing helicopter gunships that fire missiles at cars and hit terrorists and also kill innocent bystanders.

Our lifestyle occupies them, and the fact that, not only are they unable to work on our side anymore, they can't even work in the factories in Gaza that once shipped goods to us for sale.

We occupy them because we don't like the government they elected, and we believe that we can quarantine them into choosing another.

We occupy them, fundamentally, by deciding for them who should rule over them, and by deciding that we have the right to set them straight.

This is, of course, the cue for the right-wing chorus from abroad to dismiss this as the usual leftist drivel, and to point out the obvious:

Really, though what are they to us?

Well, here's the worst of it, especially for those of us who believe in the Bible:

They are our family.

They are the relatives we cannot stomach, the cousins we have disowned, the kin we pretend are unrelated, the blood relations we act as if never existed.

They are certainly as ornery as we, as unforgiving, just as likely to think that we are all their enemies, as we are to think the same of them.

But they are also human beings, children of Abraham, trying to raise children and keep them from being shot - either by us or their own - keep them fed, perhaps even, one day, have an actual childhood.

It's about time we saw this price that we've paid for weathering the Intifada:

Hamas has hardened our hearts. Islamic Jihad suicide bombers have robbed us of much of our compassion. Every Fatah Al Aqsa gunman killing innocents has blinded us to the Palestinians who aren't wearing masks, the vast majority.

Over the past six years, we made a conscious decision to stand up to their bombings, not to buckle under to the maiming and murder of our children, not to change our lives just to suit them, not to let the Palestinian fanatics win.

But this has cost us something very profound in the national soul. Suddenly, even leftists welcome the idea that you can't make peace with these people. Even leftists now embrace unilateralism, which, at its root, gives a whole new meaning to the tired adage of the right, that There Are No Palestinians.

We have to realize that our hearts have been hardened, and do the right thing: Let these people go.

Even if they're still being used as pawns by their own leaders, their own brothers. Even if their own people won't let them go, it's time we did.

We have to stop occupying them, find entirely new ways to start helping them, involve the international community as a presence for large-scale relief, start seeing them as what they actually are, human beings, trying to get by in one of the worst places on earth.

We must, as well, swallow our fears of international intervention and find a way to involve the international community in helping to stop attacks against us. We are no less deserving of life, nor of protection from killers.

The challenge of being a Jew in Israel today, is to stand up and say, I'm willing to stay here, defend myself, and still find a way to help those in distress just over the fence - even if I find their leaders horrendous and the fanatic fringe among them abhorrent.

It's a challenge that moral people in the world face as well, the same international community for whom talk of concern for the Palestinians is so seldom matched by action.

Gaza, by rights, should be paradise, not hell on earth. These people are right next door. They are in our blood. Their future, whether we like it or not, is ours as well.

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  1.   pie in the sky 01:49  |  bill 12/05/06
  2.   You`re kidding, right? 02:24  |  Ed 12/05/06
  3.   Those Palestinians and their statistics. 02:54  |  Rustam 12/05/06
  4.   How should Israel help 03:55  |  stork 12/05/06
  5.   Do not feed your Enemy 05:25  |  Stephen Shayes 12/05/06
  6.   HELP 09:12  |  CHONI 12/05/06
  7.   Bradley; Save the Arabs, so-called Pals, so they can kill you. 09:51  |  Daisy 12/05/06
  8.   Fulse enemy 10:23  |  Mohamed 12/05/06
  9.   TELL IT TO THE VICTIMS 10:44  |  CHONI 12/05/06
  10.   Bravo 12:22  |  Helen Jones 12/05/06
  11.   Bradley wants to save pals from dipping into they billions $ 12:24  |  Absolute Sweden 12/05/06
  12.   Let them go... 12:50  |  Andy Murray 12/05/06
  13.   Bomb Gaza with Information 13:02  |  Ronnie Wolman 12/05/06
  14.   hamas & dialysis machines 13:02  |  Alex 12/05/06
  15.   nice article bradley 13:05  |  musa mujahid 12/05/06
  16.   Future of Gaza? 13:05  |  Barry 12/05/06
  17.   #11 Absolute Idiot 13:09  |  Boris Yeltsin 12/05/06
  18.   Ed - are you for real?? 13:19  |  West Ham Utd 12/05/06
  19.   An end to it all? 13:30  |  bruce 12/05/06
  20.   This leftist supports convergence unreservedly 13:55  |  bruce 12/05/06
  21.   west ham united 14:16  |  shimon yosef leib 12/05/06
  22.   Free Passage, Airports, Sea Ports???? 14:19  |  JOHANES Franzen 12/05/06
  23.   Israeli responsibility 14:41  |  Arthur Klein 12/05/06
  24.   bradley in the country of the blind where the one eyed man is kin 14:52  |  paul harris 12/05/06
  25.   #13 ronnie stay off the juice!!! PINK DEMONS ALL AROUND!! 15:19  |  paul harris 12/05/06
  26.   Where are Their Arab Brothers? 15:24  |  Jane 12/05/06
  27.   Andy Murray - Let them Go 15:34  |  wibism 12/05/06
  28.   Bradley sees by one eye. 15:46  |  Thameen Darby 12/05/06
  29.   An Israeli thinks like human. what a surprise!!!! 15:46  |  Sammy Alarabi 12/05/06
  30.   no to arab helps because its the arab faults 15:50  |  Gaza Boy 12/05/06
  31.   #21 cyclops revisited WHOSE LAND ???? 16:41  |  paul harris 12/05/06
  32.   WHAY GOES AROUND COMES AROUND! 16:42  |  Sami 12/05/06
  33.   Right feelings, wrong logic 16:46  |  natan 12/05/06
  34.   ISLAMIC U.K CREW 16:52  |  Prince of Persia 12/05/06
  35.   Israel and the Gaza Withdrawal 17:04  |  Ibrahim 12/05/06
  36.   I couldn`t believe what I read here 17:12  |  H50 12/05/06
  37.   "fulse" enemy 17:12  |  natan 12/05/06
  38.   Wise up, people 17:20  |  John Cliff 12/05/06
  39.   childhood 17:31  |  christoph 12/05/06
  40.   Helpless in Gaza 17:35  |  klas 12/05/06
  41.   A special place in hell 17:47  |  A.Haq 12/05/06
  42.   Gaza Boy, you did it to yourselves, for the past century 17:48  |  David Landman 12/05/06
  43.   #11 boris what about chechyna????????????? 18:01  |  paul harris 12/05/06
  44.   Gaza boy 18:01  |  SHIMON 12/05/06
  45.   Bradely finally admits it - he is a Palestinian enemy 18:09  |  pace306 12/05/06
  46.   Marlene N was right last week 18:16  |  Jolly 12/05/06
  47.   Boris,Burston says "Be like Sweden towards the Germans in WW2 18:23  |  Absolute Sweden 12/05/06
  48.   Bradley, better speak to the West 18:26  |  Ben Gurion 12/05/06
  49.   Zionist induced suffering - Stop drinking the magic cool aid! 19:18  |  pace306 12/05/06
  50.   Gaza 19:19  |  Hilda 12/05/06
  51.   Bradley, I appreciate your compassion, but... 19:26  |  Abdul Sharon 12/05/06
  52.   Freeing them frees ourselves. 19:27  |  Tommy Katz 12/05/06
  53.   ED "We in America would do a lot worse to Mexico " 19:41  |  Jack 12/05/06
  54.   #8 Mohamed, tell your people to... 19:48  |  JIHAD MORON 12/05/06
  55.   stephen shayes "they just don`t want us here" 19:53  |  jack 12/05/06
  56.   Gaza is not our responsibility 20:08  |  peter 12/05/06
  57.   pace306 20:28  |  jack 12/05/06
  58.   Hungry?-eat the burned greenhouses 20:29  |  Auntie Em 12/05/06
  59.   Real Men Torture Sick People 21:08  |  Mark Lincoln 12/05/06
  60.   #42 Peter...well said! 21:10  |  Enoch 12/05/06
  61.   the gaza palestinians chose hamas 21:15  |  s 12/05/06
  62.   West Ham Utd #18 21:23  |  Gee 12/05/06
  63.   Peter I agree again about Gaza 21:29  |  Ronnie Wolman 12/05/06
  64.   Ronnie Wolman 21:50  |  Gina 12/05/06
  65.   Not the `west" Ben Gurion - Europe 21:50  |  Mark Lincoln 12/05/06
  66.   let`s all go 22:00  |  christoph 12/05/06
  67.   Ronnie-you can lead a horse to water 22:04  |  peter 12/05/06
  68.   Bradley is patronizing the Palestinian people 22:11  |  Amin Nusseibeh 12/05/06
  69.   Where are your meds, Burston? 22:36  |  Pastor Phil 12/05/06
  70.   To Amin Nusseibeh 22:39  |  Margot Leadbetter 12/05/06
  71.   I would add just 1 thing... 22:48  |  Daniel Fulop 12/05/06
  72.   It`s the same Bull Droppings left and right 22:56  |  Mark Lincoln 12/05/06
  73.   Peter rethink your BS 23:06  |  BDE 12/05/06
  74.   To Margot 23:09  |  BDE 12/05/06
  75.   peter 23:09  |  FLOWER 12/05/06
  76.   Amin, Amin, Amin...you keep saying "us" 23:16  |  Abdul Sharon 12/05/06
  77.   The thought thats what counts 23:24  |  Hakeem 12/05/06
  78.   It`s becoming very clear... 23:49  |  Daniel 12/05/06
  79.   BDE 23:50  |  Gina 12/05/06
  80.   Let`s help Gazans - but how? 23:52  |  shaul 12/05/06
  81.   Gazans Go Away 23:57  |  Solomon 12/05/06
  82.   Peter: Development of Ideas 00:01  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  83.   #56 amin in london rewrites history, and of course gets it wrong 00:17  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  84.   #64 Abdul Sharon 00:21  |  Barry 13/05/06
  85.   #60 MARK MAKES A PLEA!! FORGET THE FACTS FORGET THE TRUTH!! 00:23  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  86.   Their homes are all over Palestine 00:27  |  klas 13/05/06
  87.   Let`s help Gazans - but how? 00:35  |  Mark Lincoln 13/05/06
  88.   #63...Daniel Fulop 00:38  |  Barry 13/05/06
  89.   Mr. Burston, thanks! 00:38  |  al 13/05/06
  90.   Response to: West Ham Utd 00:52  |  Ed 13/05/06
  91.   To Jack, in Virginia 01:00  |  Ed 13/05/06
  92.   David Landman, about money 01:05  |  Gaza Boy 13/05/06
  93.   #53 01:09  |  daniel 13/05/06
  94.   #92...Gaza Boy 01:25  |  Barry 13/05/06
  95.   Cruel to Be Kind 01:36  |  David 13/05/06
  96.   Barry 01:36  |  Gaza Boy 13/05/06
  97.   Ronnie-your Colonialist past is showing 01:42  |  True Brit 13/05/06
  98.   #95..Gaza Boy 01:49  |  Barry 13/05/06
  99.   Stop the whining and hate 01:55  |  David 13/05/06
  100.   You cannot be robbed of what you didn`t have Bradley 01:57  |  Marlene 13/05/06
  101.   yes, help Gazans 02:04  |  theoneverdies 13/05/06
  102.   Correction to 100 - 48 years should have read 58 years 02:09  |  Marlene 13/05/06
  103.   God and the chosen-a Prayer 02:20  |  Mario 13/05/06
  104.   True Brit: On what is Kosher 02:34  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  105.   Mario of Barcelona: If there IS a God 02:52  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  106.   i`m crying 03:10  |  Sol 13/05/06
  107.   Let their people go 03:14  |  Herb 13/05/06
  108.   1994 is a watershed year now 03:44  |  peter 13/05/06
  109.   paul, I welcomed you back and still do 04:02  |  Mark Lincoln 13/05/06
  110.   Herb, Hamas has pulled it`s punches for a reason 04:05  |  Mark Lincoln 13/05/06
  111.   A BLOT ON MURDERING TERRORIST ISLAM ?? 04:25  |  Bill 13/05/06
  112.   Should have said Europe, not US (Mark L #65) 04:27  |  Ben Gurion 13/05/06
  113.   Rockets falling on Israel 04:50  |  Biased Observer 13/05/06
  114.   #59, Mark Lincoln 06:12  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 13/05/06
  115.   Look in the Mirror 06:43  |  Earnest Frank 13/05/06
  116.   ISLAMIC UK CREW 07:00  |  Shaun 13/05/06
  117.   a while back 07:51  |  Mitch 13/05/06
  118.   #115, it`s always Israel`s fault... 07:53  |  John 13/05/06
  119.   Gaza strip 07:55  |  chuck moody 13/05/06
  120.   Let`s help Gazans - but how? 09:24  |  Aby 13/05/06
  121.   Bradley 09:28  |  JASON 13/05/06
  122.   THE HELP SYSTEM 09:44  |  Aby 13/05/06
  123.   Sammy 10:09  |  Connie 13/05/06
  124.   A prayer for the goim(secular zionists included) 10:16  |  Dror 13/05/06
  125.   Why do you hide your compassion? 10:27  |  Karam 13/05/06
  126.   Didn`t Like My Last Idea So Here`s Another! 10:54  |  Sam The Sham 13/05/06
  127.   Gazans? 11:03  |  Arden 13/05/06
  128.   Islamic Birmingham UK: Who Wants To Live There Anyway, Its a Dump 11:03  |  Mustava Fress 13/05/06
  129.   #125 karam lives in a mad mad world ???? 11:11  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  130.   Bradley, They did not bring it upon themselves 11:21  |  Dutch 13/05/06
  131.   Dror,why do YOU exist??? 11:26  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  132.   Aby TA: THE HELP SYSTEM- Your US Billions? 11:28  |  Mustava Fress 13/05/06
  133.   ddutch doris creates hysterical historical nonsensne 11:56  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  134.   BDE. Let their people go 13:03  |  Ronnie 13/05/06
  135.   If only there were 7.000 000 likeyou 13:44  |  AMRON 13/05/06
  136.   Fulse enemy 13:51  |  Mohamed 13/05/06
  137.   Ronnie Wollman 13:51  |  Dror 13/05/06
  138.   gaza and humanism 14:11  |  izaak 13/05/06
  139.   Gaza Boy 14:17  |  r 13/05/06
  140.   Time to Give Palestinians the Right of Return 14:26  |  Boobala 13/05/06
  141.   Paul creates hysterical nonsense - 133 14:32  |  Marlene 13/05/06
  142.   to Aby # 52 14:33  |  Saba 13/05/06
  143.   Dror,Your anger is deeper than you let on 14:37  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  144.   Boobela 14:54  |  Dror 13/05/06
  145.   "Land Without People" was not exactly the truth now was it? 14:57  |  Boobala 13/05/06
  146.   104 My point exactly! 14:59  |  True Brit 13/05/06
  147.   Dror,Your anger is deeper than you let on 15:12  |  Boobela 13/05/06
  148.   Ronnie 15:29  |  Dror 13/05/06
  149.   # 138 Izaak 15:50  |  JASON 13/05/06
  150.   Dror, You Despise the Hand that feeds you-The Diaspora 15:58  |  Boobala 13/05/06
  151.   Dror am I wrong or is it shabbat still in Israel??? 16:00  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  152.   True Brit :The Imposition 16:10  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  153.   Mohammed, False impression 16:11  |  Dutch 13/05/06
  154.   #133 Remember, The Israelis didn`t exist before 1948 16:14  |  Dutch 13/05/06
  155.   My Booba used to make Boobala 16:18  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  156.   Mustafa, Feves DO YOU ACCEP TODAYS HELP SYSTEM 16:18  |  Aby 13/05/06
  157.   #140 Boobala 16:23  |  Proud Israeli Jew 13/05/06
  158.   Paul: The key is to build bridges and not destroy them 16:26  |  Karam 13/05/06
  159.   Marlene`s UN reso. that PLO rejects 16:32  |  peter 13/05/06
  160.   HAARETZ - It`s time 16:40  |  Yonatan 13/05/06
  161.   True Brits causing humanitarian disaster in Zimbabwe 16:41  |  Absolute Sweden 13/05/06
  162.   Dror- Diaspora Giving and Giving To Israel 16:46  |  Boobala 13/05/06
  163.   #141 MARLENE THE INACCURATE STORY TELLER 16:49  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  164.   #141 PS TO MARLENE ON REFUGEES!!!! 16:54  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  165.   To Mr.B.Burston.YOURS IS A ONE SIDED SYMPATHY AND IT IS PATHETIC. 17:07  |  S 13/05/06
  166.   They can come and go via Egypt.They can stop the Qassems 17:12  |  PETER SM 13/05/06
  167.   # 11 Absolute Sweden.I JUST SENT HIM A RESPONSE.HIS IS A ONE ,,,, 17:17  |  S 13/05/06
  168.   Aby: Since when is Billions of US "AID", job creation? 17:18  |  Mustava Fress 13/05/06
  169.   "PALESTINE" Is an illegal state.Rejected by the Arabs in 1948 17:18  |  Peter S.M. 13/05/06
  170.   Yanatan, Don`t be a stick in the mud 17:21  |  Dutch 13/05/06
  171.   # 13 Ronnie Wolman. YES BOMB GAZA with Information,,,,,,,,, 17:28  |  S 13/05/06
  172.   #158 karam and the lack of history leads to dreams 17:29  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  173.   #154 DORIS CANT FIGURE EITHER.!! 17:36  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  174.   #161 DEAR ABSOLUTE MUGABE IS THE PRIME EXAMPLE OF A TERRORIST 17:40  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  175.   The dysgraphic Mr Paul Harris # 133 17:41  |  Chris 13/05/06
  176.   #165 S, Where is your kinder spirit? 17:46  |  Dutch 13/05/06
  177.   #153 ronnie goes nostalgic. 17:54  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  178.   Yonatan you are right 18:17  |  Dror 13/05/06
  179.   152 I am not biased 18:22  |  True Brit 13/05/06
  180.   That`s Strange, I had Fried Fish Just Yesterday 18:23  |  Boobala 13/05/06
  181.   The Essence of S 18:26  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  182.   Paul Harris: Jubilee street,London 1956,Boobala 18:33  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  183.   "Poor" Palestinians-Try Building Something 18:35  |  Jane 13/05/06
  184.   #172 Paul: Ok here`s the response 18:38  |  Karam 13/05/06
  185.   True Brit: Im here for an argument 19:04  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  186.   To Dutch - Some advice from the heart I 19:35  |  Ariel 13/05/06
  187.   Dutch - Advice from the heart 2 19:37  |  Ariel 13/05/06
  188.   The Goyim Win The Cup 19:47  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  189.   186 Come on the Reds! 20:02  |  True Brit 13/05/06
  190.   It`s time for a new news article... 20:14  |  Bernedette Peters 13/05/06
  191.   Let the Arabs care for the Palestinians 20:25  |  Murray 13/05/06
  192.   True Brit:Well I like everything Blue... 20:56  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  193.   True Brit:Well I like everything Blue... 20:56  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  194.   True Brit:Well I like everything Blue... 20:56  |  Ronnie Wolman 13/05/06
  195.   Partitioning Palestine was a grave error 159 20:58  |  Marlene 13/05/06
  196.   #187 Ariel, Stop Justifying Israel`s unlawfulness 21:16  |  Dutch 13/05/06
  197.   Question 21:27  |  David 13/05/06
  198.   Interesting facts: Islam vs. Jews 21:49  |  Robert 13/05/06
  199.   This is a consequence of pal murder 21:53  |  KUTW 13/05/06
  200.   The have money for bullets? 21:55  |  KUTW 13/05/06
  201.   to # 190 Grow up mr. Murray 21:57  |  abab 13/05/06
  202.   It may be another pal scam 21:59  |  KUTW 13/05/06
  203.   "the pullout was wrong" (?) 22:06  |  KUTW 13/05/06
  204.   ?Occupation?, big business for pals 22:16  |  KUTW 13/05/06
  205.   Which occupation? 22:24  |  KUTW 13/05/06
  206.   Arabs are occupying the land of Israel 22:29  |  KUTW 13/05/06
  207.   Mr.Wollman-pornography isn`t acceptable 22:31  |  True Brit 13/05/06
  208.   Bleeding Heart Bradley 22:33  |  Yisrael 13/05/06
  209.   #195 Marlene +PLO 22:33  |  peter 13/05/06
  210.   #184 karam persists and refuses to learn from experience!! 22:38  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  211.   Robert #198. Well done, I think you hit a nerve! 22:42  |  Jacques 13/05/06
  212.   #195 MARLENE WILL ARGUE THE HIND LEG OFF A DONKEY 22:46  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  213.   Marlene and Partition 22:55  |  peter 13/05/06
  214.   DUTCH/Doris, stop lecturing 22:59  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 13/05/06
  215.   #175 TRY GOOGLE CHRIS.for ROMAN COLONIES 23:08  |  paul harris 13/05/06
  216.   Dutch - Meaningless answers to avoid all questions 23:11  |  Ariel 13/05/06
  217.   Ronnie the False Leftist Messiah 23:34  |  peter 13/05/06
  218.   I already replied to you Peter awhile back 23:46  |  Marlene 13/05/06
  219.   ok Paul Harris as you wish 23:48  |  Karam 13/05/06
  220.   Arabs are not indigenous 23:57  |  KUTW 13/05/06
  221.   to r 23:58  |  Happy Gaza Boy 13/05/06
  222.   Look back for Israel finest hour. 00:03  |  Akram Zekaria 14/05/06
  223.   Rewriting geography and history 00:05  |  KUTW 14/05/06
  224.   Pal myth, a justification for occupation of Israel 00:07  |  KUTW 14/05/06
  225.   Gaza is hell 00:09  |  Donna Zeff 14/05/06
  226.   # 215 Paul Harris 00:38  |  Chris 14/05/06
  227.   Stick At It Marlene: You Are A Trooper 00:44  |  Dolly 14/05/06
  228.   # 103 Mario.MARIO FROM THE BARIO?I THINK SO...... 00:46  |  S 14/05/06
  229.   Israel`s finest hour yet to come... 01:08  |  Ahron 14/05/06
  230.   Marlene continues to ignore 2 questions 01:09  |  peter 14/05/06
  231.   # 70 Daniel Fulop. re:Gazans.BUT YOU ARE WRONG AND I`LL TELL YOU. 01:18  |  S 14/05/06
  232.   217 Peter you have a sense of humour 01:20  |  True Brit 14/05/06
  233.   Look back for Israel finest hour. 01:25  |  wibism 14/05/06
  234.   #225 Donna Zeff 01:35  |  Proud Israeli Jew 14/05/06
  235.   True Brit and creative license 01:43  |  peter 14/05/06
  236.   # 133 paul harris.OH SO NICE TO READ,AND SEE YOU HERE............ 01:44  |  S 14/05/06
  237.   Mustafa Fress, If it is not job creation then what it is 01:45  |  Aby 14/05/06
  238.   # 146 True Brit.re:Ronnie.BUT LOOK YOU HERE BOYO........ 02:05  |  S 14/05/06
  239.   # 155 Ronnie Wolman.OH DEAR! YOU DID MAKE ME LAUGH SO HARD!! 02:13  |  S 14/05/06
  240.   # 156 Aby.re:Mustafa. GOOD ON YOU ABY.THAT IS ALL I WANTED TO SAY 02:19  |  S 14/05/06
  241.   # 156 Aby.re:Mustafa. GOOD ON YOU ABY.THAT IS ALL I WANTED TO SAY 02:20  |  S 14/05/06
  242.   Peter: I am (also) a Canadian 02:38  |  Ronnie Wolman 14/05/06
  243.   to Jane #26 (where are the arab Brothers) 03:02  |  fatima 14/05/06
  244.   Some Enjoyments in London 1958-1967 03:13  |  Ronnie Wolman 14/05/06
  245.   to Kutw (about the land of palestine being empty ) 03:27  |  fatima 14/05/06
  246.   Nice idea, but that`s all it can and should be 03:55  |  Rob 14/05/06
  247.   #216 Ariel, some peace loving children you are raising 04:02  |  Dutch 14/05/06
  248.   Fatima-My Point Exactly 04:19  |  Jane 14/05/06
  249.   Marlene, Many Thanks for your kindness and concern 04:20  |  Dutch 14/05/06
  250.   Everyone pray for Dutch...he`s stuck in reverse 04:26  |  Daniel 14/05/06
  251.   Bradely tries to apeal to the goodness inside us.But do it for us 04:29  |  Mark 14/05/06
  252.   MARTYRDOM For Children a staple diet on PA television 04:36  |  PETER SM 14/05/06
  253.   #251 Mark, What Bradley really projects about Gazans 04:48  |  Dutch 14/05/06
  254.   PETER.Marlene need only refer to the war of annihalation that -- 04:53  |  PETER SM 14/05/06
  255.   chris gives it a miss when is a province not 04:56  |  paul harris 14/05/06
  256.   #250 daniel its not he its her DORIS CADIGAN 05:01  |  paul harris 14/05/06
  257.   #244 when is a bagel not a beigel 05:10  |  paul harris 14/05/06
  258.   Dear Mr. Burston 05:57  |  Jeff Northridge 14/05/06
  259.   Dutch - Again propaganda instead of answers 06:33  |  Ariel 14/05/06
  260.   CONGRATUALTIONS MR BURSTON 06:42  |  Lebanese 14/05/06
  261.   THE ARTICLE LACK MORALS 07:00  |  MEIR WEINSTEIN 14/05/06
  262.   PETER SM- I`ve been giving her 2 questions 07:19  |  peter 14/05/06
  263.   Turning the other cheek to the Pals 08:16  |  Ilan 14/05/06
  264.   PROPER MORALS MR. WEINSTEIN? 08:30  |  SOUTH AFRICAN 14/05/06
  265.   245fatima: There are also the census 08:41  |  KUTW 14/05/06
  266.   # 255 Paul Harris 08:45  |  Chris 14/05/06
  267.   ariel avoiding the truth 08:54  |  Omar 14/05/06
  268.   Ariel 09:02  |  Omar 14/05/06
  269.   suicidal compassion 09:33  |  Chaim Moykopf 14/05/06
  270.   262: Attempt honesty 10:04  |  David Teich 14/05/06
  271.   Aby 237 AID MY Dear IS AID 10:57  |  Mustava Fress 14/05/06
  272.   All the People 11:27  |  Moshe Zalman Davis 14/05/06
  273.   Gaza Boy 11:58  |  r 14/05/06
  274.   Let Their People Go 13:06  |  Ephraim Ben-Zeev 14/05/06
  275.   Aby/S Job Creation in Armaments Factories 13:48  |  Mustava Fress 14/05/06
  276.   to Jeff Northridge #258 13:54  |  Zeev 14/05/06
  277.   to Chaim Moykopf #269 14:18  |  Zeev 14/05/06
  278.   let people go 16:52  |  o b 14/05/06
  279.   Let their people go 17:26  |  AMC 14/05/06
  280.   to Ariel 17:36  |  Tim 14/05/06
  281.   Howdy Jeff 17:45  |  Tim 14/05/06
  282.   #267 &2 68 Omar & Ariel 18:59  |  Dutch 14/05/06
  283.   Sorry but we have enough problems among ourselves 20:23  |  Shira 14/05/06
  284.   # 272 Moshe 20:52  |  Moe Chile 14/05/06
  285.   # 272 Moshe cont` 21:00  |  Moe Chile 14/05/06
  286.   Very good article 22:46  |  Hanna 14/05/06
  287.   BURSTON 22:47  |  vladimir 14/05/06
  288.   Not in our blood 23:29  |  Caro 14/05/06
  289.   "should we care?" 23:43  |  Daniel 14/05/06
  290.   Occupying by not occupying? 02:10  |  Efox 15/05/06
  291.   How Mexico was like Palestine once 02:20  |  Efox 15/05/06
  292.   Let them go 02:28  |  to Malmo and Paris 15/05/06
  293.   Thank you Mr. Burnston 03:10  |  Jon 15/05/06
  294.   Efox - Mexican American War 03:14  |  Mark Lincoln 15/05/06
  295.   Let children go 05:57  |  Joan Stuchner 15/05/06
  296.   suicidial compassion 06:54  |  Chaim Moykopf 15/05/06
  297.   KUTW - Names Change 08:05  |  Mark of Lewiston 15/05/06
  298.   By all means, let them go! 10:18  |  Yaakov Kayman 15/05/06
  299.   Re. Lincoln on Polk VS Santa Anna 19:42  |  Efox 15/05/06
  300.   He`s right 22:05  |  Mike 15/05/06
  301.   You honestly believe that? 22:36  |  Adam 15/05/06
  302.   YES. LET THEM GO...BACK TO JORDAN! 00:15  |  Sam 16/05/06
  303.   LET THEM GO...BACK TO JORDAN! CONT.. 00:18  |  Sam 16/05/06
  304.   palestine and Isreal despute 22:17  |  Nurudeen Adeyinka O 24/05/06
  305.   scoop the points, do good and have compassion it is Godly.. 12:15  |  simon 27/05/06
  306.   mark lincoln 294 13:16  |  Potobac 29/05/06
  307.   Indigenous? Marlene 17:09  |  Jasmine Murphy 15/09/06
  308.   Abab 17:12  |  Jasmine Murphy 15/09/06
  309.   A real peace treaty between Israel and Pelestinians is needed 04:03  |  Wisher for peace 04/10/07
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