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Former Al-Aqsa commander Zakariya Zubeidi Last update - 10:47 04/04/2008 'Marching toward total ruin' By Avi Issacharoff Tags: Al Aqsa Brigades, Jenin  JENIN - "When you see Zakariya, maybe you'll be surprised, but he looks like just any other Palestinian man now. Without armed men, without a weapon, just an ordinary guy," related an acquaintance of Zakariya Zubeidi, until not long ago the commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Jenin. Though Zubeidi is no longer hiding from the Israel Defense Forces, for a number of hours the people at the theater where he works tried to find him. Zubeidi didn't answer his mobile phone even when the commander of the Palestinian security forces in Jenin, Suleiman Umran, called him. In the end, a woman who works at the theater explained that he usually sleeps late and maybe that's what he was doing. In the past, Zubeidi used to show up briefly at his house, in the Jenin refugee camp, together with his wanted colleagues, before disappearing for fear that Israelis would ambush him. The only reminder of those days are the framed pictures of the "martyrs" killed recently in the camp, and the huge poster of Saddam Hussein posted in one of the alleys leading to Zubeidi's home. The door is opened by his son Mohammed, who immediately summons his father. He comes down in sandals and a black T-shirt, and promises that in a few minutes he will come to the theater offices. Zubeidi arrives in his officer's "battle" jacket and mountaineering shoes, but without a weapon and without his erstwhile colleagues from the brigades. Advertisement What are you doing these days? Zubeidi: "Nothing special. We've shut down the Al-Aqsa brigades and I haven't yet received a full pardon from Israel. I'm at home a bit, at the theater a bit." Why haven't you received a pardon? "They lied to us, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The PA promised us that after we spent three months in PA facilities and if we didn't get involved in actions, we would receive a pardon. The three months ended and nothing happened. We still need to sleep at the headquarters of the security organizations. They promised us jobs and they haven't materialized either. Some of us are getting a salary of NIS 1,050 a month. What can you do with that? Buy Bamba for your children? They lied to everyone, they made a distinction between those who were really in the Al-Aqsa Brigades, whom they screwed, and groups that called themselves by that name, but in fact were working on behalf of the PA." So why have you stopped? "In part because of the conflict between Fatah and Hamas. Look, it's perfectly clear to me that we won't be able to defeat Israel. My aim was for us, by means of the 'resistance' [code for terror attacks], to get a message out to the world. Back in Abu Amar's day [the nom de guerre of Yasser Arafat], we had a plan, there was a strategy, and we would carry his orders." In effect, are you saying what Amos Gilad and intelligence always said, that Arafat planned everything? "Right. Everything that was done in the intifada was done according to Arafat's instructions, but he didn't need to tell us the things explicitly. We understood his message." And today there is no leadership? "Today I can say explicitly: We failed entirely in the intifada. We haven't seen any benefit or positive result from it. We achieved nothing. It's a crushing failure. We failed at the political level - we didn't succeed in translating the military actions into political achievements. The current leadership does not want armed actions, and since the death of Abu Amar, there's no one who is capable of using our actions to bring about such achievements. When Abu Amar died, the armed intifada died with him." What happened? Why did it die? "Why? Because our politicians are whores. Our leadership is garbage. Look at Ruhi Fatouh, who was president of the PA for 60 days, as Yasser Arafat's replacement. He smuggled mobile phones. Do you understand? We have been defeated. The political splits and schisms have destroyed us not only politically - they have destroyed our national identity. Today there is no Palestinian identity. Go up to anyone in the street and ask him, 'Who are you?' He'll answer you, 'I'm a Fatah activist,' 'I'm a Hamas activist,' or an activist of some other organization, but he won't say to you, 'I am a Palestinian.' Every organization flies its own flag, but no one is raising the flag of Palestine." Are you, who used to be a symbol of the intifada, saying, "We have been defeated, we have failed, the intifada is dead?" "Even Gamal Abdel Nasser admitted his defeat, so why not me? Come on, I'll tell you something. On Saturday there was a ceremony to mark the killing of one of our martyrs. They asked me to say a few words. What could I say? I can no longer promise that we will follow in the martyr's footsteps, as is customary, because I would be lying. So then one of the heads of Fatah came over to me and said, 'We are following in the footsteps of the martyrs, we are continuing the resistance.' And I told him that he is a liar. "I feel that they have abandoned us, the Al-Aqsa activists. They have left us behind and forgotten us. We are marching in the direction of nowhere, toward total ruin. The Palestinian people is finished. Done for. Hamas comes on the air on its television station and says 'Fatah is a traitor.' That is to say, 40 percent of the nation are traitors. And then Fatah does the same thing and you already have 80 percent traitors." Is that why you are at home? "I got tired. When you lose, what can you do? We, the activists, paid the heavy price. We've had family members killed, friends. They demolished our homes and we have no way of earning a living. And what is the result? Zero. Simply zero. And when that's the result, you don't want to be a part of it any more. Lots of other people, as a result of the frustration, and because Fatah doesn't have a military wing any more, have joined the Islamic Jihad. Those activists are still willing to pay the price. "And look at what the PA does to those who are keeping at it. If a PA person is killed in a battle with the Israelis, the stipend paid to his family will amount to NIS 250 a month, even though he had been earning about NIS 2,000. Why? So that he won't even think about carrying out terror attacks. This is the only plan that the PA has these days: Israeli security. The security of the occupation before the security of [Palestinian] citizens. "When an occupation jeep comes into a refugee camp, the PA doesn't do anything, and if someone shoots at the jeep, they'll go and arrest him immediately. Today the president of the Palestinian people is General Dayton [Keith Dayton, the U.S. security coordinator]. They're all working for him, he is the boss. A PA no longer exists." Forecast: war Zubeidi relates that for him, the theater is a refuge from the bleak political reality that the Palestinians are facing. "Here there's no politics, no religion. I still feel free here." From time to time he talks with Tali Fahima [the Israeli woman who spent time in prison for her contacts with Zubeidi], and Jewish friends come to visit him at the theater. As to the future of the region, Zubeidi's forecast is very grim. "Abu Mazen's mistake," he says, referring to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, "is that he is gambling everything on the negotiations. And what happens if the talks fail? What is his plan then? I'm telling you that if by the end of 2008 a Palestinian state isn't established, there is going to be a war here. Not against Israel, or between Hamas and Fatah, but against the PA. The citizens are going to throw the PA out of here. Today the PA is doing what Dayton and Israel are telling it to do, but at the end of the year, when Israel doesn't give the Palestinians a state, the PA is going to be thrown out. There's going to be an all-out war here, for control of the West Bank." Zubeidi is not the only one who's feeling pessimistic about the future of the PA. Similar remarks can be heard everywhere in the West Bank these days. Senior American and Israeli officials who have spoken recently with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad are saying that his despair is obvious. Some of Fayyad's bitterness derives from Israel's scornful attitude toward the PA. However, it appears that Fayyad is frustrated to the same extent by the endless conflict with Fatah people, who urge him to appoint cabinet ministers from their movement and at the same time are lying in wait for him to fail. Some of the criticism of Fayyad's government, which has no Fatah people, is justified. The Palestinian prime minister, his many successes notwithstanding, is by no means a miracle worker, nor can he by himself change the face of the reality. The group of cabinet ministers he has appointed are considered technocrats, for better or worse, and they are not succeeding in implementing a substantial change in the government sector. The heads of the Tanzim, the senior Fatah people who were supposed to have become the organization's leaders of the future, are also making little effort to conceal their despair. They watch as their movement marches toward annihilation: without real reforms, without substantive change, but with endless talk about elections in Fatah and a war on corruption. Even the heads of some of the security organizations are critical of the stuttering actions of the PA against Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in the West Bank. And while Hamas indirectly conducts indirect negotiations with Israel on a cease-fire, the PA, as Zubeidi says, has "zero achievements" to show: limping negotiations, Israeli unwillingness to help, corruption and the absence of reforms. In the view of some Tanzim people, the PA is on a sure path to disintegration. Not in a swift and sharp way, but rather in a prolonged process, at the end of which it will disappear from the West Bank and will be replaced by the Israeli occupation and Hamas. Nearly the only scenario that could change the face of things is, of course, a political agreement or a framework agreement between the PA and Israel. But who can trust the Israelis? Bookmark to del.icio.us   'No good Jewish men' Author David Seidman delves into the dark side of dating, and confesses: 'I am a bad Jew.' Remembrance trail Holocaust memorial steam-drawn train sparks bitter row in Berlin.   1.   Israels success 09:40  |  Anton 04/04/08   2.   A Palestinian civil war is not a good thing for Israel 09:53  |  Natallie Durson 04/04/08   3.   The PA should have been thrown out ages ago 09:55  |  ELIAS KHOURY 04/04/08   4.   The Intifada should not stop 10:00  |  ALGERIAN 04/04/08   5.   Elias 10:28  |  Linichka 04/04/08   6.   Obviously, Arafats Nobel Peace Prize must be rescinded 10:35  |  Haldrik 04/04/08   7.   Elias Khoury, you are so wrong about your hate against Jews 10:39  |  Haldrik 04/04/08   8.   Arafat lived and died as a billionaire, liar & thief 10:46  |  Catholic Israeli 04/04/08   9.   The difference of different ethics, success or utter failure 10:47  |  Johnny 04/04/08   10.   Poster of Saddam 10:49  |  Ofer from Ofer 04/04/08   11.   the solution is arab palestine jordan 10:49  |  v hardman 04/04/08   12.   YOU ALMOST THERE ZUBEIDI, DON`T GIVE UP HOPE 10:54  |  indrajaya 04/04/08   13.   `Marching toward total ruin` ? OR towards a new Future ! 11:06  |  K.Sharif 04/04/08   14.   The only palestinians at piece.. 11:08  |  musa 04/04/08   15.   All Palestinians should make it like Zakariya Zubeidi...... 11:13  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/04/08   16.   former shabak agent 11:20  |  gaza 04/04/08   17.   The Jakarta Rat runs scared for not being able to defend hole 11:26  |  Genuine Tosefta 04/04/08   18.   Haldrik (re Elias Khoury) 11:27  |  Guido 04/04/08   19.   Arafat Gambled and lost!! 11:28  |  Dr eric 04/04/08   20.   Mashiach is coming, the day when we all will live in peace. 11:28  |  Allon 04/04/08   21.   #12, Indrajaya... 11:38  |  Silvienne 04/04/08   22.   About Human Beings 11:48  |  Shlomo Dov Rosen 04/04/08   23.   . 11:50  |  . 04/04/08   24.   DON`T BELIEVE 1 WORD OF THIS INTERVIEW, TERROR CONTINUES UNABATED 11:53  |  SUCKER WATCH 04/04/08   25.   Yes, indeed, Silvienne... 12:13  |  Linichka 04/04/08   26.   to Elias 13:00  |  MLK 04/04/08   27.   Pals should give up terrorism and join the modern world 13:11  |  Michael J 04/04/08   28.   to Silvienne 13:12  |  MLK 04/04/08   29.   Why Israel succeded 13:27  |  Max Zinger,P.Chimist 04/04/08   30.   They were bred to fight not to live 13:33  |  petra 04/04/08   31.   What is finished is the incompetent, corrupt PLO 13:43  |  El-Birawi 04/04/08   32.   Why should the Palestinians insist on a 2-state solution..... 13:48  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/04/08   33.   We win, you lose! 13:48  |  Josh Abrams 04/04/08   34.   What is finished is the incompetent, corrupt PLO 13:49  |  El-Birawi 04/04/08   35.   # 15 DINO - our futuristic friend - another impossiboe dream? 13:50  |  17 04/04/08   36.   Swiss (Gringo) where will Switzerland be in a 100 years? 14:18  |  Gil 04/04/08   37.   cheap israeli agents as all fatah politicians 14:21  |  sad 04/04/08   38.   What else Palestinians can ask for from the PA 14:26  |  El-Birawi 04/04/08   39.   The answwer is the sound of hammers 14:31  |  Mark Lincoln 04/04/08   40.   The fruit of Zakariya` resistance .... 14:33  |  Dutch 04/04/08   41.   Zakariya Zubeidi is 80% honest 14:42  |  Palestinian 04/04/08   42.   The fruit of Zakariya` resistance .... 14:43  |  Dutch 04/04/08   43.   the fruit of Zakariya` resistance .... 14:48  |  Dutch 04/04/08   44.   There is hope for the "Pals": it is called Jordan! 14:55  |  AliciaYasmeen 04/04/08   45.   ISRAEL HASN`T SUCCEEDED AGAIN 14:58  |  VIPER 04/04/08   46.   Swiss (Dino) 15:00  |  Dror 04/04/08   47.   "resistance" 15:00  |  Sean 04/04/08   48.   This should serve as a lesson 15:05  |  Dror 04/04/08   49.   The death of Israeli conscience 15:07  |  Palestinian in UK 04/04/08   50.   Max Zinger,P.Chimist #29 Poor analysis 15:09  |  examiner 04/04/08   51.   Great Interview/Great Article 15:16  |  Markus 04/04/08   52.   # 15 DINO - another impossible dream... 15:18  |  17 04/04/08   53.   Terrorist crying for his "salary" 15:23  |  McQueen 04/04/08   54.   Palestinans have becoming a boring subject for Israelis 15:23  |  Dror 04/04/08   55.   The Palestinian People Is Finished. 15:27  |  Jeff Northridge 04/04/08   56.   The Smuggled Mobile Phones and the Arab Talk Back 15:35  |  Gil 04/04/08   57.   How Abbas can save himself 15:37  |  Tosefta 04/04/08   58.   # 50 examiner- 15:38  |  17 04/04/08   59.   Recent survey show 60% of "Palestinians" want to leave. Simple 15:43  |  Chaim 04/04/08   60.   # 45 Viper "arabs are good at the waiting game i`ve noticed" 15:47  |  17 04/04/08   61.   Palestinian in UK 15:52  |  Shaina Lion 04/04/08   62.   Arabs still dreaming...But losers never change. 16:01  |  georges 04/04/08   63.   Gives "Guerilla Theater" whole new meaning 16:03  |  Aphemia 04/04/08   64.   Zakariya Zubeidi has proven that the old Arabic saying is true 16:06  |  Gil 04/04/08   65.   UK Pal Stil Doesn`t Get It 16:14  |  Ron Jones 04/04/08   66.   Dutch # 43 Nobody Is Jumping On Your Bandwagon 16:21  |  Jeff Northridge 04/04/08   67.   PAWNS OF HATRED AND VIOLENCE 16:21  |  B 04/04/08   68.   # 49 Palestinian in UK - "Demonizing "Palestinians. 16:23  |  17 04/04/08   69.   Like others terrorists groups, they are done... 16:25  |  maurice 04/04/08   70.   DUTCH As the well known Arabic saying goes 16:26  |  Gil 04/04/08   71.   Pal in UK: if it`s true that Israeli conscience 16:31  |  Ralph 04/04/08   72.   palestinian in UK #49 - But there is a way out 16:51  |  dana 04/04/08   73.   Let Gaza become part of Egypt and West Bank become Jorgen 17:04  |  Enough 04/04/08   74.   Haldrik #7 in your response to Elias 17:11  |  Ramzi, a Palestinian 04/04/08   75.   Atleast one Palestinian has achieved a level of common sense 17:15  |  indrajaya 04/04/08   76.   The palestinian identity pt.1 17:24  |  Walter 04/04/08   77.   The palestinian identity pt. 2 17:27  |  Walter 04/04/08   78.   To `enough` 17:27  |  Ramzi, a Palestinian 04/04/08   79.   Oh Boo Hu 17:30  |  Peyman 04/04/08   80.   Natallie Durson 17:31  |  Antony 04/04/08   81.   Does Israel Learn? 17:32  |  Sharif Hafez 04/04/08   82.   Recognizing The Right of Israel To Exist 17:36  |  Douglas Fireman 04/04/08   83.   Palestinians? They are simply ARABS.....A MIXTURE 17:40  |  Dolly 04/04/08   84.   Give Palestinian Arabs green cards to USA 17:49  |  American Christian 04/04/08   85.   total ruin march 17:58  |  elliot 04/04/08   86.   Citizenship for Palestinians 18:00  |  Mohammed 04/04/08   87.   # 35 17, I see you try it with "charme"....... 18:08  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/04/08   88.   You wish, Israel is a ghetto un the heart of the arab world. 18:24  |  American 04/04/08   89.   Gil, Re the majority verses the minority 18:26  |  Dutch 04/04/08   90.   # 36 Gil (Non-Gringo) 18:26  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/04/08   91.   Palestinian leadership is like a "spent" cartoosh. 18:28  |  El-Birawi 04/04/08   92.   # 46 Dror 18:41  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/04/08   93.   Walter in Hemingway 18:42  |  Ramzi, a Palestinian 04/04/08   94.   Progress 18:44  |  Avi 04/04/08   95.   Symptomatic of Our Illness 18:50  |  Musa 04/04/08   96.   #72, dana 18:50  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 04/04/08   97.   To Douglas Fireman in Illinois 18:55  |  Ramzi, a Palestinian 04/04/08   98.   Palestinians don`t have to fight 18:58  |  Atoo 04/04/08   99.   To Swiss Dino 19:02  |  Jordan 04/04/08   100.   Grow up Palestinians and stop whining 19:05  |  Mike 04/04/08   101.   Give Palestinians US Visa 19:06  |  Retread 04/04/08   102.   Even if the PA will be gone, hate will remain... 19:09  |  Jean Van Daem 04/04/08   103.   To Indrajaya 19:11  |  Jordan 04/04/08   104.   # 87 DINO - you are mistaken - no charm: 19:13  |  17 04/04/08   105.   Isn`t he the one with the Jewish 19:16  |  the truth 04/04/08   106.   To Sharif Hafez 19:16  |  Jordan 04/04/08   107.   Israeli "Palestinian" Christians 19:21  |  Haldrik 04/04/08   108.   To retread in South Dakota 19:26  |  Ramzi, a Palestinian 04/04/08   109.   To # 8 - Arafat lived and died a hero 19:34  |  Hani 04/04/08   110.   Swiss Dino It is Called Star of David and yes it will forever be 19:36  |  Robert/Montreal 04/04/08   111.   to # 105 - and is this a problem, ya progressive? 19:36  |  Hani 04/04/08   112.   to # 107 - goodwill? 19:44  |  Hani 04/04/08   113.   # 104 17, "friend" = no charme...??? 19:45  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/04/08   114.   please explain how non citizens of Israel, the UK, the US, 19:45  |  17 04/04/08   115.   Still the pal`s didn`t realize yet, that the solution is... 19:52  |  misha 04/04/08   116.   Ramzi, a Palestinian 19:55  |  Walter 04/04/08   117.   algerian 19:56  |  Stranger 04/04/08   118.   # 99 Jordan "Winners and losers" 19:56  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/04/08   119.   # 103 By the way, Jordan, if that was the "real" indrajaya...... 20:01  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/04/08   120.   Max Zinger, Goebbels-Verschnitt 20:14  |  Frank 04/04/08   121.   To Mohammed # 86 - Liberating PALESTINE. 20:25  |  Dagma 04/04/08   122.   Ramzi, a Palestinian from Maryland 20:34  |  17 04/04/08   123.   Ramzi #108 20:34  |  Retread 04/04/08   124.   The death of Israeli conscience 20:46  |  Marvin 04/04/08   125.   To Atoo # 98 - An Optimistic view...... 20:46  |  Natasha 04/04/08   126.   # 84 American Christian...wow, I like it 20:51  |  Lynn 04/04/08   127.   Proposal: Confederation of Israel and Palestine 20:58  |  Jewboy 04/04/08   128.   Haldrik again 21:07  |  Ramzi, a Palestinian 04/04/08   129.   Atoo # 98 Why On Earth Would That Be? 21:08  |  Jeff Northridge 04/04/08   130.   palestinians will bring their own end if there`s no elections 21:25  |  Igor D. 04/04/08   131.   civil war the only longterm way to peace with each other & Israel 21:30  |  zionist forever 04/04/08   132.   To Retread and Ramzi who I like better :) 21:34  |  Aphemia 04/04/08   133.   98 21:39  |  zionist forever 04/04/08   134.   #72 Dana. Sumud and civil rights struggle is the way. 21:44  |  Ben Alofs 04/04/08   135.   awww, isn`t it a pity, isn`t it a shame 21:47  |  peter 04/04/08   136.   Atoo#98- Pals had that chance in 1948 21:47  |  William 04/04/08   137.   You can always count on Haaretz to give a terrorist a voice 21:49  |  Gili 04/04/08   138.   Once a terrorist.... 21:51  |  William 04/04/08   139.   US and Israel: Least liked and trusted countires on the Planet 22:02  |  Truth 04/04/08   140.   Swiss (Dingo) and his Olympics 22:04  |  Gil 04/04/08   141.   Indrajaya, Silvienne - The pals never had a chance 22:08  |  William 04/04/08   142.   # Alicia Yasmeen, let reality sink in.......(1) 22:11  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/04/08   143.   # Alicia Yasmeen, let reality sink in.....(2) 22:17  |  Swiss (Dino) 04/04/08   144.   Dutch (#89) Tell us more Alibabah stories, please 22:19  |  Gil 04/04/08   145.   To Zakaria Zubeidi..You Are Still Thinking About Arafat.What? 22:28  |  KATHY 04/04/08   146.   Ramzi, a Palestinian # 97 Your Two Points (part 1) 22:31  |  Jeff Northridge 04/04/08   147.   Algerian, maybe so, but it ruined the Pals. 22:43  |  Zionist 04/04/08   148.   And you think (11) King Absullah II of Jordan would bid 22:47  |  Karl 04/04/08   149.   K. Sharif (13) as a citizen of Israel serving the state 22:52  |  Karl 04/04/08   150.   Things we could have told Zubiwawa had he just listened 22:56  |  NOT Yaakov Sullivan 04/04/08   151.   #21 Silvienne, my condolences for your loss and sorrow 22:56  |  Zionist 04/04/08   152.   Ramzi, are you sure that you aren`t 22:59  |  Scharker Yid 04/04/08   153.   Ramzi, a Palestinian # 97 Your Two Points (part 2) 23:21  |  Jeff Northridge 04/04/08   154.   Palestinian Myths and their fatal flaws 23:26  |  Panther Jet 04/04/08   155.   Dear Dutch:Bipartisan US House resolution 185 23:29  |  Steve -nyc 04/04/08   156.   Some figures for Dutch from The Israel Project 23:35  |  Karl 04/04/08   157.   Ramzi, those 750,000 ran as fast as they could because 23:40  |  steve-NYC 04/04/08   158.   #49 Pal in UK 23:46  |  Zionist 04/04/08   159.   Vanity fair? you consider it a reference? and you call yourself 23:51  |  Zionist 04/04/08   160.   re 75 I hope not but i think 23:54  |  Alan the real one 04/04/08   161.   #15 - Swiss(Dino) - They should indeed (Pt. 1) 23:56  |  JP 04/04/08   162.   palestinians still have a lot to do to gain israel`s trust 23:56  |  Joey 04/04/08   163.   THEIR HOMELAND IS JORDAN ? 00:04  |  Bill 05/04/08   164.   Haldrik - Israeli "Palestinian" Christians 00:10  |  GA 05/04/08   165.   #15 - Swiss(Dino) - They should indeed (Pt. 2) 00:14  |  JP 05/04/08   166.   At long last 00:15  |  Rammi 05/04/08   167.   Becuase of An Idiot Like You 00:24  |  AN Honest American 05/04/08   168.   #105 "Romantically linked" to Tali Fahima 00:33  |  Aphemia 05/04/08   169.   rejoice, israel! 00:41  |  tom 05/04/08   170.   No Surprise 00:58  |  Mark of Lewiston 05/04/08   171.   #125 Jeff Northridge...Only In Israel !!! 01:05  |  Ross 05/04/08   172.   Zionist #149 01:10  |  examiner 05/04/08   173.   Scharker Yid 01:12  |  Ramzi, a Palestinian 05/04/08   174.   # 151 JP, who again is a bit "off the road" here....???? (1) 01:13  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/04/08   175.   # 151 JP, who again is a bit "off the road" here...??? (2) 01:22  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/04/08   176.   Cipora JK #96 - really? 01:37  |  dana 05/04/08   177.   # 151 JP, who again is a bit "off the road" here...??? (3) 01:44  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/04/08   178.   Ben Alofs #130 - The coming Palestinian civil right movement 01:46  |  dana 05/04/08   179.   If I were a young Palestinian 01:52  |  realist 05/04/08   180.   What I cannot understand 01:55  |  Mark Lincoln 05/04/08   181.   # 137 Alicia Yasmeen, let reality sink in (1) (2nd try) 01:56  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/04/08   182.   #149 Zionist -addendum V.Fair 01:59  |  examiner 05/04/08   183.   The intent of this story 02:00  |  Mark Lincoln 05/04/08   184.   Zionist - yes 02:04  |  Mark Lincoln 05/04/08   185.   Durson #2 02:14  |  Observer 05/04/08   186.   PA in Ruins,A Accurate Assessment by 02:16  |  ROBOCOP 05/04/08   187.   A Fatah activist despairs, and Israelis who 02:27  |  Che Vive 05/04/08   188.   dutch - and many of your countrymen 02:30  |  natan 05/04/08   189.   Ramzi 02:43  |  natan 05/04/08   190.   If Allah raises Jews in Jerusalem, Muslims should accept it 03:07  |  Rami 05/04/08   191.   #8 To Catholic IsrAeli from Catholic American 03:08  |  Yaakov Sullivan 05/04/08   192.   #36 What it has to do with intifada? 03:12  |  Yaakov Sullivan 05/04/08   193.   Swiss(Dino) - They should indeed (Pt. 2) 03:13  |  JP 05/04/08   194.   Zakariya Zubeidi: a waste of talent 03:21  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 05/04/08   195.   Zakaria can speak for himself 03:36  |  Joe 05/04/08   196.   linichka #5, wrong 03:41  |  ELIAS KHOURY 05/04/08   197.   #44 ALICIA YASMEEN THAT`S LIKE SAYING 03:47  |  ELIAS KHOURY 05/04/08   198.   Jeff Northridge #55 you need to do research 03:50  |  ELIAS KHOURY 05/04/08   199.   End of The Day 04:17  |  Ron 05/04/08   200.   Rami.....God has a special place for all of us 04:34  |  Lynn 05/04/08   201.   #43: Dutch, really why has support for Israel gone up in the U.S. 04:43  |  Doc Holliday 05/04/08   202.   Dana#178 - What is MLK waved the Russian flag? 05:12  |  William 05/04/08   203.   #195 Jow - seems like the Intifada speaks for itself 05:18  |  William 05/04/08   204.   ELIAS KHOURY- JERUSALEM - ISRAEL 05:19  |  Bill 05/04/08   205.   #196 Elias - the sign of a true democracy 05:21  |  William 05/04/08   206.   198# Elias - so a newspaper is your identity? 05:25  |  William 05/04/08   207.   to Johnny #9 - one can only wonder 05:39  |  zeev 05/04/08   208.   #198 Sorry Sonny Boy you are way off the mark 05:40  |  Panther Jet 05/04/08   209.   Arafat 05:46  |  MR 05/04/08   210.   Natan in DC 06:09  |  Ramzi, a Palestinian 05/04/08   211.   Israel haters are depressed. I revel in it LOL 07:10  |  Abraham 05/04/08   212.   Dutch 40,42,43 -- in some Bizarro world, perhaps 07:47  |  bbl 05/04/08   213.   Golda meir: There are no Palestinina people.." How right she was 07:55  |  Haham Me Bat Yam 05/04/08   214.   Ramzi, a Palestinian 07:58  |  Walid 05/04/08   215.   Palestine is also the other side of the River Jordan. 08:15  |  Akram Zekaria 05/04/08   216.   Tower of Babel.. Alive in Israel!! 08:22  |  Black Israel 05/04/08   217.   # 198 ELIAS KHOURY 08:56  |  17 05/04/08   218.   to Abraham #211 - right, absolutely right 09:24  |  zeev 05/04/08   219.   Elias, I stand by my statements 09:40  |  Linichka 05/04/08   220.   to 17 #217 09:47  |  zeev 05/04/08   221.   zeev #207, Palestinians occuping themselves 09:58  |  Johnny 05/04/08   222.   # 198 Elias Khoury 10:10  |  Planned Obsolescence 05/04/08   223.   to natan #189 10:18  |  zeev 05/04/08   224.   I wish Zakariya Zubeidi would have said something 10:33  |  Akram Zekaria 05/04/08   225.   #203 William 10:50  |  Joe 05/04/08   226.   223# Zeev.The man from Oslo said many things 10:57  |  Akram Zekaria. 05/04/08   227.   Elias Khoury (#198 #197 #196) O Really 10:59  |  Gil 05/04/08   228.   #216 black is the operative word! 11:08  |  v hardman 05/04/08   229.   to Planned Obsolescence #222 11:30  |  zeev 05/04/08   230.   To Zeev. thanks but partially missed my point 12:01  |  Abraham 05/04/08   231.   #229 zeev 12:12  |  Planned Obsolescence 05/04/08   232.   3 STATE SOLUTIN 12:36  |  US CITIZEN 05/04/08   233.   To # 93 RAMZI a Palestinian - YOUR knowledge is not even 12:50  |  Dagma 05/04/08   234.   V. Hardman Define "Created" 12:51  |  Black Israel 05/04/08   235.   Resistance 12:52  |  Michele 05/04/08   236.   # 110 Robert, my (sincere) apologies for my little blunder..... 13:15  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/04/08   237.   Michele 13:30  |  Linichka 05/04/08   238.   Mark Lincoln. The intent of this story 13:33  |  TonyL 05/04/08   239.   #234 black needs urgently extensive history lessons 13:38  |  v hardman 05/04/08   240.   War is about winning 13:41  |  SystemF 05/04/08   241.   There was once only Palestinian Jews..... 13:47  |  Jos 05/04/08   242.   ELIAS KHOURY # 198 Titling Newspapers 13:53  |  Jeff Northridge 05/04/08   243.   Palestine an invented word by the Roman Emperor Hadrian 13:58  |  Yoel 05/04/08   244.   # 220 zeev 14:18  |  17 05/04/08   245.   # 234 Black Israel; Your Black thoughts are not based on truth... 14:43  |  Max Zinger,P.Chimist 05/04/08   246.   # 237 Michele - resistence 14:46  |  17 05/04/08   247.   Dino don`t be a Dinky Donkey 15:22  |  Dror 05/04/08   248.   #25, Linichka... 15:50  |  Silvienne 05/04/08   249.   #28, MLK... 15:54  |  Silvienne 05/04/08   250.   #141, William, on the contrary... 15:59  |  Silvienne 05/04/08   251.   How beautiful the sound of truth.El-Birawi-384 ?! 16:00  |  Akram Zekaria 05/04/08   252.   #151, Zionist... 16:01  |  Silvienne 05/04/08   253.   Yoel # 243 The Philistines 16:34  |  Jeff Northridge 05/04/08   254.   In Palestinian Politics Self Interest Always 16:36  |  ARTH 05/04/08   255.   SWISS DINO 16:36  |  AliciaYasmeen 05/04/08   256.   238# Tony L. "The Intent of this story". 16:45  |  Akram Zekaria 05/04/08   257.   SWISS DINO & ELIAS KHOURY 16:47  |  AliciaYasmeen 05/04/08   258.   #59 16:51  |  ARTH 05/04/08   259.   Not only the end of the PA but also the end of the PLO 16:54  |  Tosefta 05/04/08   260.   #154 Israel: A Safe Harbout 17:11  |  ARTH 05/04/08   261.   Palestinians Not Necessarily Over Read 17:14  |  Yosemite 05/04/08   262.   To # 93 RAMZI a PALESTINIAN - You are a`Treat` 17:18  |  Dolly 05/04/08   263.   Black Israel 17:34  |  x-ray 05/04/08   264.   There never was a state called "Palestine" nor a "Palestinian" pe 17:34  |  Chaim 05/04/08   265.   Silvienne the airhead who knows no facts 17:38  |  x-ray 05/04/08   266.   Zakariya Zubeidi is the bravest man on erath today. 17:48  |  Akram Zekaria 05/04/08   267.   Silvienne, unlike dogs... 17:58  |  Linichka 05/04/08   268.   To ELIAS KHOURY # 198 - Palestinian/ARABS 18:03  |  Dagma 05/04/08   269.   to Johnny #221 18:12  |  zeev 05/04/08   270.   Slowman, I am instructing you to stop working NOW! 18:14  |  Dr. Anshel Pepper 05/04/08   271.   # 249 AliciaYasmeen 18:41  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/04/08   272.   Jews & Samaritans are the aborigines of Israel: Judea and Samaria 18:45  |  Haldrik 05/04/08   273.   # 249 AliciaYasmeen, a completion....... 18:48  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/04/08   274.   Silvienne (#248) Go squat your hypocrisy somewhere else 18:59  |  Gil 05/04/08   275.   Silvienne (#248) Go squat your hypocrisy somewhere else 19:00  |  Gil 05/04/08   276.   to 17 #244 19:02  |  zeev 05/04/08   277.   Israel can withstand anything but palestinian surrender! 19:09  |  Voice of Reason 05/04/08   278.   # 253 Tosefta...I have always admired your 19:10  |  Lynn 05/04/08   279.   To ARTH 19:20  |  American Christian 05/04/08   280.   Tosefta # 250 Maybe, Maybe Not 19:48  |  Jeff Northridge 05/04/08   281.   to Chaim #258 19:52  |  zeev 05/04/08   282.   55/Jeff Northridge.You was untruthful or kind to Zakariya Zubeidi 20:10  |  Akram Zekaria 05/04/08   283.   The Jewish legal tradition can accommodate a pluralistic society 20:11  |  Haldrik 05/04/08   284.   Tosefta doubts if Israel has enough brain to deal with it 20:18  |  Brian the Brain 05/04/08   285.   #261 SWISS DINO 20:23  |  AliciaYasmeen 05/04/08   286.   Silvienne (#248) Go squat your hypocrisy somewhere else 20:25  |  Gil 05/04/08   287.   # 262 zeev- I am not.. 20:26  |  17 05/04/08   288.   So by Zubeidi?s admission 20:43  |  KUTW 05/04/08   289.   they do not stop because of repentance 20:46  |  KUTW 05/04/08   290.   to Abraham #230 20:47  |  zeev 05/04/08   291.   Cannot it be a trick? 20:51  |  KUTW 05/04/08   292.   Excellent story Haaretz! 20:51  |  Dutch Dirk 05/04/08   293.   There has never been pal Arabs 20:54  |  KUTW 05/04/08   294.   Swiss (Dino) # 261 That Has Been Predicted Before 20:54  |  Jeff Northridge 05/04/08   295.   # 259 x-ray...comment taken from Al Jazeera 20:57  |  Lynn 05/04/08   296.   To Black Israel #234 - `Palestinians aginst all the odds` 21:04  |  Dagma 05/04/08   297.   # 288 dutch Dirk....sure, call for another intifada 21:05  |  Lynn 05/04/08   298.   ZEEV - sorry wrong impression - I disagree completely 21:21  |  17 05/04/08   299.   The Palestinians in Jordan must start intifada and liberate 21:33  |  e.m Jordan is Palse 05/04/08   300.   Lynn thanks for the heads-up 21:34  |  x-ray 05/04/08   301.   William #206 what about? 21:35  |  ELIAS KHOURY 05/04/08   302.   # 294 Hi Jeff, I concede, you are an excellent "footsoldier".... 21:48  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/04/08   303.   # 300 x-ray...yes, indeed David is right 21:51  |  Lynn 05/04/08   304.   PA ?peaceful? intentions 21:51  |  KUTW 05/04/08   305.   praising the terrorist who murdered Israeli students 21:53  |  KUTW 05/04/08   306.   Promising the Dark Eyed Maidens to the ?martyrs? 21:57  |  KUTW 05/04/08   307.   The Jordanian option (Lynn #278) 21:58  |  Tosefta 05/04/08   308.   A PA music video 21:58  |  KUTW 05/04/08   309.   # 285 Alica, honestly, I don`t think so....... 22:00  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/04/08   310.   SWISS DINO; one more time 22:03  |  AliciaYasmeen 05/04/08   311.   21. Silvienne 22:05  |  KUTW 05/04/08   312.   Akram Zekaria # 271 "You Was"? 22:14  |  Jeff Northridge 05/04/08   313.   # 242 Jeff Northridge.re:ELIAS KHOURY..I wonder if He Is Aware?? 22:15  |  KATHY 05/04/08   314.   145# Kathy I beg to differ from both you and Jeff Northridge. 22:17  |  Akram Zekaria 05/04/08   315.   The Palestinian People Is Finished" TRUE! They never STARTED! 22:31  |  David 05/04/08   316.   #305 SWISS DINO 22:42  |  AliciaYasmeen 05/04/08   317.   #305 SWISS DINO - 2 23:01  |  AliciaYasmeen 05/04/08   318.   #311, KUTW... 23:19  |  Silvienne 05/04/08   319.   Lynn and Tosefta over Jordan 23:23  |  Ramzi, a Palestinian 05/04/08   320.   Swiss (DIMBO) #309 How lovely, they Really, Really want do they? 23:25  |  Gil 05/04/08   321.   Re Elias Khoury 23:31  |  Esther 05/04/08   322.   to AliciaYasmeen #285 23:33  |  zeev 05/04/08   323.   KATHY and Jeff Northridge 23:34  |  KUTW 05/04/08   324.   Ramzi a `Palestinian` : Looks to me you`re American 23:36  |  x-ray 05/04/08   325.   316. Silvienne 23:40  |  KUTW 05/04/08   326.   # 307 Tosefta...I honestly think this is the best 23:47  |  Lynn 05/04/08   327.   #320 Gil , KOL HAKAVOD ACHI 23:56  |  Dror 05/04/08   328.   Alicia Yasmeen 23:56  |  Alex 05/04/08   329.   Re Alicia Jasmeen 00:02  |  Esther 06/04/08   330.   to KATHY #313 00:04  |  zeev 06/04/08   331.   #198. ELIAS KHOURY, you really do believe your own BS 00:14  |  Doc Holliday 06/04/08   332.   #294 Jeff in the Box does not see too far ahead 00:23  |  Labhras 06/04/08   333.   # 323 KUTW *****Thanks I Forgot To Include it.. 00:30  |  KATHY 06/04/08   334.   The kindness of god 00:33  |  roger wallace 06/04/08   335.   You have a problem Ramzi 00:36  |  MaryRose 06/04/08   336.   Chaim #258 - There was never a state called Israel either 00:38  |  Philip 06/04/08   337.   KUTW (#323) Actually it was called The Palestine Post 00:38  |  Gil 06/04/08   338.   What can I say 00:47  |  Ralph R 06/04/08   339.   # 320 Gil in wonderland..... 00:53  |  Swiss (Dino) 06/04/08   340.   # 319 Ramzi, a Palestinian..Tell Me Something Ramzi Please. 00:58  |  I 06/04/08   341.   to AliciaYasmeen #310 01:01  |  zeev 06/04/08   342.   #282...Akram Zekaria 01:07  |  Malone 06/04/08   343.   Required Reading for CNN, Eldar, and Peres 01:20  |  Tod Zuckerman 06/04/08   344.   Zeev #269 - Still 32 years after muslim attack at Israel 01:26  |  Johnny 06/04/08   345.   # 316 / # 317 AliciaYasmeen 01:37  |  Swiss (Dino) 06/04/08   346.   #326 ZEEV 01:18  |  AliciaYasmeen 06/04/08   347.   #342 Malone..This guy up there admitted he was not getting enough 01:52  |  Ross 06/04/08   348.   #328 Alex - danke schön! 02:15  |  AliciaYasmeen 06/04/08   349.   #336 Philip. Perhaps you crave dodging kassams. Most of us don`t. 02:16  |  Chaim 06/04/08   350.   21 Silvienne 02:24  |  Malach HaMavet 06/04/08   351.&nbs