Meshal: The West seeks to 'starve the Palestinian people'

And the USA belongs to the Red Indien and Kuwait belongs to Iraq, Singapore belongs to Malaysia, half Poland belongs to Germany and so on. Dav

America and Israel will regret their attempt to starve the Palestinian people into submission. Having tried democracy, and found it doesn't work, Hamas will return to violence, which Israel does understand.

The UN has made them aid dependent. They are now the rebellious adolescent children of the world, demanding support while refusing obedience.

Your Arab brothers should help you go back to your homeland. Of course they wouldn't do that because they want to terrorize Israel as long as they can.

Question one. How much does a missile cost? Yesterday the Palestinians aimed 12 missiles at civilian targets in Israel. (Miraculously the kibbutz children weren?t in their sports hall when the missile landed so this time only damage to buildings occurred) Day in day out missiles are sent over so Question two. What?s the total cost to date? Are they free? Contributed by some charitable organization perhaps? Question three. After half a year of independence when will the poor Palestinians start working? (Tourism, agriculture) Question four. Did they destroy all those state of the art hothouses left by the Israelis like they destroyed the houses, synagogues and community halls?) Question five. How much are the oil-billionaire sheiks contributing to helping their poor Palestinian brothers? or Question six. Do they only contribute when the money is going towards weaponry? Like the millions they gave to fill the Karine A with bombs, missiles, guns, etc.

We are doing just fine without donkey milk and toy explosive belts for children. Maybe you should work to support yourself like anyone else instead of expecting those "evil" Christians to give you food?

Or the Palestinian serial murderers!

do american indians,the ones not slaughterd by the euros,do they have a right to there ancestral land are is that not in your book.

b"H Please note correction of typing error in the fourth last line of no. 39. It should read "bet" instead of "be".

They fall over themselves seeing who can scream louder that Israel will disappear at their hands. Each of them tries to take credit for pushing Israel out of Gaza. They wave a fist at the world demanding handouts. The myth of palestinians exposed once again for all to see, where's the leadership, who's the leadership, who's holding who at gunpoint. What's Meshal doing speaking out from syria, who does he represent? Abbas? Haniyeh? Months have passed since there were elections, but the gun still rules. more of the same as usual, arabs as pawns to a leadership that doesn't care and doesn't have the ability or capacity or the desire to govern. That's why there never was a "palestine" and that's why there never will be one either.

Who occupied who? The land you are talking about is the historic land of Israel since 4000 years ago. Over the millenia the historic land of Israel was occupied by various foreign forces. Despite the diaspora, the Jewish people have always remained in their historic land. In 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973, the Arab nations tried to wipe off Israel but they were defeated. The real occupiers are the Arabs who originally came from the Southern part of Arabia. When the aggressors launch a war of annihilation and they lose, that is the end of the story. However, they choose a path of aggression towards "wiping off" Israel instead of developing their economies, educating and providing jobs for their people, and living in peace and harmony. All the excuses of "we are being occupied and therefore we are helpless" are simply fallacious.

b"H - I only half agree with #20. It is not the Jewish way to wish to treat people as we have often been mistreated. My advice to those who are starving is to get rid of their terrorist leaders as fast as fast as possible, before they use up all available funds for weapons against Eretz Yisrael. If they ask for help in doing that, we should all try to help them. Secondly, it would be decent of other Arab countries to help those who are starving there, but, given the present leadership, one can bet that money would never be used for food for the starving - at most as food in second place to weapons for the terrorist leaders. Hamas was voted in even less democratically than Hitler, yemach shemo. If the chips were down, and terrorists were not about to kill every honest man, I would be many of those starving would opt to eat right here with us or there, but as part of Eretz Yisrael, and I don't think any of us would have a right to say they would be eating crow - no - they would be honest

To those who promote peace, I respond in kind, To you, Doris/Dutch an anti-Semite who spews hatred against Jews/Israelis all over the internet, I also answer in kind. The Talmud teaches us "When someone comes to kill you, you must strike first and kill them". Apparently it is working and working well. According to www.mfa.gov.il which documents terror attacks, the number of Israeli deaths are dramatically down this year. We thwart nearly all terrorist actions against us, contain those whose charter calls for our destruction, and move the terror from our streets and backyards to theirs. As long as they aspire to our death and destruction, they will suffer and deservedly so. PASSOVER this year did not have another PARK HOTEL in NETANYA incident. As in Exodus, we will warn the enemy and then bring down Plagues on them. The Fence will continue along with checkpoints, roadblocks, return fire for Qassams, and targeted assasinations against terrorists. Israel will be safe. Too bad!

Where are their Arab brothers?? They have money to spend in papaces, expensive holidays, fleets of very expensive cars but not for the Palestinian? An why the "West" should fund them? Sometimes these people are realy funny

Saturday 15 April 2006, 18:35 Makka Time, 15:35 GMT Russia says it had promised emergency aid to the Palestinian Authority, breaking with the EU and Washington, which have stopped funding to try to force Hamas to recognise Israel. A Foreign Ministry statement said on Saturday the offer came in a telephone conversation on Friday between Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. "Mahmoud Abbas highly appreciated the intention of Russia, confirmed by Lavrov, to grant the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority urgent financial aid in the nearest time," it said. Russia is a member of the Quartet of Middle East mediators searching for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, along with the UN, the EU and the US. The US and the European Union have halted direct aid to the Palestinian Authority because it has not renounced violence, recognised Israel or agreed to abide by interim peace deals. US, Israel action Washington has barred American citizens and organisations from most business dealings with the Palestinian Authority. Israel has also blocked the transfer of customs and tax receipts. Larvov had earlier criticised the halting of aid, though he has urged Hamas to meet the demands of international mediators. He said the only way to make Hamas meet international demands was to work with it, not boycott it. It was wrong to deny aid to the Palestinians "purely because in democratic elections they elected a government made up entirely out of Hamas members ... we are convinced that this approach is mistaken", Larvov was quoted as saying last Tuesday. Russia is the only major power to have received Hamas on an official visit since its landslide win in Palestinian parliamentary elections in January. Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister, said on Friday that the "unholy alliance" led by the US would not bring down the Hamas government.

We have heard all the flowery rhetoric before. You may feel a lot better but the facts remain. The Arab countries do not care about the Palestinian at all. Most of them don't even want to allow them entrance since "they are troublemakers." They have kept them in refugee camps for years. They only need the Palestinians as a symbol to show the world "how bad the Zionists are". Fatah is fighting HAMAS. Corruption is rampant. The Arabs countries have made pledges but they will not honor them. Police are striking and disrupting life in Khan Younis. The terrorists destroyed the hothouses which could have provided enormous economic benefit and jobs for Palestinians. It is only a matter of time until the total collapse of the PA. The irony is that so much money is within their reach if they would make the right decisions: Remove the article calling for the destruction of Israel and disavow terror. WHEN LIVES OF PALESTINIANS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN DEATHS OF ISRAELIS THERE CAN BE HOPE

Tell it to the Arab brothers. Where were they in the past 58 years? Why didn't they take the Palestinians in, and fed them? While the Israeli cousins took in hundred of thousands of jewish refugees from Arab countries,the Arab brothers left their own in the camps to starve. Will they ever learn?

It continues to amaze me that the Palestinian leadership is living in a dream world. All they have to do is renounce violence and accept the fact that the state is Israel is not going anywhere. It is really quite simple. And when this is done, I am sure that aid will come to those who do not care to work and be responsible for their own well being. Palestinians need to stop wallowing in their own pity. Stand up like men and take care of yourselves. You will feel better.

Singapor and Hongkong are not occopied by a brutal neighbour who kill them, steal there land, bulldoz houses and so on.

In actual fact, you are all the monkeys to the organ grinders - your leaders.

You are under the eviloccupation of your leaders and countless groups of armed thugs. You are under the evil occupation of those who destroyed perfectly good hothouse infrastrcutre in Gaza which could have provided hundreds of jobs. You are under the evil occupation of those animals with absolutely no regard to human life who build and launch kassams into Israel (inviting retaliation) and who build weapons factories among civilians (putting them in harm's way). Israel is in no way responsibile for this kind of barbaric behaviour, you are by encouraging it, as are all those bleeding hearts (Dutch, et al) who urge you on while sitting in the comfort of their own homes.

will support the Palestinians. They don't need the West's miserly donations

Are Mashal and his Hamas cronies. It serves their agenda and gives them something to whine about. If this were not the case, they would be more interested in providing their people with employment, healthcare, education and inrastructure for a decent life. As it is, they are more interested in inciting them to hating Israel in order to deflect from their own failings as leaders. this is rife in the Arab world (see: Iran).

The oil is good business the Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz/Pearl gang and the Wallstreet mafia, not for the Arab brothers.

"With oil topping 70$ a barril you can very well stick out your hands in direction of your rich Arab brothers that have all that available cash and hope for the best. I hope Europe and the US leave you dry. Why should the West have anything to do with you? You danced while the WTC towers burned, you cheered Saddam, you can forget about us. It`s PAY DAY and the West doesn`t owe you one cent." On one hand, your statement is not much more precise than a palestinian qassam rocket. Only less violent. On the other hand, there are only very few postings here where Arabs criticise themselves. It is difficult for them to break that irrational "solidarity", which in reality is suppression, that annihilates any individual outbreaks. People are threatened with death penalty for giving up Islam, collaborators with Israel risk to be killed by the mob. I think that's what we call fascism. I'd welcome the palestinians who want to come to europe instead to stay under Hamas.

Dutch, Can you answer me is there any autorithy in Palestian side. Is there any order? If you want to success to establish a state you must do one simple thing. Join your forcess. Act like an state not like a bunch of thugs. Hamas and Fatah and Islamic Jihad and other militias can't even come together, how are you going to establish a state? As long as you can't join your forces you would not able to create a state. Aby

Why should the West fund the people who continue to breed terrorists and mass murderers-Kamikazes? Why should the West fund the people whose objective is the annihilation of another country--Israel? If these dark forces turn away from their life of darkness, violence and hatred, and enlighten the minds on educating and providing jobs for their people, peace and harmony can thrive. Why can't they emulate the success of other comparable nations like Israel, Singapore and Hong Kong? Why must hatred and violence be given primacy in their heart, mind and soul? Is hatred and violence the basis of their religious teachings?

Stop buying arms and their will be enough food on the table for all.

One more time for those who are critically hard of hearing. Those of us in the west support your democratic process completely. And just as soon as you renounce violence and recognize Israel, we'll even support Hamas. Until then, however, Hamas remains a terrorist organization, and it's against our laws to support terrorist organizations. When you've got your hands out for a donation, sometimes it pays to listen to what is expected of you.

Couldn't have said it better.

With oil topping 70$ a barril you can very well stick out your hands in direction of your rich Arab brothers that have all that available cash and hope for the best. I hope Europe and the US leave you dry. Why should the West have anything to do with you? You danced while the WTC towers burned, you cheered Saddam, you can forget about us. It's PAY DAY and the West doesn't owe you one cent.

ElBirawi, Stop lip sayings like stupid Qassam rockets and suicide bombings. We need an action, reality. The moment you ceased the Qassam rockets it would stop shelling. How can you preach peace actually when the reality is Hamas sending Qassams to Israel. Adress your sayinngs to stop to your brothers. Hamas and your brothers are pushing for war not us.

Why do you publish this drivel? If anyone was to make such insulting comments about Palestinians or Muslims, you rightly so would not put it up, so why the double standard?

It is to bad that the Palestinian did not learn history well. If they had followed the teaching of the the great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi instead of the the Jew hating Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin El Husseini, they would have had a state many years ago. Now they have Kalhed Meshal leading them with the Jew hating Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his side. We all know what the results of this alliance will be.

What evil and corrupt leaders doing Israel's bidding. They show little sense of humanity, justice or mercy. They don't represent the good people of this world. Dutch

Russia, the country with tens of millions of people below the poverty line, the nation, whose women work in brothels throughout the world to earn money for their children, the nation, where children die because there is no money for medications, the nation with great culture and history, where entire regions struggle for survival, offers aid to murderers from Hamas? Unbelievable. Russia deserves better leader, than Putin.

we keep seeing all this nonsense about 'we thought democracies ... ' etc. Surely they must know that the fact that they had a 'democratic' election doesn't mean that everyone will agree with them. They could have a democratic election based on the premise that they would kill there first born and most of the world wouldn't accept it. They had a platform to cut off people's hands and legs and condone honor rape and they're surprised that the West (and the East) don't agree with them. Are they just pretending to be naive or do they really understand what 'democracy' means ? Mike

The US has been very generous in funding Israel's war against the Palestinians and have been very generous funding settlements to the tune of over $10 billions in loan guaratees ( while failing to build decent housing for its own citizens) and now Israel is demnding $10 billions more to fund redeployment. Perhpas the US as a partner in the crimes against the Palestinians can afford couple of hundred millions to support peave efforts and get a two state solutions according the Arab peace plan. It will be wise and little investment. The new Palestinian government must also come forward and formally accept the Arab peace plan, rather than play verbal semantic. We Palestinians should declare our intention for peace through peaceful means( forget about stupid Qassam rockets or suicide bombings and Fatah thugs)and let the Israelis and the US answers with tanks, planes and more killings. We shalll see who will win the peace in the end. Hamas should push for peace, while Israel pushes for war.

That's the good part of the game,that someone is putting obstacles in our way.maybe the Muslim Nation or the brother Bin Laden will save you.Not us.

Thanks, Russia for helping the Palestinians.

I am all for helping feed Gaza. This is a humanitarian question.I am also for engaging Hamas. But doing business with Hamas is different. It is opening U.S. companies to possible collusion with Hamas.This is dangerous and the reason I agree with the U.S. position. With Hamas charter glowing above them as a banner and its bent on Islamic Fundamentalist rule,how can any western country take a chance with these people that could very well be a beachhead for a grander Islamic dream. Until Hamas moderate in intent and not just in suits,then the west cannot take a chance. Hamas HAS cleaned up its act...to a point. the ceasefire is in effect admirably (No the Quassams are not Hamas) and the Hamas boys look cool travelling the world in their new found politic. The fact is the Pizza Parlour still has the remains of many a Jew with Hamas blood on it and Al Queda is only a phone call away for the Green.No need to rush to do business with these people.

What American Jews do now to Palestina, they did 1933 to Germany Dav

You seem to be a reasonable person the way you write. This is different from fanatics who cannot express but hatred. But let me say you that what I found here after the failure of Barak-Arafat talks and terror attacks of the years 2000 - 2003 was not aggresive mind but lack of trust. I cannot trust people who say we shouldn't exist unless they explicitly change their way of thinking. Sadat did, we trusted. Arafat didn't, we trusted and failed. Unilaterality is for retiring, not conquering. I feel sorry for Palestinians because, as I think, they had corrupted and shortsighted leaders (we have them too, but not in early statehood days) at their most important moment in History.

America and Israel are behaving like the worst form of playground bully. Hamas hasn't put a foot wrong since its election to power, but because the Palestinians didn't chose the "right" government, these two nations have refused to accept the election results and have set out deliberately to bring the Hamas government down. Regime change before the regime is even up and running. So much for democracy. Israel bleats and complains about Hamas's refusal to offer recognition, but recognition will come only at the end of peace negotiations, not before they've even been offered. Israel gets nothing for nothing.

your question of whether or not the palestinians are controlled by israel could not be answered the way you asked it. because you are mixing body and soul. it is true that israel controls the land passages of occupied palestine leading to outer world, but they will always fail to control the will of the brave and great palestinian people to defend themselves and finally defeat the israelis body and soul, did you understand the QASSAM RIDDLE now

My question is - On almost every picture of pals I see them shooting their guns. Every day kassams are shot on Israel. If Pals are occupied by Israel, than why Israel does not forcefully take their weapons away from murderers. If Israel is not master on pals territory, so where is the occupation, that pals are moaning and weeping about?

Abu Muhammed, Kulna Lazim Salaam! I applaud any voice from either camp to promote peace. War of any type polarizes people and while I wish that those who want peace were a majority, the extremists on both sides cause misery for all. I experience a knee jerk reaction to those advocate my destruction, be they PA extremists or anti-Semites (sorry I know you too are a Semite, but we know those that advocate our destruction overtly and subtly). We are now at an amazing crossroads in the political situation. PALs have dumped the corrupt FATAH and chosen the popular HAMAS. HAMAS with one foot in social services and the other in terror has the opportunity to either move forward with peace of cause major disaster for the PALs. PLO learned and got the PA on the map but lost because of corruption. It is a chess game. Players have agendas. One needs alliances for power at the negotiating table and monitoring. PA does not yet have maturity yet in the "dirty game". Salaam.

The American administration is short sighted as it is catalist in making people hate it. This administration and not the American people has fueled the hatered in the Middle East instead of bringing the two fighting parties to the table. It is making a big mistake by not seizing the opportunity that a truly representative of Palestinians is in charge and capable of making a long lasting peace. Also, Israeli government is taking the people to nowhere as they keep denying the existence of a peace partner..I hope to survive until I see both peoples Americans and Israelis wake up and get rid of such aggrissive mentality.

from Gaza had stakes in companies doing construction business with the pals.Now an offshot of his company in the US could also be hit.

the Israeli-controlled American government. In any case, we are under this evil occupation. Why speak to the monkey (America) when we can speak to the organ grinder (Israel).