America’s public diplomacy channel, Al-Hurra, held a poll on its website. It asked about the prospects for the upcoming U.S.-sponsored peace talks. 83% of the responses said they do not expect any solution to come out of these talks.
Al-Hurra needs to do a better job erasing Oslo and American unconditional support for Israel from Arab minds!
On the bright side: with such low expectations, at least the US has to do very little to surprise anyone!
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Uh oh.
Betta watch out, Low Expectations. Like Ron Paul, you might be completely excluded as a category on the next online poll if you continue kicking High Expectation’s ass so badly.
Posted by QuiQui | October 23, 2007, 5:49 pmI’m sick and tired of the US and International community providing unconditional support for the creation of “Palestine”. What have the Palestinians done to deserve all this international support for a state? Kill some Jews?
Posted by Kabob Al-Makshouf | October 23, 2007, 8:40 pmDude, at least be creative or origional… Humor is hard, eh?
Posted by eduardo | October 23, 2007, 8:54 pmThe modern arabic translation of the word ‘Palestinian’ in truth is pronounced ‘Fillistinian’
Palestine is Phillestine.
Just as Paris is locally pronounced “Paree,” or Moscow is locally pronounced “Moskva,” yes, once again the inhabitants of the [western] world have been deceived into mispronouncing common terminology.
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
http://www.ifamericansknew.org
http://www.tvnewslies.com
and P.S. stop confusing JUDASIM the RELIGION with ZIONISM the POLITIC. You’ll never fool any scholar with that nonsense.
Posted by Anonymous | October 24, 2007, 12:39 pmArabic has nothing to do with the Philistines. Alright, history lesson time.
The Philistines (Pelishtim in Hebrew) were a non-Semitic people predating Arabs by 1500 years (originally from Crete or the Aegean Sea) that conquered and colonized a part of the land of Caanan three thousand years ago. After going to war with Egypt they were forcible settled in Caanan. They were mostly wiped out by Jewish tribes post-Exodus from Egypt. There were other tribes/nation-states that survived war with the Jews but resettled outside of Judea, such as on the East Bank of the Jordan river.
The Romans renamed Israel Palestine after destroying the Jewish province of their Empire (Judea) after the 70AD Bar Kochba revolt. They did so as an insult to the Jews, to wipe the memory of them from the land, as Israel had largely stood for a thousand years as the dominant nation-state in the land of Caanan.
As the Roman Empire split in two, and the Eastern half was then conquered by the Turks, the provincial boundaries remained identical (for tax and administration purposes). Thus, Palestine survived antiquity as a geopolitically defined area.
But who cares? People of different cultures “mispronounce” each other’s words all the time. There is nothing wrong with that. For example, the Arabs don’t have a “P” sound, so they pronounce Falastin, not Pelishtim (Hebrew) or Palaestina (Latin). If an Arab pronounced “Green Bay Packers” it just might come out as “Green Bay Fackers”. We should celebrate one another’s linguistic and cultural quirks, especially when they’re hilarious.
Anyone who has heard a Spanish speaker say “Victor” know it comes out like “Biktor”, because the “B” and “V” sounds are consolidated in Spanish.
The “Western World” hasn’t been deceived into anything. We are not victims of “Zionist linguistic conspiracy”.
By the way, for all you who think that “Judaism” and “Zionism” are separate, you are absolutely right. However, their goals are not dissimilar. Jews believe that when Moshiach (the messiah, a descendant of King David) comes, the Temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt and the Jewish nation will end its exile and once again return to Israel, to serve G-d as “a nation of priests”.
Secular Zionists took a two thousand year old Jewish yearning for the end to the Exile (prophesied throughout the Bible and promised to the Jewish people by G-d), took G-d out of the equation and ran with it, but the goals are not different – a Jewish state.
I realize you are sensitive to charges of anti-Semitism, which is why you prefer to be “anti-Zionist”, but no one is trying to corner you into anti-Semitism. Arabs themselves call the Israelis “Yehud”, Jews, not Israelis. Many Jews in Israel, incidentally, identify first with being Israelis and then Jews.
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of victims of Palestinian terror have been Jews, although Israeli Arabs have also suffered.
Posted by Kabob Al-Makshouf | October 24, 2007, 5:21 pm