Israel attacks civilians

[JStone]

If you would rather read, see "the Gaza Bombshell" by Vanity Fair.

Iran-Contra 2.0- how bush armed Fatah to fight Hamas - YouTube

Still another youtube video? Not a substitute for education. Jews had the 10 Commandments when you ignorant Arab camel herders were burying your babies alive.

 

[P F Tinmore]

If you would rather read, see "the Gaza Bombshell" by Vanity Fair.

Iran-Contra 2.0- how bush armed Fatah to fight Hamas - YouTube

Still another youtube video? Not a substitute for education. Jews had the 10 Commandments when you ignorant Arab camel herders were burying your babies alive.

Instead of just blabbering on about nothing why don't you read the article or watch the videos that have the same information?

 

[JStone]

If you would rather read, see "the Gaza Bombshell" by Vanity Fair.

Iran-Contra 2.0- how bush armed Fatah to fight Hamas - YouTube

Still another youtube video? Not a substitute for education. Jews had the 10 Commandments when you ignorant Arab camel herders were burying your babies alive.

Instead of just blabbering on about nothing why don't you read the article or watch the videos that have the same information?

Why don't you uneducated camel driving Arab clowns go to college?

 

[P F Tinmore]

Still another youtube video? Not a substitute for education. Jews had the 10 Commandments when you ignorant Arab camel herders were burying your babies alive.

Instead of just blabbering on about nothing why don't you read the article or watch the videos that have the same information?

Why don't you uneducated camel driving Arab clowns go to college?

Why don't you watch the videos? Who knows, you might turn a page in your life and learn something?

 

[JStone]

Instead of just blabbering on about nothing why don't you read the article or watch the videos that have the same information?

Why don't you uneducated camel driving Arab clowns go to college?

Why don't you watch the videos? Who knows, you might turn a page in your life and learn something?

Why don't you obtain a proper education? Youtube videos are not a substitute for an education. You aren't even able to get one reputational credit in a messageboard in 2 years.

Arab Clown.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Why don't you uneducated camel driving Arab clowns go to college?

Why don't you watch the videos? Who knows, you might turn a page in your life and learn something?

Why don't you obtain a proper education? Youtube videos are not a substitute for an education. You aren't even able to get one reputational credit in a messageboard in 2 years.

Arab Clown.

You got an education and you don't know jack. The medium is not important. It is the content that matters.

Besides, you post youtube also.

 

[JStone]

Why don't you watch the videos? Who knows, you might turn a page in your life and learn something?

Why don't you obtain a proper education? Youtube videos are not a substitute for an education. You aren't even able to get one reputational credit in a messageboard in 2 years.

Arab Clown.

You got an education and you don't know jack. The medium is not important. It is the content that matters.

Besides, you post youtube also.

Ride off on your camel, ignorant Arab.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Why don't you obtain a proper education? Youtube videos are not a substitute for an education. You aren't even able to get one reputational credit in a messageboard in 2 years.

Arab Clown.

You got an education and you don't know jack. The medium is not important. It is the content that matters.

Besides, you post youtube also.

Ride off on your camel, ignorant Arab.

I know you won't watch the videos because it would not match the Israeli propaganda crap that you are paid to sell.

 

[JStone]

You got an education and you don't know jack. The medium is not important. It is the content that matters.

Besides, you post youtube also.

Ride off on your camel, ignorant Arab.

I know you won't watch the videos because it would not match the Israeli propaganda crap that you are paid to sell.

Keep blaming the Jews for the failures of the Arab society. How's that working out for ya, camel jockey?

 

[P F Tinmore]

Ride off on your camel, ignorant Arab.

I know you won't watch the videos because it would not match the Israeli propaganda crap that you are paid to sell.

Keep blaming the Jews for the failures of the Arab society. How's that working out for ya, camel jockey?

Deflection won't work.

 

[JStone]

I know you won't watch the videos because it would not match the Israeli propaganda crap that you are paid to sell.

Keep blaming the Jews for the failures of the Arab society. How's that working out for ya, camel jockey?

Deflection won't work.

You backward Arab excrement were burying your babies alive when the Jews gave the world the 10 Commandments. Today, you honor kill your own children.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Keep blaming the Jews for the failures of the Arab society. How's that working out for ya, camel jockey?

Deflection won't work.

You backward Arab excrement were burying your babies alive when the Jews gave the world the 10 Commandments. Today, you honor kill your own children.

More deflection.

 

[JStone]

Deflection won't work.

You backward Arab excrement were burying your babies alive when the Jews gave the world the 10 Commandments. Today, you honor kill your own children.

More deflection.

The Economist Magazine: Arab World Self-Doomed To Failure

WHAT went wrong with the Arab world? Why is it so stuck behind the times? It is not an obviously unlucky region. Fatly endowed with oil, and with its people sharing a rich cultural, religious and linguistic heritage, it is faced neither with endemic poverty nor with ethnic conflict. But, with barely an exception, its autocratic rulers, whether presidents or kings, give up their authority only when they die; its elections are a sick joke; half its people are treated as lesser legal and economic beings, and more than half its young, burdened by joblessness and stifled by conservative religious tradition, are said to want to get out of the place as soon as they can.

One in five Arabs still live on less than $2 a day. And, over the past 20 years, growth in income per head, at an annual rate of 0.5%, was lower than anywhere else in the world except sub-Saharan Africa. At this rate, it will take the average Arab 140 years to double his income, a target that some regions are set to reach in less than ten years. Stagnant growth, together with a fast-rising population, means vanishing jobs. Around 12m people, or 15% of the labour force, are already unemployed, and on present trends the number could rise to 25m by 2010.

Freedom. This deficit explains many of the fundamental things that are wrong with the Arab world: the survival of absolute autocracies; the holding of bogus elections; confusion between the executive and the judiciary (the report points out the close linguistic link between the two in Arabic); constraints on the media and on civil society; and a patriarchal, intolerant, sometimes suffocating social environment. The great wave of democratisation that has opened up so much of the world over the past 15 years seems to have left the Arabs untouched. Democracy is occasionally offered, but as a concession, not as a right. Freedom of expression and freedom of association are both sharply limited. Freedom House, an American-based monitor of political and civil rights, records that no Arab country has genuinely free media, and only three have “partly free”. The rest are not free

Knowledge. “If God were to humiliate a human being,” wrote Imam Ali bin abi Taleb in the sixth century, “He would deny him knowledge.” Although the Arabs spend a higher percentage of GDP on education than any other developing region, it is not, it seems, well spent. The quality of education has deteriorated pitifully, and there is a severe mismatch between the labour market and the education system. Adult illiteracy rates have declined but are still very high: 65m adults are illiterate, almost two-thirds of them women. Some 10m children still have no schooling at all. One of the gravest results of their poor education is that the Arabs, who once led the world in science, are dropping ever further behind in scientific research and in information technology. Investment in research and development is less than one-seventh of the world average. Only 0.6% of the population uses the Internet, and 1.2% have personal computers.

Women's status. The one thing that every outsider knows about the Arab world is that it does not treat its women as full citizens. How can a society prosper when it stifles half its productive potential? After all, even though women's literacy rates have trebled in the past 30 years, one in every two Arab women still can neither read nor write. Their participation in their countries' political and economic life is the lowest in the world.

Arab development: Self-doomed to failure | The Economist

 

[P F Tinmore]

Standard propaganda techniques are too well known. You can't get away with them here.

 

[JStone]

Washington Post: Arab nations lag behind rest of world economically, despite oil and natural gas
Arab nations lag behind rest of world economically, despite oil and natural gas

Amid a massive shift in the politics of the Arab world, the countries of the region are now confronting an economic challenge that is just as steep: how to engage with a global economy that in many ways has passed them by.

The nations of the Arab Middle East sit atop perhaps half of the planet's oil and a third of its natural gas reserves, yet the economies of the region are among the most stagnant.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in hydrocarbon wealth and other receipts - for instance, in the case of Egypt, revenue from the Suez Canal and U.S. foreign aid - have propped up undemocratic governments and subsidized swollen public sectors. But little has been done to create globally competitive economies or employment for a burgeoning number of young adults.

The reasons for this poor record are varied, including repeated wars with Israel and each other, widespread corruption and the overwhelming presence of ruling cliques in the economy.

"We are at a crossroads in terms of governance, but also at a crossroads in terms of the economic agenda," said Tarik Yousef, head of the Dubai School of Government and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Like other scholars, he noted that many other parts of the developing world have sped ahead of the Middle East.

Economists cite a long list of statistics that point to chronic under-performance, sometimes masked by the flow of oil and other wealth but corrosive in the long run.

Even if Arab countries begin to energize their economies, they are late to the global competition and will face a tough battle vying for international capital and business. It is a world in which China has staked its place as the global manufacturing hub, other developing countries from Malaysia to Brazil have established themselves as international players, and modern logistics have made the Middle East's proximity to Europe less of an advantage.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Whatever they are paying you, it is too much.

 

[JStone]

Democracy is Doomed in Arab World

In Libya and most other countries in the Arab world, what we know as personal liberty is nonexistent. According to Freedom House’s 2011 “Freedom in the World” survey, as well as Amnesty International’s annual report for 2011, most North African and Middle Eastern countries are ranked either “repressive” or “not free.” Moreover, I believe there’s little prospect for Arabs ever being free and that Western encouragement and hopes for democracy are doomed to failure and disappointment.

Most nations in the Middle East do not share the philosophical foundations of the West. It’s not likely liberty-oriented values will ever emerge in cultures that have disdain for the rule of law and private property rights and that sanction barbaric practices such as the stoning of women for adultery, the severing of hands or beheading as a form of punishment, and imprisonment for criticizing or speaking ill of the government

Democracy is doomed in Arab world | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri

 

[P F Tinmore]

Democracy is Doomed in Arab World

In Libya and most other countries in the Arab world, what we know as personal liberty is nonexistent. According to Freedom House’s 2011 “Freedom in the World” survey, as well as Amnesty International’s annual report for 2011, most North African and Middle Eastern countries are ranked either “repressive” or “not free.” Moreover, I believe there’s little prospect for Arabs ever being free and that Western encouragement and hopes for democracy are doomed to failure and disappointment.

Most nations in the Middle East do not share the philosophical foundations of the West. It’s not likely liberty-oriented values will ever emerge in cultures that have disdain for the rule of law and private property rights and that sanction barbaric practices such as the stoning of women for adultery, the severing of hands or beheading as a form of punishment, and imprisonment for criticizing or speaking ill of the government

Democracy is doomed in Arab world | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri

Whenever the US allows a free election, the "wrong" people get elected.

 

[JStone]

Gaza's Elected Islamist Rulers Crack Down on Secular Community
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...t-rulers-crack-down-on-secular-community.html

After nearly four years of Hamas rule, the Gaza Strip's small secular community is in tatters, decimated by the militant group's campaign to impose its strict version of Islam in the coastal territory.

Hamas has bullied men and women to dress modestly, tried to keep the sexes from mingling in public and sparked a flight of secular university students and educated professionals. Most recently, it has confiscated novels it deems offensive to Islam from a bookshop and banned Gaza's handful of male hairdressers from styling women's hair.

Gaza, a tiny sliver of land squeezed between Egypt and Israel, always had a significant Islamic flavour, but once tolerated bars and cinemas, especially during Egyptian rule from 1948 to 1967. A conservative religious movement began to take hold in the 1980s, as part of a larger, region-wide religious awakening.

The trend toward religious fundamentalism preceded the Hamas takeover. In recent years, hardliners have burned down the cinemas. Their charred remains are still visible in Gaza City. Militants blew up the last bar in 2005.

Gaza women, whose attire once varied from Western pants and skirts to colourful traditional embroidered robes, began donning ankle-length loose robes. Women with face veils, once rarely seen in Gaza, are now a common sight.

Today, plainclothes officers sometimes halt couples in the streets, demanding to see marriage licenses. Last year, the Interior Ministry banned women from smoking water pipes in public. Islamic faith does not ban women from smoking, but it is considered taboo in Gaza society.

"In the end, the people who think differently are leaving," said Rami, a 32-year-old activist in one of Gaza's few secular groups. He refused to give his last name, fearing retribution

 

[P F Tinmore]

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