The Mob (Tribe) Rules in Palestine
April 24, 2007, 12:41 pm |
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By Andrew L. Jaffee
All the years of Palestinian dysfunction are coming home to roost: textbooks teaching Jew-hatred, dressing up babies like suicide bombers, running kindergartens to train children to become homicide bombers, rejoicing at the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., families taking money for their own children’s homicide bombings, and systemic corruption; what could the final result of all this chaos be except for the melt-down of Palestinian society? Melting down it is. From today’s AP:
… In a growing problem for Gaza, Palestinian smugglers and clansmen settle differences with guns, and bands of self-styled vigilantes have killed suspected pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, owners of music shops, internet cafes, pool halls — activities which could divert people from worship — and women suspected of sexual misconduct. Bystanders are often wounded or killed. …
Here’s the latest in a long line of such incidents:
…around 200 men from the Abu Sharkh tribe, many armed with rifles and M16s, pushed their way into the parliament building in Gaza City, firing in the air, and carrying the body of 38-year-old Hassan Abu Sharkh on a stretcher.
The protesters briefly left Abu Sharkh’s body in the plenum, pushing aside guards and demanding the killers be bought to justice.
Abu Sharkh was shot in the head on Sunday, and his body dumped in a nearby park. Two other Palestinians were killed in internal fighting on the same day.
Related: Palestinians, Society
April 25th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Reports of these aspects of Palestinian culture sorely test one’s ability to adhere to the fundamental principles of multiculturalism that holds that each and every distinct culture is equal in value and importance to one another and deserving of equal respect and regard.
April 25th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
How about “disgusting?” I used to feel that Palestinians deserved a homeland. Based on their behavior, they haven’t earned the right to one yet.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Your comment actually raises questions.
Do the Palestinians actually have a right to their own state?
From whence cometh that right?
If there is a lawful right that Palestinians have to their own state, does any of their actions, singulalrly or taken together constitute an abrogation of their right to their own state?
If the answer to the foregoing question is yes, then what acts alone or taken together will abrogate that right and how will that right be declared abrogated?
If the right is abrogated, then what?
If the right is not abrogated, then what? More of the same?