How on earth would any decent human being celebrate or even promote the chemical bombing of Israel, knowing fully well that that would give Israel the needed excuse to nuke Iraq -- and the Palestinians as well -- from the face of the earth??? Especially considering that the main result of the Palestinian leadership's overtures toward Saddam was that their people were exiled from Kuwait after the first Gulf War and persecuted immensively???
And exactly WHICH Palestinians were congratulating Saddam?? Islamic Jihad?? Hamas??? Hizbullah??? Those who were suffering tremendously in the Occupied Territories??? I know of NO non-fundamentalist Palestinian organization or individual who even hinted at supporting Saddam or the invasion of Kuwait; if you know of one, Michael, please tell us.
I guess Michael will tell us later that there really is a Saddam/Al Qaida connection after all....
Anthony
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On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:52:15
Michael Pugliese wrote:
>Uri Avnery>...The last time, Saddam threw Scuds at us, just in order to win popularity in the Arab world. (At
>that time somebody invented the story that "the Palestinians are dancing on their roofs"'...
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> Huh? That's ridiculous. If I was a Palestinian in the West Bank or Gaza, I'd have celebrated the Iraqi Scuds
>hitting Israel in Gulf War, version 1.0 in '91, too, or as they did on 9/11. (Remember the silly thread
>started on Brazilian indymedia that said the CNN footage was faked? That Counterpunch ran with for a few days?)
>http://www.google.com/search?q=palestinians+scuds+gulf+war
>http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Arab-Israeli_Conflict_7_The_1991_Gulf_War.asp
>The PLO, Libya, and Iraq were the only members who opposed an Arab League resolution calling for an Iraqi
>withdrawal from Kuwait. Throughout the crisis, the Palestinians were Saddam's most vocal supporters. The
>intifada leadership, for example, sent a cable of congratulations to Saddam Hussein, describing the invasion of
>Kuwait as the first step toward the "liberation of Palestine." In Jenin on the West Bank, 1,000 Palestinians
>marched, shouting: "Saddam, the hero, attack Israel with chemical weapons."" (Associated Press, August 12,
>1990).
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>Michael Pugliese
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