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Ostaad - Did you say "Palestinian collaborators"????

No way amigo!!!!!!. I am astonished, and flabegasted. No way Jose (blink blink). how can it ever happand in the land of milk & honey. 

Nonetheless, I like to invite others to watch corespondent speak her mind on YouTube. Watch it and tell me if you have problem with what she describes as "mind set of violence". After all the lady does what every intelligent person living in democracy take for granted - engage in honest and true self criticism. And that is not what you term as "trash". 

check her credential; as easy as typing Google!!!!.

//www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=noni+darwish&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

we have to be open minded and see both sides of the coin. There is no absolute innocent and one abosolutly guilty.

At the end , we all have to worry about our home land.  Use your energy for salvage of our own vatan.

NowRouz Pirooz.   

Mazloom, correct me if I'm wrong

Not too long ago I read that Israel has about twenty thousand Palestinian collaborators. Couldn't we assume that WSJ uses some of them every once in a while? This article reads like a typical warmed over off-the-shelf filler piece that the Zionist propaganda apparatchiks produce.

Capt, lets the truth out in the open.

Ahga jun (I am having fun WITH you).

Why argue over the authenticity of the article. Lets bring here in the open and look at it closer. I highlighted some of the poignant points which the lady had made. Then tell me if you have problem with any of them.

International
donors pledged almost $4.5 billion in aid for Gaza earlier this month.
It has been very painful for me to witness over the past few years the
deteriorating humanitarian situation in that narrow strip where I lived
as a child in the 1950s.

The media tend to attribute Gaza's decline solely to Israeli
military and economic actions against Hamas. But such a myopic analysis
ignores the problem's root cause: 60 years of Arab policy aimed at
cementing the Palestinian people's status as stateless refugees in
order to use their suffering as a weapon against Israel.

As a child in Gaza in
the 1950s, I experienced the early results of this policy. Egypt, which
then controlled the territory, conducted guerrilla-style operations
against Israel from Gaza. My father commanded these operations, carried
out by Palestinian fedayeen, Arabic for "self-sacrifice."
Back then, Gaza was already the front line of the Arab jihad against
Israel. My father was assassinated by Israeli forces in 1956.

It was in those years that the Arab League started its Palestinian
refugee policy. Arab countries implemented special laws designed to
make it impossible to integrate the Palestinian refugees from the 1948
Arab war against Israel. Even descendants of Palestinian refugees who
are born in another Arab country and live there their entire lives can
never gain that country's passport. Even if they marry a citizen of an
Arab country, they cannot become citizens of their spouse's country.
They must remain "Palestinian" even though they may have never set foot
in the West Bank or Gaza.

This policy of forcing a Palestinian identity on these people for
eternity and condemning them to a miserable life in a refugee camp was
designed to perpetuate and exacerbate the Palestinian refugee crisis.

So was the Arab policy of overpopulating Gaza. The United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, whose
main political support comes from Arab countries, encourages high birth
rates by rewarding families with many children. Yasser Arafat said the
Palestinian woman's womb was his best weapon.

Arab countries always push for classifying as many Palestinians as
possible as "refugees." As a result, about one-third of the
Palestinians in Gaza still live in refugee camps. For 60 years,
Palestinians have been used and abused by Arab regimes and Palestinian
terrorists in their fight against Israel.

Now it is Hamas, an Islamist terror organization supported by Iran,
which is using and abusing Palestinians for this purpose. While Hamas
leaders hid in the well-stocked bunkers and tunnels they prepared
before they provoked Israel into attacking them, Palestinian civilians
were exposed and caught in the deadly crossfire between Hamas and
Israeli soldiers.

As a result of 60 years of this Arab policy, Gaza has become a
prison camp for 1.5 million Palestinians. Both Israel and Egypt are
fearful of terrorist infiltration from Gaza -- all the more so since
Hamas took over -- and have always maintained tight controls over their
borders with Gaza. The Palestinians continue to endure hardships
because Gaza continues to serve as the launching pad for terror attacks
against Israeli citizens. Those attacks come in the form of Hamas
missiles that indiscriminately target Israeli kindergartens, homes and
businesses.

And Hamas continued these attacks more than two years after Israel
withdrew from Gaza in the hope that this step would begin the process
of building a Palestinian state, eventually leading to a peaceful,
two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There was no
"cycle of violence" then, no justification for anything other than
peace and prosperity. But instead, Hamas chose Islamic jihad. Gazans'
and Israelis' hopes have been met with misery for Palestinians and
missiles for Israelis.

Hamas, an Iran proxy, has become a danger not only to Israel, but
also to Palestinians as well as to neighboring Arab states, who fear
the spread of radical Islam could destabilize their countries.

Arabs claim they love the Palestinian people, but they seem more
interested in sacrificing them. If they really loved their Palestinian
brethren, they'd pressure Hamas to stop firing missiles at Israel. In
the longer term, the Arab world must end the Palestinians' refugee
status and thereby their desire to harm Israel. It's time for the 22
Arab countries to open their borders and absorb the Palestinians of
Gaza who wish to start a new life. It is time for the Arab world to
truly help the Palestinians, not use them.

Mrs. Darwish, who grew up in Gaza City and Cairo, is the
author, most recently, of "Cruel and Usual Punishment," (Thomas Nelson,
2009).

Agho Meyti

If the messenger hides the REAL message and ONLY brings the false messages, they should be shot, mage na dadashi? WSJ is fit for [out-house] only.

so is the case for every news organization under the control of Murdoch. 

-YT

More Like a British Made Misery

Sure, Arabs will support Arabs. USA of majority Christians will support Jews because Jesus, who they equal to God, was a Jew. History says the problem began when the British Empire took over the entire area and agreed the Jews should have a place to go. Then, when the Germans ran the Jews away they moved to Zion. The British saw the problem, they tried to stop it, according to history books, but it was too late. They couldn't stop it, so they got out and left the Jews and Arabs to fight it out. Romans ran the Jews out in 70 AD. But their Bible told them the land was theirs. So, they came back, but they landed on the people who were already there. The two peoples have one father...Abram. What is the peaceful answer?

MM you are an imposter, why? because you are a Zionist Jew livin

g in Israel but you go by the name of the 12th Imam of Shia Muslims.

2. You are just a talking head who copy and paste the latest reactions to the news from your specified Zionist website created for any criticism of Israel and its inhuman policies towards Palestinians.

3. Read the news today, look at the picture of pregnant Palestinian woman on the t-shirts of blood thirsty Israeli soldiers with the following caption: 1 shot 2 kill //www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072466.html

3. Read the report of the United Nation, Mr Falk, who wants to prosecute the murderers who run Israel and its killing machine. //news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090323/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_un_gaza;_ylt=AvT65G__wpXgr2rGGpjveXkLewgF 

4. Read how Israeli army was shooting at nurses ambulances doctors and bombing hospitals //news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090323/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazarights_20090323125517

5. Read about the lawsuit brought by American parents of the young man who was shot in the head last week against the Israeli government //news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090323/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_american_wounded;_ylt=AsjxuWGWg98GdaZ8OtX9c7ULewgF

These are what the media published about Israel's crimes today. Now multiply that by 360 days and it would be obvious Israel is the number one enemy of humanity today. Then open your mouth about the role of Arabs, etc.

capt agha, shomah khe'-jalatem midin.

I know full well about Mudock's purchase of the paper. However,your reply is a typical case of "shoot the messenger", rather then the message.

The article was written by A PALESTINIAN LADY. She was born in Gaza. What different does it make on which platform she published here own personal experience.The fact that she points out the real reasons behind the Pals suffering, it does not make her unqualified to tell her story.

You know why I am here on this blog?. At first I was just looking to read and listen to old Iran which I knew. The beautiful sounds of the Tarr, Santoor, vialon, and some avaaz. Then out of curiosity, I looked at the Blog, to see what Iranians talk about these day. I read the heated exchanges between zion(now tsion) on the subject of Israel , where in my view, she was politely trying to articulate the Israeli position. Then read the outright rude and virulent attack on her, and Israel. Then I thought, mmmmm, some of my old (Iranian) compares need to be presented with additional Israeli perspective. Since I have lived on both sides of the fence, I will be able to add value to the conversation.

Well, now thanks to guys like you, I am "stuck" here. 

Mazloom

The Wall Street Journal is a HAS BEEN among the respected papers. Ever since it was bought by Murdock, it has turn into a propaganda rag for you know who.

[Three months later, on August 1, 2007, News Corp. and Dow Jones entered into a definitive merger agreement. The controversial US$5 billion sale added The Wall Street Journal to the media tycoon's news empire, which already included Fox News Channel, financial network unit, the New York Post, and London's The Times]

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal#N...

Sorry dude.

-YT

when are we going to talk about the real misery? (WSJ)

a miserable cheerleader for war and ripping off the American people.

Capt_ayhab, Q, Gol-dast - IT IS A MUST-READ FOR YOU

babak - thanks for bringing it here.

An excellent and poignant article in a respected newspaper. Written by a Palestinian correspondent, about the Palestinians, for the Palestinians and Arabs themselves.

Everyone else is encouraged to read it. Then thing will be clearer.