tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post2960251413095376785..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: Fatah's corruption is the origin of Hamas's powerDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-18861087903393472562007-06-21T16:02:00.000+02:002007-06-21T16:02:00.000+02:00Fatah wasn't always that corrupt and yes Arafat di...Fatah wasn't always that corrupt and yes Arafat did put the Palestinians on the map, but the Oslo process was a fools errand... Precisely Arafat's error backing Saddam Hussein (King Hussein of Jordan did too BTW) forced him to make the concessions he did to get off the shit list. <BR/><BR/>Hamas on the contrary, like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hezbollah in Lebanon put a heavy emphasis on charitable works: schools, hospitals etc, and the word is they don't steal... leather jackets aside they really do have a "clean gene" rep and tons of street cred. Islam, whatever its other faults might be, is very good at structuring primitive conditions and humanizing savage folk. Have a look at the Rwanda Hutu Muslims behavior during the massacresDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-82979551374703373702007-06-21T08:44:00.000+02:002007-06-21T08:44:00.000+02:00I seem to recall reading that Israel shoved some m...I seem to recall reading that Israel shoved some money to Hamas in its very early stages, hoping to wean young Palestinians away from the PLO.<BR/><BR/>Well, that was then.<BR/><BR/>Is the problem with Fatah actually<BR/>corruption???? I mean, surely to God, they were always corrupt.<BR/><BR/>When they seemed to be winning SOMETHING, when they put Palestine on the map, when they had the USSR behind them, and the sheiks and emirs, and Vanessa Redgrave!<BR/><BR/>Oi! They were rolling in money...and who minded that the leadership lolled in Parisian apartments while the masses sweated in Gaza?<BR/><BR/>Stuff happened...mostly stupid stuff that Arafat did, like endorse<BR/>Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, thereby alienating the sheiks and emirs that were bankrolling him. Oh, and then the Soviet Union collapsed...<BR/><BR/>And the money seriously dried up...<BR/>voila, you get Oslo, the chastened reasonable Arafat, who actually thought Bill Clinton was a statesman...<BR/><BR/>Jeez, Abu Amar, dumb again.<BR/><BR/>I never liked Arafat or his PLO when, as a leftist sympathizer with the Palestinians, I was expected to do so.<BR/><BR/>I liked him best in his last days, surrounded and confined in his compound. A sick old man putting out videos of himself praying... and sending big checks to his wife<BR/>and daughter in Paris.<BR/><BR/>Well, where was I? <BR/><BR/>Oh, I absolutely DISAGREE with this "corruption" issue. Have you looked at the pictures of Ismail Haniya?<BR/><BR/>For somebody claiming to lead a starving people, this guy is about a hundred pounds over the bottom line...and what is up with the 300 dollar LEATHER JACKET? <BR/><BR/>It's not about corruption. It's about failure, desperation, and sheer unadulterated stupidity...<BR/><BR/>Fatah gained them nothing, so they voted for Hamas...Hamas, the not so corrupt guys, who broke into Arafat's home and stole his Peace Prize and his wife's shoes...<BR/><BR/>They steal, also.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com