I sometimes think that it’s clear the Palestinians are not dumb – they are smart at propaganda and they are smart at terrorism – and if only that intelligence and drive could be directed to something more productive they might be doing quite well.

Yup.
In my younger years I knew members of a Palestinian Christian family that originated in the West Bank. Many of them had grad degrees in STEM. The patriarch told them, well before the Six Day War, to get out of the West Bank, because Muslims would always be promoted over Christians. So, many family members made it to the US before the Six Day War.

The members of that family I knew are now dead, with the exception of one who came to the US for grad STEM degrees and has returned to the West Bank.

Very bright and very accomplished.

neo:

No question, Glick is a serious woman for whom I have great respect. So, it was such a delight to see her kickin’ out the jams on a comedy show.

Knesset Member Haneen Zoabi [first Palestinian-Israeli woman elected to Knesset] who participated in the Flotilla to Gaza, says: “We were treated like terrorists.”

–“We Con the World — the Full Tribal Update”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNVeu-Iya34
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Hebrew really catches my ear. It’s fluid and melodic like French except instead of rolling the Rs, Hebrew does that great KH thing.

If it made any sense to learn it, I would think about it.

“Young, hot and crazy” – sounds like a subtitle for “Beach Blanket Bingo.”

Yes, I’d seen that clip before. It’s very clever.

–neo

That’s my cue!
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We’ll make the world
Abandon reason
We’ll make them all believe that the Hamas
Is Momma Theresa
We are peaceful travelers
We’re waving our own knives
The truth will never find its way to your TV

–“We Con the World”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KUcv452KbU
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One of the pitch perfect parodies of all time, in this case sending up the faux moral rock righteousness of “We Are the World”.

Btw: At 3:14, that’s Caroline Glick in a keffiyeh, waving her own knife, when she was still young, hot and crazy.

Humanity has these regressive forces and always has. You’d think in a time of instant communications and jet travel that some of the anti-Western Civ tendencies would change. Sadly, no.

the Husseini and Khalidi clans did extraordinarily well in these circumstance even under British Rule, the latter part of the mandate, after the Peel Commission, which whitewashed the former’s role, in the last portion there was Evelyn Barker who commanded the British garrison and pursued the jewish settlers in Operation Agatha, while having an affair with the wife of a leading Palestinian Activist, this might have triggered the King David Hotel bombing