Re: Gaza is the real Palestine
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Posted by Mark Steyn on The Hugh Hewitt Show on 23:36:56 2007/06/22
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Re: Abbas & Fatah's machine-gun 'moderation' in West Bank posted by LA Times
Mark Steyn interviewed by Kevin James on The Hugh Hewitt Show:
KJ: Now Mark, I can't let you get away without commenting on a serious note, what's going on in the Middle East. There is a new name that has launched in the recent days and weeks, of course. I'm not sure if it's Hamastan, or Fatahlibad.
MS: Well, what is happening in the Palestinian territories in Gaza is the consequence of forty years of the West artificially inflating Yasser Arafat's reputation beyond reality. The truth of the matter is that he was a disgusting, corrupt, secular, socialist kleptocrat, with little appeal other than to French intellectuals and Swiss bankers whose deposits in vaults he enriched very lavishly. The fact of the matter is that a pseudo-Palestinian nationalism represented by Yasser Arafat has no appeal in Gaza. And hard-core Iranian-back Islamism, ugly as it is, is actually the genuine expression of that population.
KJ: And what are we, are you willing to make a prediction, Mark Steyn, as to what we might see this summer?
MS: Well, I think things are going to get very bad there. I see no reason why the West Bank shouldn't also go that way. The reality is, if you look at Gaza, the median age in the Gaza Strip is 15.8 years.
KJ: Yes.
MS: They are people, it's basically a population of unemployed, lowly educated, teenage boys who've been raised in a death cult. That's not and so when Condi Rice says oh, they just want a hopeful future and a nice house and a job and two kids playing in the yard like the rest of us, no they don't. They're a population of children, raised in this disgusting Islamist squat that the West, under these stupid Oslo Accords, allowed Yasser Arafat to create.
KJ: All right, Mark Steyn, www.steynonline.com http://www.steynonline.com/ , thanks for your time, sir. It was great talking to you, Mark.
MS: Good talking to you, Kevin.
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