From early 2006, but still relevant I'd say.
By Lawrence Auster
The Mexican invasion of the United States began decades ago as a spontaneous migration of ordinary Mexicans into the U.S. seeking economic opportunities. It has morphed into a campaign to occupy and gain power over our countrya project encouraged, abetted, and organized by the Mexican state and supported by the leading elements of Mexican society.
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Duh! I wondered why it wouldn't be posted and why I kept getting that error message; it turns out I already posted it in february 2006, when I added to my bookmarks (I emailed to a couple US fellows recently, it's why I wanted to post it here, didn't remember I already did). Sorry.
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This pales in comparison to what might happen if Mexico continues in its path to possible civil war.
It is a recipe for disaster.
Drug cartels with billions of dollars financing the troubles.
Indians (indigenous) really getting resentful (the Yaquis revolt came close to overthrowing the government in 1910.)
Tremendous disparity in income, with a handful of wealthy families not just controlling almost all of the wealth, but intent on keeping the poor, poor (unlike the laissez-faire US wealthy).
And Mexico, like much of central and South America, has a philosophical cancer metastasized from Old Europe, that power should either be held by the elite or the mob--with no middle ground.
Abbas thinks that now is the time to push for a peace deal in the Middle East. He wants President Bush to follow through on this, but what exactly is Abbas offering? What is he coming to the table with? What is he willing to concede?
I can all but guarantee that Abbas will still demand a right of return, Jerusalem, and the removal of all Israeli settlements in the West Bank, plus Gaza. Those are nonstarters in any deal with Israel, where Jerusalem is its undivided capital and the right of return is a nonstarter. The settlement issue is bound to cause major problems for the Israelis as witnessed by the disengagement from Gaza.
As noted in the article, Fatah and Hamas are two sides of the same coin and need to be treated accordingly. End of story.
Lootings something I happen to know a thing or two about, and I have to commend these Hamas gentlemen on their keen sense of irony in scoring Yassers Nobel Peace Prize medal. Its not like that tin gong is actually worth a damn. But I bet the guys have been having a good time with it tonight. Lets check in at Abu Grab:
Achmed:
Now Farouk, one more time. You pretend you are the filthy Jew. I am Yasser. I will shake your hand. See how important I am as everybody pays attention to me and my picture is on the Time magazine cover!
Farouk:
But Achmed, you said I would get to be Yasser and wear the medal this time. I am tired of being the filthy Jew. Give me that!
Achmed:
Come on, you know my Yasser impersonation is better than yours! And your Jew is very good!
Farouk:
OK, OK, Achmed, this last time. But I will not do my exploding martyr impersonation at the end. I am tired of doing that.
. . . Go read the rest of it.
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As long he doesn't ask "Can you yelp like a hyena?"
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I cant think of a more appropriate way for that worthless piece of junk (Nobel Peace Prize) that was presented to that terrorist Yassar Arafish. Hopefully the yoobs will trade it to buy bomb material to takeout the next un peace delegation that shows up.
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Believe there is several thousand dollars worth of gold in the thing.
"There's never been a better time to buy swipe gold!"
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BASTARDS!!! IT'S MINE!!! GIVE IT TO ME NOW!!! OR I'll COME DOWN THERE AND CLAW OUT HANIYEH'S EYES WITH MY WELL MANICURED NAILS!!!
YOU KNOW I MEAN BUSINESS!
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Yeah, where's the dialogue where Acmed gets pissed at Farouk and kills him?
Arafat got the Piece Prize during the Carter administration as a bribe to stop terrorism for a time. Stopping fighting is equated with great accomplishments on the peace front. Only a demented dhimmicrat could come up with this. I'm having trouble writing this for laughing. :)
Beware: The Gaza Strip may be only the first domino to fall this summer in Iran and Syria's push to establish an arc of influence across the Middle East, stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Eastern Mediterranean. Lebanon, already teetering on the brink of instability, could easily be next.
The United States, Europe and Arab states need to act immediately to shore up the embattled pro-Western, democratic Lebanese government. Syria, which occupied Lebanon from 1976 to 2005, and Iran, which controls Islamist-terrorist Hezbollah, with help from al Qaeda, already have Lebanon under siege.
Last week saw another assassination of a leading anti-Syrian Lebanese figure - parliamentarian Walid Eido, killed with nine others in a horrific Beirut car bombing. Eido was an outspoken member of the anti-Damascus "March 14th" movement, a key organization in effecting Syria's 2005 retreat from Lebanon. Eido is at least the seventh Lebanese anti-Syrian luminary assassinated since February 2005, when Damascus allegedly offed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a car bombing. As always, the Syrian regime denies any involvement.
Some observers suggest the political killings are (among other things) an ongoing plot to undo the March 14th movement's razor-thin majority in the parliament. Following Eido's death, it only holds 68 out of 128 seats in the parliament. While Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government is calling for a special election on August 5 to replace the murdered lawmakers - including Pierre Gemayel, who was gunned down last November - Emile Lahoud, who occupies the Lebanese presidency thanks to Syrian sponsorship, continues to oppose a by-election.
Eido's killing was also the sixth, and biggest, bombing in or around Lebanon's capital, Beirut, in the last month - and came just days after the United Nations finally established a special court to try Hariri murder suspects - almost all of whom are assuredly Syrian.
In a bid to prevent any Lebanese role in the U.N. tribunal, Syria, Iran and their pawns have ensured political gridlock in Beirut since last November. Pro-Syrian protestors, led by Hezbollah, have besieged Siniora's government with protests, both physical and political, attempting to topple it. Hezbollah, buoyed by its survival in last summer's war with Israel, has been pressing for a new government - one that would guarantee it enough seats in the Cabinet to assure it a veto on any decision.
Meanwhile, Sunni militants - linked to al Qaeda as well as Syria - have been battling the Lebanese army since May. Fatah al-Islam is holding up in Nahr al Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli, Lebanon's second-largest city. The group threatens to take the conflict to some of the other 11 Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon, home to as many 400,000 displaced persons, potentially lighting off a larger powder keg of violence in the country of 4 million. In fact, early June already saw some fighting at Lebanon's largest refugee camp at Ain al Hilweh between another al Qaeda affiliate, Ansar al-Islam and the Lebanese army.
And Syria and Iran have re-armed Hezbollah since last summer's war, too - so Hassan Nasrallah's thugs are ready to go against either Israel or the Beirut government, if given the green light from their Tehran and Damascus masters.
Lebanon is clearly nearing a tipping point. The Siniora government may be able to hold out, fighting on multiple fronts, both politically and militarily, against determined foes sponsored by rogue states. Or the joint efforts of al Qaeda, Hezbollah, splinter groups, Iran and Syria could bring the country to its knees, putting an end to the progress-albeit halting-Lebanon has made since throwing off the shackles of Syrian occupation.
If concerned outside powers don't bolster Lebanon's moderate forces against the Islamists, terrorists and the Tehran-Damascus axis, the odds are against the Siniora government surviving - especially in the aftermath of the Hamas victory to the south in Gaza. States with a stake in Lebanon need to get on the stick - with a lot more than rhetoric - to prevent Lebanon from succumbing to Islamist/Syrian/Iranian aggression:
* An aircraft carrier on the Lebanese coast would remind Syria that it can't act with impunity. Why not make it French, signaling recently elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new foreign policy?
* Economic sanctions have a place, too - especially on Syria and Hezbollah's fund-raising in Europe.
* Also vital: Getting arms to the Lebanese army for crushing Fatah al Islam - and deterring Hezbollah from acting militarily against the central government.
The fall of Gaza to the most radical elements of Hamas has already emboldened Islamist and jihadist forces across the Middle East. Lebanon's fall would only add fuel to the fire - meaning a tougher road ahead in Iraq, Afghanistan and the War on Terror.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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