Obama lets over 1000 Palestinian former Saddam supporters into America
Courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor, by Patrik Jonsson("Risking Israel's ire, US takes 1,350 Palestinian refugees", http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0708/p02s04-usgn.html).
The State Department confirmed today that as many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians - once the well-treated guests of Saddam Hussein and now at outs with much of Iraqi society - will be resettled in the US, mostly in southern California, starting this fall.
Gee, I can't see how this could cause any trouble. It's not as if the Palestinians were previously the supporters of an incredibly bloodthirsty dictator, or if Palestinians are aggressive and unproductive people, or if the state of California is short of money, right?
It will be the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian refugees into the US - and welcome news to the Palestinians who fled to Iraq after 1948 but who have had a tough time since Mr. Hussein was deposed in 2003. Targeted by Iraqi Shiites, the mostly-Sunni Palestinians have spent recent years in one of the region's roughest refugee camps, Al Waleed, near Iraq's border with Syria.
Hmm, I wonder why the Palestinians have "had a tough time since Mr. Hussein was deposed in 2003," or why they have been "targeted by Iraqi Shiites," more so than would be Iraqi Sunnis? Might it be that they did things in Iraq, when the tyrant Hussein was in power, for which the Iraqis now wish to pay them back?
Given the US's past reluctance to resettle Palestinians - it accepted just seven Palestinians in 2007 and nine in 2008 - the effort could ruffle some diplomatic feathers.
In other words, this is OBAMA's FAULT.
For many in the State Department and international community, the resettlement is part of a moral imperative the US has to clean up the refugee crisis created by invading Iraq.
How mean of us to take down Saddam so that he couldn't let his Palestinian friends keep on abusing the Iraqi people!
The resettlement of Iraqi Palestinians is "an important gesture for the United States to demonstrate that we're not heartless," says Alon Ben-Meir, a professor of international relations and Middle Eastern studies at New York University.
ROFL!!! America has to demonstrate that she's not "heartless?" To the famous humanitarians of the Middle East?
But some critics say the State Department is sloughing off its problems onto American cities, especially since in this case the Palestinians were sympathizers of Hussein, who was deposed by the US.
Blank-out the fact that Saddam was a murderous and anti-American tyrant who personally enjoyed feeding living victims into plastic shredders. This isn't mentioned anywhere in the article -- Saddam is just a "Mr. Hussein" who was "deposed" by the U.S. for some mysterious reason.
"This is politically a real hot potato," says Mark Krikorian, director of the conservative Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, adding, "[A]merica has become a dumping ground for the State Department's problems - they're tossing their problems over their head into Harrisburg, Pa., or Omaha, Neb."
It's worse than that. The Palestinians weren't our problem. Obama just volunteered to MAKE THEM our problem! There's no sane reason for this.
Palestinian refugees came to Iraq in successive waves over several decades, first in 1948, then in 1967, and in 1991. They were treated well under Hussein but were also used to attack Israeli policies, and their presence was resented by many Iraqis.
Why was their presence "resented?" Might it not be that Saddam used them much as Ahmedinejad is using them right now? Blank-out on any possible reasons.
I predict that these Palestinian refugees will attack Jews, gays and women, commiting assaults, rapes and murders, and that they will also murderously turn on their own in vendettas and "honor killings." Americans will pay in blood for Obama's gesture of "generosity."
This seems to be a theme with the Obama Administration -- note the case of the Uighur terrorists.
The State Department confirmed today that as many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians - once the well-treated guests of Saddam Hussein and now at outs with much of Iraqi society - will be resettled in the US, mostly in southern California, starting this fall.
Gee, I can't see how this could cause any trouble. It's not as if the Palestinians were previously the supporters of an incredibly bloodthirsty dictator, or if Palestinians are aggressive and unproductive people, or if the state of California is short of money, right?
It will be the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian refugees into the US - and welcome news to the Palestinians who fled to Iraq after 1948 but who have had a tough time since Mr. Hussein was deposed in 2003. Targeted by Iraqi Shiites, the mostly-Sunni Palestinians have spent recent years in one of the region's roughest refugee camps, Al Waleed, near Iraq's border with Syria.
Hmm, I wonder why the Palestinians have "had a tough time since Mr. Hussein was deposed in 2003," or why they have been "targeted by Iraqi Shiites," more so than would be Iraqi Sunnis? Might it be that they did things in Iraq, when the tyrant Hussein was in power, for which the Iraqis now wish to pay them back?
Given the US's past reluctance to resettle Palestinians - it accepted just seven Palestinians in 2007 and nine in 2008 - the effort could ruffle some diplomatic feathers.
In other words, this is OBAMA's FAULT.
For many in the State Department and international community, the resettlement is part of a moral imperative the US has to clean up the refugee crisis created by invading Iraq.
How mean of us to take down Saddam so that he couldn't let his Palestinian friends keep on abusing the Iraqi people!
The resettlement of Iraqi Palestinians is "an important gesture for the United States to demonstrate that we're not heartless," says Alon Ben-Meir, a professor of international relations and Middle Eastern studies at New York University.
ROFL!!! America has to demonstrate that she's not "heartless?" To the famous humanitarians of the Middle East?
But some critics say the State Department is sloughing off its problems onto American cities, especially since in this case the Palestinians were sympathizers of Hussein, who was deposed by the US.
Blank-out the fact that Saddam was a murderous and anti-American tyrant who personally enjoyed feeding living victims into plastic shredders. This isn't mentioned anywhere in the article -- Saddam is just a "Mr. Hussein" who was "deposed" by the U.S. for some mysterious reason.
"This is politically a real hot potato," says Mark Krikorian, director of the conservative Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, adding, "[A]merica has become a dumping ground for the State Department's problems - they're tossing their problems over their head into Harrisburg, Pa., or Omaha, Neb."
It's worse than that. The Palestinians weren't our problem. Obama just volunteered to MAKE THEM our problem! There's no sane reason for this.
Palestinian refugees came to Iraq in successive waves over several decades, first in 1948, then in 1967, and in 1991. They were treated well under Hussein but were also used to attack Israeli policies, and their presence was resented by many Iraqis.
Why was their presence "resented?" Might it not be that Saddam used them much as Ahmedinejad is using them right now? Blank-out on any possible reasons.
I predict that these Palestinian refugees will attack Jews, gays and women, commiting assaults, rapes and murders, and that they will also murderously turn on their own in vendettas and "honor killings." Americans will pay in blood for Obama's gesture of "generosity."
This seems to be a theme with the Obama Administration -- note the case of the Uighur terrorists.