I have so much to say about this article that I don’t know where to begin. First, the title: More Palestinians Flee Homelands
The title itself, in its =causual use of “Homelands,” assumes multiple homelands for the Pals (please explain that one!), even though in the article it stipulates: “[alestinian Foreign Ministry official] did not have comparisons to previous years or a breakdown of destination countries.”
So let me get this straight: are they or aren’t they leaving in ‘more’ numbers from their ‘homelands’? Is the reporter just assuming that some Palestinian guy is telling him the whole truth, without even any statistics? Could it be for political aims?
Well, it seems so. We read basically that “"What Israel couldn't do by force" they are doing to themselves (assumption: Israel drove out Pals), and that, “Palestinians have emigrated in large numbers before, a response to decades of war, unrest and displacement,” an outright misstatement (unless they meant, which I’m sure they didn’t, that “displacement” meant displacement by the other Arabs, not by Israel.)
Also interesting is where the Pals are going. We read, “The departing technician, 25-year-old Mohammed from Gaza City, has a tourist visa to Italy, but plans to go on to Norway, counting on liberal laws that bar the deportation of asylum seekers.”
And, “Two popular destinations for Gazans are Canada, which still offers legal immigration, and Cuba, which imposes few restrictions on Palestinian travelers. Those with tourist visas to Cuba often don't plan to go there. Instead, they get off in transit at a European airport, rip up their Palestinian travel document and seek asylum.”
If you haven’t yet read the incredible Mark Steyn’s book America Alone, you are missing out. Everything about the destruction of Europe (and Canada) by the Muslims is in there. It is scary, and a must read.
Isn’t it interesting that reading a news broadcast is like deciphering a hidden text – can’t we just ever get the facts?
The "missing link" in the article is religion.
The Christian Palestinians have been fleeing in record numbers, as have Lebanese Christians.
And although the US press counts all Arab immigrants as Muslims, the dirty little secret is that many of them are Christians.
Posted by: Boinkie at December 18, 2006 09:01 PM