Pipes' Dreams...or Wishful Thinking Part 911

Submitted by eliXelx (Spain), Jun 20, 2007 at 10:58

The Bible relates that the Philistines "vexed" the Kingdom of Israel for 200 years, with only brief periods of respite for the beleaguered Jews. Sometimes one side had the upper hand, at other times the other!

In Spain from the 8th to the end of the 15th century it was the same story; no continuous winner or loser, just a knock-down, dragged-out war of attrition for 700 years.

So I ask you Mr. Pipes: what ...leads you to believe that the American Intifada will only last for 4 years? ... Why call time on an endless intifada?

Dig in, folks! It's gonna be a long hard bumpy ride, and none of us alive today will be alive to see the end of it!

... Four years? Pshaw! Four hundred years, or the Messiah!

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