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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
You've heard of the Darwin
Awards, right? They're awarded to
idiots who kill themselves doing something astoundingly dumb, thereby
contributing to human evolution by removing themselves from the gene pool.
Awardees are individuals, but I am nominating an entire
inhabited region of the world:
Palestinian Gaza. Gaza should,
in fact, be re-named Darwin City.
Consider this news bulletin from Gulf Daily News of
Bahrain, dated May 27, 2006:
GAZA CITY: Four Palestinians were
killed in northern Gaza yesterday as Israel fired dozens
of artillery shells into the territory. Three men died and five other were
wounded in a house when a family member brought in and accidentally set off an
unexploded Israeli shell that landed near the area, Palestinian security
sources said.
An investigation by the Jerusalem Post found out that
a bunch of Palestinian 20-somethings took home an unexploded artillery shell,
invited a bunch of friends over - apparently
with the approval of their parents - and then tried to take it apart with
everybody in a crowed room watching.
The shell exploded, killing three and wounding a dozen more.
The Palestinian authorities tried to cover it up, but the hospital officials
admitted the truth and the family verified it. There were even photos of the
house in the article.
Darwin City.
Over two years ago (February 2004) I predicted The
Coming Palestinian Civil War. I
updated this last September with Credence in Gaza. The Palestinian Civil War was accelerated by
the election of Hamas this January, which is why I wrote Celebrating Hamas.
Now Fatah and Hamas could be productively engaged in killing
each other off, distracting them from slaughtering Israelis.
The violence between Hamas and Fatah has gotten so bad that
the popular website Little
Green Footballs carries a regular feature, "Palestinian Civil War Watch."
Thanks to the Palestinian Civil War (funny how our media
doesn't celebrate this like it does civil war in Iraq), suicide bombings in
Israel have dropped 90%.
And it's going to get worse (or better?) in Gaza, more
Palestinians going after each others' throats.
That's the price of maniacal hatred and rage. At some point, it turns in on itself.
Hatred and rage also make you stupid. Stupid enough for a Darwin Award. Thus expect to see Palestinians continue
improving the human gene pool by removing themselves from it.
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