they could start with the tens of billions in Kuwaiti and French bank accounts that Mrs. Arafat and some higher up PA insiders have access to.

Are you deliberately trying to come across as a snarky, lame-assed Palestinian-hater; or is that effect unintentional??

Ramallah is…100x nicer than most cities in most Arab countries.

When was the last time you were in Ramallah? Or have you ever been in Ramallah? And which Arab cities have you actually visited? None? I thought so?

OK, as I’m reading through this comment I see that your sole purpose here seems to be to spout anti-Palestinian propaganda which is a clear violation of my comment rules. So I’ll read through the rest of yr crap & if the tone or substance doesn’t change you’re history. I’m simply not going to waste my time with pure haters whether they be extremists on the Palestinian side or the Israeli. [UPDATE: I note I banned you in April. Yet you seem to have weaseled yr way back. So let's make this yr 2nd banning.]

As I read I see you don’t just hate Palestinians. You hate Saudis as well. Is there an Arab you don’t hate?

Dubai found the money to build a modern looking country that attracts foreigners?

You seem to have missed that yr beloved “moderate Arab” Dubai just ran Lev Leviev’s & his blood jewels out of the country once they discovered that he was the king of settlement builders. How’re you feelin’ about Dubai about now?

Don’t worry I’m not very sensitive

That certainly is an understatement. The last time you were sensitive to the suffering of an Arab must’ve been possibly when you in the womb, if then.

I know you would NEVER call me that to my face

The thought that I would ever have to meet you would be enough to ruin my day if not my week, month & possibly yr.

NOONE viewing you and I standing next to each other… would mistake who the unappealing figure of the two is

Why don’t you post yr picture here & we’ll let my readers be the judge.

like Allison Kaplan Sommers who writes about Isreal [sic]

As I said, “the dyed in the wool true believer” propagandists like Allison Kaplan Sommers & you. By the way, you do know how to spell “Israel” don’t you?

I don’t know where the PA would get any money to fund a tourism ad; and what would they promote?

Sure - they could start with the tens of billions in Kuwaiti and French bank accounts that Mrs. Arafat and some higher up PA insiders have access to.

Could they invite tourists to “take the waters” in Gaza where the sewage is running into the sea because Israel refuses to allow parts that would build a suitable sewage system?

Oh, such dramatics… as if Ramallah isn’t 100x nicer than most cities in most Arab countries.
How about the beautiful greenhouses in Gaza that the Israrelis left for them…thanks to the donations of those evil right wing American Zionists except that they were looted and destroyed…. they could show how their gov’t is more concerned with buying loyalty via checks to ‘police forces’ or rocket/bomb factories than regulating water usage-building new housing-schools etc… they seem to find plenty of money to produce propoganda though.

Or perhaps they could promote themselves to military tourist types who’d like to see a targeted assassination up close.

Sure that would definitely work!!! They could show young kids who like to shoot off rockets…. instead they could watch when Hamas and Islamic Jihad guerillas go on a farmer’s grove between trees and daily shoot tens of rockets into Sderot… kind of like when you were a kid shooting off bottle rockets instead they’re aimed at people and explode.

I can imagine similar ads promoting Saudi tourism. How about promoting petro-tourism? A charming new type of tourism in which foreigners come to view SA’s gorgeous oil derricks.

You mean with the billions or trillions they make with the most sought after commodity in the world - and the price formerly between $30-$40/barrel now heading towards $200/barrel they haven’t been able to build an economy that produces any GDP with anything to see? That however - does not stop their paid for law firms and ad agencies from promoting the Saudis as America’s friend… so perhaps you could ask them how they deftly put on tv adds promoting the Saudis.
Somehow Dubai found the money to build a modern looking country that attracts foreigners?

The idea that this pathetic creature thinks I’m an apologist for the Arab cause & tourism is laughable.

Wait can you find a phrase where I called an apologist? Wait but you did you call me a pathetic creature?
Now wey’re seeing the true class act that you are…
Don’t worry I’m not very sensitive and since I know you would NEVER call me that to my face I can laugh you off for the lower class human being that you show yourself to be…
For the record though - I can most definitely assure you that NOONE viewing you and I standing next to each other… would mistake who the unappealing figure of the two is…

And as I said in my post, the only ones who will be charmed by this ad are the dyed in the wool true believers like Solomon Nebech.

No, like Allison Kaplan Sommers who writes about Isreal… the country is 100x more than the conflict…. and for IP conflict firsters whose life is set on trying to promote their own importance and vitalness to the world via this conflict 24/7 365/yr as the end all be all of insight and value - ANYthing that touches on something else in a positive light regarding Israel that doesn’t concern the conflict needs to be assassinated immediately…..

Lord protect us from right-wingers & their feeble attempts at snark.

I don’t know where the PA would get any money to fund a tourism ad; and what would they promote? Could they invite tourists to “take the waters” in Gaza where the sewage is running into the sea because Israel refuses to allow parts that would build a suitable sewage system? Or perhaps they could promote themselves to military tourist types who’d like to see a targeted assassination up close. Or maybe they’d like to promote an eco-tourism trip to the olive groves of West Bank Palestinians during harvest time so they can watch settler thugs beat up farmers attempting to harvest their olives.

I can imagine similar ads promoting Saudi tourism. How about promoting petro-tourism? A charming new type of tourism in which foreigners come to view SA’s gorgeous oil derricks.

The idea that this pathetic creature thinks I’m an apologist for the Arab cause & tourism is laughable.

And as I said in my post, the only ones who will be charmed by this ad are the dyed in the wool true believers like Solomon Nebech.

No hypocrisy there… but thanx I really liked the add… I knew there’d be something enjoyable about this conetentious preachy site.

Khaled Meshal has just publicly announced in the Arab-lang. press that Hamas will accept an Israel that returns to 67 borders & you claim it “will never make peace w. Israel.”

First, Paul Berman is no expert on Islamism. He’s merely a journalist w. a partisan pt of view on the issue. Second, the imam featured represents the “Egyptian Mulism Brotherhood” as you noted–NOT Hamas. You may wish to collapse them into the same entity. But that would be a typically gross distortion of political reality. Hamas is not a wholly owned subsidiary of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. It is a Palestinian movement with goals that apply to Palestine alone.

I dare you to provide a similar quote from a senior Hamas leader.

http://members.cox.net/slsturgi3/PhilosopherOfIslamicTerror.htm

Since Israel does not openly avow its goal of destroying Palestine, does that make Hamas its moral superior?