Gaza Impoverished? West Bank Kinky and Wet!

This is the fashion that is turning the Palestinians into "baby making machines", as Khaled Mashal boasted during his daughter's wedding, certain that soon she would become an egg-laying queen bee.

Women's lingerie hangs from a balcony as a veiled woman watches a Palestinian Prisoners' Day demonstration in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, April 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Secondly, I keep hearing that we've been stealing the Palestinians' water. Not according to the picture below. In any case, it seems that this year's rainfall hasn't been so good so far, so Israel is getting ready for water-saving mood. Good to see West Bankers enjoying the pool complete with what appears to be water chutes. Yet we are treating them worse than the Nazis treated us. By the way, are any Jews allowed the use of the pool, or are they Judenrein in PA territory? Or is Apartheid a more appropriate term? Anyway, it appears that we didn't manage to steal all of the water (although I heard that we siphoned off Gaza water reserves). And in case you didn't know, we have the ability to vacuum the air above Gaza and the West Bank, just like in the movies.

A Palestinian jumps into a swimming pool to cool off during hot weather in the West Bank town of Jericho April 15, 2008. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK)

Thirdly, about impoverished Gaza. Does this look like poverty? Because this is an impoverished olympic athlete hoping to win gold for Gaza on the track. By the way, they just compared their "plight" to that of the Warsaw Ghetto. Which reminds me of the Jewish athletic team at the Berlin Olympic Games.

Nader al-Masri displays his trophies in his house in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip April 6, 2008. One of a four-member Palestinian team who hope to compete in China and the only representative from the impoverished Gaza Strip, Palestinian athlete Nader al-Masri is determined to make Gaza proud at the Beijing Olympics in August. Picture taken on April 6, 2008. To match feature OLYMPICS/PALESTINIAN REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)

Nader al-Masri prepares to go for a run as his daughter watches in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip April 6, 2008. One of a four-member Palestinian team who hope to compete in China and the only representative from the impoverished Gaza Strip, Palestinian athlete Nader al-Masri is determined to make Gaza proud at the Beijing Olympics in August. Picture taken on April 6, 2008. To match feature OLYMPICS/PALESTINIAN REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)

Yeees, so hungry and impoverished...

Religion of Peace Kills 73-year-old Physicist in Dimona

The murder of a distinguished scientist in a shopping mall calls for celebrations in Gaza. It is not unusual to see Reuters sacrificing their professional integrity, ethical standards and neutrality on the altar of terrorist propaganda. A Palestinian boy distributes sweets to people in the southern Gaza Strip after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in southern Israel February 4, 2008. A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up and police shot dead his accomplice in an attack in a shopping centre in southern Israel on Monday that killed at least one Israeli, emergency services said. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)
An Israeli man injured in a suicide bombing is brought to the hospital in Beersheba, southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. A suicide bomber on Monday blew himself up in Dimona, the southern town that houses Israel's secretive nuclear reactor, killing at least one Israeli and wounding six, one critically, Israeli authorities said. Police said they killed a second attacker before he had a chance to detonate his explosives belt. (AP Photo/Diego Mitelberg)

For a supposedly starving people, it is amazing how quickly Palestinians can produce sweets and candy to celebrate death and injury inflicted on innocent civilians by their suicide bombers. The saintly Poles who saved my family during the Holocaust would have been shot dead by the Germans for smuggling a rotten cabbage or potato to feed the Jewish mother and child hidden in their cellar, yet we are now being considered worse than the Nazis. Apparently, the bombers, Hamas and PLFP terrorists, were dispatched from the West Bank. Initially there was some confusion over the identity of the perpetrators (yes, several terror groups were competing for the honor), as the spokesman of the al-Aqsa Brigades (military wing of Fatah) released a videotaped message from martyr wannabes, whose pictures did not quite match the mugshot of the failed bomber (the one who in the throes of death was still trying to reach for the belt, leaving the police officers at the scene no choice but to put enough rounds in his head to neutralize him). This however did not deter the shameless members of the media from rushing to Gaza to immortalize weeping and sobbing relatives (mostly females hiding behind their veils) holding pictures of the vile monsters as young children. I wonder whether a correction would be coming soon, if at all. Not to mention the practically lack of coverage of the 47 injured and their evacuation. Injured Jews don't make the news. Tearful relatives of psychopathic terrorists do.

In any case, the wounded bomber was initially taken for a victim of the attack (and although I mourn the loss of an innocent lady and worry over the fate of her mortally wounded husband and the other victims - such as a 42-year old single mom who was left to fend for herself while the wounded terrorist was being dealth with, wondering all the while whether her 11-month-old daughter was safe, as she couldn't quite remember whether she had taken her baby to the mall or not - all innocent people enjoying a lovely sunny morning at the mall, I cannot hide the fact that I rejoice at the thought that he was, honestly), and was given first aid by the medical team who rushed to the scene: a doctor and nurses from a clinic right across the street from the Dimona mall. They were in fact the ones to discover the unexploded bomb strapped to the monster's body, when they unzipped his jacket to look for wounds. Surprised by the suicide vest attached to a portable gas tank, they stepped back. The sapper and the police officer who shot the bomber took extra care not to set off the device themselves, as the brainwashed piece of human waste, severely wounded though he was, kept trying to reach for the detonating switch, in a last effort to secure his 72 virgins in heaven. Well, I hope he gets 72 Arafats, George Habashes, Ahmad Yassins, Rantisis, and other assorted terrorists. Alternatively, 72 camels would do just as nicely.

Revital Biton and Marina Shaban from the World Pizza at the mall recognized the failed bomber, as some ten minutes prior to the attack he walked in for a last cup of coffee. Lucky gals, to think that he could gave chosen to go off in a "blaze of glory" right there and then and taken them along as well.

Anyway, it appears that one of the bombers was depressed: his auntie reveals that the poor "baby" was in pain because his parents' divorce and his father's married another woman. Although he had a job and was able to visit his relatives in Jerusalem quite often (huh? despite the closures and the roadblocks and the JOOOOOS slowly but surely isolating the West Bank residents, oppressing them, and generally murdering them and trying to get them to leave their ancestral home, and villages and destroyed olive tree groves? I am in shock!!!), if I am to understand correctly, he could think of no better cure for his depression than to blow himself up among Jews, as befits a normal Hammas supporter yearning to make it to jihadi heaven.

Enemy of the Israeli Arabs

Ben-Dror Yemini,
Ma'ariv, April 13, 2007

Scrutiny of the Azmi affair shows that more is concealed than revealed, partly because activists among Israeli Arabs are exercising their right to remain silent: they are agonizing. They have provided significant information on Azmi. If we thought that the Arab sector is homogeneous, well, we were wrong: there are currents and under-currents, and a many members of the Arab community have just had enough. They understand that Bishara's actions have cast a dark shadow upon them and have sent the level of animosity between Arabs and Jews sky-rocketing. Riad Ali published a very explicit commentary on the damage caused by Bishara's going astray.
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Bishara has become a persona non grata. Senior members of the Arab community claim that he was ordered out of Jordan. They don't need a focus of dissension over there either, a crossbreed between Nasser's pan-Arabism and the Assad-Nasrallah axis. Bishara left Jordan a short time after he met with the Jordanian foreign minister, who probably instructed him to leave the Hashemite Kingdom. A saboteur over here is a saboteur over there as well. If and when the entire puzzle is revealed, sabotage might well look like an euphemism.

Love-sponsored terror
The terrorist driving around a few nights ago in a car loaded with explosives is another product of a love story between a man residing on the other side of the Green line and a woman from this side of the line, in Taibe. In legal terms, this falls under the definition of "family reunification". As a consequence of this reunification based solely on love, the terrorist was issued a valid Israeli ID.
Thus, the issue of "family reunification" has become a thorn in our side. Because of one terrorist, oh, and another one, and perhaps tens of potential terrorists, taking advantage of the "family reunification" option, are we allowed to make tens of thousands of others suffer? The Citizenship Act forbids family reunification and granting of citizenship on such basis, except for special cases. The Supreme Court ruled to abolish this act, but Justice Edmond Levi allowed the government an additional hearing. Who knows what will happen then. The judge panel seems to be leaning far left.
We are probably going to be treated with beautiful front page pictures of loving couples from the two sides of the Green Line, and the caption will reveal how the cruel Jewish State stands in the way of love and abuses its citizens' romantic aspirations. Tears will flow, no doubt.Except the truth is slightly different. No country tolerates family reunification with individuals from hostile areas. No country grants citizenship to people whose only aim is to destroy their adoptive country. No country except Israel, whose democracy is bordering on anarchy. This procedure is not only "made in Israel", it is also ratified by the Supreme Court.

On April 10, 2007, Ma'ariv (Amir Rapaport) reported that 19 members of a Hamas terror cell in Qalqilyah (West Bank) were arrested, one holding an Israeli ID, who were planning to carry out a terrorist attack during Passover, despite the ceasefire agreement. Qalqilyah has a long track of producing terrorists, such as the one who carried out the Tel-Aviv Dolphinarium disco massacre on June 1, 2001. During the past three years, thanks to extensive arrests and the barrier fence (yes, wall in several locations) managed to curb the wave of terrorist attacks originating from this town that lies so close to the Green Line. However, during the last months Israeli security received relevant information and began to suspect that Hamas is operating in Qalqilyah and planning terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. In March a car loaded with explosives exploded in Qalqilyah - a "work accident", according to the Shin Bet. 19 Hamas-affiliated terrorists have been arrested recently in the town, one of whom became an Israeli citizen after he married a resident of Taibe. Thanks to his Israeli ID he was free to enter Israel. The car that exploded belonged to him, and had Israeli license plates.

Jenin Redux

Dorit Gabbay
Ma'ariv, April 25, 2007

Five IDF reserve troops who took part in the "Defensive Wall" operation in Jenin and were depicted as war criminals in Muhammad Bakri's production "Jenin, Jenin" have sued the film director and the Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv Cinematheque respectively. This week the five were deposed in court and claimed that the film that had portrayed them as cold-blooded murders had changed their lives and distanced their friends from them.

Five years have elapsed since the terrible events in Jenin. These five men are part of the company that lost 13 combat troops in battle. They feature as war criminals in "Jenin, Jenin", the controversial movie produced and directed by actor Muhammad Bakri (Israeli Arab). Not only were they publicly humiliated, they also started fearing for their lives. In an attempt to clear their names, the five have filed a libel suit against Bakri and the cinematheques, and demanded 2.53 million NIS in compensation.
Yonathan van Caspel was born a Christian in Holland 37 years ago. He came to Israel, converted to Judaism and served as a paratrooper in the IDF: 'I knew that Jenin was the capital of Palestinian terror capital, but I was determined to fulfill my duty for my country. On the eighth day of fighting in Jenin, my company lost 13 combat soldiers in fierce fighting with the Palestinians. This terrible event was extensively covered both by the Israeli and the international media. We were interviewed and our names and addresses were disclosed. My friends and I appear in a film called "Jenin – a reservist's war diary", shot by a fellow reservist during "Defensive Wall Operation". This footage documented the reactions of IDF troops immediately after 13 of their comrades had been killed by Palestinians in the booby trapped alleys of Jenin.
Sometime later, I was contacted by the bereaved mother of one of the soldiers killed in Jenin, appalled by the fact that we were portrayed as monsters and murderers by the film "Jenin, Jenin"… I can hardly describe how shocked I was when I watched the movie myself…The images and the accusations were terrible. Nothing was like we had seen or experienced on the ground... It was enough to convince everybody who knew I had fought in the Defensive Wall Operation that my comrades and I had committed all those heinous crimes. But the worst blow I received was when my own beloved father, who lives in Holland, called and asked me in a stern voice what I had done in Jenin. He told me that he knew that IDF soldiers murdered and massacred residents of Jenin, and wanted to know whether I had anything to do with it. I told him that those were false accusations, but I felt that did not believe me. My own beloved father was under the influence of the terrible accusations, and was wondering whether I had lost the values I had been brought up on and become a monster. My loving father, who knew me so well, who believed in my moral values, who would never have suspected me of war crimes, felt the need to call and ask me what had happened… This is how damaging "Jenin, Jenin" was.
Everybody I knew started confronting me with probing questions, trying to establish whether there was any truth to the film. I found myself defending myself and my fellow soldiers, explaining that nothing like that had ever happened, and that quite the opposite was true – IDF troops remained sensitive to the civilian population, and had made every possible effort not to harm innocent Palestinians.
The fighting in the Jenin refugee camp (by the way, anyone residing in a house is not a refugee. You got to live in a tent in order to be classified as a refugee. Except, of course, if you are a Palestinian) was fierce. We were trying to capture terrorists, but thousands of booby traps and roadside bombs had been hidden in the camp. They were firing and fighting from houses inhabited by innocent people, hiding behind civilians, including women and children. They were using ambulances for terrorist activities. I personally saw loads of booby trapped dollies and toys, just waiting for a soldier to pick them up or touch them…
My fellow soldiers and I experienced and witnessed shocking scenes. Our friends were wounded and died in front of us, sometimes in our arms. And we were the ones accused of war crimes by this film maker …
My friends and I were there the day the film was screened at the Cinematheque, to voice our protest. Members of the audience shouted "Murderers! Nazis! War criminals!", cursed and abused us. I participated in the Defensive Wall Operation for the sake of this country, I wasn't looking for a hero's death. Still I couldn't believe that I would be showered with insults and abuse, so harsh and humiliating…
I began fearing for my own life. I felt exposed. I felt someone might be prompted to take revenge on me for the "crimes" I allegedly committed in the refugee camp.'

Doron Keidar owns and manages a car parts import company. To this day he avoids calling on his Arab customers:
'I saw "Jenin, Jenin" shortly after it started playing and I can hardly describe the shock I experienced. The film is not the work of an amateur, it seems very professional and convincing, so I started asking myself which troops could have perpetrated the horrors it "documents". I thought that perhaps it was a company of "regulars", young troops who perhaps lost it and started shooting at will. It took me a while to understand that it was all fiction, a fabric of lies that had nothing to do with reality. But then I also wondered what people who hadn't been there thought about the troops who had fought in Jenin. The fact that I wasn't able to tell immediately that the film was a pack of lies made me realize that the public would brand us "war criminals", who murdered innocent civilians out of disregard for Arab lives.
The terrible charges brought against me in the film have completely changed my life. I felt ashamed, humiliated and worthless for taking part in this operation. I was embarrassed by the fact that all my friends knew I was a soldier in Jenin.'

Nir Oshri, combat medic, runs a drug rehabilitation center. Most of the soldiers died in his arms: 'I treat drug-addicts at this center. I need to develop a special bond, very close rapport with the patients, for the treatment to succeed. Sometimes the addicts become dependent on me. Many of my patients are Arabs and their situation is very complex and stressful. After "Jenin, Jenin" was aired, I felt a shift in the way my Arab patients were relating to me. Instead of seeing in me their "elder brother", the one who helps them overcome their difficulties, they began avoiding me. I often heard them whispering "Jenin" between themselves, their eyes filled with hatred. I could no longer approach them freely, uninhibitedly. They were suspicious of me. One day one of them started yelling in front of the staff and patients at the center "murderer, you massacred Arabs, tens of little children in Jenin". I felt great pain, such that words cannot describe.'

Adam Arbiv, businessman.
'My father lives in the Arab part of Yaffo-Tel-Aviv. At one time, my office was also there. After the screening of the film I felt that even my closest friends and relatives were unsure about me. My mother, who lives in Holland, asked me several times about my part in the Defensive Wall Operation, and I felt that she was worried that I might have been one of the Jenin "war criminals". The woman who gave me life, who has always been so close to me, began doubting my integrity because of this film. Perhaps some of the viewers understood that the terrible accusations were blown out of proportion, but I guess they also believed that there was still some truth to it.
Some of my relatives living in the US and Canada also contacted me, to enquire in a very around the bush fashion about the terrible actions presented in the movie. Such horrible things can drive a man insane. Nobody will ever be able to compensate me and my fellow soldiers for our stained reputation. How can I put a price to the pain I felt when my own mother needed to make sure that I was or was not a war criminal as portrayed by the film? Or when my relative living abroad looked at me trying to make sure that I was not one of the perpetrators of the heinous crimes in the film?
Due to the terrible accusations we cannot go on with our lives. I was afraid to go see my father in Yaffo. I was afraid for his life. I was afraid to go to my own office in Yaffo. I am afraid and worried to this very day.'

Ofer Ben-Nathan, lawyer:
'All of my lawyer colleagues and associates started to shun me, or even display obvious hostility due to the terrible allegations of the movie. They accused me of having committed massacres and war crimes in Jenin. They weren't even trying to conceal their disgust. I am sure I have lost numerous potential clients, Arabs who would have sought my services by themselves or based on recommendations from Arab colleagues. There were days when I thought I might be forced out of my profession, and I sometimes feared for my life.'

Muhammad Bakri – No need for balance (because I received funding from rabid anti-Semitic terrorist!)
Avigdor Feldman, Bakri's lawyer, claims that the film never intended to present a balanced image of the fighting in Jenin, but rather to allow the Palestinians to tell their story. The stories certainly reflect the events that took place in Jenin. Bakri's deposition is expected within 60 days.

Jenin, Jenin – document or propaganda?
On March 27th, the eve of Passover 2002, a suicide bombing shook the Park Hotel in Netanya. Two days later Operation Defensive Wall was launched, with the purpose of rooting out the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank. During this operation, on April 3rd, IDF forces entered the Jenin refugee camp, practically the suicide bombers' breeding ground and headquarters. The IDF instructed the civilian population to leave, and then proceeded to enter several houses in order to apprehend terrorists hiding inside them. The troops were met with a tremendous amount of fire and explosive charges from the terrorists hiding among the civilian population. On April 9th 13 combat troops were ambushed and killed. They served in the same company as the five plaintiffs. The IDF decided to send in bulldozers in order to demolish the houses where the terrorists were hiding.
Twenty-three IDF combat troops were killed in Jenin, and 60 others were wounded, some very badly. 52 Palestinians were also killed, half of them civilians.
A few weeks later, actor and director Muhammad Bakri (much like Azmi Bishara in Lebanon) and his film crew toured the camp and shot interviews with some locals who claimed to have seen the troops shoot and kill innocent civilians, women, children and old people, prevent medical assistance to the wounded, and even loot. (Ahem... the Palestinians claim to be so pathetically poor, starving to say the least, and yet there still are valuables to be found in their booby-trapped houses? ) The Film Critics Committee stopped the screening of the film, defining it as "one-sided propaganda, … distortion of real events so as to appear as truthful documentation and give the public a wrong impression…, incitement and deligitimizing the very existence of the State of Israel.
When Muhammad Bakri petitioned the Supreme Court, three Supreme Court "justices" allowed the film to be screened in the Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv Cinematheques respectively.

Read more about Jenin here and here. This is the diary of an ultra-Orthodox soldier who was there. Also some extraordinary pics that, most likely from the writer's private albums.

Justice served raw, a la Jenin

The wheels of justice are turning in West Bank Jenin, you know, of the staged funeral fame, more appropriate for a Banana split or Bloopers show.

Except this is for real. I saved the pics with their original captions (as news agencies have been known to furtively pull embarassing photos without warning or explanations). Needless to say that the pictures themselves are no longer available, thus no links provided.

Such scenes are not uncommon in the West Bank. A mere suspicion or accusation is enough to get any man lynched – a few years back a Palestinian man suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities was chased around the town of Bethlehem, shot at every now and then (not to kill, just to maim) and when dead, at long last, his body was dragged about in the streets only to be hung and disemboweled in the main town square, local variation of the long-abandoned English practice of hanging, drawing and quartering (not to mention the two Israeli reserve soldiers, and here, here, here, torn to pieces by a rabid crowd inside the Ramallah police station).

Where is Mr. Annan? Where is the international community? Does suspicion of collaboration with Israel warrant such reprisals? With the elderly mother of a terrorist abusing the already mutilated body of the victim?

Palestinian gunmen, who identified themselves as members of the Islamic Jihad group, shoot a man in a public square in the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Aug. 13, 2006. The man, who was executed in front of hundreds of people, was accused by the gunmen of giving information to Israeli authorities, helping them to kill two militants last week in a targeted attack, said witnesses and Islamic Jihad members. The victim was identified as Bassem Malah, 22, who worked in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
Palestinian gunmen, who identified themselves as members of the Islamic Jihad group, hold their weapons after shooting and killing a man, lying dead on the ground, in a public square in the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Aug. 13, 2006. The man, who was executed in front of hundreds of people, was accused by the gunmen of giving information to Israeli authorities, helping them to kill two militants last week in a targeted attack, said witnesses and Islamic Jihad members. The victim was identified as Bassem Malah, 22, who worked in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

As others take pictures with their mobile phones, a man kicks the lifeless body of an alleged 'collaborator' after he was shot and killed by Palestinian gunmen, who identified themselves as members of the Islamic Jihad group, in a public square in the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Aug. 13, 2006. The man, who was executed in front of hundreds of people, was accused by the gunmen of giving information to Israeli authorities, helping them to kill two militants last week in a targeted attack, said witnesses and Islamic Jihad members. The victim was identified as Bassem Malah, 22, who worked in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas) ATTENTION EDITORS VISUALS OF DEATH AND INJURY An armed Palestinian militant and a crowd stand near the body of a man killed in the West Bank town of Jenin August 13, 2006. The man was shot by Palestinian militants because they say he collaborated with Israeli forces. REUTERS/Stringer (WEST BANK)Palestinians, some taking pictures with their mobile phones, gather around the body of an alleged "collaborator" after gunmen, who identified themselves as members of the Islamic Jihad group, shot him and killed him in a public square in the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Aug. 13, 2006. The man, who was executed in front of hundreds of people, was accused by the gunmen of giving information to Israeli authorities, helping them to kill two militants last week in a targeted attack, said witnesses and Islamic Jihad members. The victim was identified as Bassem Malah, 22, who worked in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas) A woman, mother of a militant killed by the Israeli army in 2002, steps on the body of an alleged 'collaborator' after Palestinian gunmen, who identified themselves as members of the Islamic Jihad group, shot him and killed him in a public square in the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Aug. 13, 2006. The man, who was executed in front of hundreds of people, was accused by the gunmen of giving information to Israeli authorities, helping them to kill two militants last week in a targeted attack, said witnesses and Islamic Jihad members. The victim was identified as Bassem Malah, 22, who worked in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al Fahm. (AP Photo/ Mohammed Ballas)ATTENTION EDITORS VISUALS OF DEATH AND INJURY An armed Palestinian militant and onlookers stand near the body of a man killed in the West Bank town of Jenin August 13, 2006. The man was shot by Palestinian militants because they say he collaborated with Israeli forces. REUTERS/Stringer (WEST BANK)

CAPTION CLARIFICATION - THE ARMED MILITANTS ARE AMONG A CROWD OF BYSTANDERS. ATTENTION EDITORS VISUALS OF DEATH AND INJURY. An armed Palestinian militant stands over the body of a man killed in the West Bank town of Jenin as a crowd watches August 13, 2006. The man was shot by Palestinian militants because they say he collaborated with Israeli forces. REUTERS/Stringer (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES)

All massacres (and here) reported in Jenin, are actually massacres of IDF soldiers who take every precaution not to hurt women and children used as human shields by the terrorists. Yet it is Israel who stands accused of war crimes. Eventually, truth will out.
This town is supposed to be under Israeli occupation - then how come there are so many armed men in broad daylight? The Palestinians are complaining of poverty and unemployment - then how come they have state of the art cell phones that can take digital pictures? Everybody (except the brutalized victim) seems to be in pretty good shape - well fed, good general condition, nice hair cuts - where's the distress, the poverty and the despair?
Also, please notice that young boys are allowed to watch. These people want an independent state - what kind of democracy will they embrace? What kind of justice? What values and principles? What kind of education will they provide for their children?