[Stunaep]

The UN has called a meeting between the Jews and the Palestinians to finally sort out the situation.

The speaker sais: "Please explain in short the nature of your conflict."

Sharon begins: "Fine. I'll make it short. But I'm gonna start from the beginning. When Moses led our people through the desert of Sinai, to the shore of the river Jordan, the Palestinians were on the other shore..."

On those words every palestinian in the room rises and shouts "That's a lie! No we weren't"

"Exactly my point." Sharon replies.

[Blaise Russel]

I don't get it.

[TheCelestialOne]

Originally posted by Blaise Russel
I don't get it.

I suggest you read the bible if you wanna understand...

Just kiddin'

[Blaise Russel]

Okay, let me put it like this:

I think I understand it, but I'm hoping that I haven't, because it isn't very nice.

[Stunaep]

It's a political joke. What do you expect?

[Blaise Russel]

Better.

[Stunaep]

I warned you it was bad.

[Blaise Russel]

I'm a glutton for punishment.

[diamondgeezer]

The idea being the Palestinians should have been on ther other side rather than the Israeli side?

Meh, the Israelis should have just booted the Palestinians out of the area when they arrived there. Oh... wait...

[Rictor]

...I get jokes.

Hehe, that one took me like 3 times throuh to get it.

Basically, everyone has a claim to The Holy Land. Well, except the Buddhists....

[HotSnoJ]

I like that joke.

[Sandwich]

No no no, you got it wrong! Well, at least it's different from the version I heard, which makes more sense.

In "my" version, Sharon and Arafat are sitting down to talk peace accords and such. But before they begin to get down to business, Sharon says that he wants to tell a little story.

"When Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai 5,000 years ago (or so), he had to remove his sandals in the presence of the Most High. But when came back down the mountain, he found that someone had stolen his sandals from where he had left them."

Arafat frowned. "Who would do such a thing?"

"The Palestinians."

Arafat exploded. "That's a lie - it cannot be! There were no Palestinians back then!!"

Sharon was pleased. "Good, now that we've agreed on that point, we can start to talk."

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Sandwich
Arafat exploded.

Unfortunate choice of wording

[TheCelestialOne]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer

Unfortunate choice of wording

LOL!

And suddenly... a Wall went up between the two...

[diamondgeezer]

And lo, bits of the wall were marked 'made in Berlin from 100% recycled material'

[Solatar]

Originally posted by Sandwich
No no no, you got it wrong! Well, at least it's different from the version I heard, which makes more sense.

In "my" version, Sharon and Arafat are sitting down to talk peace accords and such. But before they begin to get down to business, Sharon says that he wants to tell a little story.

"When Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai 5,000 years ago (or so), he had to remove his sandals in the presence of the Most High. But when came back down the mountain, he found that someone had stolen his sandals from where he had left them."

Arafat frowned. "Who would do such a thing?"

"The Palestinians."

Arafat exploded. "That's a lie - it cannot be! There were no Palestinians back then!!"

Sharon was pleased. "Good, now that we've agreed on that point, we can start to talk."

Now that I got.

[HotSnoJ]

I liked sandwich's more.

And sandwich, have you gotten my PM?

[Sandwich]

Oops, I thought I sent a reply. Sorry - sent.

[Stryke 9]

And you know, come to think of it, all those durn African countries and so on that we keep having trouble with- they shouldn't even exist! They were European colonies! You know those pissing little Eastern European states- we should give them back to Russia! NATIONS CANNOT EXIST UNLESS THEY ALREADY HAVE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME!

Really, it's a terribly lame "point", and while I have no objections to political jokes I don't technically agree with, there should at least be some humor there, or something besides spurious politically-motivated semilogic. And there isn't.

Now, gimme a good joke about a suicide bomber (and there are a few), that's another thing.

[mikhael]

Whilst I don't agree with the vast majority of your sentiment, Stryke, your point about the irrellevancy of the who has the older claim to the area around Jerusalem is absolutely spot on.