Don’t worry, no one will hold them responsible: Think the New York Times will write an editorial on how Salaam Fayyad isn’t ready for peace?
The time is not right for meaningful Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stated on Wednesday, saying they are only likely to produce a blame game rather than a settlement.
Speaking to a nonprofit group that promotes the cause of Palestinian independence, Fayyad said there is little point in such talks without first establishing “terms of reference” – diplomatic jargon for the rough parameters of a solution.
Yeah, me neither.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the UN condemnation: Turkey invaded Iraq in order to stop terrorists responsible for killing their citizens. Hey, that sounds just like Israel going into Gaza to stop terrorists responsible for killing their citizens! Except, of course, Israeli Double Standard Time is in effect, so there will be no condemnation—from anyone—of Turkey’s actions. This is my favorite quote of the article:
“We will never bow to any attack from inside or outside Turkey,” he said.
I’ll be bringing this one back up when Turkey condemns the next Israeli action in Gaza.
News the mainstream media leaves out: You’ll never see this in an AP article about the released terrorists, or mentioned in a New York Times editorial:
A would-be Palestinian suicide bomber freed by Israel in the prisoner swap for soldier Gilad Shalit told cheering schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip the day after her release on Wednesday she hoped they would follow her example.
“I hope you will walk the same path we took and God willing, we will see some of you as martyrs,” Wafa al-Biss told dozens of children who came to her home in the northern Gaza Strip.
Gadaffy is an ex-dictator: Do not click this link if you have a problem with graphic images of dead ex-dictators. But he’s really, most sincerely dead.
This from London’s “The Telegraph”
Gilad Shalit release: freed Palestinian prisoner vows to ‘sacrifice’ her life
In most cases they will be forced to resume their previous roles even if they personally don’t want to.
People don’t realise that their society is one in which the individual has no personal freedom. As Snoopy pointed out that “poor Thompson was given a choice he could not refuse”!
Jihad? How can this be right? Religion and sharia according to the Qur’an but not houses and keys?
Wafa al-Bis was badly burned in a kitchen fire. After the Gazan treatment nearly killed her she was taken to a hospital in Beer Sheva. Without any cost to herself she received state of the art treatment that was effective and healed her. Invited back (again without cost) for a follow-up examination, she was intercepted at a checkpoint carrying explosives which she hoped to detonate at the hospital and kill the very people who had helped her.
She is indeed an exemplar for Palestinian youth and another reason why peace is not at hand.
I’m wondering how much of an accident it really was. Hmm, let’s see: young woman burned in an accident, then tries to blow herself up when the accident didn’t kill her. I could be mistaken here, but it sounds too much like the pattern of honor murders for my comfort.