Red line crossed: Barack Obama said that chemical weapons would be the Syrian red line. Bashar al-Assad used them earlier this year, and the U.S. refused to agree that they’d been used. So now, hundreds of men, women, and children are dead of a nerve gas attack. I don’t want to get involved in Syria. But there must be something we can do to stop this.
This’ll piss ’em off even more: Hosni Mubarak may be released from jail as soon as today. I wonder if the generals will be looking for his advice in the current struggle.
There are so many I can’t tell which side is lying: The Palestinian spokespeople lie every time they open their mouths. But a large part of me wants to believe that Erekat isn’t lying this time when he says the Obama Administration guaranteed the 1949 armistice lines as the border of a Palestinian state.
Crossing the line: Obama’s bestest Middle East buddy, who made the world laugh when he accused Israel of being behind the unrest in Egypt, is being taken to the woodshed by a White House spokesman, who calls his comments “offensive, unsubstantiated and wrong”. I do note that Obama hasn’t said a word about it. But of course. He never makes mistakes. Even better, Egyptian officials are being quoted as saying that it’s utterly natural for Israel to be concerned about Egypt. I believe that’s diplo-speak for “In your face, asshat!”
I’m sure Obama would like to promise the 1949 armistice lines as the border of a palesimian state but I’d need a more credible source than Erekat. Like fortune cookie or a ouija board.
100,000 men, women, and children killed in Syria, and now 100 more by poison gas and the media is moot. Contrast this to when Israel fights back and eliminates a few terrorist leaders hiding in civilian areas and the UN and worlds media springs into action blaming Israel for “harming the peace.”