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Miscellaneous thoughts and ramblings
Sunday, January 16, 2005
 
Headline of the Day
Abbas Extends Hand in Peace to Israel

The story as a whole is relatively even-handed. The lead paragraph, however, caught my eye:

"RAMALLAH, West Bank - Mahmoud Abbas extended his hand in peace to Israel as he was sworn in as the new Palestinian leader Saturday, but the Israeli army killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) and 46 election officials resigned over alleged ballot irregularities, crushing optimism for an early resumption of the peace process."

I mean, in AP's (via Stephen Gutkin) world, here's old peace-loving, olive-branch-handing-out Abbas just giving his utmost to make peace work in this strife-riddled region, but those rascally Israelis just won't stop killing people long enough to listen. Ahhh, journalism.
Comments:
Yeah. The unescapable conclusion if you were to only read the MSM is: If only Israel would stop defending itself, there would be peace!

But actually, after the Arabs finished killing all the Israelis they would get back to enslaving Africans, making war among each other, and mistreating their women. Clearly, they need another state!
 
The New York Times actually dragged out this old beauty in an editorial Saturday - you know, the one where they say that when the terrorists attacked (and killed 6 of) the Israelis, they were attacking the Palestinian leadership as well.

I have been hearing this crap for years and years and years. Look, I have no problem with the terrorists attacking the Palestinian leadership. But when they do so, would it be so bad if they ACTUALLY ATTACKED THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP?
 
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