I’m in a hotel room in New York and the Middle East seems strangely near. And I don’t think it’s just the 3000 miles LA – NY difference. You can almost hear that land of Palestine imploding. Things have spun so far out of control it’s hard to imagine what will happen. And in the midst of it all, somewhere in that benighted land some Hamas lunatic has run off with Yasser Arafat’s Nobel Peace Prize – a joke on a joke. I wonder what the pompous fakes in Oslo who awarded the psycho-killler the prize in the first place must be thinking. I’ll tell you what I’m thinking – it’s poetic justice. With luck the silly medal will end up melted down for BBs in some Jenin basement.
Meanwhile Debka says Hamas walked off with the intelligence haul of intelligence hauls, rifling Fatah. If Debka is right, it would seem that the one-time Holocaust denier Abbas was a CIA agent. If he was one, he stank. And since, it’s Debka, I’m skeptical anyway. But what I’m not entirely skeptical about is the report from the Times Online that newly-installed Defense Minister Ehud Barak is lining up 20000 troops to say sayonara to Hamas. I’m not entirely skeptical because Ehud Barak has demonstrated something in his past that Ehud Olmert never has – balls – even if he demonstrated them dressed as a woman. It’s going to be an interesting summer.
It is like a bad movie.
So, now that a state of emergency has been called and a new government is to be formed, Hamas is left looking like it might have chewed off more than it could eat. Let’s hope.
The relationship between Hamas and Iran is very troubling and I doubt if the Israelis will be willing to tolerate that for long.
I just loved this bit: “And in the midst of it all, somewhere in that benighted land some Hamas lunatic has run off with Yasser Arafat’s Nobel Peace Prize – a joke on a joke. I wonder what the pompous fakes in Oslo who awarded the psycho-killler the prize in the first place must be thinking. I’ll tell you what I’m thinking – it’s poetic justice. With luck the silly medal will end up melted down for BBs in some Jenin basement.” And I couldn’t agree more. Keep up the good work!
Well,Roger,let’s just hope that Israel does it right this time,not like Ehud Olmert’s Phony War against Hizbollah…
What’s that cynical truism many pass around? “People eventually get the government they deserve”?
I wish we could just leave the situation as a tragicomic joke, but unfortunately, nilhism and murderous rage despoils, ne obliterates neighboring areas, so we can’t just have a private, cynical laugh at the situation. People will die because the Palestinians in Gaza got “the government they deserve”, and violence will merely shoot up again. But then, what can be done? Even now, at this stage, too few see how cancerous Hamas and general Palestinian violence is, and merely want to blame the west for “failed policies”. A blame that is oddly factually true yet spiritually false in that it places primary responsibility for the policy failures in the west, and not in the hands of the locals, where it so richly belongs.
Meh… the snort I give at Hamas taking Gaza has no humor behind it. Well, as someone on another blog (Michael Totten’s, I think?…) pointed out: At least Hamas is honest. They don’t dissemble about wanting war. For what little comfort that lesser evil gives…