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2003-12-28 Middle East

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Posted by phil_b 2003-12-28 5:44:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Entertaining. Yes. Telegraph (only UK paper I bother to scan) Beeb, Reuters, al-Jizz are mum. Another "Saddam-OBL Gay Wedding" @ Jerusalem Post?

Or, are the Paleos smart enough to invent something like this for public consumption while dumb enough to think it won't spread out?

Now that it's out in an English-language text, there may be more amusement in watching what (if any) Newton's Third Law effects there are. Watch this space.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-28 6:51:45 AM|| 2003-12-28 6:51:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 we are talking about greetings

Ah how sweet. Exchanging season's greetings with a terrorist. Well here's mine: "Dear Chairman Arafat, I wish you an extremely short New Year! God Bless"

Posted by RW2004 2003-12-28 8:02:01 AM|| 2003-12-28 8:02:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 PA spokesperson: "Most probably this denial stems from the fear of being accused of anti-Semitism, an accusation which the West is usually afraid of, although the contents [of the greetings] did not include anti-Semitic [remarks] or similar things."

phil_b: The palestinian press agency were quite right to point this out. It is the only factual and newsworthy item here.

Don't see how that observation is factual. Does Blair currently hope that a Palestinian state is established soon? Maybe not. The denial may be an indication that he is backpedaling from what previously appears to have been the British position. The Palestinian assertion may have been a way of testing Blair's commitment to a Palestinian state, which now appears to have diminished considerably.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-12-28 1:43:29 PM|| 2003-12-28 1:43:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not inconceivable that Blair's lovely wife, Cherie, snuck one of their Christmas cards out of the box and sent it to Yasser...but it's marvelous to see Tony come out publicly and disavow this, because as Zhang Fei said, he had been pretty pro-Paleostinian in the past.
Let's hope Dubya gave him a good talking to when he was Over There.

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-28 1:51:42 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2003-12-28 1:51:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 JT's right - Cherie's a terror lover from way back. Paleo booster in particular, so it might've happened as she suggested

Posted by Frank G 2003-12-28 2:03:50 PM|| 2003-12-28 2:03:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 She's a 'human rights' lawyer - wadja expect!?

Posted by Tony (UK) 2003-12-28 7:38:00 PM|| 2003-12-28 7:38:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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