While no one can forget what happened in September of 2001, who remembers just weeks earlier that the United States and Israel were the only two nations to not attend a Peace Conference in South Africa because the Palestinians would be represented and nationhood would be on their agenda?
That must be like that peace conference I seem to remember them holding in Wannsee.
Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on July 02, 2002
I yield to no one, and certainly not to Portland and San Francisco, Seattle's position as the leading idiotarian city. As evidence, here is a letter from today's Seattle Times about the Palestinian baby dressed as a suicide bomber:
"Propaganda exposed
How absurd for Israel to splash a family photo all over the world. No matter how the picture was created, it was used by Israel to build animosity toward Palestine. It was not used by Palestinians to incite hate; Israel has done that too.
It's hard to imagine a world where nothing is private, no one has any rights, people are killed for going to the market because they think a curfew has ended. But this doesn't scandalize the people of Israel. It's a photo in a family album that shocks them. They're used to Palestinians being killed. And how many Palestinians have been killed? How many have been killed because they couldn't get medical care? How many were killed because Israeli soldiers thought they were a threat when they weren't? Even with deflated numbers the statistics are shocking.
It's hard not to feel sympathy with a people constantly being treated as if they were less than human.
Carla Fisher, Kirkland"
I'm sorry, but we win.
Posted by: Carol on July 05, 2002
Damn! Carol beat me. I just blogged this, and was going to post a link to it.
Posted by: timekeeper on July 05, 2002