Only Losers from the Likes of Abbas, Rice and Olmert
by Rami G. Khouri Released: 5 Mar 2008
NEW YORK -- The tragedy of the Palestinian people is not only that over and over again they get slaughtered by Israeli gunfire, dozens at a time -- militants and civilians alike -- while their land is encircled, choked and colonized. It is also that they must suffer the added ignominy of an increasingly bizarre American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, who seems to live in another world where she believes her pleas can restart peace talks; and of a Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who has transcended the political dysfunctional to historical levels of the pathetic and tragic.
It is hard to imagine a worse situation than that which now defines the Palestinians of Gaza. The world does not accept their right to use military means to resist occupation, strangulation and assault -- while Israel is allowed to use any means it wishes to kill hundreds at a time, as it did last week; nor does the world accept the right of the Palestinians to democratically elect Hamas as their leadership.
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As usual Rami Khouri's analysis is incomplete. He sees a partial situation to suit his anger. His defence of Hamas is baseless, he repeats what NGOs say on the ground without trying to see or consider what Hamas and other Palestinian gangs in Gaza are doing. Mr. khouri never addresses the fact that each time Mr. Haniyeh wants to act as a leader in Gaza he calls Mashaal in Damascus, who in turn gets his orders from Damascus and Tehran. Why is he blaming Abbas for collaborating with the US, don't we make peace with the enemy. I don't think Hamas is this angel of a group that Mr. Khouri is portraying. I think the Arab media is delusional. When will Mr. Khouri look at the whole picture, God only knows. We've waited for hi to develop from Jordan Times to Daily Star. When will Mr. Khouri rise from mediocrity? I think he should concentrate on antiquities.
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