Group Attacks Egypt Official in Jerusalem

Yahoo! News ^ | 12/22/2003

[risen_feenix]

JERUSALEM - Muslim demonstrators attacked visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher on Monday as he tried to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest site, in the Old City of Jerusalem, witnesses said. Witnesses said Maher was not injured, but was taken to the hospital after complaining of not feeling well...

[risen_feenix]

Here we go with the "religion of peace" again. Inside the third holiest site in Islam. LOL.

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL! Holiest as in bullet holes correct?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

When will the US let Israel do what the US is doing in Iraq?

Hunt down the dogs and neuter them........big time!!!

[Catspaw]

I just saw tape of this on Fox. The Palestinians are claiming the attackers were from some small political party. When I heard that, I just snorted in derision.

[tomahawk]

Savages.

[mseltzer]

The BBC's report on this incident claims this should be an embarrassment to the Israelis. Pretty stupid, huh?

[mseltzer]

Here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3341435.stm

[getgoing]

The MEMRI report of Arab media reactions to the attack (http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD63604) is worth reading. Two address the "blame Maher" game:

In response to Atwan's article, columnist Kamal Abd Al-Raouf wrote in the Egyptian Akhbar Al-Youm weekly:" I regret that most of the commentary I heard on international radio from Palestinians was lukewarm rather than powerful. Some of them clearly blamed our foreign minister [Ahmad Maher]. One of these was Abd Al-Bari Atwan... who condemned Ahmad Maher. This was to be expected from Atwan, who for many years has been fighting for the cause from the saloons of London. Nobody knows with whom or against whom this Atwan stands. The only thing I know is that he gives foreign radio a reason to believe that Israel is right."


On the liberal Arab website Elaph, Egyptian columnist Sami Buheiri wrote: "We should be frank with ourselves: Those behind this aggression are not a minority, as the official Palestinian and Egyptian statements claim. Unfortunately, they represent the rabble majority of the Arab and Palestinian street today. They refuse to accept any kind of a peace agreement with Israel... It is they who applaud the bus and restaurant bombings in order to destroy any spark of hope for peace... They are Arab nationalists who have failed completely in all their wars with Israel and in all attempts to achieve peace with Israel, because they were not serious, and they were not men - neither in fighting nor in peacemaking... The flying shoes at Al-Aqsa Mosque represent the Arab mind that has flown off into the air and not returned."