Leading Arab editor: Maher assault despicable ("The peak of Arab lowness")

Jpost ^ | 12-26-03 | JOSEPH NASR

[veronica]

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher Photo: AP

"The peak of Arab lowness" was the headline of Gubran Tweini's editorial in Lebanon's most prestigious daily an-Nahar, referring to the attack on Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher by Palestinian worshippers at al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Monday.

"The attack on Ahmed Maher came as a free gift to the Arabs' adversaries, first and foremost Israel," noted Tweini, a leading Lebanese journalist.

The Egyptian Foreign Minister, visiting Israel to boost peace efforts and improve Israeli-Egyptian relations, was heckled and assaulted by Palestinian extremists while praying at the mosque, the third holiest site for Muslims. Maher was extricated by Israeli security guards and taken to Hadassah hospital for treatment. He was not hurt.

"Once again it becomes clear that the most threatening enemies of the Arabs and their cause are Arabs, precisely as the most threatening enemies of the Palestinian cause are those Palestinians who adopt rejection, extremism, and radicalism," Tweini wrote.

"How many times have they served Israel in their deeds? How many times has the manner of such groups saved Ariel Sharon and his government?"

"What happened to Egypt's Foreign Minister, Ahmed Maher, brings to memory the history of inter-Arab relations that are based one conspiring, setting up traps, using armies to oppress peoples, protect regimes, and invade a neighbor - like Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, 'a great deed' that brought to a climax the age of Arab collapse and deterioration."

Tweini added: "A simple calculation shows us that inter-Arab aggressions, in all their forms and kinds, outnumber Arab-Israeli wars."

Moreover, the political, intellectual, social, economic and humanitarian losses that the Arabs bore due to internal clashes exceed those borne from their wars with Israel, wrote Tweini.

The biggest losses may be the lack of a united Arab policy and the Arabs' inability to impose a just and comprehensive solution to the Arab-Israeli dispute, starting with the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, he noted.

Tweini asked, "Is it reasonable that we witness, on the land of Palestine, a minister for the largest Arab state, which holds the banner of Arabism and Palestine, sent by his government to consolidate the Palestinian front in its confrontation with the ferocious Israeli enemy, being assaulted by stupid Palestinians? And then being protected and treated by the Israeli occupier? It is the peak of Arab lowness!" he concluded.

[veronica]

FYI.

[hershey]

well, well, well. Stupid is as stupid does.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

This is why the Palestinians will never have a homeland. They consume their own.

[sgtbono2002]

Even other Arabs dont like Palestinians.

[RightOnline]

He almost gets it.

The "peak of Arab lowness"..............despite the terrible syntax..............would be hard to pin down. 9/11? Bali bombings? Invasion of Kuwait? Saddam's reign of terror with his sons? Atrocities in Chechnya? The Taliban and their horrific deeds? Literally hundreds of bombings of innocent civilians in countries all over the world?

Tell me when to stop.........this list could quickly get out of hand.

Arabs who do not participate in such horrors against humanity are painted as guilty by their silence, taken as tacit support of these animals. Islam is now seen for what it is: a false religion; one that encourages death, destruction, terror, chaos, oppression.

No, Arabs just like to be miserable and to cause misery. If it isn't causing misery in others, it's causing misery in each other.

[LRS]

"The peak of Arab lowness"???????

Uh, try 9-11 instead...

[LoudRepublicangirl]

AMEN!!!!

[GirlShortstop]

  LOL

[SkyPilot]

"The peak of Arab lowness"

They consistently set low standards for themselves, then fail to achieve them.

[veronica]

That was pix with the story. :)

[M Kehoe]

"Once again it becomes clear that the most threatening enemies of the Arabs and their cause are Arabs, precisely as the most threatening enemies of the Palestinian cause are those Palestinians who adopt rejection, extremism, and radicalism," Tweini wrote.

An enlightened Arab journalist? If the truth can be enlightening, then maybe.

5.56mm

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I can't laugh. I was horrified when I watched the news on television. This man came to help the Palestinians get on course again and they assault him. What creeps!!

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[rickmichaels]

"A simple calculation shows us that inter-Arab aggressions, in all their forms and kinds, outnumber Arab-Israeli wars."

Losers are as losers do.

[Imal]

This is consistent with so-called "Palestinian" behavior. Anyone who has studied them knows this, as does anyone who knows what "Black September" was all about.

They are the outcasts of the Arab world, which refuses to accept them back to their true homelands (mainly Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon), and consigns them to ghettoes wherever they may go.

To expect Israel to make peace with them is to expect Jews to do what other Arabs cannot.

[observer5]

"It is the peak of Arab lowness!"

Wrong, it is Mohammed!

[tkathy]

There is no peak of Arab lowness, it is an steadily ascending curve...

[aruanan]

"Is it reasonable that we witness, on the land of Palestine, a minister for the largest Arab state, which holds the banner of Arabism and Palestine, sent by his government to consolidate the Palestinian front in its confrontation with the ferocious Israeli enemy, being assaulted by stupid Palestinians? And then being protected and treated by the Israeli occupier? It is the peak of Arab lowness!"

But entirely consistent with everything we've seen since Muhammed set out to extirpate Christians and Jews from the Arabian peninsula where they had lived for well over several hundred years before the gleam of avarice ever came into the eyes of little Muhammed.

[Gorzaloon]

They consistently set low standards for themselves, then fail to achieve them.

A humorist, Carlin or Williams, said something to the effect:

"The pyramids illustrate a society with diminishing goals. They were supposed to be high-rises".