Posted on 01/23/2006 7:55:36 AM PST by RepublicNewbie
To many Middle East observers, there appears to be an intense competition to see who can be the most vitriolic and threatening national leader towards Israel.
First it was the Iranian President who shocked the world with statements regarding the total destruction of Israel and casting doubt on the Jewish genocide during the Holocaust. Now Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has outraged many by accusing Israel of assassinating the former Palestinian leader and terrorist Yasser Arafat at a time when the terrorist group Hamas is gaining political support in the upcoming Palestinian elections.
Assad took the opportunity to denigrate Israelis during a speech that was supposed to address Syria's plans for democratic reform. The Syrian leader accused Israel of a "methodical and organized" assassination.
President Assad, who's faced his own controversy in the killing of the Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, told his supporters, "Of the many assassinations that Israel carried out in a methodical and organized way, the most dangerous thing that Israel did was the assassination of President Yasser Arafat."
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So who's winning? The U.N.?
To many Middle East White House observers, there appears to be an intense competition to see who can be the most vitriolic and threatening national Democratic leader towards Israel President Bush.
Tried and true.
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