Peace in English, War in Arabic

The Boston Globe | February 10, 2002 | Jeff Jacoby

[ChadGore]

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[cincinnati_Steve]

Arafat has demostrated his duplicity myriad times. We shouldn't trust a word he says. Or a word anybody of his ilk says. Does he think we don't listen to his Voice of Palestine broadcasts? Or maybe he thinks we don't have people that understand his biscuit-lipped slurred speech? Gads. What a maroon.

[Travis McGee]

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[Senator Pardek]

When will Israel address the "Palestinian Question" once and for all, forcefully and logically?

[Optimist]

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[Publius6961]

But nowhere was mention made of Arafat's article in The New York Times, and his condemnation of terrorism was not translated into Arabic.

Why would it be? It was intended strictly for the stupid American audience.
In international politics, Americans are like "Mikie": they'll believe anything.

Aside from that, if such a conciliatory message were translated and published in Arabic, someone might get hurt.
The best way to to know the genuine attitude of Arafat and Palestinians is to publish their daily domestic speeches. Fat chance.

[SkyPilot]

Where are all the Arafat behind smoochers on this forum now?

[bjcintennessee]

I think everyone now realizes that the duplicitous Arafat cannot be trusted. It has been suggested that he fears for his own life from the terrorists he has supported if he aids the Israelis in any way. He gets no sympathy from me if that is his position -- he is obviously not a strong enough ruler to control what he has helped to build.

The biggest problem is -- Who is next in line after Arafat? Apparently no one stands out as a leader who can be trusted.

[crystalk]

How through all those lonely lonesome years I has been tryin to TELL ya this, ...and now at last, I have some others who can do that job for me, and will say out loud what two-faces these pallies and mullahs are.

Now if we could just see every page 1 on Sunday paper, what they preached in Arabic in their mosques on the Temple Mount, or in Gaza or Ramallah, or Qom or Tehran, or Baghdad or Basra, or Damascus or Aleppo, or Beirut or Baalbek, on the previous Friday, .!!! That'll be the day!

Let me gives ya a hint: Our own govt. knows it is so inflammatory, they will not let it be published here for Americans to see.

[d4now]

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[d4now]

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[VeritatisSplendor]

Let me gives ya a hint: Our own govt. knows it is so inflammatory, they will not let it be published here for Americans to see.

No, I think the reason Bush has not emphasized Arafat's speaking with two tongues and Sharon has spoken to those other Palestinians is because they want to publicly give the Palestinians every inch of rope they possibly can, in preparation for the inevitable day when Arafat and his minions are militarily obliterated (the point being to condemn Arafat's two-facedness and the Palestinians' hopelessly terroristic attitudes LOUDLY and with overwhelming evidence to back it up, at exactly the right strategic moment).

[Lent]

What? Arafat is a treacherous weasel?

[monkeyshine]

Arafat needs to go...6 feet under or into a million bits -- but preferably both.

[d4now]

6 feet under or into a million bits

Wouldn't it be possible, in order to avoid any possibility of contamination, to jettison him away from our planet - so far that the gravitional pull would be so weak there wouldn't be any chance of re-entry?

But then there is vaporization. That wouldn't be so expensive.

[DoughtyOne]

One day there will be a Palestinian leader who pleads for peace -- not just in English but in Arabic, too. When that day comes, it will be time to negotiate. Until then, it's war.

Exactly right!

[fella]

"Peace in English, War in Arabic"

Just like the old hippy icon Kully Kabrhan (sp).

[Frances_Marion]

"Let me be very clear. I condemn the attacks carried out by terrorist groups against Israeli civilians."

(Paraphrased) "Let me be very clear...I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky..."

I think maybe Yassir is taking tips from Clinton and Carville...

[thomas_1963]

What I cannot understand is how so many American Jews can be liberal Democrats when it so patently clear that conservatives are vastly more pro-Israel. I am a Jew and a staunch conservative. And this paradox just baffles me.