"Obama will be arriving in the region in the spring, and PA media has been speculating that he will visit the site of the mosque."
Being given the medal of honor....
The first thing that came to mind when seeing the headline was that super-spiffy Peres Medal.
Why you may ask? Because he may need it on a visit to Al Aqsa.
Early in young Hussein’s life, and on July 20, 1951, his grandfather King Abdullah was martyred at al-Aqsa mosque in al-Quds (Jerusalem). Hussein was there, with his grandfather, as they went regularly to perform Friday prayers. A medal King Abdullah had recently given the young Prince Hussein, and which he wore after his grandfather’s insistence, saved Hussein from the assassin’s bullet.
http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/biography.html
So many signs coming into alignment...
Thanks for the link.
No problem, only Obamah might need a couple of Moorish guards for protection!
http://cinematicmemory.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/lawrence_arabia_1962_11.jpg?w=640
If only they'd watch Lawrence of Arabia!
Anthony Quinn, Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif in “Lawrence of Arabia,” which has undergone a 50th-anniversary digital restoration.
The film’s real-life hero, T. E. Lawrence (played by Peter O’Toole), was a flamboyant British officer who gained fame during World War I for leading a gaggle of Bedouin tribesmen in guerrilla assaults on their Turkish occupiers, paving the way for the Ottoman Empire’s downfall. In the process, he came to see himself as a demigod, destined to unite the Arab people and “give” them freedom — an illusion crushed by big-power politics and the Arabs’ own tribal rivalries: a mix that has thwarted dreams for the region ever since, from Gamal Abdel Nasser’s pan-Arabism to George W. Bush’s cakewalk for democracy in Iraq.
Lawrence figured in the debate over our own recent tangles with insurgents, in Afghanistan and Iraq. His memoir, “Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” was tapped both by the United States Army’s counterinsurgency strategists and by skeptics, who quoted Lawrence’s warning about wars against rebellions _ “messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife” — though the enthusiasts took the pronouncement as a challenge.
though the enthusiasts took the pronouncement as a challenge...
In other words, Stupid people will get you killed...
Playing locally March 20, 2013. 9 Nisan 5773. Oops...
