It's time to snap out of Arab fantasy land {Steyn}

National Post ^ | April 19 2002 | Mark Steyn

[leilani]

P.S.)I forgot to highlight the very best line here: "Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world". Is that not the truth?

[leilani]

Hey, guys. Read this entry for the 2002 Freeperlitzer Prize!

[avenir]

Fallaci rocks!

[Stultis]

Excellent from Steyn, as always...

In the British accounts of the alleged worst human-rights atrocity since, oh, the Dutch took charge at Srebrenica, you can't help noticing a curious sameness. All reports rely on the same couple of eyewitnesses -- "Kamal Anis, a labourer" (The Times), "A quiet, sad-looking young man called Kamal Anis" (The Independent), "Kamal Anis, 28" (The Daily Telegraph) -- and the same handful of victims -- "A man named only as Bashar once lived there" (The Telegraph), "the burned remains of a man, Bashar" (The Evening Standard), "Bashir died in agony" (The Times).

At the same time they scream "genocide" to Westerners, the Arabs, in their own media, are saying (effectively) "Hell yes we booby-trapped the houses, hell yes we used children and stuffed their school bags with explosives," etc. They must be getting a big laugh at the stupid and credulous Europeans.

[mrustow]

I'm convinced that the Arabs are pushing for sovreignty for the the Palestinians so that when the Palestinian STATE attacks Israel and Israel responds, all the other Arab countries who have signed 'treaties' with the Palestinian state will then have the 'right' to come in and fight with Israel on the side of the Palesinians.

Exactimiento!

See also:

Land for Peace ... Again! The Saudi Sucker Punch

The War Process

[nrafan]

please add me to your M. Steyn ping list; thanks

[aruanan]

...sad-looking young man called Kamal Anis"

Are they sure it wasn't Camal Anus, because the story turned out to be one giant load of crap?