Wednesday, July 24, 2002

Liberal Columnist Calls on Hamas to Stop Terrorism. "I ask the intelligent among you: 'Do your religion and your moral conscience permit you to brainwash the Palestinian youth whose lives you risk with such nonsense?' How can you allow your strategy to be based on a hallucinatory reading of Jewish theology? Isn't this theological reading of the issue of the Palestinian people what created its tragedies? [Because of such theology,] Haj Amin Al-Husseini collaborated with Hitler and rejected the settlement offered him by the Peel Commission in 1937 to partition Palestine, with 20% going to the Jews and 80% to Palestine. Then, he repeated his mistake by rejecting the Partition Plan that this time would have given 55% to the Jews and the rest to Palestine...you rejected Clinton's proposal, which gave your people 96-97% of the West Bank, citing the religious ruling that you rejected it because it was an American-Jewish conspiracy against the Palestinian people..." [The Middle East Media Research Institute] An interesting bit of history in this paragraph. I wasn't aware the Arabs had collaborated with Hitler to reject a partition of Palestine that would have given them much more than the UN plan. comment () trackback ()  1:14:58 PM     White House Rethinks Opposition to Armed Pilots. The Associated Press reported: "Loy's predecessor, John Magaw, announced in May that he would not arm pilots, though he continued to study whether to allow flight crews to carry stun guns. Mineta said Loy will look into arming pilots with guns or non-lethal weapons." [FirearmNews.com] In fact Mineta was just as opposed to arming pilots as Magaw, but it seems the administration has seen the handwriting on the wall with even Barbara Boxer supporting armed pilots. I suspect Magaw was fired as a scapegoat, so they could deflect attention from his bosses' agreement with him. comment () trackback ()  12:38:42 PM     DaveNet: Our Deal with Salon.   [Scripting News] It looks like the cost is the same as when you buy Radio directly from UserLand. The only difference I can see is that the space is provided by Salon. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't quite get the point. comment () trackback ()  12:00:32 PM

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