Thursday, April 24, 2008
If only they'd find a way to just keep on walking:
UNITED NATIONS -- The United States, France and Britain walked out of a Security Council debate on the Middle East on Wednesday after Libya compared the situation in the Gaza Strip to that of Nazi "concentration camps," diplomats said.
French Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert plucked off his translation earpiece and walked out, followed by his two colleagues, after Libyan Deputy Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi made the statement.
Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Jaafari told reporters, "Unfortunately, those who complain of being victims of genocide [during World War II] are repeating the same kind of genocide against the Palestinians."
"The issue for us is to see the Security Council properly involved in finding solutions" to the crisis, in particular "the Israeli persecution of the Palestinians," he said...
Our compliments to the British and the French for expressing outrage in diplomatic fashion toward this horrible lie that what is going on in Gaza is anything like THE Holocaust (which, oddly enough, Syria and Libya tend not to think really happened).
These comparisons are meant solely as fodder for the continuing Arab war to destroy the Jewish State, and the more people buy into it, the fewer will complain when the Big One drops. After all, what fate does a Nazi State deserve? The more the Arabs use this type of rhetoric, and the longer the conflict goes on, the more justified preemptive action on the part of the Israelis, like that against the Syrian reactor, becomes.
This piece has more info, and also names Belgium and Costa Rica as parties who walked out.
As the Sandmonkey once pointed out, imagine these three ideas:
1. The Holocaust never happened.
2. Hitler should have finished the job.
3. Israelis are just as bad as the Nazis.
It is apparently not difficult to find people, particularly in the Middle East, who believe all three. Sometimes you can even hear them say all three, at more or less the same time. Amazing.