Friday, November 18, 2005
Arab-Israeli Jerusalem Post reporter Khaled Abu Toameh was in Boston last night but I was unable to see him speak. Fortunately, he was in Philadelphia the night before and Lynn B. has written a report from the event.
But aren't Abu Mazen's hands tied? Isn't he doing a dangerous balancing act between reining in terror and triggering a civil war? Khaled Abu Toameh dismisses this suggestion out of hand. Abu Mazen was elected with a mandate to bring reform and disarm the terrorists. The people want accountability and calm and order, they want the normal life that Arafat was bent on denying them. Fear of civil war is a transparent excuse for failure to act.
Finally, don't all of the Muslims just want to kill the Jews? "Well, I'm a Muslim, and I don't want to kill Jews," Khaled says quietly (while most of us look very hard at our laps). He goes on to explain that the Islam he grew up with teaches respect for others, tolerance, charity and peace. And I realize with mild surprise that I believe him.
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I don't understand? I'm on their email list how come I didn't know he was coming in to speak? That really pisses me off to be honest.