Friday, January 27, 2006

On the Hamas victory in Palestine

Emanuele Ottolenghi on Hamas on National Review Online

The piece above makes some good points. Forcing Hamas into the open, so to speak, may ultimately be a good thing.

SBS News tonight featured a piece on Mariam Farahat, the newly elected Palestinian mother who happily sent 3 sons to their death to achieve the muder of many Israeli civilians. The reporter used the term "sacrificed her sons" more than once, but without any qualification or doubt expressed that this is the appropriate term. Presumably, this is the term Mariam uses herself, but why doesn't the media use the same caution as they have often displayed when talking of the "war on terror", or the "Axis of Evil", where qualifiers such as "so-called" have frequently been used?

Mariam, by the way, has three other sons still alive and is saying she is willing to use them too.

The fact that she is popular because of the way she tearlessly sent them off to die, achieving nothing but (at least in the case of the one son she appeared with on the famous video) the deliberate killing of non-combatants, suggests that there is something seriously wrong with Palestinian Islamic psychology.

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