Watching the MSM elevate medieval barbarians to statesmen would be funny if it weren't so dangerous.

Posted by: Beagle at January 2, 2006 7:47 AM

"Watching the MSM elevate medieval barbarians to statesmen would be funny if it weren't so dangerous. "

A barbarian in a suit, is a barbarian still.

Posted by: modern prometheus at January 2, 2006 9:14 AM

How the editorial should have been written:

Terrorist VIOLENCE and murder in Gaza, Judea and Samaria has been steadily mounting as a farcical democratic election approaches. On Wednesday a British collaborater and her parents were "abducted" in the Gaza Strip, and held for two days. On Thursday a jihadist murdered an Israeli soldier in Judea. Two of the murderer's muslim supporters were also killed. On Friday, protesting terrorists, calling themselves policemen, stormed and briefly closed the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, the opening of which has been one of the poorest tactical decisions forced on Israel by her so called allies.The opening has been claimed as a success by Mahmoud Abbas, a leader of one of the terrorist factions facing Israel. Israel has meanwhile declared the northern tip of Gaza a buffer zone and subjected it to regular artillery fire in an attempt to stop the launching of rockets at nearby Israeli towns; yesterday only two adjacent muslims were killed. This seems a totally inadequate response by Israel.

The disorder, a halmark of terrorist regimes, can only heighten concerns about the pretend legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 25, in which Mr. Abbas's ruling Fatah party, a terrorist organistaion financed by dhimmi states, is to compete directly with the terrorist Hamas Jihadis. Hamas, which had never competed in a so called Palestinian Authority election, benefits from the violence: In so called municipal elections last month it stunned Fatah by winning three large towns. Indications that Hamas could elect a large delegation, or even a majority, in the Palestinian parliament has alarmed both Israel and the "quartet" of international dhimmies of the Mideast peace process, including the United States. Hamas has continually used violence since early last year, when it declared a hudna. Hamas has refused to disarm or alter its doctrine of the destruction of Israel

Both Israel and the holocaust denying Abbas have been tempted to stop the so called elections. Israel threatened recently to prevent voting in East Jerusalem, being part of Israel and infested with jihadists, because of Hamas's participation. Conniving with Egypt's despotic islamic government, the terrorists operating under the name of the Palestinian Authority, quickly seized on that threat as a potential excuse to call off the charade. Both governments have since backed down, and no one can understand why Israel even talks to these terrorists. Though the so called elections to be held by muslims on Israeli land have risks, calling them off would almost certainly lead to no change in the overall jihad being waged against Israel.

Already, too, the concept of democracy is being totally perverted. Faced with the possibility of defeat by Hamas, Fatah has been forced to overhaul the aging and corrupt terrorsists left behind by the disgusting Yasser Arafat, and install younger terrorists at the top of its legislative list. Their leader, the Israeli-imprisoned terrorist and murderer Marwan Barghouti, published a laughable letter in propaganda sheets issued by fellow terrorists on Friday apologizing for Fatah's mistakes and asking voters for another chance. Hamas itself is using taqiyya : Its newly "elected" council members supported the election last week of a Christian woman (dhimmi) as mayor of Ramallah, the most important town in Judea. A senior Israeli army official recently predicted that if Hamas did win the elections it would continue to curtail attacks on Israel. But no one with any knowledge of jihadists believes this.

Against its own interests, The Bush administration prepared a "quartet" statement with the European Union, United Nations and Russia last week that strongly supported the elections and urged Israel to allow voting in Jerusalem. At the same time, the statement reiterated a previous statement calling on Hamas to disarm and recognize Israel's existence, and it added that the so called future Palestinian cabinet "should include no member who has not committed" to accept those principles. That was the wrong place to draw the line. Hamas should be given no chance to survive, but muslims should understand that any retreat from recognition of Israel will mean they lose again.

Posted by: youcancallmemeyer at January 2, 2006 1:20 PM

IRIS also has an excellent post about this editorial: After 2,990 Attacks, Wash. Post Says Hamas "Mostly Refrained from Violence"

(http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/859-After-2,990-Attacks,-Wash.-Post-Says-Hamas-Mostly-Refrained-from-Violence.html)

Posted by: Fred at January 2, 2006 2:18 PM

Why on earth would anyone continue to take the Bandar Beacon seriously? Let's hope that with editorialists like Fields and West, the Washington Times continues to erode the Beacon's readership.

Posted by: Infidel33 at January 2, 2006 7:56 PM

Barghouti was originally charged with 32 counts of murder. However, the court felt that evidence in 27 cases was not strong enough, mainly because his confederates refused to testify, so he was convicted on only five counts.

Posted by: Eliyahu at January 3, 2006 10:04 AM

Although Barghouti was close to the late yasser a. and received funds from him, the EU parliament's investigative arm, the OLAF, pretended that there was no evidence that EU funds for the palestinian authority had gone for terrorist purposes.

Posted by: Eliyahu at January 3, 2006 10:05 AM