Tuesday January 4, 2005

I've Been Thinking:

The comments of PA Presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas are more and more reminiscent of the Arafat era.

His words to thousands of Palestinians at a funeral highlight the problem.
He called Israel "the Zionist enemy."
For decades, the Arab world and Arafat in particular refused to call Israel by name.
For years Arafat referred to Israel as --- the "Zionist entity', "the Zionist occupier" and "the Zionist enemy."

Abbas' need to speak to the masses in order to secure voter support and steal it from the more radical elements is understandable. But there is a limit and what we are hearing now getting too extreme.

A leader's job is to educate the people, not stoop to their level.
Abbas is wallowing in the lowest of all levels.
Hate mongering.