Friday February 3, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

A fool is someone who does not learn from mistakes.
A fool is someone who chooses to repeat a mistake hoping for a different result.

A German national who teaches English to Palestinians in the Palestinian Authority is a fool. Yesterday, he was kidnapped from his hotel in Nablus at gunpoint. He has since been freed. The English teacher says he is going to stay put, he is going to continue teaching English. He says that he was not hurt by his kidnappers and that his kidnappers do not represent the Palestinians.

Perhaps, but he WAS taken at gunpoint by masked men who held machine guns to his head and chest and the abduction occurred while he was sitting at a table with Palestinians and the entire hotel staff watched and no one said BOO.

Sound familiar? We saw this same behavior several months ago when a British aid worker and her visiting parents were kidnapped in Gaza. Once again, this is not a case of Stockholm syndrome.

This man is just plain foolish. I am certain he does not represent all Germans.