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Abbas is Absurd
By Micah Halpern

Wednesday June 21, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

The goings on in the Middle East today play out like Theatre of the Absurd.

Act I: Israeli citizens living in the city of Sderot are protesting because the Israeli army is not doing enough to prevent Palestinians in Gaza from firing Qassam missiles at them.

Act II: The Palestinians in Gaza firing Qassam missiles into Sderot say they will stop only when Israelis protest the bombs the Israeli army is lobbing into Gaza.

Act III: Palestinian President Abbas calls for a halt to the firing of Qassam missiles into Israel from Gaza.

The most absurd part?
Abbas delivered his lines in Jordan, in Petra - the ancient Nabatian city built into the rock face of the red mountains.
And who was his audience? A group of Nobel Prize winners.
What was the point?

If Abbas truly wants to halt the firing of Qassam missiles he must speak to and meet with his own people, Palestinians, not Nobel Prize winners.
He should be on radio and on TV and in the newspapers.

And then, maybe, Abbas might win his own Nobel Prize.
Or maybe, perhaps, a Tony.
The envelope, please.

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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