Euphemistic Headline of the Day
..has to be this one from the New York Times:
In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace
Gives new meaning to the phrase “dying from complications.”
Update: The article itself is decent in its reporting of Hamas incitement, but completely misses the mark when it talks about Fatah:
Such incitement against Israel and Jews was supposed to be banned under the 1993 Oslo accords and the 2003 “road map” peace plan. While the Palestinian Authority under Fatah has made significant, if imperfect efforts to end incitement, Hamas, no party to those agreements, feels no such restraint.
I was about to go through some examples of recent Fatah incitement, but I noticed the always-prolific Carl has already done the job, pointing out some examples like this:
In fact, Fatah’s media has never stopped inciting to ‘martyrdom’ and has made no effort to end incitement against Israel and Jews. Recall this from just two weeks ago:
The official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper describes the murderer of eight yeshiva students in Jerusalem as a “groom” and his burial as his “wedding celebration.” The story in Mahmoud Abbas’s Al Hayat Al Jadida goes on to evoke the neighborhood Jabal Mukbar’s “week of anticipation… preparing themselves for the wedding procession.”
The term “wedding” is the expression commonly used in PA society, and in PA schoolbooks as well, to describe the death of Shahids – Martyrs for Allah. According to Islamic tradition, they will wed the 72 Dark- Eyed Maidens (Virgins) of Paradise.
The article then reports the “shocking news” for the “thousands who were waiting” that the Israeli Army had decided to force a pre-dawn burial to prevent community celebrations of the murders and the murderer. It bemoans the fact “that the groom was buried in the [early] morning without a celebration and without a wedding procession.”
However, the PA daily vows that the wedding celebrations will continue:
“The wedding will not end this way… it will last three consecutive days in which [the town] al-Sawahra will welcome all of those who come to congratulate the groom and will hang his portrait embracing the nation’s flags.”
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About the Author: An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
Oh . . . it is the insults . . . because the rocket artillery that’s raining on Israel is not really a problem that might complicate things. When I look at Israel’s national attitude I start to smell methane, that combustible gas that comes out of the bowels of mammals and the brains of leftards. Our times are characterized amongst other signs by the inability of many to see behind two and two, two yards and two minutes. All the rest doesn’t exist. But a little effort in looking at the big picture shows an Israel that has never before, except in 1947, been in such mortal danger. And the main culprit is not the military prowess of the arabs but the lack of will of the Jews. Lack of will at self defense, lack of will at life. In 1947 the Jews at Israel had the will to live and the will to fight. Any animal with a lack of will at life will soon find itself without. I care deeply about Israel. And I don’t have the luxury of so many adults with minds of children, living in a world of leftists fantasies, many having passed thought the torpid halls of modern academia, utterly devoid of any solid attachment to reality, floating in a self produced cloud of methane. Battles are won in the will even before one soldier has left one footprint on the battleground. Where is Israel’s will to fight? And another news flash: “YOU ARE AT WAR!!!” What do you think it means when rocket artillery flies over the border and strikes at your people, uh? Who has a boot big enough to hit at Israel’s behind and wake her up?