Remember when Israel brought justice to Hamas terror mastermind Sheik Ahmed Yassin, and the entire world was like “but the guy was in a wheelchair!” We think we’ve figured out the new sympathy phrase for mass murdering Palestinian terrorists. From Reuters stringer Nidal al-Mughrabi:
“The gray-haired Saadat”. We suppose that we’ll take it upon ourselves to perform the onerous public service of reminding everyone that old terrorists are still terrorists – and that the older they are, the more likely they are to be terrorist leaders deserving of harsh punishment.
And there’s even more weasel, international MSM sympathy in the BBC’s Q&A about the raid:
In case you’re wondering, they didn’t follow this paragraph up with another sentence – something like “and of course, by ‘Palestinian judiciary’ we mean the worthless kangaroo court that Arafat set up and in which nobody actually testified, a court so worthless that we’re not even sure why we’re mentioning it”. Too bad, because that would’ve actually cleared things up a little. Instead, they first insinuate a conspiracy theory that as near as we can tell they made up themselves – an impossible theory that ignores that the monitors have been telling the Palestinians for weeks that they’re leaving…
The speed with which Israeli forces moved in after the monitors left has led many to believe the US and UK did a secret deal – or may even have been given an Israeli ultimatum to leave.
… and then they provided extensive paragraphs about the “implications of the anti-Western backlash”:
If you’re thinking that the part about abductions of foreign citizens always ending peacefully sounds like an open and outright lie that somebody should be fired for publishing, that’s because it actually is an open and outright lie that somebody should be fired for publishing.
UPDATE: Our bad on blaming the BBC for the “Israel made the monitors leave” conspiracy theory. Hannan Ashrawi seems to be the original source: “People believe that the British knew of the Israeli assault and they abandoned their post. Clearly the only source of danger was the Israeli army.” Yeah, unless you count all the rampaging Palestinian gangs that have been running loose since the Hamas victory – the ones the British and Americans repeatedly complained about through such apparently opaque phrases as “if you don’t do something to protect us from the rampaging Palestinian gangs that have been running loose since the Hamas victory, we’re leaving”.
[Cross-postd at IsraPundit]
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