TIME Has A Mid-East Blog?

By
Omri Ceren
– March 29, 2007Posted in: Anti-Israel Journalism

Did you know that TIME has a Middle East blog? Did you know that it sucks:

It was an untimely embarrassment for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Today of all days, when U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in town to crank up the latest Arab-Israeli peace initiative, thousands of rightwing Jewish settlers decided to march into the West Bank and re-claim Homesh, an illegal hilltop settlement emptied out, with much trouble, in 2005. This can’t have pleased Ms. Rice. As part of the latest peace plan, she is leaning on Olmert a little harder than usual to start dismantling Jewish outposts inside the Palestinian territories, not letting settlers grab back old ones… But for Olmert, better the wrath of Ms. Rice and Knesset members than a head-bashing showdown between the army and Jewish settlers. Still, it can only convince the Americans and the Arabs that Olmert is too politically frail to make the bold moves required for peace.

Yeah. That’s what’s going to stand in the way of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Because if there were no Jewish settlers in Homesh, the Palestinians would stop trying to kill Jews.

What’s that you say? Homesh has been abandoned for two years and the Palestinians have still been killing Jews? Well fuck.

References:
* The Middle East
Olmert’s Hilltop Heachache

Previously:
* US, EU Stand Firm On Boycott. Except They Don’t. And Except There Is No Boycott.
* So This Is What Hamas Means By "Respecting Past Agreements" (Bonus: AP’s Ibrahim Barzak Whitewashing Palestinian Terrorism Again?)
* What Do Meryl Yourish and A Genocidal Iranian Lunatic Have In Common? [Video]

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