Congeries of cross connected concepts
Orrin Judd is still attempting to win hearts and minds for Hamas, which is bizarre but consistent. Of course, he has to totally ignore such little things as Hamas shutting down Friday prayers for Fatah. Or killing civilians for protesting against the government, because otherwise the illusion of a peaceful people oppressed by the West disappears.
Judd is at his most disingenuous when he writes
Refusing to let them get on with normal lives is a deeply strange decision on the part of the West.
This is bogus on two levels. First, it’s not the West that’s refusing, it’s Hamas. They need only drop their demands for ethnic cleansing / genocide and the West would open its arms. Second, isn’t the problem that the West is ignoring Hamas rather than preventing them from getting on with normal lives? Israel withdrew from Gaza, it’s Hamas controlled. It’s Judd’s claim that because of that Hamas has delivered much improved security so why can’t they just “get on with normal lives”? I think we know the answer, even if Judd pretends to not.
| erp Sunday, 09 September 2007 at 08:00 |  |
After generations of armed conflict, what would normal life be like in the ME? Any government, even one dedicated to peace will have a huge problem managing their citizens and channeling their energies into building not destroying.
Made me think of Northern Ireland, another region that endured generations of terror and killing. I wonder how they’ve adjusted to normalcy. Have the various factions reconciled do you think? Or are there still cells waiting for their main chance to start the up the terror again? Going back to working at a job must be pretty lame after years/decades of “freedom fighting.”
