Palestinian lunacy-hilarity

I don't usually like to post about the same topic on consecutive nights. So I will make a quick foray into Palestinian lunacy-hilarity, and then venture elsewhere.


Damian Penny has visited the Palestine Net Intifada Homepage! While there, he noticed some interesting things -- chief among them being an ugly adaptation of Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom" to the Palestinian cause. Namely, it is now "Stones of Freedom." Remember Bob Dylan? Born Robert Zimmerman, explored Chassidic thought, wrote the song "Neighborhood Bully" which quite efficiently explained the Jews' position? I'm sure he'd just love this.


Next on the agenda: why the UN sucks. The following is from the excellent Mark Steyn in the Telegraph:



Anyway, as Kofi's commission isn't going ahead, I'm pleased to announce my own fact-finding investigation into - drumroll, please - the UN. Ex-ambassadors, European Foreign Ministers and former presidents of humanitarian organisations are welcome to apply to join my commission, but, if they're too busy, we'll make do with jes' regular folks. Among the issues we'll be examining: UN participation in the sex-slave trade in Bosnia; the UN refugee extortion racket in Kenya; UN involvement in massive embezzlement in Kosovo; the UN's cover-up of the sex-for-food scandal in West Africa involving aid workers demanding sexual favours from children as young as four; the UN-fuelled explosion of drugs, Aids and prostitution in Cambodia; the UN's complicity in massacres in pre-liberated Afghanistan; and, if we've any time left, the UN's collusion in terrorism in the Jenin refugee camp. As the organisation's own internal investigations usually put it, UN seen nothin' yet!



On to the "election" in Pakistan. As you probably know by now, Pervez Musharraf won 97% of the vote in a referendum. The US supports him because he's a rather benevolent dictator, and we have bigger fish to fry. (Not the Assad dynasty which killed 20,000 in Hamat, or Robert Mugabe, who is raping Zimbabwe as I speak) He's an ally against terrorism! Actually, he is -- unlike his country, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc. This referendum actually makes me wonder if democracy is always good. Democracy would rip apart Pakistan and leave it worse off (if that's possible) whereas a dictator gives it some stability. Of course, Pakistan, like Indonesia, is the rule rather than the exception. Must be something about annoyingly well-populated Muslim countries that makes democracy impossible.


That was incoherent, right? Something on the Palestinian propaganda machine and the American collusion with the Palestinian propaganda machine in the New York Post. I know, I promised. But I couldn't help myself.


While we're in the Mideast, I think I'll mention that Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator who killed 300,000 of his people in the 1970s, is currently a guest of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Food for thought.


And finally, the election in France. As I post this, the polls open in Paris and Marseilles and Strasbourg and Bordeaux. And I'm ambivalent, I must say. On one hand, a landslide Chirac victory would prove that the French are truly tolerant people who love everyone and can stand up against fascism. But then I realize -- that can happen, but it will be a lie. Let's stop lying to ourselves, folks. The French hate Israel, America, and the Jews. This is a country so steeped in anti-Semitism, from Dreyfus to Vichy to de Gaulle's anti-Semitic comments in 1967, that no election result will prove otherwise. It is a matter of shame that one cannot walk down the streets of Paris or Berlin today as a Jew, but must hide his or her identity. Europe hasn't learned. So as not to close on an overly depressing note, however, I leave you with this remarkable video from Saturday Night Live. Only fifty seconds long, this commercial which aired a few weeks ago calls for us to "start hating the French again." It is classically hysterical, and should be disseminated to the world of large.