Ayoon wa Azan (Nakba, Disaster, Tragedy And Catastrophe)

[DuctapeFatwa]

I have kept for many years a file on Conrad Black, the publisher of Daily Telegraph, and his wife, the Likudist journalist Barbara Amiel. I started with it the day I read an interview conducted by the friend of Ariel Sharon with our friend, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi. We all thought that peace would come soon after the Oslo Accords, and we were preparing for it. I realized that instead of holding Hanan Ashrawi accountable for her comments, Amiel was talking about she was thinking or the harsh look in her eyes...

I have criticized Amiel on more than one occasion, and mentioned an article she wrote this week. She really throws poison every time she talks about the Middle East or the Palestinians. I had barely finished talking about her article when I found her writing a new similar "angry" one, which I added to the file to find the next day an even more important piece of information, which is the fall of her husband and probably hers with him...

Of course, Israel's creation is a calamity, a disaster, a catastrophe and a tragedy, and 5.1 billion Palestinians and Muslims say so. And I cry this out even though I support the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. But the offensive attitude of extremist Zionists such as Amiel has no limit: she wants the Palestinians to welcome the theft of their land, their people being killed and their displacement, so that Israel would be established as a malignant cancer that to this day is eating away at the nation...

The strange thing in all this is that Black and the circle close to him did not hesitate to take advantage of the holding, even as the distribution of the Daily Telegraph was dropping to less than one million issues a day, and still is, and even as the holding registered 335 million dollars of losses in 2001 and 239 million dollars in 2002. It is estimated today at 600 million pounds. I wish Yasser Arafat would pay this amount (considering that Amiel insists that he owns billions of dollars in Swiss accounts), and then turns it into a Palestinian newspaper headed by George Gallaway, and publishes articles by George Habash and Khaled Mishaal.

http://english.daralhayat.com/column/11-2003/Article-20031120-f9025d35-c0a8-01ed-0058-6cbdfb165a52/story.html

[bluesoul]

1. Barbara Amiel

She's the one saying the UN should keep the hell out of Iraq and is as conservative and bigoted as Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and the likes. She's not even worth mentioning and anyone considering here as a credible source is in my mind anything but progressive...

[Resistance]

3. yep

Amiel is constantly portraying critics of Israel as 'anti-semitic'. What an idiot.

[bemildred]

2. "5.1 billion Palestinians and Muslims" ?

I must say that does seem to be an impressive amount of
money they are losing every year.