That's Gratitude, For You
How perfectly uncivil. Someone visits them and they demonstrate their gratefulness at interest in their well-being by lobbing stones. Well, what can you expect from such people anyway? They're entirely too arrogant, feeling that their problems should trump others' problems to begin with. They have a strong government to look to their interests, the other unfortunates have a bickering do-nothing government. You can see where sympathies lie, of course; one must have one's priorities in order; the underdog rules.The United Nations high commissioner for human rights got a front-row-centre-view of the civil-bludgeoning effect that a rocket bombardment can have on unprotected civilians first hand in Sderot when a hostile crowd of (who else?) Iraelis demonstrated their disdain for a UN ambassador who berates and threatens their government for its attempts to protect their lives. How unreasonable.
"I saw people in Beit Hanoun, civilians, mothers who lost their children, who feel...terribly exposed, terribly vulnerable, extremely afraid, very abandoned and I have a sense there is the same thing here," she said in Sderot. Brilliant. The residents of Beit Hanoun accept the presence of fanatical Islamists knowing full well their intent to bombard other residents of Sderot just across the border but they feel vulnerable, frightened, abandoned. Why do they not demand of the Hamas militants that they cease and desist, that they feel the lives of Israelis are as much to be protected as their own?
Commissioner Louse Arbour ventures the opinion that the residents of Sderot feel exposed, vulnerable, afraid, and of course they are, why wouldn't they be, since there is a relentless onslaught of deadly rockets headed their way on a daily basis? The truth is there, it is obvious, the woman witnessed several such attacks, including a deadly one taking the life of a nearby worker in Sderot. Is she incapable of making the connection?
Instead she intones the mantra of the UN that Israel must look for "partnership" to build a sustainable atmosphere for peace. Does this woman live with her head in the sand, her arse in the air? With whom, exactly, must Israel bid for peace: Hamas whose leadership is adamant that they will drive Israel into the sea, and who delight in murdering innocent civilians? This is the same Hamas that both murders indiscriminately and harbours ambitions to lead the Palestinians to their long-awaited homeland encompassing the entire region, sans Israel.
This woman is intolerably tedious, tendentious, obnoxious, arrogant, irresponsible and a downright pain in the arse. Pontificate, my dear, to the Khartoum government.
Failing that, visit the PA and lecture Hamas. They too are a government. They too must respect international law. They too have an obligation to meet Israel half way in the bid for a "partnership" to build an atmosphere where peace may be sustained.
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, November 22, 2006
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