Omigawd! I just heard that the Arabs Hate Us! Who woulda thunk it?
PARIS (Reuters) - Arabs in the Middle East hate the United States more than ever following the invasion of Iraq and Israel's assassination of two Hamas leaders, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in comments published Tuesday.
Why can't we be more like France? Arabs don't hate the French. The French are gonna surrender to them any day now.
Mubarak, who visited the United States last week, told French newspaper Le Monde that Washington's actions had caused despair, frustration and a sense of injustice in the Arab world.
Awwww!
"Today there is hatred of the Americans like never before in the region," he said in an interview given during a stay in France, where he met President Jacques Chirac Monday
Who promptly said, "Mon Dieu! We surrender!"
He blamed the hostility partly on U.S. support for Israel, which assassinated Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in a missile strike in the Gaza Strip Saturday weeks after killing his predecessor, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
What's the problem? They both said they wanted to be martyrs. Israel gave them their wish. Sheesh! There's just no pleasing some people.
"At the start some considered the Americans were helping them. There was no hatred of the Americans. After what has happened in Iraq, there is unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it," Mubarak said.
Hosni, I'm at the point where I don't care if you hate us or not. Do you fear us?
"People have a feeling of injustice. What's more, they see (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon acting as he pleases, without the Americans saying anything. He assassinates people who don't have the planes and helicopters that he has."
What do you think the Palestinians would do if they had the planes and helicopters that Israel had? They would not show the restraint Israel has. Israel targets terrorists. The Palestinians target women and children.
Israel says such killings are self-defense. But Mubarak said the assassination of Rantissi could have "serious consequences" and that instability in Gaza and Iraq would not serve U.S. or Israeli interests.
As opposed to the "stability" in Gaza today.
"The despair and feeling of injustice are not going to be limited to our region alone. American and Israeli interests will not be safe, not only in our region but anywhere in the world," he said.
That sounds like a threat to me. This is from a guy who receives $2 billion a year from us.
And I just read somewhere that a Hamas spokesman, who is definitely not the new leader of Hamas (Me? The leader? Where did you get that idea?) wants all Muslims to declare war on Israel and the United States. Brave words from the next dude in line for Israel's Whack a Mole game.
Sweet dreams asshole!
Posted by denny at April 20, 2004 10:06 PM