Egypt minister attacked at mosque

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Posted by NYCTrancefan on Dec-22-2003 18:01:

Egypt minister attacked at mosque

Fresh off the press, Now how do you make any damn sense of this, and I thought it was only the Israelis that don't want peace Goes to show it works both ways, just check out http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3341435.stm

You gotta love the BBC "this incident is sure to cause some embarrassment for the Israelis" Yeah sure, ah wasn't it a high ranking Arab politician attacked by fellow Arabs when he is there to try and broker peace. The BBCs level of credibility and respect lacks any fair, objective dimensions when it comes to covering this region. It should be the Palestinians who should be embarrassed, here is a man who came to pursue peace on their behalf and he is treated like a Jewish settler and had to be taken to the hospital, I now see why I have little respect sometimes when Palestinians say they want peace, maybe they need to realise that Israel is going nowhere. Unless both sides want to continue tit for tat bloodshed these kinds of behaviors are just despicable. It is no wonder that this region cannot move forward because people always look back. I support a Palestinian state, because I think it is only just, however they have to move forward in their thinking, how else will there be a solution.

Posted by occrider on Dec-22-2003 18:22:

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Radical Muslim worshippers assaulted Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher in the al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City Monday and he was rushed to hospital, witnesses, police and security guards said.

Initial reports said Maher, 68, was beaten and taken unconscious to hospital but witnesses and police later said he was accosted, jostled and possibly struck several times by a hostile mob shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great).

The mob shouted "traitor" and "collaborator" at Maher and threw shoes they had doffed for prayers at his entourage and at Israeli police taking him out of the mosque to safety. Striking someone with a shoe is a traditional Muslim insult.

Of course the extremists don't want peace ... they would be nobody's in a Palestinian state that co-existed peacefully with Israel. The extremist factions that refuse to even negotiate with Israel or recognize its existence need to be stamped out and controlled before an agreement can be reached. Even Sharon is facing much criticism from his own party for proposing to reign in the extremist settlements should he be forced to "impose" a solution on the Palestinians. At the very least at least we know that Israel COULD impose a decision upon its settlements/people as a whole. The Pal authority's control is tenuous at best.

Posted by NYCTrancefan on Dec-22-2003 19:56:

This comes back to my fundamental problem with the Palestinian side, where is the strong leadership that is needed to lift up the Palestian people, it can only come from among them and Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al-Aksa Martyrs or the majority of the rest of the Arab world that parrot the Palestinian cause for their own ends will not provide that kind of leadership. Sadly Mr. Yasser Arafat falls well short of being Martin Luther King Jr. or Mohandas Ghandi, granted the circumstances are different but the key is not the circumstance but the effective leadership to better your people and fulfill their aspirations of statehood. Instead Palestinians are left towards looking at militants as heroes, truly sad.