Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Who speaks for the Palestinians? Israelis of course--at least in the New York Times

This is hilarious.  The Palestinian here speaks: "“Ever since the beginning of the attack in Gaza he has become for a large number of Palestinians a persona non grata, somebody that is not relevant,” Hamed Qawasmeh, a Palestinian activist in the West Bank city of Hebron, said of President Abbas. “As a Palestinian street, now everybody is just talking about the resistance — Hamas, Hamas.” But then the New York Times did not like what he had to say, so they asked an Israeli to speak on his own behalf:  "But Shlomo Brom, director of the program on Israeli-Palestinian relations at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, said that Mr. Abbas’s role — based on the pact his Palestine Liberation Organization signed with Hamas in April — is the most promising path to lasting change in Gaza."