Sunday, December 18, 2011

Prince Hasan of Jordan

There is perhaps no one, with the exception of Lebanese right-wing broadcaster Gizelle Khuri, who annoys me more than Prince Hasan.  This is a man who thinks he is a scholar because he managed to finish his undergraduate degree and because he can speak English.  A right-wing anti-Palestinian all his life, now he is posing--you guessed it--as a democrat once his brother King Husayn (or Khuuusayn, as Shimon Peres pronounces it) kicked him out of the window.  He has never anything insightful to say but he can't stop talking.  And the worst thing about him is that he does not know that he is the most boring speaker ever, in both Arabic and English.  Try to finish one article by this guy.  The only thing I like about him is his public humiliation at the hand of his brother, Khuuusayn.  Here he expresses admiration for Israeli fascism:  "He praises Israel's "tenacity of purpose - to draw your line in the sand and say, here I will stand, to promote a shared public interest, in which all my population can participate. " (thanks Asa)