MEMORIES OF AL ANDALUZ - PUTRID AND SLIMY

[Question: How do you say 'coward' in Spanish? Answer: Cobarde. But 'collaborator' comes close.]


Mel Gibson: "F----ng Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."


Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero: "Peace between Israel and the Palestinians means to a large extent peace on the international scene..."



Okay..., can someone please explain to me how these statements differ?
Mel Gibson comes right out and says what Spanish PM Zapatero implies.
I honestly cannot see much distinction. The attitude that informs both statements has the same stench, the same feel.
Maybe I'm just not subtle enough.


It would be far too kind of me to assume that Mr. Zapatero has somehow not noticed several international hot spots...... Chechnya, Afghanistan, Irak, Darfur, Kashmir.....

It would also be far too kind to assume that Mr. Zapatero is ignorant of a few key differences between Islam (a factor in all the above) and Judaism (NOT a factor in all the above).


I confess to being absolutely baffled at the connection between Israel and Kashmir. Or Israel and Uruzgan (a hellhole in Afghanistan where the Taliban are making a comeback). Or for that matter the connection between Israel and the Congo, or Darfur, or Liberia, or the Western Sahara, or Somalia, or most of the places where wars have taken place in the last thirty or forty years.



We have a word for people such as Mr. Zapatero. No, I'm not thinking of the obvious one (anti-Semite), but of an even more appropriate term - Quisling.

Mr. Zapatero is bending over backwards to accommodate the anti-Israel side. He knows who has made Israel-Palestine an issue for the last three generations. He knows how they have spread their anti-Israel message among the far-left for three generations. He knows why, and he knows the lies. And he knows the viciousness with which they have furthered their cause.


But he is no doubt grateful that they won him the election that made him prime-minister.

And he is mindful of the tactics they use when people and countries dare to disagree with them.
There is sure to be a second term in his future.


I might remind him that Israel never hijacked a plane, blew up a train, or pushed a wheelchair-bound cripple overboard. I might, but I am sure he knows that as well as anyone.

Instead I would like to remind him about the period between 711 Common Era and 1492 Common Era.
Let him think deeply about that period, as it has not been forgotten by those whom he would placate.