A TEST... ONLY A TEST

I decided to avoid reading the Algemeen Handelsblad during lunch - normally I read it for the anti-American spew by ignorant Dutchmen, and the sheer bias of its reportage (it is always good to know what those most European of Europeans think, if it can be called that...).

And instead, I headed directly into the BBC website.


Where I found one of the most telling phrases. A phrase that very well could be a test - if the reader sees nothing remarkable, the reader is possibly European, and very probably beyond salvation. On the other hand, it could also test your outrage.


This is the phrase:

"The bullets should be used against the Jews and not the Palestinians"

[Gazaite father of eleven Hatim Muhammad, as quoted in this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6199529.stm ]



This is a quote from one of the people whom so many Western-Europeans claim are just like us, warm, humane, civilized, and deserving of peace, prosperity, and their own country. It reflects the sentiments of a man whom the BBC would want us to have sympathy for, a man whose account of hardship in Gaza is meant to arouse both our interest and our emotions. An average, man in the street, regular Joe.


A pox upon both him and the BBC.