Tel-Chai Nation

Mark Steyn puts into perspective Condoleeza Rice's denial of reality when she insisted to Cal Thomas at least 3 years ago that she thought the "palestinian people" want a better life. He says about this:

I think she knows she doesn’t know it. But in the modern world there is no diplomatic vocabulary for the kind of cultural fault line represented by the Israeli/Palestinian dispute, so even a smart thinker like Dr. Rice can only frame it as an issue of economic and educational opportunity. Of course, there are plenty of Palestinians like the ones the Secretary of State describes: you meet them living as doctors and lawyers in Los Angeles and Montreal and Geneva … but not, on the whole, in Gaza. In Gaza, they don’t vote for Hamas because they want access to university education. Or, if they do, it’s to get Junior into the Saudi-funded Hamas-run Islamic University of Gaza, where majoring in rocket science involves making one and firing it at the Zionist Entity. In 2007, as part of their attempt to recover Gaza from Hamas, Fatah seized 1,000 Qassam rockets at the university, as well as seven Iranian military trainers.

I think it's a shame she does not have the courage to be honest and admit the truth about the Islamic mindset. Scott Johnson at Power Line says that 3 years ago, he read her as knowing she was just marketing tripe whether she knew it or not. You know what? I agree with him completely.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, United States