Bibi Netanyahu spoke to the US Senate today, again outlining why Israel's war on terror should be encouraged not restrained by the US.

Predictably, terror apologists were skeptical...

Palestinian reaction to Netanyahu's speech was sharp.

Hassan Abdel Rahman, the chief Palestinian representative to the United States, said Netanyahu's effort to equate Israeli's military operation against the Palestinians with the U.S. campaign fell short.

"The U.S. did not have Jewish-American settlements in Afghanistan and the U.S. was not occupying Afghanistan in the same way that Israel is occupying the Palestinian territories," Rahman said.

"The only way for the Palestinians and Israelis to live side by side in peace is when Israel respects the right of the Palestinian people to live as a free nation, free of the tyranny of the occupation, free of the tyranny of discrimination, free of the tyranny of violating the rights of the Palestinian people."

This is so transparently a load of baloney, to wit: After the 9/11 attack, it was Osama Bin Laden that stated that America's occupation of Saudi Arabia (our airbase) was an abomination to Islam. And he relentlessly lectured the US about how we and Israel are abusing the rights of the Palestinian people.

Did we listen for one microsecond? No. And we shouldn't listen now.

(Submitted by Ara Rubyan, 12 March 2002)