Totten: The Other Side of the Green Line
Charles Johnson
Fri May 19, 2006 at 11:23 am PDT • Views: 292
Here’s an excellent post by Michael J. Totten, who visited Ramallah, talked to quite a few Palestinians, and brought back a batch of interesting photographs: The Other Side of the Green Line.
I beg to differ with Michael, however, on his characterization of Arafat mouthpiece Saeb Erekat as “one of the more honorable politicians in the Palestinian Authority”—unless that bar is so low it has no meaning.
Erekat was one of the promoters of the “Jenin massacre” hoax, and has a long, well-documented history of brazen lying (lgf: search). In December 2002 I linked to a pertinent article (now unavailable) by Bret Stephens in the Jerusalem Post about Erekat’s lies after the New York Times published one of Erekat’s propaganda pieces: Erekat in the New York Times. Stephens wrote:
Hitler - or was it Stalin? - said something to the effect that people will sooner believe one big lie than many small ones. Saeb Erekat proves him wrong. Lie habitually, lie shamelessly, lie unnecessarily, lie about small things and big things, lie about the past, lie about the future, lie about lies, lie with every “and,” “but” and “if,” and some of your lies are bound to be believed. Of course, it helps if they are printed in The New York Times.
UPDATE at 5/19/06 12:41:03 pm:
Here’s the Bret Stephens article (scroll down the page to see it): Liar, Liar. (Hat tip: mardukhai.)
Frank says: