This Blog Is Full Of Crap

Usually, Mahmoud Abbas doesn't slip up in public like this:

At a joint news conference with Peres, Abbas said Israel will live in peace if it ends its occupation of Arab lands. "If peace comes and the occupation comes to an end, Israel will live in a sea of peace," he said.

Live in, or driven into?

Look, it's a simple fact of reality that when Shimon Peres shakes hands with foreigners, Jews die. And when he signs things, Jews also end up dying. Heck, I would insist on him paying for something in cash for fear a credit card slip killing a few dozen Jews here and there.

It's good that Peres has been "retired" into a figurehead role, sure, but he's still capable of doing great damage to the only foothold for true democracy in the Middle East.

Let's just check things here:
Mel Brooks still being active and spry in his eighties - good.
Jerry Lewis still being active and spry in his eighties - good.
Shimon Peres - bad.

As for the irony of this taking place in Turkey, a nation with its foot on the throat of any hopes of an independent democratic Kurdish nation, I'll leave it to others to rant, pontificate, and growl over.