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Maher's Humiliation


(Jerusalem Post) - The entire world watched Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher humiliated, jostled, and pelted with shoes, until physically lifted off his feet and carried away from his frenzied attackers. His eyes betrayed vivid panic as he came face to face with the frightening aspect of Palestinian intransigence and extremism. Maher was attacked because he dared conduct talks with the leaders of the reviled Jewish state. If this is how Palestinians manhandle their boosters and comrades, what would they do to their Israeli enemies? What Maher met on the Temple Mount isn't the exception to the rule, it's only the tip of greater virulence. This extremism is born of unbridled incitement which Egypt regularly tolerates.
2003-12-24 00:00:00
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