weird Hitchens comments on Israel

Reed Tryte reed_tryte at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 4 15:28:45 PST 2002


Anthony Kennerson wrote:


>And exactly WHICH Palestinians were
>congratulating Saddam?? Islamic
>Jihad?? Hamas??? Hizbullah??? Those
>who were suffering tremendously in
>the Occupied Territories??? I know
>of NO non-fundamentalist Palestinian
>organization or individual who even
>hinted at supporting Saddam or the
>invasion of Kuwait.

Anthony,

This isn't a subject that I know a whole lot about, but I think Michael is right. There was some support from non-fundamentalist Palestinians for Hussein and the invasion of Kuwait. I can't say I find that incomprehensible or unforgivable, but it was still ugly. See this story, for instance:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/stories/plo021098.htm

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