Tuesday
Apr052011
Footnoting Elliott Abrams
Issandr El AmraniElliot Abrams forgot to include the footnotes in his latest piece for the Weekly Standard. I started adding them for the first two sentences, then realized doing the whole thing would be too much work:
With the Great Revolt of 2011 shaking Arab capitals, Israel briefly seemed a Middle Eastern Switzerland1 when March began. There were no demonstrations,2 there was no dictator to protest,3 and there had been three years without terror.4
1: If Switzerland was an apartheid state that still hasn't defined its borders.
2: If you don't include the demonstrations by Arab-Israelis and Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
3: Unless you mean the dictator who is the miliary governor of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
4: If you don't include the terror of the January 2009 Operation Cast Lead and its doctrine of collective punishment.
Reader Comments (4)
LOL
Oh, the art of twisting facts. "Israel's presence in the West Bank" .. you only need to skim through and you quickly realise the unashamed bias.
Excellent Issandr. True and funny.
Dear Issandr,
Making sure that people know the truth is very hard work. Good for you. I think you should keep working on this piece. It would both be satirical, and valuable. Can I add a footnote please? Is living in a state of siege in your own homeland and watching your ancestral land be gobbled up a type of terror that the people in the West Bank and Gaza live under?
WMB