Saturday, November 26, 2005

The NY Times gets the understatement of the day award.

Regarding the opening of the Rafah crossing which is now in the hands of the Palestinian Authority, it is said:
The Egyptians, who controlled Gaza from 1948 until the 1967 war, were requiring Palestinian men aged 18 to 40 to obtain visas before entering Egypt, Palestinian officials said. Egypt is likely to have economic as well as security concerns: many young Gazan men are unemployed, and some have links to militant groups.
Some? To me a fully-rostered baseball team is more than "some", so I don't know how many the Times considers "some".

Dare I mention that Hamas is considered a terrorist group even by the European Union, but that's not enough for the NY Times to stop calling them "militants".

One would think that an organization large enough to be of concern to various nation-states would consist of more than "some" people. If I were Israeli, there is no f-ing way I would go on vacation in Sinai again.

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