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  1. lester says:
    January 15, 2009 at 11:01 am

    abu mazens pro wrestling like turn to a “good guy” is one of the more absurd things that have happened in this conflict. He must laugh about it himself

  2. Jason says:
    January 15, 2009 at 11:34 am

    Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza
    By IBRAHIM BARZAK and AMY TEIBEL – 1 hour ago

    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, engulfing the compound and a warehouse in fire and destroying thousands of pounds of food and humanitarian supplies intended for Palestinian refugees.

    U.N. workers and Palestinian firefighters, some wearing bulletproof jackets, struggled to douse the flames and pull bags of food aid from the debris after the Israeli attack, which was another blow to efforts to ease the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Dense smoke billowed from the compound.

    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is in the region to end the devastating offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers, demanded a “full explanation” and said the Israeli defense minister told him there had been a “grave mistake.”

    Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the military fired artillery shells at the U.N. compound after Hamas militants opened fire from the location. Three people were wounded.

    “It is absolutely true that we were attacked from that place, but the consequences are very sad and we apologize for it,” he said. “I don’t think it should have happened and I’m very sorry.”

    A senior Israeli military officer had also said Israeli troops shelled the compound after coming under fire from Palestinian militants there — an account dismissed by a U.N. official there at the time as “nonsense.”

  3. Bob Miller says:
    January 15, 2009 at 11:38 am

    America anoints such a person as a good guy for political purposes, even if he’s always been bad to the bone.

  4. J. Lichty says:
    January 15, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    for once I agree with lester – the rehabilitation of the terror paymaster Abu Mazen to the grandfatherly, Mahmoud Abbas, part George Washington and part Christ, is nothing short of the greatest work of fiction since the Palestinian cause itself was created.

  5. contra says:
    January 15, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    #4: “nothing short of the greatest work of fiction since the Palestinian cause
    itself was created”

    … and since “Palestinians” themselves were invented for the purpose.
    A fictitious leader for a fictitious people – it is fitting.

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