A flying pigs moment from the US State Department
Someone must have told the US State Department that Monday was Purim in Jerusalem, because the State Department came up with a statement that is a real flying pigs moment (Hat Tip: CAMERA). The US State Department explicitly condemned the naming of a town square in El Bira after Coastal Road Massacre leader Dalal al-Mughrabi. This is from the first link:"We condemn this commemoration of terrorism and have conveyed our deep concern about this incident to senior officials in the Palestinian Authority and have urged them to address it," Mark Toner, the State Department's spokesman, said March 17. "We underscore that all parties have an obligation to end any form of incitement."Hmmm.
The statement was more definitive than one issued earlier in the week by a State Department official who said the Obama administration was seeking clarification on the matter.
Jewish groups, including the foreign policy umbrella body of the Jewish community, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, had complained that the earlier statement did not go far enough.
Toner's statement appeared to be a response to those complaints: Toner is the most senior spokesman at the State Department, and he led his briefing with the statement instead of reserving it as a response to a reporter's question -- a signal that the State Department uses to convey priority.
Labels: Abu Mazen, Dalal al-Mughrabi, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian terrorists, US State Department
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:43 AM
2 Comments:
Talk is cheap.
Will the Obama Administration pressure the PA to end the incitement and clean up the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel filth coursing through its society?
We all know the answer to that question.
The flying pigs moment from the US hasn't arrived yet.
I'm sure this has something to do with the administration trying to convince each other that the Itamar murders had nothing to with Palestinian incitement.
Got to be embarrassing to be a part of that administration sometimes (well, unless you literally have no sense of shame)
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