3 Reasons I Like Gaddafi’s Latest Rant

You know hell's freezing over when Gaddafi compares himself to Israel: “Even the Israelis in Gaza, when they moved into…

By March 07, 2011

You know hell’s freezing over when Gaddafi compares himself to Israel:

“Even the Israelis in Gaza, when they moved into the Gaza strip, they moved in with tanks to fight such extremists. It’s the same thing here! We have small armed groups who are fighting us. We did not use force from the outset . . . Armed units of the Libyan army have had to fight small armed al Qaeda bands. That is what’s happened.”

Here are 3 reasons to like Gaddafi’s rant.

  1. Gaddafi acknowledges that Israel has a right to defend itself against Palestinian terror.
  2. Gaddafi labels Hamas a terror organization. Full stop.
  3. Gaddafi undermines the Goldstone report. After all, Libya was the key country trying to ram the Goldstone report through the UN.

I’d like to think Gaddafi read HonestReporting’s Gaza War Summary and Goldstone Report Summary.

More likely, he’s simply nuts.

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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