Israel: Gaddafi’s Distraction of Choice

This says it all.  While his people gear up this week's Libyan Day of Rage, strongman Muammar Gaddafi is also prepping --…

By Pesach Benson February 14, 2011

This says it all.  While his people gear up this week’s Libyan Day of Rage, strongman Muammar Gaddafi is also prepping — by trying to distract everyone with the Palestinian problem.

Gaddafi tells Palestinians: Revolt against Israel

It ain’t hard to see where that came from. Food prices are up, and virtual water‘s trickle down effect won’t impact the Libyan street by Thursday.

As we saw in Tunisia and Egypt, the Arab uprising isn’t about the Palestinian problem; Libyans won’t be distracted.

If that’s the best Gaddafi can do, he may as well book a one-way ticket to early retirement now. He has known affinity for  Englewood.

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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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