I have never been a Robert Fisk fan, but he certainly knows our man daffy:
He was a crazy combination of Don Corleone and Donald Duck - The Independent,
Because when he begging Libyan Jews to come home he is meeting Israelis and allowing them to come to Libya to study he’s busy pimping his version of Isratine. Ynet News:
The Israeli delegation of six Knesset members that visited Libya met for three hours Sunday evening with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. MK Talab el-Sana (United Arab List-Taal) told Ynet that the meeting had been open and friendly, and that Gaddafi had agreed to their request to allow Arab students from Israel to study in Libya.
But of course, Gaddahi has nothing against Israelis except some Israelis.
“The Libyan leader emphasized the significance of our visit and noted that he has nothing against Jews, but against Zionism,” el-Sana said. Gaddafi repeated his vision of one state for Arabs and Jews, a vision known as “Isratine”, and said that Israel’s Arabs must “multiply” to counter any “plots” to expel them.
Okay…
Remember the Lockerbie Bomber who was released on ‘compassionate’ grounds owing to the fact medical advice was that he had only 3 months to live before he succumbed to prostrate cancer? The Daily Mail does and apparently he is well enough to be released from hospital.
The row over the release of the Lockerbie bomber was reignited last night after it emerged he has been released from hospital.
Abdelbaset Al Megrahi was freed from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds in August after a medical assessment concluded he had only three months to live because of his prostate cancer.
But the 57-year-old former Libyan intelligence agent and his family now say that, while weak and terminally ill, he is not close to death, and continues to work on clearing his name.
The problem with Our Man Daffy’s is that his pockets have always been too deep and he dares where others refuse to go.
Our man Daffy has taken a break from blacklisting Canadians wanting to visit Libya to tell a British reporters that he sees no reason why Palestinians shouldn’t developed nuclear weapons as the Israelis have them. And let us pray the first foray for the Palestinian nuclear experiments develop in the Libyan Palestinian refugee camps and hopefully he decides to pitch his tent right beside them.
First I had to scratch Syria off the places to visit before I died. Now Libya. Toronto Star.
OTTAWA–Canadian travellers have been told they’re not welcome in Libya, in an apparent reprisal for Canada’s near tongue-lashing of Moammar Gadhafi.
Gadhafi cancelled a planned stopover in Newfoundland last month after the Harper government made public its intention to scold the Libyan leader over the hero’s welcome Libya gave a man convicted in the Lockerbie bombing. Since then, Gadhafi has made clear to officials within Libya’s travel visa offices that no visas are to be granted to Canadians wanting to enter the country.
I just do not know how I will bear the infamy of being a Canadian…
First Libya and now the Kurdish Iraq wants ‘their Jews’ back – will wonders never cease? Ynet News:
A new magazine in Iraq’s Kurdistan region has caused furor among conservative Muslims with a rousing call for Jews to leave Israel – and come back to Iraq. The magazine, “Israel-Kurd”, is the brainchild of Dawood Baghestani, the 62-year-old former chief of the autonomous northern region’s human rights commission. The glossy, full-color monthly in Kurdish and English has a lofty mission: To help solve the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict by convincing more than 150,000 Kurdish Jews living in Israel to return to Iraqi Kurdistan, Baghestani told AFP.
(…)Baghestani – who has been to Israel four times, including on a clandestine trip in 1967 – denies that he works for the Israelis. “What I am asking for is enshrined in the constitution: Every Iraqi has the right to return to one’s homeland. Jews who were Iraqi citizens were subject to injustice,” he said. “If every Arab country allowed the Jews to return, ensured their safety and gave them back their land, Palestinian refugees would be able to return to their territory because Israel would not need so much land.”
But not all Kurds think alike.
Mahmud Othman, a Kurdish Coalition MP in Baghdad, disputes this. He says that while relations with Israel may be a nice idea, such a move would not be pragmatic for a region ringed by other Muslim states.
Of course, its all well and Baghestani to ask Iraqi Jews to come back; although I doubt he fully realizes just how much he is asking former Iraqi Jews to give up by leaving their homeland and for what -to be the officially whipping boys again? I mean did they run out of Christians?
Our man Daffy, is up to high jinxs again and hilarity ensues. Apparently, he wants Libya’s Jews back. The Jerusalem Post:
Before leaving Rome on Saturday, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi met with about 300 Italian expatriots expelled from his country in 1970, and an unofficial group of five Jews of Libyan origin.The official Libyan Jewish representatives had turned down Gaddafi’s invitation for a Saturday meeting because “we cannot bow our heads and desecrate the Sabbath,” Shalom Teshuba, vice president of the Rome Jewish community, stated in a note delivered to Gaddafi. Teshuba’s letter reviewed a century of Libyan Jewish history and included a request for talks aimed at restitution and restoration of family and religious heirlooms confiscated after the massacres and expulsions in 1967.
The five unofficial Jewish representatives who walked to the meeting included distinguished peace activist and Jungian psychoanalyst David Gerbi. Clothed in the traditional white cassock, cap and pin-striped gilet typical in pre-’67 Libyan Jewry and wearing a Magen David around his neck, Gerbi asked Gaddafi to permit the restoration of the Sia Dar Bisni Synagogue in Tripoli, for which he had personally gathered funds. The community left behind over 47 synagogues, several of great historic and religious significance. He also asked that six mezuzot he had brought to Libya for this purpose in 2007, when he was arrested and bereft of his belongings, be returned to him.
Both the Italian Catholic and Jewish guests were invited to speak publicly, and were greeted individually by Gaddafi. The Libyan leader recalled the late Raffaele Fellah, a former president of the World Organization of Libya Jews. When told of his death, Gaddafi said, “Mercy to his soul,” and praised Fellah’s attempts at mediation. He added, however, that these attempts had brought no results because “he tied the Jewish question to that of Israel.”
(…)Gaddafi reiterated his invitation to all to come back to Libya, and again stressed that priority would be given to Italian enterprises over other nationalities.
The question becomes – has Daffy run out of local whipping boys?
In life, there are few certainties, but just as birds got fly and bees got to sting – what would an Arab Leadership Summit be without our man Daffy pitching a fit and walking out? Ha’aretz:
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi stormed out of an Arab summit on Monday after denouncing the Saudi king and declaring himself “the dean of Arab rulers.” Gadhafi disrupted the opening Arab League summit in Qatar by taking a microphone and criticizing Saudi’s King Abdullah, calling him a “British product and American ally.”
When the Qatari emir tried to quiet him, the Libyan leader and current Africa Union chairman insisted he be allowed to speak. “I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam (leader) of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level,” Gadhafi said.
He then got up and walked out of the summit hall. The Libyan leader is known for his unpredictable behavior, and it’s not clear whether he will rejoin the two-day summit aimed at ending Arab feuds.
Imagine – how he would act if he had Alzheimer’s? On second thought, I don’t think we’d all know the difference….
My favourite international deep thinker is at it again. This time he’s blaming the Dafur crisis on Israel, yes – that’s right – Israel. Ha’aretz.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the current African Union president, on Tuesday accused “foreign forces” including Israel of being behind the Darfur conflict.
Judges from the International Criminal Court are due to announce on March 4 whether they will issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over allegations that he masterminded genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region. UN diplomats have told Reuters the warrant will be issued.
But Gaddafi, addressing a meeting on ways to expand cooperation between the United Nations and African Union, urged the Court to stop its proceedings against Bashir: Why do we have to hold President Bashir or the Sudanese government responsible when the Darfur problem was caused by outside parties, and Tel Aviv [Israel], for example, is behind the Darfur crisis?”
Gaddafi suggested without presenting any evidence that the Israeli military was among those stoking the conflict: “It is not a secret. We have found evidence proving clearly that foreign forces are behind the Darfur problem and are fanning its fire,” Gaddafi said, according to the Libyan state news agency Jana. “We discovered that some of the main leaders of the Darfur rebels have opened offices in Tel Aviv and hold meetings with the military there to add fuel to the conflict fire.”
Good thing ‘blame the Jooos’ is not a drinking game or I’d never spend a day in my life sober, but – my what busy people those Elders are.
Our man Daffy has a new title, position, and some spiffy new duds. BBC reports:
Col Gaddafi was elected by the heads of state of the 53-member union behind closed doors at a summit in Ethiopia. A BBC correspondent at the summit says Col Gaddafi was seen to be the obvious choice, but some delegates are uneasy about his nomination. Col Gaddafi replaces the Tanzanian President, Jakaya Kikwete. Wearing a golden brocade robe and cap, Col Gaddafi sat with the traditional African leaders who accompanied him at the front of the room, rather than in the seat for the Libyan delegate.
“I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa,” he said in his inaugural speech. But he admitted that African leaders were “not near to a settlement” on the issue. He told fellow summit leaders that his unity project would be approved at the next meeting in July unless there was a majority against it, reports the BBC’s Elizabeth Blunt from Addis Ababa.
The AU normally relies on consensus in reaching decisions, but Col Gaddafi introduced what he described as the Islamic concept that “silence is approval,” she said. Under this principle, at least two-thirds of AU leaders would have to actively oppose Col Gaddafi’s proposals, rather than simply ignoring his ideas, she added.
The Globe and Mail reported his arrival to take the chair of the AU:
Once ostracized by the West for sponsoring terrorism, Mr. Gadhafi has been trying to increase Libya’s presence on the global stage and its regional influence — mediating African conflicts, sponsoring efforts to spread Islam on the continent and pushing for the creation of a single African government.
He attended the session dressed in a gold-embroidered green robe and flanked by seven extravagantly dressed men who said they are the “traditional kings of Africa.” Mr. Gadhafi told about 20 of his fellow heads of state that that he would work to unite the continent into “the United States of Africa.”
Mr. Gadhafi arrived at the summit Sunday with the seven men, one carrying a 4-foot gold staff, and caused a stir when security officials did not admit them because each delegation gets only four floor passes. All seven “kings” were seated behind Mr. Gadhafi when he accepted the chairmanship. “I think the coming time will be a time of serious work and a time of action and not words,” he said.
And can you imagine what our man Daffy will come up with next? Frankly, I’m stumped but how long before self-declared divinity comes next?
