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Thursday, August 28, 2003

Holy moral equivalency, Batman (2) 

Posted by Nick : 11:03 AM

The French aren't ready to fight terrorists:
There was no indication the EU is ready to put Hamas on its list of terrorist groups. Its members have long been divided on that. France says that blacklisting Hamas will only make negotiations with the group impossible.

Diplomatic advisor to President Chirac, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, is quoted to have said to the Israeli ambassador in France, Nissim Zvilli, that there is no proof that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are terror organizations. "If we find that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are indeed terror groups opposed to peace, we may have to change the EU's stand," said Gourdault-Montagne. "However, we mustn't limit ourselves to one, clear cut, position."
The debate appears to be over the alleged non-military wings of Hamas. Hamas is a vast organization which provides many social services to the Palestinian people. But if you give food, clothing, money and shelter to a criminal, aren't you guilty of aiding and abetting? Guilt by association may be a somewhat sophmoric legal concept, but we're dealing with very elementary concepts of right and wrong here. If you aide a terrorist you're just as guilty for their crimes, if you reject terrorism then you aren't. How hard is that?

So Nancy, remind me again why it's stupid to be angry at the French?

(Link also via Think-About-It)
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