PUBLIC NUISANCES: Pants on Fire/Gaza Syndrome
Tyrrell, R.Emmett Jr.
R . E m m e t t T y r r e l l , J r . P u b l I c n u I s a n c e s paign trail she has been saying that in Bosnia she came under enemy “sniper fire.” A planned “greeting ceremony” could not...
...The whole arrival is on tape...
...A “wee bit silly” is how he characterized her boasts...
...How much more evidence do we need that the Clintons are fantasists whose days on America’s center stage have passed...
...Instead of lobbing artillery randomly, the Israel Defense Forces have attempted to counter Hamas’s attacks with surgical strikes against their leaders and their rocket factories...
...According to Mr...
...Most brazenly, they lie when there is no reason to lie, and they deploy a whopper when a little white lie would be perfectly adequate and even understandable...
...Hillary B.S.-es about her indispensability to the first Clinton administration...
...We are living through one of those periods...
...Eight died, and eleven were badly wounded before another student and an off-duty soldier shot the terrorist...
...What is the old line, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you...
...CBS captured it and has now broadcast it on the evening news...
...The atrocity ignited wild celebrations in Gaza...
...Negotiations have been of no benefit, at least not to those who want peace...
...Shikaki’s poll demonstrates that such withdrawals only make the Palestinians angrier...
...Hillary, as liars go, you are a dunderhead...
...Rather, she was in front of hundreds of supporters and journalists on the campaign trail...
...Everest was an obscurer beekeeper...
...Now that Judicial Watch, a longtime Clinton critic, has forced the Clintons to release her heavily redacted White House schedules, it is apparent that she had nothing to do with the peace process other than to appear in public with her husband and smile...
...As Victor Davis Hanson observed in a recent column, “Gaza has plenty of natural advantages...
...Both undermine her perfectly understandable white lie that as First Lady she acquired sufficient executive experience to be president of the United States—possibly the greatest president since George Washington, who never had a word to say about children’s rights or healthcare on the house...
...Moreover, the events she lies about were chronicled 12 years ago by journalists and filmed by camera crews...
...History nation of Warren and Florence Harding...
...In fact, I suspect, peace would be a disappointment to many of them...
...Withdrawing from Gaza certainly has not weakened the terrorists...
...She says as much in her autobiography, Living History...
...In Sep tem ber of 2005, Israel in an irenic gesture withdrew its military from Gaza, but since then it has endured some 2,500 rocket attacks from Gaza and almost an equal number of mortar attacks...
...There is a border with Egypt, the Arab world’s largest country and spiritual home of panArabic solidarity...
...Both repeated it in their memoirs, apparently unconcerned by the revelations...
...Hillary has now again been caught lying and this time she was not in front of a grand jury...
...They defy ethical standards...
...The other whopper that has been exposed this month is her claim to having been instrumental in effecting the Irish peace settlement...
...All that Israel and the West can do is resist the terrorists, the best way being to go on the offensive...
...Says Martinage, “Since the death of Muhammad in 632, Islamic history has been punctuated by many periods in which various heterodox sects have emerged and clashed violently with mainstream Muslims, as well as with the West...
...Surely he recalls Hillary’s B.S...
...Hillary, you were at the base, you shameless B.S.-er...
...It has made them and their Palestinian sympathizers more eager for violence...
...Moreover, 64% approve of Hamas randomly firing rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israeli communities and 75% favor ending negotiations between their leaders and the Israeli government...
...She also had the security offered by the Secret Service and the entire First Armored Division of the American Army...
...Whether Israel existed or not, these Islamic terrorists would still be with us...
...Somehow I doubt these people want peace...
...One does not have to be a student of the late Niccolo Machiavelli to advise against further withdrawals...
...Instead, she laughs bravely to her agog supporters, “we just raaan with our heads down to get into our vehicles to get to our base...
...Mr...
...Has she forgotten that as First Lady she traveled with cameras all around her at public events...
...Bill, of course, has been caught lying on tape, but he was supposed to lie...
...Twelve years ago this month, Hillary visited Bosnia accompanied by scores of reporters, photographers, and even television crews...
...I am running out of jokes about these two perennial college kids...
...age...
...However, Hamas’s leaders nestle their headquarters and rocket factories in civilian neighborhoods, and civilians suffer collateral damM a y 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 7 5...
...It enjoys a picturesque coastline on the Mediterranean with sandy beaches and a rich classical history...
...According to its polls, 84% of Palestinians approved of this attack...
...After all, he was testifying before a grand jury...
...A recent book, The Global War on Terrorism: An Assessment, by Robert C. Martinage of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, illuminates the problem that Israel faces with Hamas and that the West faces with Islamic terror in general...
...They skirt the law...
...There is one sentiment, however, in this poll that I for one agree on...
...The assumption was that somehow the Clintons were ingenues utterly undeserving of the criticism leveled at them in the 1990s...
...Her visit to Bosnia was perfectly peaceful and uneventful...
...R . E m m e t t T y r r e l l , J r . P u b l I c n u I s a n c e s paign trail she has been saying that in Bosnia she came under enemy “sniper fire...
...A planned “greeting ceremony” could not take place in Tuzla...
...If you thought that the celebrations were anomalous, you might want to know about recent findings just published by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, an independent polling organization based in the West Bank...
...Getting shot at by snipers is not something you forget—or make light of,” one said...
...Bill agrees with her and BS-es about everything under the sun...
...Hillary and Bill persisted in this false claim even after it was exposed by amused journalists in the 1990s...
...about being named after Sir Edmund Hillary, though when she was born the conqueror of Mt...
...And there was a “greeting ceremony...
...Yet on the cam7 4 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R M a y 2 0 0 8 R . e M M e T T T y R R e l l , J R . City Hall, though Mrs...
...Members of the military are rebuking her for slighting their security measures and their comrades’ courage under fire...
...Khalil Shikaki, the Palestinian pollster who headed the aforementioned poll, never in the 15 years that the poll has been conducted has a majority of Palestinians favored rocket assaults on Israel or an end to negotiations...
...Irritated by her B.S.-ing, one of the participants in the peace negotiations, Noble Peace Prize winner David Trimble, has asserted, “I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill going around...
...Reports Toby Harnden in London’s Daily Telegraph, “There is no record of a meeting at Belfast Pants on fire WASHINGTON will eventually remember them as the reincar- As the Clintons enter their 17th year at the center of the national stage, some Washington pundits are running out of patience with them...
...Now Palestinians want further Israeli withdrawals from the West Bank...
...When the Israel Defense Forces withdrew from Gaza (taking with them civilian settlers), the Palestinians had an opportunity to set up a peaceful community that might encourage further accommodations from Israel...
...Instead the Palestinians immediately began a civil war among themselves and after that began lobbing rockets and mortars into Israel...
...For handing over Gaza to the Palestinians this is the thanks Israel has received...
...Of course Harnden, a veteran reporter on the American scene, is familiar with such Clintonian guff...
...gaza syndrome WASHINGTON heavily armed Palestinian terrorist from nearby East Jerusalem entered the Mercaz On the evening of marCh 6 in Jerusalem, a Harav yeshiva and opened fire on the unarmed teenaged students studying there...
...For now they come off as two undergraduate B.S.-ers on a protracted spring break...
...One of her triumphs, she claims, occurred when she “pulled together in Belfast, in the town hall” Catholic and Protestant women whom she successfully coaxed into putting aside their hostility so “the hard work of peace- making could move forward...
...Now, just as it looked like Hillary might have grown up, she has been caught in at least two whoppers...
...That appears to have made Palestinians angry, and not at Hamas for its bellicosity but at Israel for responding to these cruel attacks...
...I told him that the Clintons would again attract unwanted notice “because they get in trouble...
...She had the singer Sheryl Crow with her, the comedian Sinbad, and Chelsea...
...My condition is more desperate...
...Hanson mused imaginatively that Gaza could become another Singapore or Hong Kong...
...Clinton attended a ceremony there when her husband turned on Christmas tree lights in November 1995...
...Yet she claimed in January that “I actually went to Northern Ireland more than my husband did...
...I wonder if 64% of the Palestinians would approve if Israel began reciprocal random attacks on Gaza...
...I was deeply involved in the Irish peace process,” she has declared on the campaign trail...
...At the beginning of their delightful presidential campaign, a charmless New York Times reporter asked me if conservatives would be as critical of Hillary as they were of Bill when he was the Boy President...
Vol. 41 • May 2008 • No. 4
