I caught a bit of Queen Raina's interview on Softball (Larry King) last night. The most ridiculous question of the night had to have been the following:
But the Palestinians have always been occupied, haven't they? I mean, Egypt occupied them before they've been so-called occupied now. Why wasn't there the anger over that occupation?
What was the name of that other country that governed the majority of Palestinians before 1967 - must of slipped Larry's mind. I mean the last thing we want to do is ask a guest a hard question? Alright, I'll stop -picking on King's interviewing skills is like criticizing the artistic depth of boy bands.
While there was plenty to disagree with in Queen Raina's rhetoric (the contextualization of terror, the exagerrations of Israeli human right violations, the token support for Arafat) I came away convinced that what motivates her is first and foremost sympathy for her fellow Palestinians, and not hatred of Jews. She argues stongly against suicide bombings, and for negotiations as the path to Palestinian rights.
Don't the Palestinians deserve a leader like her? Couldn't she serve as a unifying figure during a Jordanian-supervised building of a Palestinian state? Shouldn't the U.S. be investing more in rewarding the one true moderate Arab state?
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