from the alternate universe called Alan Hart's blog:
In my expression of fear as posted to this blog, I said I believed it was wrong to jump to conclusions about who, really, had taken Alan (and might have killed him) and why. I went on to speculate that if one took motive in account, there was a case, repeat a case, for saying that Israel was one of the parties with a motive. That suggestion provoked a barrage of organised Zionist hate mail. Some of which I published.
Question: Does what we know today enable us to be any more certain about who, really, was responsible for Alan's abduction? I say NO!
On the face of it, I seem to be wrong. Alan was abducted by a Mafia-like, Palestinian extended family or clan. For what purpose? Apparently to have Alan as a bargaining chip in a power struggle with Fatah and Hamas.
That is one possible explanation. But in the Middle East nothing, absolutely nothing, is ever what it seems to be. (I think it was Lebanon's last murdered president who once said, 'Believe nothing of what you read and only half of what you see.' He was speaking about events in his own country, but what he said holds good, generally speaking, for the region. My own rule of thumb for interpreting Zionist statements is to assume they mean the opposite of what is stated).
In my assessment, any attempt to establish the truth about who, really, was responsible for Alan Johnston's abduction must recognise a fact of life – that Palestinian and other Arab groups such as the one that kidnapped the BBC's man are easily penetrated by outside agencies ranging from Israel's secret services to Al Qaeda.
It is by no means impossible that Alan Johnston's kidnappers were acting, knowingly or not, for an outside agency. If so, which one? And for what purpose, actually?
1 comment:
Yes, I wondered what he would have to say. He's still wriggling in his dishonest way instead of accepting he got it wildly wrong. And he still has that juvenile way of chanting at his opponents that they are 'supporters of Israel Right or Wrong'.
He should post a picture of himself with his hands over his ears, his eyes screwed shut and his tongue sticking out. That is about Hart's level of debate. No integrity or shame.
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