Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
zunger

Dialogue in my office

Me: Here's a headline you don't see in civilized countries. "Fatah Gunmen Attack Parliament."
Officemate: Sure you do. Whenever Fatah comes and attacks people's parliaments.

Only in the Middle East...
Tags: humor, middle east
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s33k3r

June 12 2006, 20:29:00 UTC 9 years ago

Well, I had hoped that Fatah would maintain the high ground by refraining from using typical Hamas strong arm tactics.

This destroys whatever is left of their credibility.

zunger

June 12 2006, 20:53:07 UTC 9 years ago

Hmm... given that they've been shooting at each other for over two years in Gaza, this isn't really too surprising. It's just a bit more humorous since both groups are now ostensibly members of a democratically elected government.

(Perhaps it's sad that my first thoughts when I saw your comment were "they had credibility?!" and "oh, they're interested in high ground, all right..."

s33k3r

June 12 2006, 21:43:34 UTC 9 years ago

It's not surprising, but disappointing. Extremely disappointing.

zunger

June 12 2006, 21:45:29 UTC 9 years ago

That I must agree with.

finagler

June 12 2006, 22:59:57 UTC 9 years ago

I suppose the simpler version of his response would be "but you just did!"

zunger

June 12 2006, 23:01:27 UTC 9 years ago

That's a good point. I suppose I should have said that you rarely hear it about civilized countries.