TODAY’S MESOP QUOTATION : “PLEASE COMPARE”!
This is what Barham Salih, the former prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, told me years ago: “Compare us to other liberation movements around the world. We are very mature. We don’t engage in terror. We don’t condone extremist nationalist notions that can only burden our people. Please compare what we have achieved in the Kurdistan national-authority areas to the Palestinian national authority. … We have spent the last 10 years building a secular, democratic society, a civil society.” What, he asked, have the Palestinians built? http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-11/is-hamas-trying-to-get-gazans-killed