Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Carter, Like Arafat, Speaks With Forked Tongue
Last night, PBS aired the second of a two-part special on former President Jimmy Carter. The program showed Carter addressing Castro and other dignitaries at a meeting held in Cuba and boasted that Carter's speech was aired on Cuban television. Carter appeared to read a speech calling for an end to the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba and then turned to Castro and, according to the narrator, urged Castro to do more about human rights.
Problem: Carter's anti-America speech was in Spanish, a language which Cubans understand. His alleged remarks about human rights were in English, which meant that even if those remarks were allowed to be broadcast, far fewer ordinary Cubans would understand what was said.
Yassar Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has perfected this trick. His speeches in English call for peace with Israel and are meant for American and European ears. Arafat's speeches in Arabic demand that every Jew be driven from Israel into the sea and are meant for other ears entirely.
|posted by Jim on 1:36 AM|
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