Wednesday 12 November 2008

Milly Goes To Damascus

And good luck to him. He might feel very much at home, since there are quite a lot of Jews in Syria, and they have an extremely long history there.

There are also at least five predominantly Christian provinces, and civil servants are given Sunday morning off to go to church even though Sunday is a working day.

Syria is in talks with Israel ("indirect" talks, but so what?), and her government is the Arab world's pre-eminent remaining bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism. There used to be another one just to the east, but let's not go into that...

Yes, Syria was behind the Lockerbie bombing. But she can always turn round and say that it was we who framed Libya instead because we needed Syria on side at the time, and we and the Libyans who sent an innocent man to the prison in which he languishes to this day.

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