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February 27, 2011 at 12:30am
Silvo Berlusconi has opened his mouth at last, and it’s not for a spot of bunga-bunga.
“It seems that effectively Gaddafi no longer controls the situation in Libya,” he said today. “If we can all come to an agreement, we can end this bloodbath and support the Libyan people.”
First he comes to an agreement. Then he supports the Libyan people. He won’t support them before he’s got the papers in hand.
The sooner they get rid of that chump, the better. The press photograph of Berlusconi and Gaddafi in a golf-cart last summer – Noddy and Big Ears on a day out – must rank as one of the photographs of the year. They must really get along.
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One sits while the other drives him wherever he wants.
Ragunament Bazwi: Quotes tal-Plastic Edition
“How can you have a peace-keeping force when there is no peace to keep?”- Antoine Vella on GahanToday
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/blogs/michael-briguglio/don%E2%80%99t-let-libya-burn
Ehe imbaghad when the lead starts flying dawn l-AD sandal-wearing beatnik types jibdew gejjin bir-restrictive rules of engagement.
U jipprotestaw kontra l-prezenza ta’ forzi militari. Mela biex trid tibaghthom lill-peacekeepers?
Nassumi wkoll li dan Briguglio jrid lil Malta tghid lil United Nations biex taghmel dik u l-ohra, izda li Malta m’ghandhiex tibghat it-truppi hi stess, le?
Meanwhile, Nouri al-Maliki’s police have killed 23 protestors in Iraq’s ‘Day of Rage’ yet we hear no condemnations – not from Obama; not from any heart-bleeding ‘democrat’ here.
And Israel? Oh, but Israel is a democracy, even if it has squeezed over 1.5 million Palestinians into an area around the size of Malta while bombing their infrastructure to ensure they will not thrive.
Tell me, have you any idea of life in the Gaza strip or is Libya the farthest your sentiments can go?
Who, me? I do not condemn repression, unless I can personally intervene. I see condemnation as being your sort of statement: pure rhetoric to salve your conscience.
The only thing I condemn is stupidity. And AD is incredibly stupid in foreign or defence policy, starting from the untenable position of “give peace a chens”.
P.S. Jien kont qed naqbdel mal-kumment tieghek, jigifieri ma nibdewx argument iehor.
Maybe it’s time that Kevin Ellul Bonici got a pet parrot instead of a chincilla.
Here’s one throwing stones in a glasshouse, and she wasn’t posting comments on timesofmalta.com
http://www.timesofmalta.com/mepelections/view/20090531/news/eu-should-accept-libyas-proposal-on-immigration-ellul-bonici
Ms Ellul Bonici welcomed Libya’s proposal for $€707 million in EU aid in exchange for collaboration to stem illegal immigration. She added that Malta should urge the EU to assist Libya and ensure that this led to an EU-Libya readmission agreement.
“Some people are saying this is blackmail on Libya’s part, but I don’t see it that way. Combating illegal immigration is costly. The EU should take this opportunity and make sure it paves the way towards a readmission agreement with Libya,” Ms Ellul Bonici added.
Kev, not for the first time I fail to see what your point is. Michael Briguglio wrote that the UN should send a peace-keeping mission and I responded that there isn’t any peace to keep. It is yet to be achieved.
Once Gaddafi has been ousted most of Libya will rejoice and there won’t be any need for foreign peacekeepers either.
Daphne, the Labour party has a big dilemma. They just can’t find themselves condemning Gaddafi. I suspect MLP over the years must have received lots of money from Gaddafi for their support against the EU.
How can the MLP condemn Gaddafi when it was Mintoff who eagerly befriended him when the rest of the world kept their distance from him.
Mintoff and KMB had no foresight. Men without vision.
How did a major political party in Malta gave shelter to these men without vision?
The PN didn’t condemn Gaddafi either, like the Labour Party, they condemned “violence”.
Interesting comments by the BBC’s correspondent on the target audience for the sanctions. Will we see more defections in the coming days?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12589434
It’s got two steering wheels.
Some valuable input from another former Great Leader:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110227/local/kmb-malta-should-mediate-in-libya-crisis
Sickening.
You still continue with your anti-Italy bias. Any action taken to end the bloodbath and save lives is a step in the right direction.
What should Malta do – take or support diplomatic action to find a peaceful compromise solution as a former Prime Minister suggested or adopt sanctions and support military action or take both these courses of action or should it remain passive?
[Daphne – Malta has no choice, fortunately. It’s one reason I voted Yes to EU membership. I imagine you woke up to read this morning that the decision has been taken and Malta has to go along with it or ally itself to Libya and get thrown out of civilised society, as happened to us back in the Golden Years. Yes, I’m very anti-Italy. I can’t stand racists and fascists.]
Anti-Italy, ah so that is not a racist comment. I still think mediation is a possible way forward.
[Daphne – No, it’s not. It’s perfectly acceptable (indeed, it is the moral thing to do) to be against racism and fascism. Italian culture and the country’s political system are inately totalitarian, absolutist, racist, fascist and intolerant. It is why everything in Italy outside of Milan appears to be fossilised.]
Sorry to say this but not knowing and appreciating the richness of Italian culture (from art and music to religion and law), which has enriched Western civilization, shows prejudice, crass ignorance and racism.
[Daphne – With the exception of music, in which my interest is marginal, I probably know more about it than you do, ‘David’. And that is also how I know that it is fossilised in every area, and that pride is actually taken in that fossilisation. I take it from your comment that you are one of those people who think that the word ‘culture’ means the creative arts. It doesn’t necessarily, and I for one certainly never use it in that context because it sets my teeth on edge. When I say culture I mean social culture, society, ways of being and doing, attitudes and mores. Italian culture is innately hostile to change and resists it on all fronts. It is hugely conservative and non-dynamic. It is also xenophobic, fearing and regarding with contempt other cultures and different ways of doing things, from eating to getting dressed. I would bet that the great art you are thinking about was made 500 years ago, which is roughly the last time the Italians were innovative. Oh sorry, I forgot the tomato, which they condescended to accept 200 years ago though they haven’t taken on a single new ingredient since.]
KMB has opened his mouth.
“Malta should mediate between Muammar Gaddafi and the army of protesters who want to overthrow him, rather than embarking on an EU sanctions initiative”
He wants us to help Gaddafi stay in power, or at least that’s how I interpret it.
Let’s imagine he goes there personally to chat with his mate, and gets kidnapped. How much ransom is he worth?
Ahseb wara dan:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110227/local/kmb-malta-should-mediate-in-libya-crisis
Wake up! KMB has spoken! To arms!
Surely, to ploughshares?
Is it me or has The Times really lost it:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110227/local/maltese-catamarans-still-holed-up-in-tripoli-by-the-weather
[Daphne – Why, what do you mean by that?]
Monkey hair Berlusconi pays good money to his spin doctors. Read between the lines “It seems that effectively Gaddafi no longer controls the situation in Libya”.
As if this would make Gaddafi any less responsible then and now. Get Berlusconi another tube of lube. He needs it!
Bob, wake up ghax tkellem K.M.B.? Mela x`ser tghidilna naghmlu la jitkellem Mintoff?