And it’s time, too, to reread this report from 13th October last year, when Muscat visited Zeidan immediately after he was kidnapped and released
Nobody saw fit to note (or could understand) at the time the significance of the fact that Malta’s prime minister, his chief of staff, and a barrow of aides including Kurt Farrugia, made the trip to Libya on a jet chartered by the Libyan government.
Malta Today realised that this fact meant something and reported it, which the other newspapers did not – but then it went on to mention it only in passing and treat it like a minor detail.
Why?
When heads of state or government travel to other states at the invitation of their opposite number there, they do so under their own steam, on their own transport, which their government – and not the inviting government – pays for.
There are reasons for this, and if people cannot understand immediately what they are, then we might as well hang a millstone round our necks and throw ourselves into the sea in desperation.
In effect, what happened here is that Ali Zeidan asked Joseph Muscat to pop over and see him and said ‘I’ll send a plane to pick you up’. The Maltese government delegation then proceeded to Libya in a plane provided free of charge by Libya, rather than in a plane provided and paid for by the Maltese government.
Work out what has been happening here.
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http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/30734/zeidan-and-muscat-a-fleeting-look-at-a-budding-friendship-20131016#.U5RKl3byFWE
http://www.newsbook.com.mt/artikli/2014/6/8/ali-zeidan-qed-jghix-f-san-pawl-il-bahar.18837
Those who do not understand the significance of things can continue to live happily in North Korea, oops sorry, Malta. It is those that DO understand who are being driven to consider their options, millstones or otherwise.
Those who have a stake in it will be preparing their pitchforks and torches as we speak. In the end it may well be our Libyan brothers who will give us a lesson in democracy.
Times of Malta has obliterated all evidence of today’s articles.
but not from here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140608/local/government-denies-former-libyan-pm-zeidan-living-in-malta.522522
It’s already too late.
And to think that so many Labour elves made such a fuss over Gonzi meeting Gaddafi.
What a farce Malta is. No matter how much we try to uphold democratic values there is the PL ready to fuel ignorance and drag us back into the dark ages.
They don’t understand democratic values so they find them oppressive and say that it is an elitist way of doing politics.
Well, we didn’t need a change. We needed an improvement. The PN could have given it to is, but they were kicked out of government. How smart of the Maltese.