Lo and behold, Charles Krauthammer apparently agrees with Osama Bin Laden that 9/11 was a response to U.S. support for Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. Check out his screed about the proposed New York mosque, taking sides with the universally reviled ADL position. Here’s the payoff line:
…when recently asked whether Hamas is a terrorist organization, [Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf] replied, "I’m not a politician. . . . The issue of terrorism is a very complex question."
The rest of the article is entirely about 9/11, so what’s the relevance of this quotation? Unless perhaps Krauthammer gets the fact that U.S. support for Israel’s project of colonization and ethnic cleansing is at risk when Muslims are granted a public space.
Another reading of this piece: only "good Muslims" – those who see Israel/Palestine through Zionist eyes – are allowed to worship in Krauthammer’s America, or locate their mosques near the site where Americans died — in part — because of insane U.S. foreign policy.
Question for Charles Krauthammer: Are the U.S. and Israeli governments terrorist organizations? (How many hundreds of thousands Iraqis dead, how many Palestinians driven from their homes? Goldstone, etc.?)
