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Friday, August 26, 2005
Ray on Ynetnews: Peace process needs more medicine By Ray Hanania

It all started with a cough, but quickly turned into yet another Israeli-Palestinian battle at the Hanania household

It all started when I coughed. My wife thought I said, "Gaza is a joke."

No matter how much I tried to explain that I just coughed, she insisted I made a political statement. And that's all it took for her to get started.

"Israel's evacuation from the Gaza Strip," she said, "is intended to bring peace and the Palestinians are saying they will use it to continue their war."

"Peace?" I asked. "You have to be kidding? Israel is withdrawing from the Gaza Strip because they've taken a beating there and the Islamic movement they helped launch back in the 1970s has turned into the Likud's Frankenstein." Who, I quickly pointed out, was probably also Jewish.

"There you go," Alison said. "Blaming the Jews for everything. Frankenstein was a brilliant doctor who tried to do something good. I don't know if he was Jewish or not, but the fact is regardless, not everything that people try to do turns out right. Much like the peace process you love so much," she said.

Read the full article at:
     http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3133585,00.html
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