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Gadhafi: Israel responsible for Darfur crisis

by tikun | February 24, 2009 at 02:30 pm

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You just got to love this spin. If it wasn't so pathetic you could get a good laugh out of it.

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi said Israel is to blame for the crisis in Darfur.

Gadhafi, president of the African Union, said Tuesday that "foreign forces," including Israel, are to blame for the genocide in the Sudan region.

"We discovered that some of the main leaders of the Darfur rebels have opened offices in Tel Aviv and hold meetings with the military there to add fuel to the conflict fire," the Libyan state news agency Jana quoted Gadhafi as saying, Ha'aretz reported.

Gadhafi urged the International Criminal Court to stop proceedings to decide whether to issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is accused of masterminding the genocide.

"Why do we have to hold President Bashir or the Sudanese government responsible when the Darfur problem was caused by outside parties, and Tel Aviv, for example, is behind the Darfur crisis?" he said.

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Amy Judd

at 14:49 on February 24th, 2009

Gadhafi is crazy - I've lived in Libya and seen it first hand; he is nuts.

car1edb

at 17:08 on February 24th, 2009

- compared to who (Saddam, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bush)? or it it his all female bodyguard team? do tell more.

Roy C

at 14:55 on February 24th, 2009

Thank you, Amy Judd.

Paschen

at 15:52 on February 24th, 2009

I meet him twice and he may seem crazy, but he is not. He has his faults and some are great and yet he is a visionary and very sound of mind. Unorthodox maybe because he is a Berber.

If he says so there is a reason and I would be starting to ding deeper. The US hates him because he has managed to defy them for decades and keep his country out of their grasp. I think that is pretty good. His books are good as well, you may want to read them.

Leonard Brody

at 16:06 on February 24th, 2009

Of course it is Israel's problem...isn't every problem because of Israel....the plague, drought, etc.?

Paschen

at 16:57 on February 24th, 2009

No it is not and you know that as well Leonard. However we have today and most likely always had a great many Political games under way. And the Israeli Government does play its part in it rather well. So do other as well mind you.

I would say most have blood on their hands in that area of the globe and concerning that issue. The reason he said it is not clear yet, he may have said it for another reason more as a chess move or because there is a link, why I said start digging.

P.S. Good comment and correct as well in many cases.

Roy C

at 18:09 on February 24th, 2009

Paschen, I understand you that crazy may not be all bad, but here we have to have evidence that Israel is responsible for the Dafur situation.

Really, it runs against reason that the Jews stirred up the Muslims against the Christians. You can't just have intuition. To keep your own sanity and your own decency you have to check yourself to see if you are right.

How could that statement of his be right? Evidence?

judamy (not verified)

at 19:50 on February 24th, 2009

Israel top 4 arms exporter

Sudan top 10 customer

Evidence meet fact

royonceagain! (not verified)

at 19:42 on February 24th, 2009

Israel 4th largest arms exporter in world (fact check it Roy)

Sudan - top 10 customer

Gadaffi is crazy - sadly, Israel too

René

at 07:49 on February 25th, 2009

So just leave out the Chinese, the biggest arms supplier for Sudan and building those dams, with who knows what environmental impact.

And, if Israel is such a big arms exporter, what good would the proposed embargo aagainst arms for Israel do?

Accepting these accusations by such a person as rational, belies the rationality of the accepters.

Yellow Guitar

at 09:37 on February 25th, 2009

Gadhafi is crazy like a fox. Like most self-proclaimed Socialist messiahs. And now he's the spokesman for pan-Africanism. What a world.

car1edb

at 14:12 on February 26th, 2009

Oh, I thought he was just the "this mad dog of the middle east" -hard to trust any media reports these days eh! ;)

Yellow Guitar

at 15:31 on February 26th, 2009

I remember back in the early 90's reading an article where Gadhafi made the claim that Canadian natives (i.e. Indigenous) were related to the people of Libya by some little known bloodline, thus they could expect Libyan support if they began to assert themselves politically. It was a blatant attempt to stir up trouble for the US and Canada. Sounds like he is still up to his old tricks.

From what I understand his own people in Libya can't stand him either, but they are not free to express anything resembling dissent.