So, IndyMedia Discovers Pal. Ethnic Cleansing

And I thought IndyMedia was a raving loony-left hotbed of insanity, especially in Ireland:

The Mask Slips - Palestine to be "Judenfrei"

PA President Mahmoud Abbas tells Arab League Conference that future Palestinian state is to be Israeli free.

Qatar daily newspaper, the Gulf Times, reports that PA President Abbas, speaking at the opening session of the Arab peace initiative conference in Doha, insisted that the future Palestinian state should be free of any Israeli presence, whether military or civilian. He did not provide a blueprint for the achievement of this goal except to say that it "can take place in stages."

By "free from any Israeli civilian presence" it can safely be presumed that Abbas didn't really mean Arab or Christian Israelis were to be removed from the new state. Rather he wants to cleanse Palestine of the Jewish Israelis. Presumably this would include the centuries-old Jewish presence in areas such as Hebron or the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. Would Jewish synagogues and cemeteries be desecrated as they were during the Jordanian occupation of 1948-1967?

The most remarkable thing about Abbas's statement, apart from the sinister echoes of the Third Reich's "Judenfrei" concept, is the almost complete absence of reportage from the mainstream media throughout the world. United Press International did carry a brief report but Google can confirm that other international pickup was negligible to non-existent.

But if a major Israeli politician had said that Israel should be free of any Palestinian presence, well, just imagine the stink that would be raised. Sauce for the goose travels in one direction only, it seems.

Well, well. Congratulations.