After Prime Minister Gonzi’s press conference, the first since the UN Security Council Declaration on the no-fly zone, I think I have figured out the man behind “par idejn sodi”. The position and attitude of Dr Gonzi in the name of, and at the head of, the Maltese nation is worthy of a bishop. Of an archbishop even. The position is not political. It is religious. You could fill the gaps in his press conference. The words to fill the gap are the Maltese “jekk alla jrid” (if God wills).
If God wills the guns will be put down. If God wills the Libyan leader who threatened bloodshed in the Mediterranean basin will suddenly develop a human side and will not proceed with the massacre. If God wills there will be no need of enforcing the no-fly zone because there would be no more fighting. If God wills we will not need to send planes from our island. If God wills we will remain the selective Florence Nightingale of the Mediterranean – the unsung heroes. If God wills the Malta Tourism Authority will remain the only authority reminding the world that all we care about is tourism – and that, hey, we are not a British base we are an independent republic that freed itself of the Brit oppressor (and NATO) in 1979. Jeez… haven’t you guys seen Gensna?
If God wills… Well, in God we trust… thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that for practical and assertive action there’s Britain, France and the USA.
(In un paese pieno di coglioni, ci mancano le palle. – J’accuse 2011 (reprise) )
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4 replies on “Jekk Alla Jrid”
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You wouldn’t be writing this drivel if Gonzi had said, ‘If God wills, Malta will act as a military base, so help us God’.
So where does that leave you and your argument?
Morning Kev.
Russians have bored you have they? The Chinese? Really? Nowhere else to go?
The only drivel I see on this page was written at 12.55 pm and that’s you making assumptions about what I would do in a hypothetical situation.
Kev, perhaps you would have been comfortable hearing “Inshallah, Muammar and his family will soon be reunited in their rightful home, Marsaxlokk.”