Thoughts and happenings from a life on Malta

“Maltese journalists and other foreigners were welcome to go to Libya. Their presence, he said, should help remove distortions about the situation in the country.”  - Libyan ambassador to Malta, Saadun Suayeh.

As our journalists probably lack the balls, and the pay, to accept the invite, I trust that international journalists will finally be allowed to enter the land of bloodied sand.

“What Libya needs is evolution, not revolution.” – Libyan ambassador to Malta, Saadun Suayeh.

Really, sir! One question from me since the reporters present at your press conference were too busy scribbling down your wise words to actually ask anything.   The televised speeches of Mr Gaddafi and his son, Saif, were they evolutionary or revolutionary in nature?

The Times on-line edition, 24 February 2011

 

But….keep the Mirage fighters here!

I understand this is a delicate situation and the government’s priority is the well-being of its people. That is why, as a nation, we have to show that moral fibre isn’t bought by monatery donations to the needy of faraway lands. Rather, it is by a willingness to sacrifice personal comfort and tranquillity in the pursuit of what is right. Allowing a dictator who has proclaimed to the world that he will crush anyone who stands in his way to have his playthings back is morally reprehensible. Returning the Mirage fighters will make us accessories to a crime against humanity.

We either break one villain’s heart by keeping his warplanes here or we break the lives and dreams of a multitude.