Breaking News: BBC Confirms Mahmoud Abbas' Manhood

I don't know if it's a glitch -- or if it's someone at BBC News with a wicked sense of humour, BUT:
Clicking on today's headline "Israel to let in stranded Gazans" gives this page:

Ok, fine. Apart from the fact that they omit how blunt a human rights violation it is to block sick people from reaching hospitals, or to starve an entire (country?) that they are supposed to have 'disengaged' from and block food (food!!) from reaching it.. it's just a regular piece of news.

Only look at the second line of the fifth paragraph. There's a funny symbol next to Mahmoud Abbas' name. And since Firefox allows you to enlarge the font as much as you want (hit [Ctrl] and [+], baby), this is what you get:


Brilliant. British humour at its best.
Because, let's face it: the recently emboldened Abbas, coming with the promise of international aid (read: american and european aid), has effectively grown himself a new-found manhood. How else would he find the balls to stand up to Hamas, as the failure he is?

Anyways. That was fun.

(Also: they managed to mess up the name of Egypt on the map below... tsk, tsk, BBC News is going downhill!!)