Whom the gods would destroy they first:
• Civil rights: Rice believes in a bizarre analogy between West Bank Palestinians and southern Blacks.
• Messianism: Both George W. Bush and Rice seem to view themselves as destined to resolve Arab-Israeli hostilities. One interlocutor recounts that "she believes this is the time for the Israeli and Palestinian conflict to end."
"There is no responsible Palestinian leadership that could deliver a newspaper on time in the morning, much less a peace agreement that would stand the test of time." [Goodman/Jerusalem Report - Pipes]
Daniel Pipes/JWR 23.Oct.07
-The Bush administration's plans to convene a new round of Israeli-Arab diplomacy on Nov. 26 will, I predict, will do substantial damage to American and Israeli interests.
Daniel Pipes/JPost 24.Oct.07
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Photo of Abbas and unidentified Jewish zealot from
the old AFP, sometime before 2005. My apologies to the photographer for the missing attribution.
