* Morton Zuckerman (US News & World Report) offers a quiz:
In light of the much-misreported Sharon- Bush meeting, here’s a little quiz to put the event in a perspective that eluded the media.
Q: Which Palestinian leader demanded the following immediate concessions as a condition for further talks:
(i) Israel must withdraw all 7,500 settlers from Gaza and leave the housing and infrastructure there intact.
(ii) Israel must remove settlers from four communities on the West Bank.
(iii) Israel must remove the military installations and checkpoints around these communities so there is an area of contiguous self-government and freedom of movement for Palestinians.
* Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post) on ‘The Real Mideast ‘Poison”:
Anti-Semitism, once just a European disease, has gone global…This Nuremberg atmosphere has reached the point where, if Israel were to announce today that it intends to live for at least another year, the U.N. Security Council would convene to discuss a resolution denouncing Israeli arrogance and unilateralism, and the United States would have to veto it. Only Britain would have the decency to abstain.
