The always-interesting Mark Steyn in UK’s Telegraph, in response to Saeb Erekat’s recent claim in the Washington Post that George Bush ‘took his job’:
But, if Bush did “take my job”, it’s because Erekat is not up to it. For 10 years, the world has been trying to give a state to the Palestinians and the Palestinians keep tossing obstacles in their path. The latest innovation was a suicide-bomber arrested with explosives bearing HIV-infected blood, the thinking being that anyone who survived would get Aids. Unfortunately, the heat of the explosion kills the virus. But, in his combination of depravity and incompetence, the “Aids bomber” neatly encapsulates the present state of Palestinian “nationalism”. The only way the Palestinians will get any kind of state is if Israel and America inflict it on them and eliminate such lethargic middle-men as Mr Erekat.
Read the whole thing.
