"Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell

January 9, 2005

No Peace in Palestine by Charley Reese

The sticky wicket for Americans is this: When Osama bin Laden decided to declare war on the United States, he shrewdly chose the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as one of his main reasons. He did this not because he gives a hoot about the Palestinians – he doesn't. He did it because he knew the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the one issue on which the entire Arab world agrees. The United States, by completely siding with the Israelis, has made itself the enemy of most of the Arab population.

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