The most interesting aspect of the bloodletting in the Middle East is the response of the politicians and media to it. The politicians are desperately trying to suck up to the Jews by demanding that Yasser Arafat "stop the violence" and that Arafat "call off his terrorists." Whether it is a Palestinian blowing himself up at an Israeli military checkpoint and taking three Jews with him or one of Ariel Sharon's murder squads summarily shooting a group of young Palestinian men they have rounded up in Ramallah, the Bush crowd calls on Yasser Arafat to "stop the violence."

Have you ever heard an American reporter or politician ask Ariel Sharon why he doesn't stop the violence? Have you ever heard an American reporter ask him about his murderous activities as a war criminal before becoming prime minister? Have you ever heard an American reporter ask him about the recent assassinations of the principal witnesses who might be called to testify against him in a war crimes trial?