Bitter Mary

Bitter Mary has description of poor Yassir Arafat, for whom we should obviously sympathize after the outrageous demands by President Bush that he do something more (anything at all?) about the murderous Palestinian thugs killing Jews:

More? Diminished, humiliated, cornered, with tanks at his feet and helicopter gunships over his head, Arafat is to take charge and lead his people? All that was needed, the president indicated, to stop the bloody invasion of the West Bank -- which was caused by the Palestinian suicide bombers, who were driving Sharon crazy -- was for Arafat to tell fanatical young Arabs who want to blow themselves up for glory and bonuses for their families to just say no -- in Arabic.

No, Bitter Mary, that's not ALL that was needed, but it would have been a small, first step -- a step that the Nobel Terrorist has been unwilling to take despite nearly ten years of post-Oslo Israeli appeasement.

Why this shriveled corpse of a writer has a regular column on an important editorial page continues to mystify me.

[Posted at 22:42 CST on 04/04/02] [Link]