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Sunday, March 24, 2002
 
I'll be honest: most of the time I read InstaPundit not for the punditry but rather for the links. I think that is largely the point of blogging anyway. Today there is a piece of punditry on the Palestinians that is right on the mark. Mr. Reynolds says:
I was once somewhat sympathetic to the Palestinians, but it is now hard for me to imagine any circumstances in which I would object to anything the Israelis do. The Palestinians, and not just the leadership but the huge mass of them, have made clear that they want to see dead Jews -- or, in a pinch, dead Americans -- more than they want peace.

I think that a lot of people will say that Mr. Reynolds is right-on here. There are a lot of folks who don't necessarily support Israel just because the United States has long supported Israel. After all, Israel has spied on us in the past and many argue (or at least suspect) that they are spying on us still. There are a lot of reasons not to like Israel, but the Palestinians and their leadership and their terror squads and the tactics they employ are all far worse. I suspect it is only a matter of time before Mr. Arafat takes a bullet from a sniper. This will be carried out by Israel the instant the United States relents and acknowledges that Mr. Arafat is the single largest hurdle to the inititiation of a peace accord.