[New Republic] Marty Peretz - The Arab states continue to be apoplectic over the Gaza war, at least in public. This is true even though some of the most significant of these states secretly cheered Israel on and certainly did nothing to help their Hamas brethren fight or recover. The big royals and small, plus all of the colonels and petty politicians, who run Arab Islam have gathered this week in Qatar. The big news event of the Qatar gathering was the arrival of Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, who is a fugitive from the International Criminal Court which has a warrant out for his arrest on charges of genocide. Do any of you doubt that Bashir is guilty of genocide? Do any of you doubt that hundreds of thousands of African Muslims have been murdered by Arab Muslim hordes deployed by Khartoum to kill, rape and pillage. Yet the Arabs are moved only by the plight of the Palestinians. Why? Because their condition can be blamed on Israel and on the Jews the world over. The leaders of the Arab world are welcoming a mass murderer into their midst. And, instead of turning him over to authorities in The Hague, they are welcoming him because he is an Arab who is killing black Africans.
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