[mmmmmmmm....... donuts]

How is this a hatchet job? I wrote:

"So let me get this straight...

More important, with this latest intifada marked by massacres of children at pizza parlors, Israelis no longer believe security can be found cheek-by-jowl with an Arafat-led Palestinian state. Who can blame them?

And then he rants about the Israeli lobby? So he RECOGNIZES that Arafat wants to destroy Israel, but he complains that the U.S. won't let him!! What nerve!"

I read the damn article. Buchanan HIMSELF realizes that the Israelis have a pretty good reason to distrust the Palestinians. And thus he concludes, despite that Israel realizes that it may in fact be suicidal to give the Palestinians a state, it should do so anyway, because... the Israeli lobby is powerful? Where are you Gen Eisenhower, to tell Israel to just shut up and enjoy more massacres, because that will somehow appease the nutso Islamic masses, despite them still fighting similar battles in the Kashmir, in the Phillipines, Chechnya, etc. etc.?

[Cacophonous]

So you would post US troops in the region to guarantee Israel's safety?

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Prediction: Bush and Powell will start up the road to a brokered peace and find they are on a political Highway of Death. Karl Rove will walk into the Oval Office and say, "Mr. President, it is not worth it, it is not working – we are down to 60 percent in the polls. Let's go back to benign neglect."

Looks like Pat is putting up his resume for Dionne Warwick's old gig at the "Pyschic Friends Network"