Abbas Reveals His True Colours (But Useful Idiots Are Colour Blind)

What with all the hubbub in the imploding Arab world, you might have missed the recent "day of rage" in Mahmoud Abbas's West Bank. Sol Stern writes that the day was organized with a specific purpose in mind-- to try to persuade President Obama to back the harshly worded Abbas-driven anti-Israel resolution being brought before the UN Security Council:

The Palestinian leadership pushed hard for passage of a UN Security Council resolution declaring that the Israeli West Bank settlements were illegal. With the Middle East in an uproar from Tunis to Tripoli, President Obama was forced to call Abbas and plead with the Palestinian leader to accept a milder, nonbinding resolution that would retain the condemnation of Israel’s continued settlement activity. But Abbas nevertheless pushed ahead, knowing that the stronger resolution would put Obama between the proverbial rock and a hard place. In doing so, the Palestinian leader made it almost impossible for the American administration to serve as an honest broker and bring the parties together around the parameters of the stalled Olmert-Abbas negotiations.

Now, pay attention to the next bit, Irwin Cotler and Canucki Jews looking forward for a chance to shmooze with this dreadful man, an enemy of Israel and the Jewish people. It contains critical info that you musn't ignore:

This is exactly what Abbas intended when he forced the Security Council to vote on the resolution calling the Israeli settlements illegal. The Palestinians would rather rage against the settlements than negotiate a land swap that would give them a state and make the settlement issue irrelevant. The reason for that intransigence is now clearer than ever. There is yet no Palestinian leader with the courage and vision to declare to the residents of the refugee camps that their 60-year-old dream of returning to their former homes in Israel is—and always was—a mirage.

That leader is nowhere in sight. It certainly isn't the old silver fox, who's playing Cotler and other foolish Jews as though he's Isaac Stern and they're a Stradivarius.