Darkness Visible in Abbas's Brain

For one brief moment, a tiny glimmer of light crept into the crepuscular corridors of Mahmoud Abbas's brain. Alas, a mere second later it was lights out once more:

The Palestinian president, in a remarkable assessment delivered on Israeli TV, said Friday the Arab world erred in rejecting the United Nations' 1947 plan to partition Palestine into a Palestinian and a Jewish state.

The Palestinian and Arab refusal to accept a UN plan to partition the then-British-controlled mandate of Palestine sparked widespread fighting, then Arab military intervention after Israel declared independence the following year. The Arabs lost the war. 

"It was our mistake. It was an Arab mistake as a whole," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Channel 2 TV in a rare interview to the Israeli media. "But do they (the Israelis) punish us for this mistake 64 years?

How do they "punish" you, Fat'head? By having the audacity to govern themselves in a Jewish state? By refusing to lie down and die? By being?

Yeah, I can see how that might tend to piss you off.