An import from ‘liberated’ Iraq, hostage taking is an increasingly popular pastime in the Palestinian Authority. There are no aversive consequences such as, say, punishment. Opportunity costs are minimal too. If he were not terrorizing his captives, what would your garden-variety Palestinian thug be doing instead? Singing for his supper?
Mainstream media has ‘explained’ ad nauseam the vexing nuances of the ‘Palestinian problem.’ We know why jobs are unavailable in that otherwise economically viable anarcho-terrorist territory, why government consists of competing terrorist gangs (rather than only one), and why civil society, such as it is, canonizes killers. Israel; it’s all Israel’s fault!
Given this much-rehashed media consensus, I was surprised to hear Fox correspondent Steve Centanni and his colleague, photographer Olaf Wiig, lament that the Palestinian story was “underreported.”

In “The Plight that Never Shuts Up,” my latest weekly WorldNetDaily column, I refute the above fiction and tell how “world peace became tethered to the Palestinian cause.”