Palestinian Authority, Meet Dale Carnegie

They really do need to send these guys to a Carnegie course.

For some reason, I don't think that using religiously offensive cartoons or depictions of your advesary as a violent, razor toothed octopus ripping people limb from limb is an integral part of the course of "How to win friends." It might influence people, but probably not in the manner that you desire if you're Yassar or Abu Mazen.

Sometimes, it's almost as if the PA forgets that it is the US that really forced Israel back to the table this time (before Israel was really ready to go back) or that the US can basically turn around, walk away, and let this "peace process" collapse. More often than not, we are convincing the Israelis to act in a manner that is counter to their interests. Does the PA really think that the EU will have the same influence?

Why is it that many of these nations that need our help, either militarily of economically or for their very existance, feel as though they have the right to disrespect us on the one hand while coming begging with the other. They certainly have the right to express their opinions, I won't deny them that, but when they we also have the right to cut support for them for doing so. It's not censorship, it's simply our choice to not support those who express such contempt for us.

They have a choice and so do we. They are exercising their choice through political cartoons.

It's time that we start looking at exercising our choice. A little lesson on the concept of consequences seems to be in order.

Understand that the cartoons are not the only reason I say this, there has been an accumulating pile of this kind of editorializing on the part of the PA, they are just an excellent and timely representation of the overall problem.