NEWS FROM THE COLONIES:

Who freed the Middle East? (Amotz Asa-El, Mar. 4, 2005, THE JERUSALEM POST)

Asked once during his brief, second premiership what the Palestinians would ultimately say they gained from the Jews, Shimon Peres retorted: democracy.

By now, some Arabs agree. Following an Egyptian writer's bitching – during a recent seminar of Mideastern journalists – over his government's antipathy toward democracy, the Israelis at hand were amused to hear a Palestinian reporter tell him: "What you need is a little Israeli occupation."

In its own weird way, Palestine/Israel is just a fairly typical portion of the Anglosphere.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 6, 2005 3:26 PM