Nathaniel: I’m surprised at all of you. How can you be so disparaging of a man who prefaces his solution to a 55-year armed conflict with this:

I don’t know a lot about international politics nor about regional religious tensions. I know next to nothing about Jewish and Palestinian history. But I do know this: the problems in the Middle East are not simple. It is not clear who is right and who is wrong. The history of the problem is black with bitter blood and hot anger. And people are still dying.

Well, he’s quite right that its not clear who is right and who is wrong when you know next to nothing about the conflict. The unkind might suggest that people who know next to nothing would be wise to learn at least a tiny bit about the issues before commenting on them.

But surely such trivialities aren’t really important under the circumstances. After all, he’s been a freshman columnist for the D for almost 9 whole months now, so clearly he’s more than qualified to expound on this topic. That being the case perhaps he can enlighten us as to how one reconciles a lack of belief in the possibility of a genocidal force with Mein Kampf’s immense popularity in the Palestinian Authority?