Robert Fisk: Posturing and laughter as victims rot

Mahmoud Abbas stepped further into humiliation by saying the only option for Arabs isto make peace with Israel

The front page of the Beirut daily As-Safir said it all yesterday. Across the top was a terrible photograph of the bloated body of a Palestinian man newly discovered in the ruins of his home while two male members of his family shrieked and roared their grief. Below, at half the size, was a photograph from Israel of Western leaders joking with Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister. Olmert was roaring with laughter. Silvio Berlusconi, arms on the back of Olmert's shoulders, was also joshing and roaring – with laughter, not grief – and on Olmert's right was Nicolas Sarkozy of France wearing his stupidest of smiles. Only Chancellor Merkel appeared to understand the moral collapse. No smiles from Germany.

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How can any "human being" support this outrage? Frankkly, I don't know who I'm more pissed with at the moment - the Zionists or the Arab and so-called Muslim leaders. Certain Arab countries have spent billions of dollars in advanced weapons in recent years. My question is, who are they going to use them on? Iran? Or, maybe their own people. Obviously, these so-called Arab leaders must have purchased the weapons to kill other Muslims since they have bowed down to the Christians and befriended the Zionists who are resently slaughtering their brothers in Palestine...