Some rather blunt writings on the Middle East:

Victor Davis Hanson on Middle East & Postmodernity on National Review Online

Facts mean nothing. The dispute is purportedly over the principle of occupation -- but next-door Syria holds far more Lebanese land than Israel does the West Bank. The dispute is supposedly over ethnic intolerance and gratuitous humiliation -- but Kuwait, quite unlike Israel, ethnically cleansed their entire country of Palestinians after the Gulf War. The dispute is said to be about treating the "other" fairly -- but Syria and Iraq summarily expelled over 7,000 Jews after the 1967 war, stole their property, and bragged that they had rid their country of them. The upcoming Arab Summit could spend weeks just investigating the Arab murder and persecution of its own people and Jews.

I love it when someone eloquently illustrates hypocrisy....