From today’s New York Times:

Mr. Bush likes to say he is the first American president to call for a “two-state solution,” of Palestinians and Israelis living side by side in peace. But his three-day visit here, timed to coincide with the 60th birthday celebration, is also reinforcing the impression among Palestinians that he is too closely allied with Israel.

Why “But”? President Bush’s endorsement of a two-state solution is one of the very indicators of his alliance with Israel. He wants to see two viable states emerge from this process. And Israel has been indefatigable in its commitment to a two-state solution, even as Iranian-made rockets launched in Gaza hit shopping centers and homes in Ashkelon and Sderot and the Strip enters its third year under the leadership of a party created to destroy the Jewish state. The only people who could object to George Bush’s pledge to stand by Israel are those opposed to a two-state solution.

Perhaps a visit to the grave of the kleptocrat who turned the hope of Palestinian well-being into a cruel multi-generational farce would rehabilitate George Bush’s image. Nothing less than full prostration before the advocates of a second Holocaust, it seems, will satisfy such complaints.