If you wanted to find a single story that summed up everything wrong about the politics of the Arab and Islamic world, it is this little item from the New York Times about the Arab summit meeting in Doha, Qatar.

As the Times puts it, the Arabs are divided about everything … except their support for Sudan’s Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the architect of a campaign of rape and murder in Darfur that earned him an indictment from the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. There may be a warrant for al-Bashir’s arrest sitting in The Hague but he got nothing but hugs, kisses, and statements of support from fellow Arab leaders.

As far as the Islamic world is concerned, the hubbub about genocide in Darfur is strictly a Western plot. They even have the chutzpah to compare the unpleasantness in Darfur to Israel’s counter-attack against the non-stop firing of missiles on civilians in southern Israel. (They are okay with the Palestinians’ attempts to murder Jews; it is the Jews’ attempts to defend themselves that constitute the real war crime.).

The point is the Arab and Islamic world couldn’t care less about how many hundreds of thousands of Darfurians are massacred by their Sudanese pals. Of course, they don’t care about the Palestinians either. If they did, they would push them to give up their irredentist hopes of destroying the Jewish State and to concentrate on improving their own lives and making peace.

But, of course, what’s really interesting about this is the virtual silence from human-rights groups and international non-governmental organizations who are dedicated to demonizing Israel while they won’t lift a finger to hold the governments who support Sudan accountable for their behavior.