QOTD: Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips's Diary: The Middle East's dance of death
The uncomfortable reality is that, while it is possible that Abbas will turn out to be a world-class statesman, what looks rather more likely is that he is instead a world-class tactician, who will be able to pose with ostensibly clean hands -- and the approval of the gullible, Israel-hating west -- disclaiming the murderous terrorism that Hamas and co will continue to inflict upon Israel, thus forcing Israel to react and casting it even more decisively as the regional bully. If this is so, then Israel is in even more danger now than it was in before -- the danger of being trapped inside a far shrewder and more sophisticated dance of death.