Also from HonestReporting: What if Israel suddenly called Bush the “head of the snake”, or refered to America as a “putrid swamp”? Wouldn’t the media outcry be instantaneous and fierce? Yet those very things were spoken by the Palestinian Authority’s Deputy Foreign Minister Adli Sadeq on June 3. The first I heard about this was from HonestReporting.
Take this political cartoon, from a newspaper in Qatar:

This isn’t an aberration. It’s standard fare for the Arab world.
Extremism doesn’t describe these prevailing attitude. After all, extremism is limited to the few. Extremism is the norm in the Middle-East.
What’s more dismaying is the apathetic response (or lack of response) from the American media. Only in America can you get 16 words hyped into oblivion, yet ignore blatant hatred being spewed from the mouths of media darlings like Arafat and Abbas. Nor are Arab inconsistencies pointed out. Try this on for size: The so-called Roadmap for Peace consists in part of the removal of Arafat from PA leadership. July 17 edition of the Jerusalem Times stated that Abbas and Arafat had settled their differences with a deal that gives Arafat control over two important portions of the leadership of PA: negotiations with Israel and head of the PA security committee. Or this: The Roadmap requires PA leadership to “arrest, disrupt, and restrain individuals and groups conducting and planning violent attacks on Israelis anywhere.” Except that Abbas stated on July 22, “Cracking down on Hamas, Jihad and the Palestinian organizations is not an option at all.” Sound like a slight conflict of interest? There’s more.
Even though Palestinian prisoner release is not part of the peace process, several news sources, including Reuters and the Washington Post, persist in including it as a tenet of the peace process.
Thanks to E Pluribus Unum for the info.