“It is quite preposterous that Abbas can go to Washington, tell everybody that Olmert’s offer wasn’t good enough and that he wants to ‘wait’ until somebody delivers something better on a silver platter, while theSaudi foreign minister all but acknowledges that the Arabs don’t really want to negotiate with Israel,  because for decades they have whipped up popular hostility against the ‘Zionist entity’ and it would now be rather inconvenient to explain negotiations with the despised and hated Jewish state.”

Petra Marquardt-Bigman, always indispensable, here.