I am no historian, but those who are ought to be excited these days. They are witnessing a new phenomenon unparalleled in history. They will be the first to chronicle the absolute paralysis of 200 million otherwise hot-blooded people.

This is unlike the fall of Baghdad to the Moguls. This is no lamentable loss of Al Andalus. The peculiar situation of the Arabs today is that a whole nation has died en masse while it is still breathing - and having a jolly good time, for that matter.

Have we been there before? I don’t think so. The Arab Israeli wars usually lasted for a few hours or days. The siege of Beirut only lasted three months. But this is the longest and fiercest war of extermination to which the Palestinians have been subjected so far. Read More »