Paint 'em With A Broad Brush

Israel's Minister of Public Security, hard-line Sharon ally Uzi Landau, ordered the arrest this morning of one of Palestine's most prominent peace activists. The only message this arrest sends is that the Sharon administration makes no distinction between peaceful and belligerent Palestinians, and has no desire to share any land with anyone. It's high time the U.S. suspended any and all funding that we are providing to Israel in compensation for the Oslo Accords, since they have been "virtually obliterated" by Israel throughout the Sharon administration.

Biological note from nytimes.com:
Dr. Nusseibeh, scion of one this city's princely Arab families, a tweedy, Oxford- and Harvard-educated intellectual, has been a driving force among Palestinians who have signed a statement urging their compatriots to abandon suicide bombings against Israeli civilians as counterproductive. He has publicly said Palestinians must abandon their claim to a right of return to Palestinian lands. His stands have drawn death threats from other Palestinians, and the Palestinian Authority has had to provide him with guards.