I don’t know about you, but I totally

missed the depressing results of a global

survey taken this

spring by the Pew Center for People and the Press. It found that by wide

margins, people from Muslim nations did not believe that it was possible for

the Palestinians’ rights to be respected while Israel existed. Even more

depressing — no, not depressing, infuriating — was the finding that

the global figure that 71 percent of Palestinians surveyed trusted to “do

the right thing” was — wait for it — Osama bin Laden.