I’ve gotten some reader feedback from yesterday’s piece expressing some surprise that there hasn’t been any response on the Corner, particularly from supporters of the port deal, to the question I essentially posed yesterday. I am not that surprised myself, since people are obviously busy with their own things, and my point was more along the lines of “if we confirm over the next 45 days that it is true the UAE supports Hamas financially …,” rather than to say with certainty that the financial support that has been reported actually happened, something I am not in a position to confirm.

But I will put the question to the house: Do people disagree with the proposition that if it turns out the UAE is in violation of American anti-terror law since 9/11, then the UAE should be disqualified from managing commerical operations at our port terminals? I would have assumed this to be incontestable. But I was wrong making an assumption last week about how important the UAE’s hostility to Israel was to proponents of the deal, so this is worth asking.