(Michael Rubin, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and editor of Middle East Quarterly, offers a spot-on take at what’s going on in the Middle East and what needs to be done. Here’s a portion of his column available at National Review Online.)

[Arafat], like other terrorists and rogue leaders, ran to diplomats and the United Nations when he feared retaliation, the playground equivalent of sucker-punching a classmate when the teacher’s back is turned, and then crying for intercession as the victim fights back’