Say Anything Blog

Over at The American Thinker, Rachel Neuwirth notes an unusually straightforward interview given by former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey regarding the Middle East and the question of Palestinian statehood..

“(T)he Palestinians should not be granted the right to statehood until they start to treat Israeli Jews who settle in the West Bank as fairly as Israel treats its Muslim citizens.

“An Arab Muslim living in Jaffa enjoys freedom of speech, religion, and expression, and can vote for his representatives in the Knesset, and doesn’t go to sleep worrying that some government element might come and kill him. I think that once the Palestinians start treating Jewish settlers with that same degree of humanity - and they’re very, very far from doing that now - at that point I think we have to seriously consider how they could have some degree of self-governing. I won’t get into the question of borders, but what I think is that the Palestinians must be held to the same standards as Israel regarding how they treat the other. I am sure this will be many decades from now, though, because their children are taught the Wahhabi doctrine of being suicide bombers and the like.”

Wow!  Talk about blunt!  The entire Woolsey interview is here.