weird Hitchens comments on Israel

[Reed Tryte]

I do think there must be tension in Christopher
Hitchens' mind between his beliefs about Israel and
his beliefs about the US war on terror. Here are some
recent strange comments of his in an interview with
Front Page
(http://www.frontpagemag.org/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4301):

"the Arafat faction and the rejectionists always
[know] they've got someone else to turn to in Baghdad,
for money and for weapons. Without that, they might
have to do what they keep saying they won't do, which
is make a deal... The bet made by the Wolfowitz-Perle
group is that an agreement between Israel and the
Palestinians would be more easily done if the Middle
East were cleansed of authoritarian extremist regimes
than if it were not."

Does Hitchens mean that the main thing preventing a
just peace agreement is Arafat, emboldened by his
support from Saddam Hussein? And that the genuine aim
of the Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle is to have
such an agreement, and this is one of their reasons
for invading Iraq?

Such sentiments could come from any Likudnik. Peter
K., do you have insight into this?

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