A comment on the Isreal situation

I rarely read Ms. Vanderbilt's column, but this morning the following comment on this story stuck me as something that is often overlooked in our media:

Israel is in an intractable position. A generation of Arab leaders have hijacked the Palestinian cause as a means to divert attention from the suffering of their own people and their inability or lack of desire to improve the quality of life of their own citizenry.

How true.