…Jewishness was already fourteen centuries old when Christianity entered the stage of history. Then another seven centuries had to pass before Islam imposed monotheism on the sons of Ishmael who had been idolaters.

In other words, Jewishness was two thousand years ahead of Islam, its plagiarized shadow religion, and that fact may account for the performance on Monday in Ramallah by Mahmoud Abbas displaying, and not for the first time, an I.Q. far below the average person in the Judeo-Christian West. That was the top story in Israel today.

Imagine in your mind a bi-lingual book, Hebrew on one page, its Arabic translation facing on the other and see two different minds at work. The Hebrew letters are distinct. Even without knowing the Hebrew alphabet let alone the language, one can see each letter is distinct, squarish, unadorned verticals and horizontals.

Versus the facing page of Arabic, all cursive and linked, graceful, artistic, arabesque. These are two different minds at work. And what we heard last Monday out of Ramallah was the thinking of a man who might score in the high 300s on an American SAT Verbal Aptitude Test. This is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier of Ancient Palestinian thinkers…