Tuesday, May 05, 2009

The dumbest leader of the Middle East

I regularly mock Arab leaders and their stupidity. But you would be mistaken to think that Israeli leaders (military leaders included especially during the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006) are any less dumb. Yesterday, I heard comments by Shimon Peres about the Arab world. Peres is now delighted because he seems to have stumbled on the division of Arab Muslims into Sunnis and Shi`ites. Peres told his interviewer on CNN (a former writer for the publication of the Israeli lobby who later changed his name) that 75% of all Arab Muslims are Sunni Arabs and that Sunni Arabs no more see Israel as the threat or the enemy but they all see Iran as the enemy and the threat. I made a note to inform my Sunni Arab mother next time I call her that she does not see Israel as the enemy because Peres thus ruled.