Karen Koning AbuZayd deserves an award for political cowardice. She has been most reserved and careful in talking about Israeli repression and savagery and yet she has suddenly loosened her tongue when talking about Syrian repression. She reminds me of those Western academics who never ever expressed outrage over Israeli cruelty and savagery and yet now write and debate issues of arming the Syrian opposition. Those won't sit in the same room with anyone who dares mention arming of the Palestinians.