Simple Shimon

This morning's Today appearance by the President of Israel was completely beyond parody.

We got "Sunnites", who are "moderate", despite including Osama Bin Laden.

We got "Muslims" and "Arabs" used interchangeably, with the implicit suggestion that the Iranian majority is Arab (there is a large Arab population in the oil-rich South West, but I digress).

And we got Iran's enemies, "the moderate Arabs", presumably including those in whose interests Hillary Clinton pledged to nuke Iran (thus despicably putting into people's heads the idea that Iran might wish to attack them, on absolutely no basis whatever): Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, which first alone has given the Clintons eighteen million dollars and counting.

One expects this sort of thing from, say, Tony Blair. His whole appeal, to those (far fewer than is generally assumed) who were ever susceptible to it, was that he knew as little as they did, and was as disinclined as they were to find anything out.

But Shimon Peres? What is the world coming to?