The Department of State’s annual report on human-rights abuses around the world, released on March 3, devotes 69 pages to Israel and an additional 72 to the West Bank and Gaza, for a combined total equaling that devoted to China. No other nation, not even Syria or Iran, received such attention. But the problem is far more than a quantitative one, as Evelyn Gordon points out:

If there is to be a resolution to the conflict between the Jewish state and a putative Palestinian one, writes Jonathan Michanie, it won’t start with drawing lines on maps or restrictions on where Jews can build houses, but with the Palestinian Authority (PA) abandoning its official anti-Semitism. The PA can, in this regard, learn much from those Arab nations that have recently made peace with Israel: