Mark Steyn doesn't think much of the idiotarian argument that Bali was bombed because of anger about the Palestinians.

While we?re singing the old favourites, here?s Bruce Haigh with a timeless classic. Mr Haigh was an Australian diplomat in Indonesia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and he?s in no doubt as to why hundreds of his compatriots were blown up in Bali. As he told Australia?s Nine Network, ?The root cause of this issue has been America?s backing of Israel on Palestine.? You don?t say. It may well be true that, for certain Muslims ?frustrated? by Washington?s support for Israeli ?intransigence?, blowing up Australians in Bali makes perfect sense. But, if even this most elastic of root causes can be stretched halfway around the globe to a place conspicuously lacking either Jews or Americans, then clearly it can apply to anyone or anything: my advice to Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness is to put down the Omagh bombing as an understandable reaction to decades of frustration at Washington?s indulgence of the Zionist oppression of the Palestinian people. As the likes of Mr Haigh demonstrate every day, the more you insist the Islamist psychosis is a rational phenomenon to be accommodated, the more you risk sounding just as nutty as the terrorists.

As always, the whole thing can't be done justice with a single quote. Go read and enjoy.

I've not met many Australians, but, to a man, those I have have been good folks. Good as in warm, friendly, reasonable, and, mostly, not hung up on themselves.

This Mr Haigh, on the othe hand, looks to be more typical of the Orientalists who staff both Whitehall and Foggy Bottom. The key point from Mr Steyn's post that gives this away is:

"Mr Haigh was an Australian diplomat in Indonesia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia"

Looks as if Haigh picked up some of the Islamists' disgusting antisemitic traits during his postings. I don't use the antisemitic term lightly; but it's the only rational explanation for an otherwise insane connection between the Bali terrorism and American policies towards Israel.

Cheers