Gotta love the Guardian

The Guardian recently printed a brilliant op-ed by one John Rose that contains a sure-fire, realistic plan for solving the Israeli-Arab conflict immediately: Israel should transform itself from a Jewish state into an Arab state. Moreover, this transformation should be achieved by Israeli Jews rejecting Zionism and assimilating into "Arabic culture."

Wow. How come I never come up with great ideas like that? Maybe it's because I don't have as strong a grasp on history as Mr. Rose. See, according to him, the idea that European Jews were persecuted throughout most of history is a "lachrymose" view. Rose points out cases of Jews and non-Jews working together in the resistance against the Russian Czar. Forget the Holocaust, focus on the good times. As for Middle Eastern Jews, well, Rose points to the case of the Iraqi Jews. "They certainly did not want the Zionists" -- they immigrated en masse to Israel only because of a crisis "cynically engineered by both Israel and Britain." Right.

Does the Guardian have any standards anymore?