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* The Arab TV station al-Jazeera recently ran a cartoon on its website showing an Iranian mullah passing indifferently by various trouble spots in the Middle East, but then bridling with fury when he sees a map with the name "Persian Gulf" changed to "Arab Gulf." (This has been a source of some friction in the region.) The mullahs--never best known for a rollicking sense of humor--took umbrage, and a stinging editorial by one Hassan Hanizadeh appeared in the Tehran Times. Mr. Hanizadeh was not at a loss to explain why the Muslims of al-Jazeera would insult their fellows in such a way. It was, he instructed his readers, the fault of the Jews. By diligent research, you see, Mr. Hanizadeh has uncovered the fact that al-Jazeera started up just at the time the mullahs were trying to open a dialogue with the West. That such a dialogue might come to pass was intolerable to the "Zionists": "And that is why they founded the al-Jazeera network to tarnish the image of true Islam." In these circles, there is no need for coherent thought. You just have to keep repeating: the Jews, the Jews, the Jews ...

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