"We are staying here, and the Israeli Army should know that if it opens fire, it will also open fire on Europeans," one of Arafat's houseguests told the New York Times.
Slate's Benjamin Soskis asks, "What did these demonstrators do to deserve the peace imprimatur? And where, exactly, did they come from?"
Writing in the Chicago Tribune last week, Northwestern University law professor Steve Lubet suggested that if peace were really the protestors' aim, they'd be dining in Jerusalem cafes and acting as human shields against Palestinian suicide attacks as well. That probably won't happen any time soon, considering the activists' political partiality. So, besides abolishing the term, the only other solution is to extend it. Let's call the Israelis who put their lives on the line by visiting Netanya hotels and Tel Aviv discos, in the interest of living normal lives, peace activists, too.
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