Exactly. Even despite persecution of Arab Christians in "Palestinian"(no such a thing) territory, The will side with Palestinian nut cases. It may be for self preservation, but you just can't know for sure the political aspects, palm greasing, corruption etc. going on. Fred would be much better off far removed from anyone and anything involved.
It disturbs me that Thompson has shown such poor judgment. Or perhaps he picked the man he wanted. That is even worse. I smell a GWB clone. Do conservatives reallyl want to go through this again?