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Here's some excepts from the CNN transcript with Bibi responding to some Arab nut who apparently tried to justify Arafat and his dogs:

KELLEY: But Mr. Rahman just said, when people are hungry, jobless and their land is taken, they're hard to control?

NETANYAHU: Well, that's simply a cop out. That's a way of saying that Arafat doesn't keep his part of the deal. The deal was he got territory. In exchange, he was supposed to police these people, the terrorists, prevent them from attacking us.

In fact, he's done nothing of the kind. And he has more police per square inch than other country in the world, including, I think, North Korea.

KELLEY: So what's the problem? Is it all Arafat then? Are you saying that he is not strong enough to control them?

NETANYAHU: No, I'm saying he doesn't want to.

KELLEY: Mr. Rahman, right before you, said no one can do it alone. Israel must do its share.

NETANYAHU: Well, that's hogwash. He can do it overnight. And the reason he's not doing it is not because he can't do it, but because he won't do it.

KELLEY: But Mr. Rahman said there are Israeli atrocities as well.

NETANYAHU: There are no Israeli atrocities. There are -- Israel takes focused action the terrorists themselves. But sometimes, unfortunately, as happens in your case in Afghanistan, while you target military targets, you can accidentally hit civilians.

Thanks for posting this. The downright stupidity of their "news" people and commentators is one reason I rarely watch anything on MSNBC.

While Netanyahu is probably my favorite politician and world leader, I don't understand why Israeli spokemen never stand up to the myth that the Palestinian territory is somehow "occupied". They never point out that the Syrians and Palestinians went to war against Israel (more than once) after making the '48 peace agreement. Therefore, the land that is now called "occupied" is really the legitimate spoils of war in the first place.

Every time one of the Palestinian slimeballs brings up the idea that the poor Palestinians are only responding to Israeli "occupation", his argument ought to be countered by the fact that they lost the territory in the first place by originally declaring war on Israel.

It's time that the Israelis stopped relying on our ignorant media and academia to educate Americans in basic hisory.