[gaspar]

Bisharat (Bishara) is an Arab name. The author, I would judge, is of Palestinian or Iraqi Christian origin, and the usual Arab apologist who feels it incumbent to support every miserable dictator or terrorist found in that part of the world.

[ppaul]

.....every miserable dictator or terrorist found in that part of the world.

It seems like that part of the world is where most of them are found.