Where Bing Crosby and Syria Meet

While having a fine, typically argumentative Latin afternoon lunch, I caught the finely silver-haired and groomed Wolf Blitzer interviewing the Syrian ambassador to the United States. I observed once more a reoccurring theme that has become a learned intellectual pathology for what apparently ails the Middle-East.

That being it's all about the occupation stupid! Never mind that the trends of a faltering Arab civilization had long been in progress. The wheels, as it turns, had already been turning before Israel's democratic birth. The good man from Syria, with a stern but sincere straight face told Wolf that all these aggressions and killings all came down to one thing- the occupation. Now, the irony of course is that Syria itself occupies Lebabon. Yes, Israel have made mistakes (e.g. the settlements) but...Is this not like, say, Bing Crosby singing and preaching against family physical abuse?