Kuttab, Hamas, rockets

Mr. Kuttab's article in the Globe about the Arab street's opinion of the U.S., democracy, and the U.S.'s obligations towards the Palestinians is strange in that it seems so out of touch with reality. The U.S. under Obama is patently not pro-Israel. It has no obligation to right all the world's wrongs. Furthermore it seemshighly unlikely that the Arab street or leadership is pro democracy as Kuttab suggests. Yesterday's article in the Globe about an informal ceasefire between Israel and Hamas also seems unreal as it ignores the hundreds of rockets with which Hamas attacked Israel over the last year as if this is a "normal" situation and doesn't at all relate to Israel's military reaction to Hamas' attempt to murder Israeli schoolchildren.