Not everyone on the Financial Times is ignorant of Islam, and therefore of how it explains the  Jihad against Israel. I know of at least one person there who knows what's what about Islam, and some day his time will come.

But whoever wrote this editorial is not one of them, and the piece radiates with the shallow maliciousness that one by now has come to expect, from so many sources, whenever the subject of Israel is treated. The pink-sheeted Financial Times is also heavily dependent on Arab clients for advertising -- Arab banks, multi-page ads for the wonders of Dubai or Qatar or "economic towns" in thrusting Saudi Arabia -- and then there are all those other ads, Strutt-&-Parker stuff, offering a Plantagenet hunting lodge that only a crooked Arab (or, nowadays as well, a crooked Russian) could afford, or a half-timbered Tudor (with all the computer-wiring trimmings) in Virginia Water, or a brand-new pseudo-true oast house in Sevenoaks or, in London itself, flats in Cadogan Gardens with keys to the private park, or...

This is the kind of thing that butters the bread, and molds the minds, at the Financial Times. Money, money, money. Arab money, Arab money, Arab money.

What do you expect?