Reply #43: What A Busy Little Mind You Have, Fellow!

[The Magistrate]

It is very difficult, Mr. Mogster, to level an accusation against a stranger without opening a window into your own soul, for we see little except ourselves in the world around us, unless forced to it. The possibility of your having a "strange, irrational hatred towards jews based on xenophobia and prejudice" had never crossed my mind till this moment, though now that you have accused me of imagining you do, it must be considered a possibility. My query to you was meant as what it was, and as what it remains: an attempt to discover what, in your view, constitutes the co-operation with the achievement of peace on the part of the Arab Palestinian people and their political leadership that you have yourself declared is essential to the establishment of peace in this matter. And so, again, it is repeated. What form do you think co-operation by the Arab Palestinian people should take, in the present circumstances? What do you think the leadership of the Arab Palestinian people ought to do to mobilize and demonstrate such co-operation?

"Oh would some Power the Giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us!"