In the Toronto Sun, Salim Mansur is fed up with the denial and blindness that characterizes the Palestinian statehood issue: Time to end the charade.

The truth of the matter is that there is nothing to broker when one party, the Palestinians and their Arab-Muslim financiers and supporters, remains committed to the destruction of the other party, the Israelis.

Instead of another international conference the Americans would do better in accepting the obvious — that a Palestinian state exists, and it is called Jordan with its population being overwhelmingly Palestinian.

Another Arab state squeezed on American insistence between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean — its population hostile to the West and readily embracing every passing totalitarian ideology in its declared aim of harming Jews and destroying Israel — instead of being a recipe for any final settlement, will be the source of unremitting conflict in the region and terrorism beyond.

Moreover, Palestinians killing each other while continuing to be supportive of terrorism — in addition to the appalling record of Arab-Muslim regimes disregarding human rights and respect for minorities — make them undeserving of the amount of attention provided by American administrations in contrast to the level of American support extended to the equal, if not more deserving, claims of the people suffering in Darfur, Burma, Tibet and Zimbabwe. Diplomacy not infrequently is trading politely in falsehood.

And today, following the publication of this article, the Wikipedia entry for Salim Mansur has been vandalized. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.)

Salim Mansur, PhD, is a right wing Muslim who appeases the right wing agenda of the neo-conservatives and is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario Canada. He is a writer for the London Free Press, the Toronto Sun, ProudToBeCanadian.ca, and numerous publications including National Review, the Middle East Forum and Frontpagemag. He often presents analysis on the Muslim world, Islam, South Asia, Middle East. …

On October 20, 2007 he wrote an article for the Toronto Sun (a right-wing, pro-American newspaper) (…) titled: “Time to end the charade” where he discuses openly the cleansing of the native inhabitants of Palestine from their own land to be transfered to Jordan.

Here’s the vandal’s trail: Salim Mansur - edit history.

UPDATE at 10/21/07 8:54:36 am:

Hi, Wikipedia editors! The Salim Mansur entry has been reverted to its original form.