Since it’s the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan and also the anniversary of the UN vote that led to the creation of Israel, wild-eyed Islamic leaders throughout the Middle East unleashed torrents of vitriol today.

In Teheran, Former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani delivered the Friday prayers sermon, saying the West remained indifferent to the suffering of Palestinians in the ongoing fighting with Israel, “despite pictures and (TV) films showing Israeli brutality.”

In a warning to Israel, he said: “Don’t think the war will be over if you expel Palestinians from their homes in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.”

“We saw an example of that in Kenya on Thursday,” Rafsanjani said, referring to the suicide bomb attack outside Mombasa that killed 12 people at an Israeli-owned hotel.

Say what you like about Pat Robertson (and I’m not a fan), but I don’t recall ever hearing him gloat about the murder of innocent children.

Protesters at the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo called on their government to cut ties with Israel and the United States.

“We are here protesting the daily massacres against our brothers and sisters in Palestine,” said Fawqiya Maher, a member of the Arab Nasserite Party.

Demonstrators carried posters of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, an icon of pan-Arab nationalism, with the caption “The symbol of dignity.”

I say we give them what they’re asking for, and stop sending Egypt $2 billion a year. But the funny part is the guy they choose for a role model—Gamal Abdel Nasser, a delusional egomaniac who led Egypt to a disastrous, humiliating defeat in the 1967 war with Israel. Only the Arab world could turn this pathetic loser of a dictator into a “symbol of dignity.”