THERE ARE TWO REASONS WHY I’VE FOCUSED LESS ON THE MIDEAST LATELY: One is that, quite frankly, it was getting too damned depressing. People ask me how I write so much day after day, but the really draining part is reading all that bad news. The other is that James Taranto’s Best of the Web is doing such a superlative job that whenever I find something interesting it’s either something he’s covered, or something he will cover later in the day. Go there. It certainly sounds like my Arafat hunch (see below) is playing out.