Condi's Irrational Behavior

Carolyn Glick wrote in her column “Condi’s Echo chamber” that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left many Israelis and supporters of Israel scratching their heads in disbelief last week. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0308/glick030708.php3?printer_friendly
Rice arrived in Israel while well organized groups of hundreds of Arabs threw rocks at Jewish motorists in Jerusalem. The violence was incited by the “peace-loving” Fatah, in Judea and Samaria and within sovereign Israel. About a dozen of these stone-throwing “peace-loving” Fatah members almost lynched two municipal inspectors, who were lucky enough to escape by the skin of their teeth.Outside Hebron, an Israeli was also attacked by such a mob and escaped alive only by opening fire at his assailants.In another incident, Fatah forces murdered a Palestinian and seriously wounded an Israeli outside of Hebron.
Thousands of Fatah members rallied in Ramallah and Hebron, in support of Hamas and its missile offensive against the western Negev, and Israeli Arabs escalated their verbal and physical assaults on Israel and Israeli Jews.
Fatah leader and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas referred to the IDF's operations in Gaza as an attempted "holocaust." He praised terrorists, suspended negotiations with Israel. That alone proves Fatah's full support for Hamas's efforts to destroy Israel. It’s an open fact without any hidden agenda. Anyone who has a brain should see it.
So why isn’t Rice questioning her devotion to Palestinian statehood and support for Fatah? She should know of Iran's deep involvement in the Hamas's missile offensive, shouldn’t she? One would think she might have thought that an Israeli reoccupation of Gaza could weaken Iran and put a damper on its efforts to take over Lebanon and Iraq?
Yet she keeps ignoring Fatah's involvement in terror, and continues to support Hamas's missile war against Israeli civilians. Her boss - George Bush - even overrode a congressional ban on the transfer of $150 million dollars to help Fatah. Rice ignored the fact that UN refugee camps in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria and Jordan are hotbeds of terror recruitment, training and indoctrination. She ignored Hamas's widespread popularity in Palestinian society, and called for Israel to step up its humanitarian aid to Gaza, and defended the Palestinians as victims. She also ignored Abbas's open support for Hamas against Israel, and insisted that the only way to end violence is to establish a Palestinian state.
This is totally irrational behavior to any person with a sound mind. How could this happen? Does she have an inability to comprehend the social consequences of her own actions, possibly due in part to a lack of empathy?
Is she delusional or has she isolated herself from all information and all persons bearing information that might force her to change her policy course?
The Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders defines delusions as false beliefs based on incorrect inference about external reality that persist despite the evidence to the contrary and these beliefs are not ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture. That leads to talking or acting without regard of rationality.
Rice stated once that growing up during racial segregation taught her determination against adversity, and the need to be "twice as good" as non-minorities. I am not a psychologist, but maybe that is the reason behind her support of Fatah and Hamas? She seems to express her idea or belief with unusual persistence or force.
It is too bad, that Rice’s irresponsible actions will imperil the lives of tens of millions of people. Why? Because the US and the free world will not come to grips with the spirit and intent of the enemy they are in a war with.
Shalom - Lilo