This is a propitious time to connect the dots: Dot No. 1 -- The July 12 announcement by the International Criminal Court in The Hague that it has added genocidal charges to its previous indictment of Sudanese dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. The charges center on a systematic killing campaign which has claimed the lives of more than 300,000 civilians in Darfur, where scores of villages were burned and thousands of women were raped. Dot No. 2 -- Last year's Arab League summit in Doha, Qatar, which warmly embraced the indicted Bashir and sought to quash implementation of his arrest warrant -- "We reiterate solidarity with Sudan and our rejection of the measure of the ICC against His Excellency," read the summit communique. The head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, a fierce, vocal critic of Israel, joined the emir of Qatar in a chummy get-together over coffee with Bashir. Dot No. 3 -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud...(Read Full Post)