by Ralph Peters at the New York Post:

According to Mahathir, Jews "invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy . . . The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million, but today Jews rule the world by proxy . . . They get others to fight and die for them . . . "

Never one to back down from a fight when there's no one present to hit back, the prime minister added bravely, "1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews!"

Wrong on all counts, of course. Not least, the last one.

Anti-Semitism Mahathir-style grows more bizarre each time he opens his mouth. It's piggish enough to accuse Jews of designing socialism and communism to further the secret aims of the Elders of Zion, but why should it be an insult to charge Jews - or anyone else - with inventing human rights and democracy?

One suspects that Mahathir isn't wild about either concept.

Except for a convention of European intellectuals, the only place on earth where you could draw applause by damning Jews for their alleged "invention" of human rights and democracy is the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a collection of miserably failed states represented largely by aging dictators.

They're hardly in a position to condemn human rights and democracy, since they've never tried either one.

Nor are these vicious, cowardly men in any position to criticize Jews. Or the AARP, the Rosicrucians or emperor penguins. Muslim leaders have stolen the oil wealth and squandered the human capital of their people. They couldn't talk straight if they rubbed their tongues with Viagra. No matter what goes wrong at home, they blame Israel and the United States.

And they, not the Jews, "get others to fight and die for them." You won't see Mahathir, Bashar Assad, Mo' Kaddafi or any of the pot-bellied perverts of Saudi Arabia leading bayonet charges against the Israeli army.

Nice quip about talking straight.