Edward Olshaker:

In his deranged message to the world, Cho Seung-Hui, the murderer of 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech, credited Columbine High School killers “Eric and Dylan” as his inspiration. But, to give credit where it truly is due, it was not Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, but rather Yasser Arafat and his sidekick Mahmoud Abbas, who pioneered the art of targeting young students.

Ironically, the same week we mark the anniversary of these two school massacres, former president Jimmy Carter paid homage to Cho’s most accomplished predecessor when he laid a wreath of flowers on Arafat’s grave.

Significantly, he did not lay wreaths on the graves of Arafat’s victims, nor did he meet with their families. And the media failed to note the irony of an ex-president on a ”diplomatic” mission honoring the killer of diplomats Cleo A. Noel, Jr., George Curtis, and Guy Eid, whose graves Carter is also unlikely to visit.

The contrast speaks volumes. Carter, in effect, displayed a noose to the victims’ loved ones.

Palestinian officials quoted the ex-president praising Arafat as a “peace fighter and a dear friend of mine,” as well as a “partner in representing the question of justice in the world” —  an extraordinary description of the terrorist mastermind who swore that the PLO’s goal was to ensure that “the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the eldest elder is spilt…”