[magic_quotes]

> "the Palestinians are child-like and easy to befriend"

You might want to provide the source for this. (The phrase is not directly googlable.)

[kalberg6429]

that seems to be the abridged version, the exact quote I found says:

"They are nearly all good-hearted, and are easily befriended. One might say that they are like big children." David Ben-Gurion in Igrot (Letters), Tel Aviv: Am Oved and Tel Aviv University, Vol. I, 1971