The Middle East explained – not …

This is not a fake: it’s a subscriber’s Letter to the Editor of The British Financial Times. I went looking for it in digital form to provide provenance, but the damned paper wanted me to sign up to fourteen years (if I remember correctly) of something-or-other, and wouldn’t provide access otherwise. I am not making the slightest attempt to offend anybody: I would so dearly like to comprehend, even to a tiny degree, why what is going on is … going on. But it would appear from this gentleman’s...