See how "hateful Arab youths" are importing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Europe (*):
There's nothing like a crisis to intensify solidarity between Israelis and Diaspora Jewry. "Whenever there's a terror attack," said Haim Musicant, secretary general of the CRIF, French Jewry's umbrella organization, "French Jews feel as if it happened to them. Everything that happens in Israel affects them and their lives. They feel like Israelis."
Ever since the failure of the Camp David summit of 2000, the Jewish communities have been absolutely to the right of Israeli governments, marketing the state's official policy that Israel has no partner for negotiations. As in Israel, the Diaspora communities regarded compromise as defeatism, and those in favor of dialogue and agreement with the Palestinians were condemned for bringing down the terrible intifada upon Israel. Ariel Sharon became a hero, and the Jews spoke of him as if he were King David. Even French Jewish intellectuals who were sickened in the past by his very name, embraced him. Bernard Henri-Levy praises him, Alain Finkielkraut rediscovered him, Marek Halter wanted very much to meet him during a visit to Jerusalem.
It seems that the Jews were caught unprepared when they heard about Sharon's disengagement plan. They read about the intention to quit Gaza and were particularly astonished by the plan to evacuate settlers. For years they had heard something different from official Israeli spokesmen, and they always adopted the Israeli policy as if it were Torah from Sinai.
Thus, while Sharon may have changed his spots, the Jews haven't. The man who raised the settlements onto a holy pedestal managed to convince Diaspora Jewry that Israel would not exist without the settlements, that Tel Aviv would not exist without Netzarim. Nearly every Israeli ambassador bent to those policies and blindly recited the chapter and verse on how important the settlements - all the settlements - are to Israel. The Jewish Agency was so identified with the settlement vision that it named a settler, Menachem Gur Ari, to head its fiefdom in France. The years of brainwashing turned the organized Jews of the Diaspora into loyal soldiers enlisted in official Israel's cause.
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haaretz.com
(*) A gaunt-looking diamond trader who occasionally rests a hand on his yarmulke, [Eli Ringer] explains: "There was always a sleeping anti-Semitism, but the situation in the Middle East is being exported here and a lot of Arab youngsters are now openly anti-Semitic.
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