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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (1038)	12/4/2001 12:31:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

An Old Story Anti-Semitism, past and present. By Jack Schwartz, a longtime New York newspaper editor December 4, 2001 11:55 a.m. [excerpt:] Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. In its Islamist mode it is remorseless in its exhortations to drive the Jews into the sea, and revert all of Palestine to a Muslim trust; in its secular form it has adopted Frantz Fanon's maxims that "truth is that which hurries on the breakup of the colonial regime," and that "the good is quite simply that which is evil for them." Consequently, Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth. Thus, Arab propagandists ask: "In the current political climate, what is the worst thing of which we can accuse the Jews?" The answer: Racism, Apartheid. Genocide. Colonialism. Is it true? It doesn't matter. Let the Jews worry about whether it's true. The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them. It is not surprising that some pro-Taliban Pakistanis are now complaining because the U.S. failed to put Israel on its target list of terrorism. The goal is to vitiate the meanings of words so that, in the subsequent confusion, the onus is taken off the perpetrators and equivalence placed on the victims. We have entered an Orwellian realm in which the Palestinian Authority has created its own Ministry of Truth, with a vociferous global bully pulpit. It's a world where a conference on racial tolerance is turned into a hate rally, where mass murder is called martyrdom, where people who indulge in lynching complain about persecution, in which accusations of Israeli disrespect are made by Palestinians whose airwaves and newspapers and pulpits are rife with obscene, anti-Semitic venom, in which condemnations of Zionism are conflated with attacks on the Jewish people so that there is no longer a distinction between the Palestinian movement's professed anti-Zionism and its rampant anti-Semitism. What is at the heart of the Islamist assault on the Zionist project is not the issue of national rights, but the humiliation engendered by a formerly subject people ruling where Muslims once held sway. This can only be eradicated by subjugating the offenders and restoring them to their humble status. It explains why the Islamists no longer bother to distinguish between attacking Zionists and Jews. In their worldview, the Israelis, by their nation's very existence, are committing blasphemy. nationalreview.com

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (1038)	12/4/2001 1:14:21 PM
From: HH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Haim, Can you enlighten me as to the legitimacy of the creation of Israel as a Jewish state? I confess my ignorance in history on this point and please don't misinterpret my question in any way provocative. I have seen Israel exhibit remarkable patience and a true determination to achieve peace. I support her right to defend herself and I think the US should show more support for Israel. I can only pray that we are suppporting Israel behind the scenes in substantive ways. I have friends who have been personally affected by terrorist attacks in Israel during this last year. My heart bleeds for the victims and I truly think that Israel is our only true ally in the middle east. Please help me understand this point in history and if the answer is too complex for this forum, please point me towards some reading material. HH