The election of reputedly “hard-line” Israeli leaders like Binyamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman is considered a blow to peace, and these leaders feel called upon, again and again, to affirm that Israel does want peace and explain how it intends to achieve it—the clear implication being that the Palestinians and the Arabs in general are just waiting for Israel to make the right move.
But is that assumption justified? Rationally speaking, a new report by the Anti-Defamation League should be enough, by itself, to cast a lot of doubt on it.
“The swine flu epidemic has provided fodder for newspapers in the Muslim and Arab world to continue their broadsides against Israel,” the ADL notes. “Editorial cartoonists for large circulation Arab and Muslim newspapers in several countries have picked up the swine flu theme as a means to depict Israeli leaders as racist pigs.” [snip]
The fact that American and European leaders, with their obsessive talk of peace and pressures on Israel, maintain a conspiracy of silence on this phenomenon—not to mention Israeli leaders, intimidated into compliance—is ultimately a sign of submission, one might say dhimmitude, before the Arab world’s economic power and perceived strategic importance.
Not surprisingly, recent attempts by Israel to “make peace” have resulted in suicide bombings, rocket barrages, and other forms of deadly terror...
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