If the Americans deserve to be murdered because of Washington's "bias" in favor of Israel, why are countries such as France, Britain and Germany -- which have, generally speaking, been very supportive of the Palestinians -- now on the black list of radical Islamic groups?Read the whole thing.
The Europeans are being targeted for the same reason the Americans are: for being "infidels" and enemies of Islam and for the Western values they represent. They are being targeted because of their failure to transform into Islamic countries. Those who think that solving the Israeli-Arab conflict will undermine Al-Qaeda and its allies do not know what they are talking about.
The thing is, those who would blame US ties with Israel find themselves so estranged from any sense of pride in Western values that it never occurs to them that others would take them seriously--least of all seriously enough to go to war over.
Hat tip: P David Hornik
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Its a variant of the argument the British used to sell the Czechs down the river: do they matter at the cost of a world war? No, they don't. That same self-evident argument is being advanced by the Europeans today to sell Israel down the river. Our lives matter more than Jews just as the 30s generation believed their lives mattered more than the Czechs.
ReplyDeleteAppeasement didn't save the West then and it won't save it in the future.