Netanyahu’s new emphasis on insisting that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a specifically Jewish state is pushing Israel’s opponents against the wall and forcing them to declare themselves with greater clarity. Of course, this does not just apply to Britain. But as a country whose opinion forming classes rank among the most hostile to Israel in the Western world, the move has provoked a particularly hysterical reaction. Since the Palestinians have made it clear that they have no intention of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, British opponents of Israel have been forced to choose between accepting that Palestinian rejectionism forms the real root cause of the conflict or themselves rejecting the Jewish character of Israel and the whole Zionist enterprise to boot. What that does is force them to confront their own bigotry – which destroys their moral and political identity as high-minded people of conscience. That really does drive them crazy. So they’re putting the boot into the people upon whom they project their own vileness. Read it all.
Britain's Anti-Israel Frenzy Deepens
Friday, 24 July 2009
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