Is it possible that Europeans are finally coming to their senses?
New public opinion surveys conducted among “opinion elites” in Europe show that support for the Palestinians has fallen precipitously, according to a leading international pollster, Stan Greenberg.
Now, let’s think. What could possibly be changing the mind of the European elites?
He singled out France as the country where attitudes had changed most dramatically. Three years ago, 60 percent of French respondents said they took a side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and of that 60%, four out of five backed the Palestinians. Today, by contrast, 60% of French respondents did not take a side in the conflict, and support for the Palestinians had dropped by half among those who did express a preference.
Greenberg said the figures were still being finalized, and so did not go into further details. But shifts such as these, he said, represented “an incredible pace of change,” with significant consequences.
What was it that happened in France to change their minds? Here’s hint: Muslim “youths” rioting. And it turns out that this may well have been the wake-up call that Europe needed:
At the root of the change, said Greenberg, was a fundamental remaking in Europe of the “framework” through which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is viewed.
Three years ago, he said, the conflict was perceived “in a post-colonial framework.”
There was a sense “that Europe could cancel out its own colonial history by taking the ‘right’ side” - the Palestinian side. Yasser Arafat was viewed as “an anti-colonial, liberation leader.” The US was seen as a global imperial power, added Greenberg, and the fact that it was backing Israel only added to the “instinctive” sense of the Palestinians as victims.
[...] Today, by contrast, the Europeans “are focused on fundamentalist Islam and its impact on them,” he said. The Europeans were now asking themselves “who is the moderate in this conflict, and who is the extremist? And suddenly it is the Palestinians who may be the extremists, or who are allied with extremists who threaten Europe’s own society.”
An increasing proportion of Europeans are concluding that “maybe the Palestinians are not the colonialist victims” after all.
The funniest thing in the article? Greenberg was so shocked by the change in numbers that he did some of the poll again, to make sure he wasn’t wrong.
I think the constant attacks by Muslims on Western nations, and the constant discovery of Muslim citizens of Western nations willing to blow up their fellow citizens because of “the treatment of Muslims worldwide” — always the reason they give for killing innocent Westerners — is finally making Europe realize that there is a threat within its borders. And that threat is not the Jews.