Comments on: Why the world hates Israel

By: Moshe Schorr

Moshe Schorr — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:02:30 +0000

There is another glaring ommision. It says the PLO was founded in 1964. True. But the Plo and the PA keep claiming they want to regain the land they lost in the Six-Day War. But that war was in 1967! So obviously the PLO was founded to destroy _all_ of Israel. But don’t expect anyone to point that out. AAMOF, I saw an entry in an encyclopedia that says the PLO was created in 1964 to regain land lost in the Six-Day War. They aren’t embarrassed by the obvious contradiction.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:31:32 +0000

Maybe this will provide some answers to the question posed in the post and comments. How Britain outsourced anti-Semitism. The link to Robert Wistrich is especially illuminating.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:58:30 +0000

Interestingly enough, the second intifada is ascribed to “frustration” without a mention that it happened shortly after Barak offered them ninety-five percent of what they could reasonably have hoped for, leaving negotiations still open. You also get the impression it was a spontaneous uprising and not obviously planned. For that matter, there’s no indication that Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount was disrespectful; apparently the fact that a Jew set foot on it was enough.

The fact that the separation fence (it’s mostly a fence, not a wall) was not only built to cut down terrorism but in fact did so is also not mentioned. That’s not in inadvertent omission.

The sad thing is that the FT article is probably as favorable to Israel as you’re likely to get from a major European publication.

Once again, thank you Morris Meyers, my grandfather, for not stopping in Europe and coming to the US.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:34:57 +0000

The Muslim reaction to Jews is equally psychotic as the Eruo reaction. For example, Iran aspires to destroy Israel and exterminate its Jewish population (just like the Arabs do). What did Israel and the Jews do to the Persians? Nothing. Israel exists and that offends the monstrously inflated vanity of Iranian Muslims, that is all Israel’s done to Iran. Israel has done nothing to Malasian and Pakistani Muslims, yet they too want to annihilate the Jews. This is psychotic.

And remember, today anti-Americanism is the other side of the coin of antisemitism. The Jews and the Americans are in the same boat, we shall sink or swim together. Non-Jewish Americans shold get used to being targeted for existing, not for anything America does.

Indeed we already are. The jihadis hate us for preventing Serbian massacres of Kosovars, for rescuing the Bosnian Muslims, for preventing the conquest of the Gulf by the bloody-handed tyrant Saddam, for supporting the Afghans against the Soviets, for supporting Pakistan, for protecting Turkey and Iran from Soviet imperialism, for standing up to the Soviet Union and preventing it from conquering the Middle East, which it would have done if not prevented. Oh yes, instead of taking the Arabs’ oil by force and profiting from it ourselves, in the Arab fashion, we paid them world market prices for their only export, not to mention the Arabs cannot find, extract, refine, and market the stuff without Westerners doing the job for them, thus making the Arabs filthy rich. You can see why they hate us.

By: simon

simon — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:01:58 +0000

just came across this – interesting article. says in the bible that jerusalem will be ‘a stumbling block’ to all nations – or something like that – and so it is. Its pretty amazing how much grief the jews have suffered (individually and as a collective) over the years – and yet they still remain a seperate nation, where so many other ancient civilisations have distintegrated into nothing.

By: jonny

jonny — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:04:37 +0000

Anti-semitism is the opiate of the (european) masses.

The Euros hate Israel. It seems to me its a different level of hatred to the Muslim countries. The European hatred is like a phsychotic disorder type thing (something they need to work out in theraphy) while the Islamic hatred is like a war time enemy type thing (something that can be overcome by dialogue and education).

By: david foster

david foster — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:40:49 +0000

I’m an FT subscriber, and when I read something like this I wonder if their *business* stories are written with a similar level of research and attention to objectivity.

By: Jon Ihle

Jon Ihle — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:53:48 +0000

The cause/effect inversions you mention are just some of the many erasures of Israeli history that plague any discussion of the Middle East. You don’t hear much about Jews ethnically cleansed from Hebron in 1929, 750,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries after Israeli independence, the many pre-1948 Jewish settlements in what is now the West Bank which the Jews were prepared to give up for the sake of having a state, the fact that West Bank settlers are exercising the right of return Palestinians claim for themselves in Israel – but that it’s more legit because the West Bank has never been sovereign Palestinian territory, etc.

By: Chairwoman

Chairwoman — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:40:02 +0000

The Brits hate Israel for the same reason as everybody else does. Because it’s full of Jews.

The only thing we can do to stop people loathing us is to die.