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Tectonic Shifts in Attitudes toward Israel
On the first shift: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently pointed out "a great change" in the Arab world which has a growing connection to Israeli companies because it needs Israeli "technology and innovation, ... water, electricity, medical care, and high-tech." Explaining this normalization as a result of Arab states "looking for links with the strong," Netanyahu was too tactful of American liberals to add another factor: Barack Obama teachable moment... 's policy of appeasing Tehran jolted the Arab states to get serious about the real threats facing them. It is striking to note that full-scale Arab state warfare versus Israel lasted a mere 25 years (1948-73) and ended 45 long years ago; and that ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... and Iran have since picked up the anti-Zionist torch. The second, no less important, involves the global Left's growing hostility to Israel. This pattern can be found consistently from South Korea to Thailand to South Africa to Sweden to Brazil. The Durban conference of 2001 initially brought this phenomenon to light. Among many other examples, the Black Lives Matter platform accuses Israel of "apartheid" and "genocide." A communist labor union in India representing 16 million farmers, apparently joined the boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) movement. Moslems show increasing indifference to the breakdown in Paleostinian-Israeli diplomacy, but Leftists express growing anger over it. This last point has great importance: the rage against Israel is not about Ashkenazi-Sephardi relations, tensions on the Temple Mount, a possible attack on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, or Israel's own nuclear weapons. Rather, it almost exclusively concerns the status of some 3 million Paleostinians in the West Bank and Gazoo. Thanks to a mix of Paleostinian public relations expertise and continued antisemitism, the welfare of this small and powerless but fanatical population has transmogrified into the premier global issue of human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... , getting endlessly more attention than, say, Æthiopia ‐ and motivates nearly all denunciations of Israel. Therefore, when the Left, now largely excluded from power, eventually returns to office in countries like Japan, India, Germany, La Belle France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Israel will face a crisis due to the unresolved situations in the West Bank and Gazoo. Accordingly, a resolution of this issue should be an utmost priority for Israelis. Only an Israel victory and a Paleostinian defeat will achieve this. In other words, getting the Paleostinians to cry uncle is an urgent priority for Israel and its supporters. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-28 |
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