Reader comment on: On Campus: The Pro-Palestinians' Real Agenda

Submitted by david elder, Mar 27, 2009 00:24

I am an Australian protestant, a retired academic, caucasian, who would welcome a peaceful two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. Here too in Australia we have the sort of anti-Israel fanaticism described by Mr Toameh. And university campuses are alas a prime source. Anti-US hysteria is at the bottom of a lot of it. The US supports Israel, to a degree - that's enough to bring out the usual suspects. This despite the fact that the US along with Tony Blair has fought a number of often costly wars in Muslim interests - the first Gulf war to liberate Kuwait, the Balkans to stop the disgraceful ethnic cleansing of Muslims there, Afghanistan to liberate the country from the theocratic Taliban, the second Gulf war in part to save the Iraqi Shia and Kurds. The US also funds the Palestinians quite substantially. No matter, the ideologues need a US Satan in their drama so that they themselves will get another chance to play God. Why complicate this emotionally vivifying drama by any real history, like the fact that the Palestinians lost their 1947 state primarily not to Israel but to Jordan (West Bank) and Egypt (Gaza strip). In 1967 Israel got the West Bank but offered it back to Jordan in return for peace, an offer Jordan rejected at the time. So don't blame Israel - or Uncle Sam.

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