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

Submitted by gzuckier, Apr 2, 2009 13:01

The author is, of course, quite correct. The driving force behind this virulence is anti-Semitism in the form of anti-Zionism, and the Palestinian people are being used as cannon fodder, sacrificed to this ideology. Anyone with the slightest regard for the Palestinian people, and this includes many Jews, knows that their future welfare would best be served by peace and diplomatic negotiations rather than sacrificing themselves against a superior force for dramatic effect; but the litany of "Zionism = Nazism" requires the continuation of this unequal battle, in order to produce the perpetually static tableau of an imbalanced death toll. In pursuit of this public relations coup, the Arab states have since 1948 refrained from giving the Palestinians any real help, instead feeding them on a diet of frustrated rage and violence as if they were dogs being bred for dogfights. To the everlasting shame of Western progressives, their natural sympathy for the little guy has putrefied into the same attitude; making them armchair advocates of martyrdom for the sake of primitive militaristic fantasies of "dignity" and "honor", inflamed by simplistic one-sided myths of absolute Innocence violated by utter Evil. But these newfound “friends” of the Palestinians have no real empathy for suffering; were it not for the irresistible lure of the 2,000 year old stereotype of the evil Jews' plots against the nonJew, they would pay the Palestinians as little heed as they pay to all the other Arab or Muslim victims of much worse oppression and violence, anywhere else in the world.

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