Re: 'Anti-Semitic' label curbs talk about Israel
Zippo wrote:'Anti-Semitic' label curbs talk about Israel
Here's hoping that, six years removed from 9/11, Mearsheimer and Walt can initiate a reasonable conversation about Israel. No subject with implications for U.S. security should be off-limits. Among their words worthy of debate are these: "[S]aying that Israel and the U.S. are united by a shared terrorist threat has the causal relationship backwards: the United States has a terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with Israel, not the other way around."
No, from the inception of Israel, many in the Arab countries thought of Israel as a proxy of the west. Israel
represented the beginnings of a re-colonization by the west of non-western lands. This is what the intelligentsia in the Arab countries thought, and may still think. And Britain, having once been the owner of Israel/Palestine was the main author of putting that proxy in place.
Over the last 60 years, that perception has been lost, as Israel survived, and the conflict continues. But, an historical focus shows that Israel was thought of as a proxy western nation, bringing back the specter of a re-colonization of the Middle East. Remember, before WWI there was just the Ottoman Empire in much of the Middle East. Many of the Arab nations don't have a
modern history of great length either.
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