Shelby Steele makes a great point

Another great article on the gutlessness of the West, the fact Israel is alone again, Anti-Semitism is becoming fashionable today and the fact that it’s surprising a known Anti-Semite like Helen Thomas was so close to another known Anti-Semite, aka B Hussein Obama. But the man reminded me a piece of recent history. Again, worth the full read.

Israel and the Surrender of the West

One of the world's oldest stories is playing out before our eyes: The Jews are being scapegoated again

The most interesting voice in all the fallout surrounding the Gaza flotilla incident is that sanctimonious and meddling voice known as "world opinion." At every turn "world opinion," like a school marm, takes offense and condemns Israel for yet another infraction of the world's moral sensibility. And this voice has achieved an international political legitimacy so that even the silliest condemnation of Israel is an opportunity for self-congratulation.

Rock bands now find moral imprimatur in canceling their summer tour stops in Israel (Elvis Costello, the Pixies, the Gorillaz, the Klaxons). A demonstrator at an anti-Israel rally in New York carries a sign depicting the skull and crossbones drawn over the word "Israel." White House correspondent Helen Thomas, in one of the ugliest incarnations of this voice, calls on Jews to move back to Poland. And of course the United Nations and other international organizations smugly pass one condemnatory resolution after another against Israel while the Obama administration either joins in or demurs with a wink...

Got it, Israel is South Africa at its worse...I wonder if these same artists will boycott Russia, or Argentina or Cuba..excuse, at least two of those are fashionable tyrannies.

In other words, my hatred is my self-esteem. This must have much to do with why Yasser Arafat rejected Ehud Barak's famous Camp David offer of 2000 in which Israel offered more than 90% of what the Palestinians had demanded. To have accepted that offer would have been to forgo hatred as consolation and meaning. Thus it would have plunged the Palestinians—and by implication the broader Muslim world—into a confrontation with their inferiority relative to modernity. Arafat knew that without the Jews to hate an all-defining cohesion would leave the Muslim world. So he said no to peace.

I remember that pathetic attempt of Bubba Clinton to win the Nobel Prize. He pushed the Israeli PM to give up land for peace. If Israel had accepted it, they would have had war with less land to protect itself with. But Bubba’s attempt was based on narcissism…his want for applause and that worthless prize. Not the hatred the left has for Israel.