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June 21, 2010
Scapegoating Israel
Israel and the Surrender of the West by Shelby Steele
This is now—figuratively in some quarters and literally in others—the moral template through which Israel is seen. It doesn't matter that much of the world may actually know better. This template has become propriety itself, a form of good manners, a political correctness. Thus it is good manners to be outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza, and it is bad manners to be outraged at Hamas's recent attack on a school because it educated girls, or at the thousands of rockets Hamas has fired into Israeli towns—or even at the fact that Hamas is armed and funded by Iran. The world wants independent investigations of Israel, not of Hamas.
Posted by Vanderleun at June 21, 2010 11:07 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.