Londonistan by Phillips Melanie

Author:Phillips, Melanie [Phillips, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2007-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

· CHAPTER SIX ·

SCAPEGOATING THE JEWS

In the attempt to establish whether “moderate” Muslim attitudes are truly moderate, there is one infallible litmus test that can be used. It is the attitude to Israel and the Jews. This issue is absolutely fundamental to understanding the terrorist threat against the Western world. Tragically, however, Britain has completely misunderstood it and consequently negated the message that it carries.

Many, if not most, people in Britain—certainly, the majority of the educated classes—believe that Israel is at the root of the terrorist threat. So it is—but not in the way they think it is. They have got it totally backwards. And this crucial error is preventing them from properly understanding the Islamist threat to themselves.

Many people in Britain think like this: They are aware that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is a principal and incendiary grievance among Muslims. They have a great deal of sympathy with this grievance. They think the root of it is that the Palestinians have been prevented from having a state of their own by Israel, which oppresses them. They believe it is this apparent injustice that is fueling the Muslim animus against the West. The United States has made itself into the principal target for Islamist aggression, they go on, only because of its slavish support for Israel in pursuing this agenda of stifling the Palestinians. That was why, after 9/11, there was a groundswell of feeling in Britain that the Americans “had it coming to them.”

This analysis, which is based on widespread and profound ignorance of the history of the Middle East, is warped out of all recognition. In the vacuum created by the combination of this knowledge deficit and the contemporary inability to distinguish between truth and lies, the British have largely swallowed Muslim and Arab propaganda, which has denied historical evidence, replaced it by mythology, lies and libels, and reversed victim and oppressor in the Middle East conflict. As a result, the British have come to believe that Israel is the oppressor and the Arabs are its victims. This is a total reversal of the historical reality that Israel has been the target of annihilatory aggression by the Arab world without remission since the institution of the Jewish state in 1948, as the Jews of Palestine were the same target in the decades before its creation.

The British also think that Jews and Muslims coexisted perfectly well until Israel was created. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The only circumstances in which Muslims have been content to live alongside Jews are where Jews have been a powerless minority within an Islamic society. Muslim hostility to Israel is rooted in Muslim hostility to Jews. Drawing on a theological animosity, it is based on the belief that the Jews are a Satanic force and a conspiracy to destroy Islam and rule the world; and that, since the Jews control Western society, it follows that Israel is the forward flank of the West’s attempt to subjugate Muslims everywhere.

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