Saturday, July 5, 2003
Leibler responds to the patronizing remarks published the other day by Miguel Moratinos, outgoing European Union Representative to the Middle East Peace Process.
Israel News : Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
The truth is that we are confused as to what motivates the double standard and bias Europeans employ against us. Perhaps post-modernism blinds them to identifying evil, even when it confronts them in the face.
How else to explain the moral equivalency Europeans employ by bracketing the actions of soldiers who try to protect civilians with the ghouls seeking an early entry to paradise by blowing themselves up amidst our women and children?
It takes a myopic delusion not to recognize the hatred that suffuses Palestinian society at all levels, resembling the evil with which the Nazis indoctrinated an entire generation. How else to classify kindergarten children being groomed to murder their neighbors? Or mothers sanctifying children who blow themselves up as "martyrs?"
I would ask Moratinos: If that is not evil, what is?[...]