Monday, April 5, 2004
Bat Ye'or has an article translated from the French in today's FrontPageMag. This is another piece pointing at the "Euro-Arab Dialogue" as a source, perhaps the main source to explain the "Palestinianization" of today's Europe. See my post here for notes I took of a lecture she gave on the subject a couple of weeks ago. The unfortunate thing I find with Ye'or is that her prose just isn't that readable - whether it doesn't stand translation very well or she just has a typical academic's tone I don't know. I think someone would be doing the world a service taking her stuff and re-writing it into a more fluid, accessible format. It's important stuff. Anyway, I recommend giving the piece a look. It really does explain much by shedding light on the top-down reasons for Europe's pro-Arab orientation.
FrontPage magazine.com :: Eurabia and Euro-Arab Antisemitism by Bat Ye'or
Although the vast majority of Europeans today are not Antisemitic or anti-Israeli, they are immersed in a culture of demonization of Israel, fomented by a European political entity in which nearly everything that is written and said on the Middle East conveys this anti-Israeli mentality. We can recognize in this contemporary phenomenon some aspects of the system of political, cultural, and moral conditioning that led to the Shoah. Reactivated during the past four decades, this Judeophobic conditioning, indirectly, and almost subliminally, is being implemented by the willing heirs of the genocidal fathers. They transmit and spread this Antisemitism in a new political and ideological construction, different from Nazism: the Euro-Arab war for the delegitimization and destruction of Israel.
Herein, I will give a brief outline of the Euro-Arab anti-Israeli policy: 1) the Project, 2) its institutional structure, 3) its modes of operation, and 4) its themes. The new forms of global Judeophobia that grow and develop within this system, also have anti-Christian, anti-European, and anti-Western ramifications...
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_2_what_we_dont_know.html
Heather Mac Donald
Looks interesting. No time to read the whole thing now, but I've added it to the Headlines bar.