Friday, August 25, 2006
This column gets it right on a deep level, and explains in a way why I spend so much bandwidth here with clips from MEMRI and the like -- the conflict is perpetuated by a deep and pathological hatred that no amount of reason can overcome. Until that demonization changes, nothing is likely to change.
In this war, the Protocols are to blame
...For a hundred years now, the world has been exposed to a dangerous lie accusing us of all humanity's downfalls, a claim that our very existence threatens world peace. This is the famous "Jewish conspiracy" whose objective is world domination, and is documented with great detail in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," published in every language in millions of copies. We haven't read it, or even bothered translating it into Hebrew.
Since World War II, we have not bothered to trace the methodical mind poisoning of hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world who are being told that Jews pose an existential threat. The facts are apparent, evident in newspapers, studies and statistics...
The rest. Don't get lost in the comments thread.