Monday, October 20, 2003
Via Normblog via Europundits:
A bit more background on the Mahathir comments, just when it all began (that is, before the intifadah), where it comes from, and where it's going. Beware the whiplash, Monsieur Chirac.
Interesting article:
Anti-Semitism: The blood motif
Therefore, what is more worrying than the statement itself is a different phenomenon: that Mohamad's claim that, among other things, the Jews control the world, received the blessing of the Egyptian representative and aroused no reservations among the 57 states that participated in the conference and supported the renewal of the boycott of Israel. Indeed, the attitude of the Muslim world - Arab and non-Arab - toward both Israel and Jews, has become threateningly more extreme. Anyone who believes that it is necessary to make a supreme effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or to reduce its dimensions, will see in this development yet another reason to do so.
However, Arab-Muslim anti-Semitism also has an independent source and therefore it is difficult to believe that it will disappear even if the conflict ends...
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