Charles Krauthammer: The Real Mideast 'Poison'

The Washington Post ^ | April 30, 2004 | Charles Krauthammer

[quidnunc]

Anti-Semitism, once just a European disease, has gone global. The outgoing prime minister of Malaysia gets a standing ovation from leaders of 57 Islamic countries when he calls upon them to rise up against the Jewish conspiracy to control the world. The French ambassador to London tells dinner party guests that Israel is a "[expletive] little country … why should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?"

Ah, those people. Kofi Annan's personal representative in Iraq now singles out the policies of the world's one Jewish state — and only democratic state in the Middle East — as "the great poison in the region." The Egyptian government daily Al-Gumhuriya is less diplomatic, explaining in an article by its deputy editor that, "It is the Jews, with their hidden, filthy hands, who … are behind all troubles, disasters and catastrophes in the world," including, of course, the attacks of Sept. 11 and the Madrid bombings.

It is in this kind of atmosphere that Israel offers unilateral withdrawal from Gaza — uprooting 7,000 Jews, turning over to the Palestinians 21 settlements with their extensive infrastructure intact and creating the first independent Palestinian territory in history — and is almost universally attacked.

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[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

We finished WWIII 1948-1991. This is WWIV.
The French need to stop worrying about the Arabs.
And start worrying about US.

[rmh47]

WW2 started in 1933, no one knew it then, and not a lot of people know it now. Same thing with 9-11. WW3 has begun. The Islamofacists think they can rule the world. They will die.

You may very well be right, but the outcome is very much in doubt. We may well lose this war. And if we do, we will lose it at home.

[highlander_UW]

The French are cowards. They have been for a long time. Get ready to grab your prayer mats five times a day FROGS... its comming.

They haven't had a good leader since Charles Martel.

[doosee]

The Muslims are running the UN and the first action Kerry will take is to go ask them for help. Unreal.

[Diogenesis]

Poison? Here is the real poison ignored too long.

Viral-ridden debris seen in xrays of victims
from terror long-funded by the UN
and personally encouraged by Emperor-of-Terrorists Kofi Annan and his terror-minions to murder more.

[PROUDAMREP]

Amen

[tkathy]

The Israelis need to start defining their own WOT. They are the true victims here and they need to shape world opinion.

The Palis go out and commit war crimes and then play the victim successfully.

[alrea]

Kofi Annan's personal representative in Iraq now singles out the policies of the world's one Jewish state — and only democratic state in the Middle East — as "the great poison in the region."

Until leaders rise above their primal anger toward what they call Jews, the world will face the killing and utter insanity that makes life hard for people in every country.

Kofi Annan and those associated with him use the Jews, terrorists and the UN responses to build their estates.

Evil corporations must at least face accounting and competition as checks and balances.

[yoe]

Arthur Goldberg (U.S. ambassador to the United Nations), Lord Caradon (British ambassador to the U.N.) and Eugene Rostow (U.S. undersecretary of state) had negotiated this language with extreme care. They spent the subsequent decades explaining over and over again that the central U.N. resolution on the conflict did not require Israel to withdraw to the 1967 lines.

Charles Krauthammer as usual, cuts through the fog with facts leaving the critics awash in their own bias and pharisaisms further confusing a clear issue. Read and file the whole article for the correct history.

[Mamzelle]

A shame that the Post makes it so hard to access articles these days--so I guess I won't be reading Kraut any more. Not that it's any big loss...this McVain supporter is so nineties.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"You may very well be right, but the outcome is very much in doubt. We may well lose this war. And if we do, we will lose it at home."

You seem to think that this is our war. It really isn't. The war is between Communism and Islam. America and Western Europe are the prizes in the war. Western Europe is quickly folding. France is just about gone and once Russia regroups it will go back to Germany and establish its boundries west rather than east.

When you think about it, neither side can win until the US is out of the way. Which means agents are being used by both sides to undermine our values and way of life. The agents have a home at the UN.

It seems rather funny and it also seems like conspiracy theory but when you look at it closely, this seems to be what is happening.

Every society collapses under internal and external pressure. Greece did, Rome did, Turkey did, The Soviet Union did. No reason why it cannot happen here.