Quite frankly, I've always
thought, in my infinite naivety, that proclaiming oneself
"anti-Zionist" or "anti-Israeli" rather than "anti-Semitic" gives one a hell
of a license to go ahead and be, well, anti-Semitic. Nowhere is this more
obvious than in the Arab world, where "The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion" and Mein Kampf are
perennial bestsellers, and nowhere in the Arab world more than in
Hamas-controlled Gaza. But it seems that the Fatah-controlled Palestine
Authority (a hopeless shower of incompetents, to be sure, but secular incompetents, and quite
pragmatic vis-à-vis Israel) is now being tarred with the same brush as the
hated Jews–whoops, I mean Israelis. From the New York Post:
"Hamas' terrorist
TV channel – which routinely indoctrinates kids by portraying Israelis as
ghouls – is launching a new cartoon series that depicts another enemy, the Palestine
Authority police. A pilot episode shows a toadyish Palestinian officer watching
as a Jewish character machine-guns a group of West Bank children to death and
drinks their blood.
'You killed our
children before my eyes,' the officer says meekly. 'I will respond with even
more peace.'"
Plus
ça change.
