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Many of the bitter controversies in every corner of the globe inevitably raise the same ancient question: why does the world hate the Jews? ~Michael Medved Yes, it’s hard to argue with a thing like that.  Hard because it is such a preposterous way to begin an argument that one almost doesn’t know where to […]

Many of the bitter controversies in every corner of the globe inevitably raise the same ancient question: why does the world hate the Jews? ~Michael Medved

Yes, it’s hard to argue with a thing like that.  Hard because it is such a preposterous way to begin an argument that one almost doesn’t know where to begin.  I’m sure that as the  war between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tigers begins to heat up again, the Tamils all look at one another and say, “Why does the world hate the Jews?”  In defense of “the world,” I can’t imagine most people outside the Islamic world even caring that much about Israel one way or the other, much less getting exercised about “the Jews.”  Besides, it’s not as if the reaction to the campaign in Lebanon is completely inexplicable without reference to prejudice–other recent wars waged by Western nations have elicited similar opposition and outrage, frequently justified, and in fact Israel initially enjoyed much broader international support for attacking Hizbullah than the U.S. received when Washington took NATO into Yugoslavia or again when Mr. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq.  “The world” is not criticising who the Israelis are, but what they have done in Lebanon.

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