Western — and particularly American — willingness to pretend that the Muslim Brotherhood is anything other than a totalitarian movement has been greeted by disbelief and astonishment by Israelis from across the political spectrum.
It is the likelihood that the Muslim Brotherhood will rise to power, not an aversion to Arab democracy that has caused Israel to fear the popular revolt against President Hosni Mubarak's regime. If the Muslim Brotherhood were not a factor in Egypt, then Israel would probably have simply been indifferent to events there as it has been to the development of democracy in Iraq and to the popular revolt in Tunisia.Update: The Caliph and Shlemiel sing:
Israel's indifference to democratization of the Arab world has been a cause of consternation for some of its traditional supporters in conservative circles in the US and Europe. Israelis are accused of provincialism. As citizens of the only democracy in the Middle East, we are admonished for not supporting democracy among our neighbors. The fact is that Israeli indifference to democratic currents in Arab societies is not due to provincialism. Israelis are indifferent because we realize that whether under authoritarian rule or democracy, anti-Semitism is the unifying sentiment of the Arab world. Fractured along socioeconomic, tribal, religious, political, ethnic and other lines, the glue that binds Arab societies is hatred of Jews...
Hate,
Hate will keep us together.
Think of the Jews whenever
Times are tough and sh*t hits the fan,
Do what you can.
Don't mess around--blame the Jews for their "plan."
Just seethe,
'Cuz Obama is clueless.
Seethe,
If the want the world Jewless.
Look in your heart and let hate
Keep us together,
Forever...
2 comments:
The credulous notion that democratic elections guarantee political Nirvana should have been quashed once and for all by the results of the German Reichstag elections of 1933. For those slow on the uptake, the lessons of 1933 should have been reinforced by the one-man-one-vote-once results of the post-colonial African elections of the 1950s through the present. Ditto for the notion that throngs of people in the street somehow sacralize the political process: Can anyone say Vladimir Lenin, Benito Mussolini, Juan Peron, or Ruhollah Khomeini?
I just hope the IDF is upgrading its nuclear arsenal and ABM systems.
"I just hope the IDF is upgrading its nuclear arsenal and ABM systems"--me too.
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