I read an interesting editorial in
Time's April 29, 2002 issue last night, page 41. An article titled
"Children of the Holocaust: Why do so many Europeans reject America's view of the Middle East?" by Michael Elliott.
It's not posted on their website, and I'm not feeling so energetic that I want to re-type the whole thing here, but thought I'd mention it.
Several possibilities are listed:
>>The vastly smaller Jewish population in Europe (as compared to the 7 million in the U.S., more than even the 5 million in Israel, and the maybe 2 million in all of Europe and the middle east),
>>shame of many European countries about their complicity with the Nazis in eagerly handing over their Jews to the Nazis, and postwar treatment of Jews when they attempted to return home, that drove them to Israel in droves in the 1940's,
>> greater European coverage over the last 20 years for the Palestinian plight,
>> the arrogance of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, which is equivalent to whacking a Palestinian hornet's nest with a stick,
>>and possibly of pure and simple European anti-semitism.
I think it's a little of all the above.
[ 04-24-2002: Message edited by: Dave the Wonder Boy ]
