European Guilt = Support Israel

[frogwoman]

then there's the zionist bollocks about "the jew and the kike" - the jew being strong, fearless, noble, with few moral hangups, knowing his duty, loving his people, being a real man, blah blah blah, the usual crap, and the kike being pathetic, surrounded by books, obsessed with money, trapped in stupid religious rituals, hopeless, self-pitying, a wimp, never fighting back, and too sensitive and sentimental to realise his duty to the, well...the fatherland...

so much of zionism thoroughly absorbs anti-semitic propaganda and adopts it for its own use ...

 

[Mossawa]

There is a lot to respond to i will keep it short.

Frankly, the naivity is very very funny and silly.

This concept that Europe is not pro-israel is ridicilous. The Europeans have recognized Israel for decades and continue to recognize it. They use the term, Israel, in all official speeches and in the newspaper and they only use palestine marginally and they never refer to Palestine-48 as Palestine.

 

[nino_savatte]

My feeling is that Western support for Israel has a very prominent element of self-interest. I think the Western powers recognised quite early that there was potential for conflict between Islam and recognised that the Middle East would be a convenient staging post to soak up the pressure from the more virulently fundamentalist strains of Islam.

Hardly, it was more to do with its strategic position: it was vital for the Empire that overland supply lines between India and Egypt (which was also controlled by the British) were opened up. Religion had nothing to do with it...though a friendly Jewish state was seen as a bonus.