A Formula for Vulnerability

Submitted by Erich Wieger (United States), Oct 19, 2010 at 14:33

If Israel is a partisan issue now, then how we read Arab propaganda is also a partisan issue. Much anti-Israel propaganda, couched in terms of injustice to Palestinians, is actually connected to virulent pro-jihadist groups. The anti-Israel cause is a symbolic issue for the jihadists' global cause, is it not? When our electorate swallows their propaganda through their media exposure, we give a vote, indirectly and unknowingly, for the jihadists' view of the world. In our two party system, there is always an oscillation between the parties and their policies. It is very bad for the country that we should oscillate toward anti-Israel and pro-jihadist positions from election to election. Through that process, we will remain vulnerable to greater Islamicist inroads. Fore example, top Universities, which do favor the Left and the Democratic Party, and are in turn favored by the Party, will continue to nurture anti-Israel professors of Middle Eastern Studies Departments. These profs, I expect, will train our future State Department experts and influential public leaders in an anti-Israel, pro Islamic mindset. It seems to my eye, that anti-Israel sentiment in the electorate is an open door for Islamicist partisans in our institutions.

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