With Israelis like these...

With the demonisation and delegitimisation of Israel in the British media continuing unabated, it is sadly necessary to note that even this psychic onslaught pales beside the frenzied malice displayed by certain Israeli ‘intellectuals’ towards their own people and nation. Their natural home in the Israeli media is Ha’aretz, and one of their principal voices is the journalist Gideon Levy whose spitting hatred towards his country makes Jon Pilger look like John Bull. Today’s rant is a typical example. Clearly driven completely wild by the spectacle of Germany’s Chancellor Merkel and US presidential candidate John McCain expressing warm, rational and decent support for Israel on their recent visits, Levy rages:

A state that imposes a siege that is almost unprecedented in the world today in terms of its cruelty, that adopts an official policy of assassination, is embraced by the family of nations, if we are to judge by the words of the many statesmen who cross our doorstep.

Truly, the ‘siege’ of Gaza is unprecedented in the way its ‘starving’ inhabitants are receiving an unstoppable supply of weapons and rockets to fire at Israel; or the unprecedented way its Israeli ‘beseigers’ who are also the victims of those weapons continue to supply it with electricity, food and fuel and treat its sick inhabitants, including those who have been wounded in the course of trying to murder Israelis, in Israeli hospitals; or the unprecedented way in which Israel targets individual terrorists for assassination, as opposed to other countries under similar attack which would have simply flattened the entire area; or the unprecedented way in which this siege is being reported as opposed to, say, the rather more sustained attacks by the Lebanese against Palestinian terror gangs in Lebanon, which have gone virtually unreported despite a heavy casualty rate. And so on.

With such facts apparently quite absent from Levy’s consciousness, he is most deeply and sincerely perplexed as to how it can possibly be that Merkel, McCain et al don’t hate his country like he does. And so he reaches into his distinctly limited cultural lexicon to arrive at the Holocaust, Sderot, Hamas and, er, ‘international Islamophobia’ to put this otherwise inexplicable support down to sentimentality and prejudice. Thus the greatest phenomenon on the planet today, the threat posed by global Islamism to the entire free world against which Israel is in the very front line, passes him by altogether.

It is no surprise, therefore, that this piece has been circulated today by the PLO Mission in Washington DC as yet another propaganda weapon handed to it by Israel’s fifth column to help it in its war against the Jews.