Is global opposition to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land really just a conspiracy to destroy the Jews? Clearly so,
according to Israel Zwick of Israel insider, who writes in his editorial, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone":
The 14 million Jews of the world -- whether right or left, religious or secular -- must understand that the issues of settlements and refugees are only a masquerade for continued persecution of the Jew, and we cannot allow it to happen.
Zwick closes his editorial with an impassioned plea for Jews across the world to unite in recognition that they face a dire existential threat --just as in 1939-- and to confront their "enemies" by making them, "realize that they are just as vulnerable as the settlers of Gush Katif". He also provides a handy hit-list including Noam Chomsky, Yossi Beilin, and Satmar Rebbe.
Seemingly everyone who has ever raised a voice against the occupation --including Jimmy Carter, James Baker, the EU, the World Bank and on and on-- is fingered by Zwick as a collaborator in the genocidal plot. Even
Rachel Corrie is trotted out for a patronizing thrashing:
Perhaps Rachel Corrie can be forgiven for her foolishness. She was young, naive, and inexperienced- a misguided victim of environmental influences and instructors
I don't read the Israeli press. For all I know this stuff may be par for the course for Israeli right-wing editorialists. The sneering appropriation of "peace rhetoric" (Pete Seeger songs, weepy talk of dead flowers) is somewhat bizarre and this whole article strikes me as disturbingly paranoid. Still, in tone it doesn't sound a million miles away from a typical right-wing spew that one might find on the editorial page of any mainstream American newspaper. I have to wonder how many people actually believe this stuff, though.
I also wonder how we're ever supposed to find peace in a world with this kind of mistrust being constantly injected into the debate.