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Israel and the Consequences of “Uniqueness”
"If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me."
Shakespeare, Macbeth, I, 3
1.
Why did the creation of Israel engender such deep but opposing emotions in the Islamic world and the West, leading to Arab wars against Israel and Israeli wars against its Arab neighbors, producing tensions that have poisoned relations be-tween Islam and the West, and, now, arguably, pushing the United States into a direct occupation of two Islamicate countries?
The Zionists claim that Israel is a ‘normal’ state, like India, Iraq or Indone-sia. They equate their ‘struggle’ to establish a Jewish state in Palestine with the movements for national liberation in Asia, Africa and elsewhere during the twentieth century. The hostility of Arab and Islamic peoples to Israel, they claim, is motivated by their anti-Semitism, a hatred of Jews implanted by Islam itself. In recent years, this hostility has also been explained as the result of an Arab or Islamic envy of Israeli democracy.
